CULTURAL QA02-2021-25 Being a compilation there may be errors
Q1 Just like Meera Bai considered Lord Krishna as her husband,is there any devotee who considered Lord Shiva as a spouse? A1 Shared by TarunYadavAdvaita Acharya26-2-2021 Yessssss! There are many. But Iwant to share here - Akka Mahadevi - who loved God Shiva as her husband and the firstwoman revolutionary who broke all the norms I feel 500ish years old Meerabaihistory is adapted version 1,000 years old Akka Mahadevi. Akka Mahadevi was most the beautiful woman. She was given marriage to aKing in Karnataka. She had no interest in anyone apart God Shiva! She spoke to that King that shebelongs only to God Shiva She then threw off all the luxury. All her clothes. All her jewelry.Kicked the King palace off. Left that marriage. I mean really in that boldsense that she left all worldly attachments. Some say she even renounced allthe clothes. She became a FEMALE SAINT - whichwas rarity in those days. She shattered the all thenorms. She boldly said her husband is only God Shiva as Mallikarjuna swamy She was first Kannada female poet. She composed many Vachanas or shortpoems. At around 30 age, she renounced even this world by going alone to Kadali Vana or the garden ofBanana plantations near Sri Mallikarjun Swamy temple, Srishaila, one of theJyotirlinga. She there had deepest union with God Mallikarjunswamy. Her body wasn't found. Nothing of her was found. Shejust merged into her husband Mallikarjun Swamy! And both became sameone. That is the level of intense love she had for her husband God Shiva Yet she wasn't emotional saint. She harshly criticized societal disorder.Jai Shiva-Parvati Q2 What is one fact that you know is true but still blows yourmind? A2 Sunny Dhondkar December4Writer. IIT Bombay, MEC E. When you spill water on your shirt, it looks darker than the rest of thecloth. Why does it happen? The lack of awareness regarding this question still blows my mind. Thisphenomenon is so regular that most of us ignore it as if it’s a universal truthof nature. You don’t question, others don’t answer. This is what we experience daily without giving a thought: If water spills on your shirt → Wet area gets darker You might ask why this kind of unawareness among people blows my mind.People are unaware of lots of things that go unnoticed. Answering to that: This phenomenon lets people notice when you pee yourpants, causing a load of embarrassment still, you don’t know the mechanismbehind it. Isn’t that mind blowing? It’s not just your shirt or your pants that show this behaviour. All of the so-called daily lifematerials become darker when they get wet. Take a concrete road for example: The walls of your house: If something gets wet, it isbound to get darker. This fact is “usual” to that extent, nobody questions it. Getting to the physics behind it. Let’s assume that you are wearing ablue shirt. What makes the person standing in front of you know that the shirt you’rewearing is blue? It is done by the absorption of electromagnetic waves by the material ofyour shirt. Radiation from a source, say sunlight, strikes on your shirt. Thiselectromagnetic radiation is a set of distinct wavelengths. Visible light is asmall part of the entire set, which is known as the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Different colours corresponding to different wavelengths in the visiblelight part of the electromagnetic spectrum. After striking on your shirt,waves with wavelengths not lying in the region of 380 nm - 500 nm, from thevisible light part, are absorbed by the material of your shirt. The remaining waves (of wavelengthlying in 380 nm - 500 nm) get back to your eyes. These waves are detected asblue… by your eyes. The situation with no water spilt on your shirt But that’s not the case when water is spilt over your shirt. Light has totravel through a completely different journey. This is what happens:The situation with water spilt on your shirt Light strikes on the surface of the water and undergoes Refraction(because the refractive index of water is greater than that of air). Ontravelling further, it undergoes Reflection after striking on your shirt. Somepart of the light is absorbed and the remaining light (with the wavelength ofthe blue region) goes further. On reaching the boundary of water, if the angle of incidence is greaterthan the critical angle, light undergoes Total Internal Reflection. So, itbounces back to the water medium. [The value of the critical angle is determined by the Arcsine of theratio of refractive indices of the two corresponding mediums — here, air andwater] We know that the intensity of light decreases when it undergoesabsorption. So, when light strikes on the surface of your shirt, again, itsintensity is reduced. On bouncing back to the surface of the water, it refracts further (if theangle of incidence of the light ray is lesser than the critical angle), andreaches your eyes. Your eyes interpret this as thedarker version of blue. So, the next time your friend scares the sh*t out of you