CULTURAL QA06-2021-16 Being a compilation there may be errors
Q1 re there any health ormental significance of blowing the conch? A1 Answered by PrabhuKsbSat Well it increaseslung capacity. Spiritually, it represents OM. Temple bell or conch andsuch things give the same sound of Om. If you know the meaning of Om and use these methods toremember Om, it will help you spiritually. Icon for Ramayan and Mahabharata My note- Blowing Conch is 95%used for auspicious templefunctions in Kerala. During funerals of the royal family also conch and drum are played at specifiedtimes in central Kerala. But in Tamilnadu, a death in afamily is first known byblowing of conch and playing some special drums. Q2 Why did Lord Vishnu takemany incarnations in Satya Yuga? Answered by Swarnim Sharma Sat Because in Satya Yuga people were innocent. Demons used to attack them. Soto protect them he took many incarnations but in Treta, Dwapar and even KaliYuga humans are good as well as bad. Q3 Is it ok to do Shivsadhna at night? A3 Lopamudra Panigrahi ShivaDevotee Updated Mon Actually, it is better thandaytime Sadhana. Shiva andKali are associated with the nighttime more closely than with daytime, as beingthe Gods of annihilation and new creation like the night is the ending thatgives birth to a new dawn. Lord Shiva has the crescentmoon on his head symbolizing the night time. The biggest festivity of Mahadeva Pujana is called MAHA SHIVA-RATREE/महा शिव रात्री, meaning the Grand/Great Night of Lord Shiva(Ratri/ रात्री is the Sanskrit word for the night). Pradosha/प्रदोष (meaning Sandhya /सन्ध्या or the dusk in Sanskrit, opposite to Pratyusha/प्रत्युष meaning the Dawn) is also the favourite time ofShiva, so Pradosha Vrata is observed by praying to him in Sadhya Kaala/सन्ध्या काल on every Trayodashi Tithi/त्रयोदषि तिथी (The 13th day of both the waxing and waning MoonCycles) falling twice a month and Masika Shiva Ratree/मासिक शिब रात्री meaning the Monthly Shiva Ratri observed once amonth on every Krishna Paksha (The 14th day of the dark moon phase) चतुर्द्दषि /तिथी/ Chaturdashi Tithi, at midnight. This says Lord Shiva is fond of thenighttime. Daytime worship is not prohibited at all, but night timeworship or Nishitha Pujana/निशिथ पुजन is favourite or Priya/प्रिय to Bhagwan Mahadeva. Om Namah Shivaya ! Shivaya Namah Om !! ॐ नमः शिबाय ! Q4 Who died from the Pandavas side in theMahabharata? A4 Answered by Jaya Mishra Sat Many peoplehave sacrificed their life in the battle of mahabharata. From the side ofpandavs Drishtadhyumn( brother of drupadi) , pandavas ( sons of pandavs) , Shikhandi ( draupadi sister) , Abhimanyu ( son ofArjun) , Ghatotkacha( son of bhima) and Draupad(father of draupadi ) . Q5 If Dharma wins, then how come.Duryodhan won the game of chausar against dharmraj Yudhistir? A5 Answered by Kavana N Fri Yes Dharmasurely wins . But towin a big war, it must lose a small war . If Pandavas had won theDyuth, then the reason for Pandavas births to kill Rakshasas in the form ofHumans wouldn't be fulfilled. This was also a part of Almighty's plan. Q6 Some speculate that Duryodhana refusedto give five villages to Pandavas because they were prosperous and strategicplaces, then why didn't Duryodhana offer other less prosperous and strategicvillages to them? Why he said he will not give anything? A6 Answered by Vrijender Jairath June 9 Duryodhanahad extreme hatred for Pandavas. He preferred to fight Pandavas despite knowingthat he shall be fighting his own blood relations on the other side of thefence. He was in modernsense a dictator par excellence driven by the sole objective of annexing wholeterritory & bringing Pandavas to their knees. Q7 What method of execution inhistory makes your hair stand on end? A7 Tim Newberry Mon I've readthat in the spice wars of the 1600s the Dutch, yes those nice, placid, friendlyNederlanders, would affix acone of leather around the victims neck which came above the nose thenrun water into the cone. If you wanted not to down you would drink the water asit flowed in. Then you'd drink some more, and more and more until your bodybloated to twice its size. Obviouslythis had the benefit of being both a method of torture and a method ofexecution. I hadnightmares the day I first read about it. I Googled it just make sure that itactually was true but went no further. Q8 What should I do when something (ahuman, a fever, or even the nature) keeps disturbing and distracting me whilechanting Sahasranamam? A8 Lavanya Balgi Fri Congratulationson interacting with the universal energy testing you. Keep calm and continueyour chanting without getting angry. When I started chanting a particular sahasranamamthe birds would chirp, doorbell would ring, my mother will offer hot tea to mewhile iam chanting without taking notice and finally one of my children sat onmy lap and played with his electronic toy mobile. I continuedanyway. It all stopped eventually. I believe the universe tests your focusand teaches you to stay calm this way. By the wayeven now once in a while when I chant some body puts on dj music with hip hoploudly from the opposite building I continue my chanting anyway. Its ok justfocus and do what you must do. Q9 What should I always have in my fridge? A9 Former Teacher, Sun I keep thesein our fridge always stocked . I buy them regularly even before they get over.Some I store in the freezer like extra milk, paneer, idly dough, masala paste. The 5 mostimportant things I always keep in the fridge are Milk, Eggs, butter, tomatoes and curd. Even when weare away for a week or two the fridge is kept on with these and othervegetables stocked. Milk is forinstant coffee, or milk after a night movie. Milk is also handy for cornflakes,French toast as breakfast. Egg is thecheapest and easiest to make of nv for bolied eggs - onion