Every time I see a person from my Father's family, my parents ask me to bow down to their feet. However, when I see someone like my 'mama' (mother's brother) or an unrelated elder person I have to bow to their hand only. I don't understand why this is so. Why bow differently to certain people?
In some scriptures Brahma is referred as Viranchi (विरञ्चि):
Whenever I see sun raising in early morning, following mantra automatically pops out from my mind/month:
नमः सवित्रे जगदेकचक्षुषे । जगत्प्रसूती स्थिति नाश हेतवे त्रयीमयाय त्रिगुणात्म धारिणे । विरञ्चि नारायण शङ्करात्मने॥
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As I discuss in this question, by far the most popular school of Hindu philosophy is the Vedanta school, which bases its tenets on the doctrines laid out in the Brahma Sutras, a work by the sage Vyasa that summarizes and systematizes the philosophical teachings of the Upanishads. You can read the...
@Pandya As far as the literature tag goes, there is a difference between literature like Raghuvamsa and Hindu scripture, but most people don't seem to be using the literature tag properly so it may be better not to have it.
@Pandya And yeah, Srinivasa Ramanujan was an Iyengar mathematician. I've been to his old house in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu. It's right outside the Sarangapani Vishnu temple, which I discuss here:
The Alwars (also spelled Azhwars) are a group of 12 ancient Vaishnava saints who lived in Tamil Nadu and are famous for their poetry in praise of Vishnu. The 4000 verses of the Alwars were compiled by the Vaishnava Acharya Nathamuni into a book called the Naalayira Divya Prabhandam, which is cons...
@Pandya Also, Srinivasa Ramanujan claimed that he received all his mathematical ideas from Nammagiri, the Lakshmi deity of the Nammakal Narasimha temple which I discuss here:
The most famous tenple for Vishnu's man-lion incarnation Narasimha, whom I discuss here, is Ahobilam, the place in Andhra Pradesh where Narasimha killed the demon Hiranyakashipu. But there's another temple related to the story of Narasimha, the Narasimhaswami temple in the Nammagiri hill in Namm...
@AnkitSharman Oh, I didn't like Tangled that much. I don't think Disney made any good movies after it fired its traditional animation department in 2006, until Frozen. Frozen was the first good Disney movie in a long time.
@AnkitSharma They didn't really develop the emotions involved in the mother-daughter relationship. They make the mother into a black-and-white villain and Rapunzel ends up killing her without even feeling bad about it.