For Humanity’s Sake, Stop Siding With Abusers!

I have been thinking about this and realised that we don't actually have a deva or devi for beauty. People think it is Mata Lakshmi but it's not true. None of her Ashtalakshmi forms also have her represent beauty. Mata

The sibling pairs have different skin colours — Vishnu-Parvati are dark skinned, Shiv-Saraswati are fair skinned, Brahma-Lakshmi are golden skinned — and all of them are called beautiful.

So where does this concept of beauty even come from? That fair is beautiful and dark skinned is not? Does it come from the west? From goddesses like Aphrodite, Venus or Freya? Or were they also made to represent beauty in the modern world to suit white people's beauty standards?

|| जय सिया राम ||

Sita Ram idol at a temple in Prayagraj.

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I've been to other places in Prayagraj before. But this time I decided to explore temples around the place where we were staying at. This place was close to Bade Hanuman temple, where a lying idol of Hanuman ji is placed. And the experience was still pretty amazing.

Today is International Day of Mother Language and I want to celebrate my mother language Awadhi.

It is not a language I speak but it is a language that my parents and my relatives speak and my ancestors used to speak. And I want to honour that.

Awadhi, a language spoken in parts of Uttar Pradesh, holds so much history, beauty, and meaning. It's a language rich with stories, songs, and traditions.

Man, US of A really loves their j¡hadists. The world really supports Pakistani terrorists after all they've done. 

Does that lie help you sleep better?

India violated the ceasefire as expected

I'm just so sad

I wanna know the whole lore now. What's with the rats and hammer and radish?

Japanese Buddhist version of Shiva be like

I find it slightly humorous how he went from full youthful yogin to very well fed older gentleman with hammer, bales of rice and rats, but hey he flourished

still same functions he actually has a similar form to the continental Bhairava but he looks like this most of the time

Naaah how is he so cute?? Also is he riding a radish in the first picture? Lol

Love how Shiva has evolved through cultures and practices. Japan also has other versions of Hindu deities like Ganesha and Saraswati. I’ve heard about it.

I would love to study more about the symbolism of the rats and the radish!

If that makes you happy, so be it. How you view women and I view women is totally different. That's the truth and makes me feel okay. And goodbye to you too

Hindu traditions and festivals just enslave women and reinforce patriarchal practices, karwa chauth for example, a festival where a married woman has to fast and stay famished for whole 24 hours, NO water and food and some of them don’t even swallow their own saliva and why? for the long life and well being of her husband. Husbands are placed on a pedestal in hinduism, he is more revered than god sometimes while reducing women to obedient and self sacrificing caretakers . It reinforces the idea that a woman’s purpose revolves around a man’s needs, his health, his happiness, his survival while her own identity and agency is considered as irrelevant. In this religion women’s existence will always be tied to men and are expected to embrace such misogynistic ideals or else she’ll be labelled as a “too westernised housewife” or other names they love calling when you go against the system

India did it again. Their cowardice is out of this world. Targeting a mosque? That too in the dead of night? Going the Israel route I see. Like master like pet ig.

Har Har Mahadev 🙏🕉🙂

Sant Tulsidas (1/2)

I personally have great respect for him. And since I'm talking about the land of Awadh, I wanted to celebrate the great poet and saint, Sant Tulsidas.

Although not born in the Awadh region, Tulsidas spent much of his life in the cities of Ayodhya and Kashi, where he composed much of his work in both Brajbhasha and Awadhi.

The Ramcharit Manas and Hanuman Chalisa, both written in Awadhi language, are two of his most famous works. Ramcharit Manas, retells the Ramayana in a way that resonated with common people of Uttar Pradesh at that time, making the epic’s teachings accessible to all.

This choice not only made the story of Shri Rama and Mata Sita widely known, but it also helped elevate Awadhi, spreading its use across countless Hindu households in India.