Monday, July 12, 2010

ALL TIME MYSTERY

Born and brought up in an orthodox brahmin family especially in a south indian bourgeois materialism "keeps me" and "kept me" in proximity with the ethnics of the aryans. Years passing by,learnt alot of arcane facts about the culture, lifestyles, practices, festive etc. With a gradual digestion of information in the years i learnt a weird fact called the big fight between iyers (followers of shiva) and iyengars( followers of vishnu) (dont ask me more than that because its weird). and this fracas was practically revealed when my grandmother once refused to visit a Shiva temple. reason for that was a pretty dotage humming which i never bothered to hear.
Recently i saw a Tamil film retrospecting the same concept quit dramatically synthesised which compelled for my journey for a quick research at some stories and catholic facts of Hinduism:( very interesting)
The Hanuman, an ardent devotee of lord ram (iyengar god) was born to a female monkey anjana and kesari. Anjana had a great devotion towards lord shiva , performed prayers to beget SHIVA as her child. Due to great adulation and devotion shiva granted the boon. so he was incarnated as vanara god- hanuman with an oracular purpose of helping rama( lord vishnu).
Another implication called lord Ayyapa was born to Vishnu and Shiva as a composite form of both the deities in one god ( this too too extra extra marital).
what makes me gawk with all these facts whether true or false , reflects a true camaraderie between the gods which is vice versa down here. But we are preoccupied with the apocryphal made up by our fore bearers rather than respecting the ultimate truth being preached. pretty agnostic but a true fact to be analysed.

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