#Hindu

[cree-n-jewish-thoughts]

I, as a Jewish child, had to recite the Lord's prayer from k- 8th grade, in a public school

[danskjavlarna]

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My collection of goddesses of all sorts, of the stars, the moon, the sea, fire, serpents, and so on.

[tum-naam-sochlo-merese-ni-hora]

Yashoda maiyaa can never be mad at her kanhu for more than a minute 🥹

Happy Birthday to our sweet, precious 'Momma's Boi'.

HAPPY JANMASHTAMI!!!

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Vedic Temples 'वैदिक मंदिर' ॐ

~ The snake shrine of Kavaledurga, 📍Karnataka, India

Nagaraja (Lord of the Snakes) is the closest god to Lord Vishnu.

[achyutapriya]

Don't want no other shade of blue but you

[humanoidhistory]

Robert Oppenheimer: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

[ritish16]

Narayana and Mahalakshmi

[sneeplerbeepler]

Hindus are being gangraped, lynched, and having their property destroyed in Bangladesh rn. Amidst all the news coming out of there don't forget about the minority that always ends up dealing with the brunt of chaos. in 1971 most of the victims of the genocide were Bangladeshi Hindus and everyone conveniently leaves this detail out.

(And i know some mf will either no true scotsman this or say that it's all lies and that all the videos coming out are fake or propaganda from the BJP or something instead of another event in a long chain of violence. The Hindu population has crashed from 30% at independence to 9% today. Estimates say that in the next 30 years, Hindus will be extinct in Bangladesh)

[desikanya]

Mata Rukmini and Sri Krishna

The way media, films, and TV serials completely disrespected Mata Rukmini in recent years is beyond limits. All they do is show fake, made-up stories disrespecting our gods. They portrayed Mata Rukmini as someone mundane who gets jealous of other Bhariyas of Krishna. This has been going on for a very long time and the fact the youth instead of knowing or reading about our scriptures and history blindly follow these so-called serials and go on spreading more misinformation and disrespecting everyone. They showed Mata as someone who is jealous and envious. They are distorting history in the worst way possible. Instead of taking real knowledge, they watch these and get this stuff in their brain. They mock it saying how they all are in a love triangle and all, no they are NOT!! People need to know that WHEN HE IS KANHA, SHE IS RADHA. WHEN HE IS DWARIKADHISH, SHE IS RUKMINI. WHEN HE IS RAMA, SHE IS SITA. Mata Rukmini has no vices like jealousy, anger, attraction, ownership, temptation, fear, ego. She is out of materialistic desires and illusions. She who is filled up with kindness, love, and devotion towards her Lord Krishna. So STOP DISRESPECTING!!!

श्रीरुक्‍मिण्युवाच श्रुत्वा गुणान् भुवनसुन्दर श‍ृण्वतां ते निर्विश्य कर्णविवरैर्हरतोऽङ्गतापम् । रूपं द‍ृशां द‍ृशिमतामखिलार्थलाभं त्वय्यच्युताविशति चित्तमपत्रपं मे ॥ ३७ ॥

Śrī Rukmiṇī said [in her letter, as read by the brāhmaṇa]: O beauty of the worlds, having heard of Your qualities, which enter the ears of those who hear and remove their bodily distress, and having also heard of Your beauty, which fulfills all the visual desires of those who see, I have fixed my mind upon You, O Kṛṣṇa.

Do you see the pure love and devotion for Krishna?

श्रीभगवानुवाच तथाहमपि तच्चित्तो निद्रां च न लभे निशि । वेदाहं रुक्‍मिणा द्वेषान्ममोद्वाहो निवारित: ॥ २ ॥

The Supreme Lord said: Just as Rukmiṇī’s mind is fixed on Me, My mind is fixed on her. I can’t even sleep at night. I know that Rukmī, out of envy, has forbidden our marriage.

And now do you not see the same love for mata?

Inspired by the post made by @rhysaka describing how the media is disrespecting the divine Rassleela. She wrote it so splendidly <33

Dhanyabad!

Hare Krishna🪷

Radhe Radhe🪷

[wgm-beautiful-world]

Meenakshi Temple - INDIA

[solarphaze]

Kali 1

[tum-naam-sochlo-merese-ni-hora]

Kanhu

[candela888]

Some of the many religions of the USA

Catholic Christian, Protestant Christian, Jewish, Episcopal Christian, Mormon Christian, Irreligion, Islam, Buddhism, Eastern Orthodox Christian, Hindu

[conformi]

Raja Ravi Varma, Goddess Kali, circa 1910 VS Leonardo Da Vinci, The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius, 1490

[reasonsforhope]

"It was widely described as the week that India’s beleaguered democracy was pulled back from the brink. As the election results rolled in on Tuesday [June 4, 2024], all predictions and polls were defied as Narendra Modi lost his outright majority for the first time in a decade while the opposition re-emerged as a legitimate political force. On Sunday evening, Modi will be sworn in as prime minister yet many believe his power and mandate stands diminished.