and you pee yourpants, curse total internal reflection. Q3 Can you tell about The Mysterious pool of India whose depthis still unresolved [Must Read] A3 Shared by Yashprit Sahooon 27-2-2021 Hello Guys, I am Yashprit back with a new mysterious topic…..Let us tellyou that this kund seems to be very simple to see, but its specialty will chillyour spine down…so without any delay Let's enter to the world of mystery withYashprit only on DARK HORSE. Bhimkund is a natural watersource and a holy place that purportedly dates from the era of the Mahabharata. The water of the kund (tank) is soclean and transparent that one can clearly see fish swimming in the water. The kund lies in a cave, about 3metres from the mouth. To the left of the entrance is a smallShivalinga. The pool is a deep indigo blue which contrasts withthe red stone walls. A story from the Mahabharatalinks Bhimkund with the Pandavas. Weary under the scorching Surya, Draupadi fainted of thirst. Bhim, thestrongest of the five brothers, hit the ground with his gada water surged outand the pool came into being. The roof of the cave has a small opening justabove the kund; this is theplace Bhim is said to have hit with his gada. Another legend has it that theVedic sage Narada performedthe Gandharva Gaanam (celestial song) in praise of Lord Vishnu. Pleased with his devotion, Vishnuemerged from the kund and the water turned blue because of Vishnu’s darkcomplexion. The pool is 40-80 m wide and looks exactly like a mace. It is also saidthat whenever a natural disaster (floods, storms, tsunamis) occurs in the Asiancontinent, the water in the pool automatically rises. According to reports, localadministration, foreign scientists and the Discovery Channel tried to find outthe depth of this mysterious pool, but they failed to do so. According to information, foreign scientistsonce sent cameras up to 200 meters underwater to find out the depth of thepool, but they didn't got anything. On the other hand, the water is as holy asthe water of river Ganga and never gets deteriorate. Why science surprised? Many scientists tried to find out by doing research on how its water isso clean and clean? And also wanted to know its depth but to date, no one hassolved its mystery. Once the divers went inside it, they told that there are big holes like 2wells inside. Water comes from oneand goes back from the other and its speed is also very fast. Mystery, which has not yet lifted the curtain. Its water is always clean and clean. Things are visible to a large extentin it and when the sunlight comes on this pool, then a very beautiful view isseen. Apart from this, there is a secret that the water level of this tanknever decreases. The ashram built here also houses a lot of children and supplies water toall the surrounding areas from here. the water level here never decreases evenin the summertime. Once even the water was extracted from the water pump by thegovernment to know its bottom, even then the level here did not decrease. Q4 Can you tell about the relation between Radha Rani andMahalekshmi? A4 Mulaprakriti Radharaniwith Lord Krishna. I do not know why people say these days that Mata Kali is demigoddess and Mahalakshmi isincarnation of Radharani. This is incorrect. Goddess Kali and Sri Lalita Tripurasundari are supreme goddesses. Mata Parvati is direct manifestationof Sri Lalita Tripurasundari. From Mata Parvati came Mahavidyas. Mata Kali is Adi Mahavidya. She is not demigoddess or one shakti who is born from some one. She is eternal and notborn from any one. She became Mata Sati, who was one of daughters of Daksha.Then she became Parvati, child of Himavan and Mena. She became MataVindhyavasini, she became Mata Siddhidatri, she becameMahalakshmi(not Vishnupatni) , she is one who is Mulaprakriti. All Navadurgas andMahavidyas are manifestations of Mata Parvati. Mata Parvati is Mulaprakriti andLord Shiv is Purusha. GoddessParvati is not some demigoddess, which some people claim and she can never bedemigoddess. She is supreme shakti and one of shaktis of Mulaprakriti. Same way some people claim that Goddess Mahalakshmi is manifestation ofGoddess Radha . Some ofthem even say thousands of goddesses of fortune are born from Radharani.Most scriptures say that Mahalakshmi is supreme and not born from any one. Sheeternally lives within Vaikuntha with Lord Vishnu. Rukmini is not incarnation of Radharani. She isMulaprakriti which is mentioned within scripture Gopal Tapani Upanishadand Mahabharata mentioned her to be supreme among women. Then how Rukmini canbe incarnation of any goddess? Durvasa rishi himself blessed her that she would be supreme among womenand all 16000 wives of Lord Krishna. Then how you can simply call her devotee ofLord Krishna and not his beloved wife? Mata Parvati and Sri Rukminiare not less important than Radharani. We should stop comparing goddesses and their superiority with eachother. Radharani and Rukmini are incarnations of Mahalakshmi.Both are Mulaprakritis but are manifestations of Goddess Mahalakshmi.Mahalakshmi or