Dreams on devine tides

It's strange how dreams get under your skin and give your heart a test for what's real and what's imaginary.

But one should give a best try to pursue dreams. The first thing is immense faith in dream.

If world's cosmic power put a dream in your brain, then certainly it laid  a path to achieve it. All you have to do is fallow omens.

Sounds easy, but there might be a long way to go.The best example is the legend of puri jagannath swamy temple in orissa.

According to the legend, Indrayumna, the king of Malava in Sata Yuga, was a great devotee of Vishnu. Once the king dreamt of Nilamadhava Vishnu and was curious to know where that particular form of the Lord was worshipped. Therefore, he sent his emissaries in four directions to find this.

Brahmin Vidyapati was sent to the east. He came to Utkala and entered Savara village where he took shelter in the house of the Savara King Visvavasu. Lalita, king's daughter, fell in love with Vidyapati and the latter got married to her to extract information about Nilamadhava.

Visvavasu used to go to the forest every morning to worship Nilamadhava installed in Niakandara (Blue cave). Vidyapati thus coaxed his wife to request her father to allow him to see Nilamadhava. Visvavasu agreed on the condition that Vidyapati will be taken to the shrine and brought back from there with a blindfold.

On hearing this, Vidyapati went to his wife and asked her to make such an arrangement that he may subsequently know the path. Lalita gave him some sesame seeds to be scattered on the side of the road he followed so that he might know the path when sesame plants grew up during the rains.

Accordingly, Vidyapati was taken to Nilakandara where he saw Nilamadhava. Later, when Vasu Savara offered food to the deity, he did not take it as usual to the king's dismay. At this, a divine voice was heard. It said, "we would no longer continue to be worshipped by you. Oh! Vasu, we will change the present Nilamadhava form and assume Daru form. We shall be worshipped in the temple by Raja Indradyumna".

The king came back from the blue cave with a very heavy heart losing his deity. Vidyapati too bade farewell to his wife and father-in-law and started for Malava. Having heard the story, King Indradyumna started with his retinue for Utkal to see Nilamadhava. On reaching Nilakandara, he found it vacant. But a voice from the air told him to construct a temple on Nilasaila (Blue Mountain).

Hearing this, the king ordered the construction to begin. On completion of the temple, the king went to Brahmaloka to invite Brahma to consecrate the temple. But, Brahma being in meditation, he had to wait for nine Yugas. The temple thus got buried in sand in his absence.

In the mean time, a new dynasty came to rule at Utkala. Galamadhva, a king of that dynasty, detected the buried temple. He was considering installing images in the temple when Indradyumna with Lord Brahma appeared before him. Both the kings had a tussle over the ownership of the temple. However, Lord Brahma decided in favor of Indradyumna and asked him to install deities in the temple.

Now, the king was at a loss as to where to find the deities from. Therefore, god told him in his dream that he would be floating in the sea in the form of a log of wood. Then Sage Narada assured Indradyumna that Vishnu would appear to him in the temple form of three wooden images.

When a big tree, radiant with light was seen floating in the sea, Narada told the king to make three idols out of it and place them in a pavilion. Indradyumna got Visvakarma, the architect of Gods, to build a magnificent temple to house the idols and Vishnu himself appeared in the guise of a carpenter to make the idols on condition that he was to be left undisturbed until he finished the work.

But just after two weeks, the Queen became very anxious. She took the carpenter to be dead as no sound came from the temple. Therefore, she requested the king to open the door. Thus, they went to see Vishnu at work at which the latter abandoned his work leaving the idols unfinished. But a divine voice told Indradyumana to install them in the temple.

The three idols represent the god Jagannath, his elder brother, Balabhadra and their sister, Subhadra. The wooden idols being worshipped are renewed during special occasions. This wooden idol prepared from a log of wood floating on the ocean finds a mention in the Rig Veda, where it is referred to as Purushottama.

Here king Indradyumna fallowed his dreams and god helped him to build and incorporate deity in temple. Time passes and civilizations  perish, but temple stood on the beach as a symbol of  will power of  king Indradyumna to pursue his dream.

Easiest way of saving your precious art work

Hi all,

All of us have a artist in us. As the great poet Sri Sri told even small things are worth for poetry, even infant can be an artist.
Now are then we may draw some meaning less abstract art. It might not impress even mom or dad but still they say it is good :D .
Whatever it is precious for us. So we should preserve it.

Here is the best way to preserve your precious art.

Materials required: 1. Polythene sheet which is used for book binding.
2. Scissors 3. Plaster 4.Transparent Adhesive Tape

Procedure: 

1. Take your artwork and put it in polythene in such a way polythene covers top and bottom.

2. Now staple it on 3 sides. While doing this don't pin the art work. If you want to take out your artwork in future and laminate it you should not staple it.
3. Fold the edges and stick the edges backside with adhesive tape so that only your art work can be visible from front.
4. Now you can place it on wall using transparent adhesive tape.

Fruit farming at home with organic manure gives bumper crop

People living in Indian villages grow fruit trees in homes. They only use food waste and organic items as fertilizer and obtain  a bumper crop.

For example see this lemon tree.

It is fed with peals of banana and other vegetables.
It has plenty of sun light and water.
The size, color and taste of fruit is excellent.
As it is grown without any synthetic fertilizers there are no other poisonous chemicals in fruit.

I think any body who have good soil, light, water and time can do it and enjoy the fruits of nature.

The tragic story of budding engineer Dharmapada

According to local folklore, Narasimhadeva 1 had hired a chief architect called Bisu Maharana to build the Konark Surya Devalaya temple in orissa.

 After a period of twelve years, a workforce of twelve thousand almost finished the construction. 

But, they failed to mount the crown stone. The impatient king ordered the temple to be finished in three days or the artisans be put to death. 

At the time, Bisu Maharana's twelve-year-old son, Dharmapada arrived at the site. 

Bisu Maharana had never seen his son, as he had left his village when his wife was still pregnant. 

Dharmapada successfully proposed a solution to mount the crown stone. 

But, the artisans were still apprehensive that the king will be displeased to learn that a boy succeeded where his best artisans failed. 

Dharmapada climbed onto the temple and leapt into the water to save his father and his co-workers.

Science in the Hindu temple construction.

 Hindu temple is built around the belief that all things are one, everything is connected.
 The pilgrim is welcomed through 64-grid or 81-grid mathematically structured spaces, a network of art, pillars with carvings and statues that display and celebrate the four important and necessary principles of human life -
1. The pursuit of artha (prosperity, wealth)
2. The pursuit of kama (pleasure, sex)
3. The pursuit of dharma(virtues, ethical life) and
4. The pursuit of moksha (release, self-knowledge). 

In ancient Indian texts temple is a sacred site whose ambiance and design attempts to condense the ideal values of Hindu way of life.
All the cosmic elements that create and sustain life are present in a Hindu temple - from fire to water, from images of nature to deities, from the feminine to the masculine, from the fleeting sounds and incense smells to the eternal nothingness yet universality at the core of the temple.

to know more about the hindu temples click here

How to make a small bio-gas plant

Bio gas is a renewable non conventional energy source.
The raw materials we need is just dung.
More than bio gas the left out matter is rich in nutrients and helps healthy plant growth.
In villages farmers who have cattle can build it and it will be a useful source for manure.
video link to make a small bio-gas plant