For one opposition politician in particular, the humbling of the strongman prime minister was a moment to savour. Late last year, Mahua Moitra, one of the most outspoken critics of Modi and his Bharatiya Janata party (BJP), found herself unceremoniously expelled from parliament and kicked out of her bungalow, after what she described as a “political witch-hunt” for daring to stand up to Modi.

The murky and allegedly undemocratic circumstances of Moitra’s expulsion from parliament was seen by many to symbolise Modi’s approach to dissenting voices and the steady erosion of India’s democracy. She was among several vocal opposition politicians who were subjected to investigations by government crime agencies.

But having won a landslide re-election in her home state of West Bengal, Moitra will return once again to parliament, part of the newly empowered opposition coalition. “I can’t wait,” said Moitra. “They went to egregious lengths to discredit and destroy me and abused every process to do it. If I had gone down, it would have meant that brute force had triumphed over democracy.”

While he may be returning for a historic third term, many have portrayed the results as something of a defeat for Modi, who has had to rely on coalition partners to form a government. The BJP’s campaign had been solely centred around him – even the manifesto was titled “Modi’s guarantee” – and in many constituencies, local BJP candidates often played second fiddle to the prime minister, who loomed large over almost every seat. He told one interviewer he believed his mandate to rule was given directly by God.

“Modi’s aura was invincibility, that the BJP could not win elections without him,” said Moitra. “But the people of India didn’t give him a simple majority. They were voting against authoritarianism and they were voting against fascism. This was an overwhelming, resounding anti-Modi vote.”

During his past decade in power, Modi and the BJP enjoyed a powerful outright majority and oversaw an unprecedented concentration of power under the prime minister’s office, where key decisions were widely known to be made by a select few.

The Modi government was accused of imposing various authoritarian measures, including the harassment and arrest of critics under terrorism laws, while the country tumbled in global democracy and press freedom rankings. Modi never faced a press conference or any committee of accountability for the often divisive actions of his government. Politicians regularly complained that parliament was simply reduced to a rubber-stamping role for the BJP’s Hindu-first agenda.

Yet on Tuesday [June 40, it became clear that the more than 25 opposition parties, united as a coalition under the acronym INDIA, had inflicted substantial losses on the BJP to take away its simple majority. Analysts said the opposition’s performance was all the more remarkable given that the BJP stands accused of subverting and manipulating the election commission, as well as putting key opposition leaders behind bars and far outspending all other parties on its campaign. The BJP has denied any attempts to skew the election in its favour.

“This election proved that the voter is still the ultimate king,” said Moitra. “Modi was so shameless, yet despite them using every tool they had to engineer this election to their advantage, our democracy fought back.”

Moitra said she was confident it was “the end of Mr Modi’s autocratic way of ruling”. Several of the parties in the BJP’s alliance who he is relying on for a parliamentary majority and who will sit in Modi’s cabinet do not share his Hindu nationalist ideology...

Moitra was not alone in describing this week’s election as a reprieve for the troubling trajectory of India’s democracy. Columns heralding that the “mirror has cracked” and the “idea of India is reborn” were plastered across the country’s biggest newspapers, and editorials spoke of the end of “supremo syndrome”. “The bulldozer now has brakes,” wrote the Deccan Chronicle newspaper. “And once a bulldozer has brakes, it becomes just a lawnmower.” ...

“This was not a normal election, it was clearly an unfair and unlevel playing field,” said Yadav. “But still, there is now a hope and a possibility that the authoritarian element could be reversed.”

Harsh Mander, one of India’s most prominent human rights and peace activists who is facing numerous criminal investigations for his work, called the election the “most important in India’s post independence history”, adding: “The resilience of Indian democracy has proved to be spectacular.”

He said it was encouraging that an “intoxication of majoritarian hate politics” had not ultimately shaped the outcome, referring to Modi’s apparent attempts to stir up religious animosity on the campaign trail as he referred to Muslims as “infiltrators” and “those who have more children”.

“The past decade has seen the freedom of religion and the freedom of conscience and dissent taken away,” said Mander. “If this election had gone fully the BJP way, then India would not remain a constitutional secular democracy.”"

-via The Guardian, June 9, 2024