fry, omlette, eggfries, scrambled eggs or a quick egg gravy. Butter..Used often on bread, cream crackers , in instant soups, in garlic bread and inhome made butter chicken or biryani. Tomatoes inthe fridge with onions for the base for all our Indian curries. Tomatoes arealso needed for our southern Indian rasams. Curd.. We have curds everyday with or without rice.It is must for days when indigestion troubles us. Childrenlove it and we use it in our gravies and Biryanis. Curd whisked with lotswater, asafoetida, cumin powder coriander leaves, tiny pieces of ginger andsalt forms a healthy drink in summer. Q9 Why Draupadi did not defend herselffrom dushasan who came to drag her? A9 AMOL Worked at Mahindra & Mahindra(company)June 9 Arjun/YudhishtirPandavas they Play 1 Game with Duryodhan and Pandava Lost all of His in thatgame and At the end They Put their wife Draupadi on Game and lost her or You can also Said they Sold theirwife Draupadi to Duryodhan or Duryodhan Win Draupadi in Game. So afterthat She is an Slave of Duryodhan and after that Duryodhan Gives order to Hislittle Brother that Go and Grabbed that Draupadi . In front of all People Afterthat His Brother Grabbed her and All Pandavas are watching Her Vastra Haranlike they all are Impotent. Q10 Was Southern Karnataka part of AncientTamilakam? A10 Ravi Chandran Lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India(2013–present)Fri Yes. But for a part of history only. From 985–1070 CE under the imperial chozhas both Bangalore and Mysoreconstituted Tamizh territory of chozhas. In fact River Thungabathra was the agreed boundary betweenTamizh chozhas and Kannada chalukyas. One can find many Tamizhinscriptions in the temples of southern Karnataka. Q11 Which creature in Greek mythologywas half-man and half-bull? A11 Jeevan Lowrence, Riordanverse AnsweredThu Minotaur was the half man half bull you’re referringto. He was called that because he was the monster of Minos , the king of Crete and a son of Zeus. The Minotaur was a cursefrom Aphrodite and Poseidon. Once Poseidon had saved Minos from humiliation bysending a huge bull as a sign from the gods. Poseidonhad placed a condition that he would sacrifice that bull to Poseidon himself. But Minos liked the healthy, strongbull and sacrificed a normal bull to Poseidon. Poseidonnoticed and wanted to do something about it, he couldn’t turn Crete to rubblebecause that would mean angering Zeus. So he approached Aphrodite and goadedher by saying Minos’s wife had declared herself as the other Aphrodite or evenbetter. Now you haveto know that Pasiphae(Minos’s wife) was indeed beautiful but you should knowbetter than to compare yourself with the god, for instance check out Arachne. Anyways,Aphrodite being the heart breaker she was, called Eros(Her son/God of love youmay know him as Cupid) and made Pasiphae. Fall in lovewith the bull Poseidon gifted and Minos was proud of. Pasiphae knew this feltwrong and wasn’t like her but she had no choice, she then went on and had a kid with the bull. Now, thatwas a chad move by the bull. How they did it I don’t have the slightest ideanor am I even gonna think about it. So, when they had a kid, it was a Half-man, half-bull. The Minotaurwas born and people used to laugh at Minos and look at him in pity/disgust.Yeah try sitting in a courtroom where everyone knows you’re wife just bore akid for a bull. Then Minos ordered Daedalus(Son of Athena) and created alabyrinth, criminals were punished by sending them inside the labyrinth to die.The screams of the victims would echo off the walls and Minos would laugh likea maniac. Now later on Theseus(Son of Poseidon) came along and defeated theMinotaur using Ariadne’s(daughter of Minos, not the Minotaur ) help. Ariadnewas exiled for that. Anyways , I think Minos should’ve been greatful becauseTheseus had killed the rightful heir to the throne. Q12 Why is Hindi hated by mostly TamilNadu and Kerala people? A12 Subhasis Dutta Roy Exploring India andIt's ethnicity as an IndianSat Why doIndian fights to Britishers? It was for our freedom. Freedom tolive freely, freedom to speak, freedom to do whatever they want to do withtheir lives. Freedom isour ultimate demand of that time and It seems to me that the desire for freedomis always in our hearts. I am Bengali and I can speak Hindi. But it gives mepain when Hindi imposed on me by pressure. In India,all 22 languages carry the same status. All are official languages. When I seethat only Hindi is promoting from the Government side, it feels very sad to me. Why won't mymother tongue Bengali or any other official language of India get thisfacility? If so then my mother tongue will also spread. Forcing Hindi on other non-Hindi speaking people istantamount to depriving them of their freedom to speak their mother tongue. If the Hindilanguage is so good and the time to speak is smooth, then the rest will adopt this language on their own, therewill be no need for government emphasis. If thatdoesn't happen, government pressure on non-Hindi people in the rest of India toaccept Hindi as their spoken and written language will bring bad times for us. Hindi-speakingworkers at a central government office in West Bengal rejoice when they see thegovernment pressuring a Bengali employee to read and write in Hindi. They think,this is how their mother tongue is spreading. Fools do not understand thatnon-Hindi employees are being forced to learn Hindi in this way, they arelearning this language only to save their jobs. Hatred is being created in themind for Hindi language. All the above QA are based onQuora digest on 15-06- 2021. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers Compiled and posted by R. Gopala krishnan on 16-6-2021 -- 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/1558841054.405208.1623814806750%40mail.yahoo.com.
