The Wings Of Expression

Shivaji turned out to be an able administrator under the tutelage of Dadaji, training for several hours a day he was becoming a fierce warrior. With a few courtiers and guardsmen in his army, Shivaji raided a small portion of the Bijapur Army, which was moving across the hilly region carrying gold in trunks to pay their due taxes to the imperial government at Delhi. The hills were effectively used by both, the Marathas and Rajputs to fight guerilla warfare. Such subsequent successes instilled worry in the minds of the Bijapur Government as well as the imperial government who cautioned and wanted the provincial government of Bijapur to tackle the rebel effectively. The first few successes of Shivaji caused an uproar in the city of Pune and districts in the vicinity, men from all age groups started joining Shivaji's army which was now 10 thousand in number, surprisingly much of the soldiers were from the Brahmin community. The Sultan of Bijapur at once ordered a messenger to ask Shi...

How often do we come across men of grit and character? How often do we flip the annals of history and come across rulers who could be bestowed with the responsibility of the country? At a point in time when dark clouds of Islamic forces hailed supreme and persecution was at its peak, a cry in the Maharashtrian district of Shivneri, crackled as though it was chosen to rattle the Islamic forces and liberate the land, the  man who fought for the culture and established a Hindu Empire, the pride of Marathas- Chhatrapati Shivaji, not known to many as Shivaji Bhonsle. As mercenaries, the Bhonsles settled in districts of Maharashtra owing their sword and allegiance to the Muslim rulers who ruled there. Much of the Deccan was annexed by the Adil Shahi Dynasty, who too accepted the suzerainty of the Mughals. The Adil Shahi Sultanate ruled majorly over the Bijapur district of the present day Karnataka, Bijapur was earlier a part of the Bahamani Kingdom, which had broken into five compa...

Rama , not just a name ,an emotion , the 7th incarnation  of Sree Vishnu, the sustainer of this world . More often than not he is looked down upon for various reasons but most often he is forgotten for what he stood for, the freedom he had within , he was lord unto himself but why is it that he is remembered just to kill Ravana? What makes him god-like? Why is he reverred in this culture ? This blog follows up with the same. Dashrata, father of Ramachandra , had a kingdom established with riches and glory, he had Political advisors of competence and sages like Vasishta as the guides of ritualistic practices but the void in his life was that of a progeny for which he decided to carry out a yagna which blessed him with 'SONS', of which Rama ,was the eldest. Due to some Political issue and a spill of viciousness in the heart of Kaikey (the second wife of Dashrath),Rama is forced to choose exile for a period of 14 years, though Rama chose to remain in the exile all by himself, his...

God, a mystery to be unraveled, what is it about this aspect that makes us all question about it , making it quite obvious I  will not assign any gender to God because then it will take a different dimension altogether, but then again what is about it that makes us question as to what God really is? number of  Philosophers, Physicists,Physicians,Poets spent a large chunk of their life in finding the resolve to this question. Where have we heard about god ? Most often through our parents,friends or occasionally through a priest in a sanctum, they have all mentioned god to be sitting up beyond the, stars and the galaxies controlling all of it but if we try to tell this to our next generation, even a toddler wouldn't buy this story! The reason behind this is that even modern science today claims that this is an ever expanding or continuous universe ( though this was told in this culture way back expunging the cultural identification)  at a certain point in ti...

SHANKARA people often associate this name with the deity Shiva. How often have we heard this name? With regard to the deity a kabillion times but how frequent in context with the intellectual giant who changed the course of this culture? Who is Shankara? Why should we know him? This write-up follows up with the same. People know him often by the name ADI SHANKARACHARYA  but Shankara is his name, Adi means 'FIRST' Acharya means ' TEACHER' but the way he lived bestowed upon him the title of JAGADGURU-" THE TEACHER OF THE WORLD' what makes one so phenomenal? Shankaracharya was the master of linguistics, a spiritual light, above all the pride of  this nation. Shankara was born in a Brahmin family, his father Shivaguru, a priest and Aryamba, mother was a delicate lady who looked after the chores,  but the void in their life was the absence of a progeny, the legend has it said that Shankara's mother dreamt of Shiva, who answered her desire for a child, but it ca...

Brahmacharya is an amalgamation of  two words "Brahma" and "Acharya" Brahma means the Ultimate and Acharya means the path, the path to ultimate is what is called as Brahmacharya. So how is it the path to ultimate, do we not all want to experience the ultimate  ? we certainly do,then what is the path that needs to be followed , this article will follow the same. Brahmacharya is purity in thought,word and deed. Brahmacharya is the founding stone in a man's life , without it a  man is just an animal nothing that separates him from the animal instincts ,infact,much deplorable. Brahmcharya is edifice on which a man's character is built. You sow an action and reap a tendency , the sown tendency leads to building of habit, one sows an habit and reaps their character, one sows his character and reaps his destiny, therefore destiny is a bundle of habits , you can disarm the destiny if you like , Brahmcharya is your weapon. The veerya (the semen) is termed as god in ...

This world  is based on full freedom and absence of any forcible destiny.     Here, you are free to do any type of work and no destiny forces you to do any specific work as said in the Gita (Na kartrutvam...). The concept of destiny exists only in the link of the specific work and the specific fruit. You have full freedom to put your finger in fire or water. No destiny forces you to put your finger in fire or water. The destiny lies only in the link between a specific work and corresponding specific fruit. It is destined that the fire burns your finger and the water keeps your finger cool. The destiny is not in the selection of the work. You have put your finger in the fire due to ignorance or ego. After burning the finger, you may say that you have put the finger in the fire due to the destiny. God has destined the specific system, which links every action with a specific fruit. After putting your finger, God is not ordering the fire to burn it. The subsequent frui...