Rukmini and Bhudevi live within Vaikuntha with Lord Vishnu whileMahalakshmi or Radharani,and Bhudevi live wth Lord Krishna within their divine abode Goloka. LordRama lives with Goddess Sita within Saketa planet. All these incarnations ofLord Vishnu namely Lord Rama, Lord Krishna, Lord Narasimha are incarnations ofLord Vishnu and allgoddesses Radharani, Rukmini, Sita and Padmavati are manifestations of GoddessMahalakshmi. Mahalakshmi or goddess of fortune is not incarnation ofany goddess. Q5 When did you first realize you were wealthy? A5 Katyayani Misra February17-2021 M.Sc in Chemistry, Nanyang Technological University (Graduated 2010) Years ago I went to my dads village, I noticed a cousin ( In the villageeveryone is my cousin) would always stay at home, help her mother do chores andall.She was 16 and they werelooking for a groom. I asked my aunt why is she not in school? “ If she studies so much who will marry her?” YupThats what I heard and I was stunned cause My dad always till this day pushes me to study hard. The thought that somebody could be denied education for a frickin’marriage to some lame dude who flunked school? Then I realised its because I have a choice cause Iam wealthy Because my dad had enough money to marry me off to a guy of my choice, tosend me for higher education, private school fancy clothes. I can think likethis. I have a choice to either squander my privilege of education or utilizeit to its maximum potential. Years later I came to know Her husband turned out to be a drunkard.Heforced her to have kids even though she was immensely ill as he had 4 daughters She died while giving birth to a son, funny is that her husbands familycelebrates the birth of their son on the same day she died. She was only 28. The threat of being thrown out by the husband as she only gave him girlswas higher for own birth family than her life. To know that this baby has a high proximity of annulling her life must beso scary but what choice she had? She had no control over her womb, her lifeand her fate anyways. Her name was Laxmi. Mine is Katyayani. Both female Goddesses butabsolutely opposite fates. Conclusion There are many Laxmi’s around you who have no choice but to surrender tothe wishes of the elders, society and even die for it. What would Laxmi be hadshe gotten an education, probably someone who could do something more thandying to give birth to a son. Wealth is not just materials,its a power and before you squander it, think of that one Laxmi who couldn’tmake it. Jai Parshuram ( In the memory of Laxmi from a sister Katyayani). Q6 Why do people work so hard in life even though they knowthat nothing they have done or ever will do will remain with them? A6 Awdhesh SinghDated June10, 2017 Ex-IRS|IITian|Educator|Author Essay & Ethics book for UPSC Imagine that you have to perform a long distance train journey from Delhito Mumbai. You have several options to travel. 1: You can travel by AirConditioned (AC) Tier-I Class whereyou can sleep comfortably in the night and reach to your destinationcomfortably reading a few books, surfing the net and listening the music. 2: You can travel by Sleepercompartment, where you can geta berth to sleep but you have to suffer all the noise of the moving train andthe hot/cold weather in the night. 3: You can travel by in a ‘unreserved’ general compartment where you maynot even get a seat and you have to spend your night standing on foot. In all the three cases, you start and reach to the same destinationexactly at the same time. However,your journey is not the same in all three cases. Imagine a journey which lasts for 80-100 years. Given a choice you would like to travel by AC class with all the comfort. However, you have to earn money to buy an ACticket which would be 5-6 times more than the price of the general classcompartment. You have to work hard to earn that money to buy the tickets. The journey of life is similar to the journey by train. Everyone is born one day and everyone has to die one day. What is different is the experience between the birth and death. If your journey is pleasant, life is a joy.If your journey is unpleasant,life is a torture.Every person has the right to live his life with joy andavoid torture when he is alive. Q7 What is the "windshield phenomenon"? A7 Sean Kernan February 18-2021 It’s the observation that thenumber of insects being killed by car windshields has been drasticallydeclining despite the number of cars increasing: They don’t know the exact reason but suspect it is either caused by: a decline in insect populationswhich has been observed in recent years Or by changing (improving)aerodynamics in cars. Which areflowing the insects over the car as you drive. Cars have developed a less boxy look than they did years ago. Cars usedto look like giant rolling cubes. All the above QA are based onQuora digest to me on 28-2-2021. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 28-2-2021 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1511104292.547183.1614517358696%40mail.yahoo.com.
