pvraman

Tomorrow I have a National Holiday - In Indonesia. Because, Balinese Hindus celebrate their New Year as per their Lunar Calendar.

First they do the Melasti Ritual (prelude to the Nyepi) - A pooja performed in a temple near to ocean to satisfy Ocean God Varuna and it is called purification ritual. They take some water to sprinkle on those back home who could not come to the ocean on this particular day. They conduct this 3 days before Nyepi.

http://www.nomad4ever.com/2007/03/23...or-the-senses/ ...

After going through the below article, I feel Hatred is fed from their child hood from Madrarasa and History from text books.


Link: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default...-3-2004_pg7_16.

One of the Reasons of introducing English Education system in our Country is said to be
from
"From Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Minute of 2 February 1835 on Indian Education," Macaulay, Prose and Poetry, selected by G. M. Young (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1957), pp-721-24,729"

All parties seem to be agreed on one point, that the dialects commonly spoken among the natives of this part of India, contain neither literary

...

Sounds like our Yuga cycle.

"In the way of Mayan thinking, it's only a cyclical period which comes to an end. The Mayans never imagined it as a catastrophic date," said Jose Huchim, a Mexican archaeologist who is himself Mayan.
"It's worrying that they're giving another meaning to our vision, as Mayans, of ourselves," the researcher from the National Institute of Anthropology and History, who will direct the new study, told AFP.

From
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp...Xa7jUJe61Cqlzw

JAKARTA - Archaeologists have found a statue of Nandi, the sacred bull that carried the Hindu god Shiva, among the ruins of what is believed to be an ancient temple at an excavation site in Yogyakarta in Indonesia.

The discovery of the statue, which in Hindu mythology is said to embody sexual energy and fertility, meant that the team would now continue its work until Jan. 20, Indung Panca Putra, the head of the excavation team from the Yogyakarta Antiquities and Relics Conservation ...

Updated 15-02-2010 at 10:59 AM by pvraman

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