The Holy Tale of Sati – Shiva Puran (Part-II)

 Posted on January 11, 2016  |  3 minutes  |  455 words  |  

[![shiva-parvati](/images/shiva- parvati.jpg)](https://vibhormahajan.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/shiva- parvati.jpg) Back at Kailasha, in the new marital bliss Lord Shiva once confided to Sati the nine easy ways to propitiate him and gain his grace. Those nine ways of devotion were - Hearing (Kathas related to him and his Puranic wisdom). Singing (Prayers, odes and hymns in his praise). **Remembering ** (His glory, deeds and names). Serving (The noble causes of others taking them as his forms). [Read More]
hinduism  religion  sati 

The Holy Tale Of Sati – Shiva Puran (Part-III)

 Posted on January 11, 2016  |  5 minutes  |  1040 words  |  

![Lord Shiva](/images/lord- shiva.jpg) Grudge of Daksha against Lord Shiva Once in an ancient age many sages and spiritual seers converged at Prayaga and decided to perform a grand Yajna. It was attended by celestial lords, divine sages, gods, deities, prajapati etc., besides earth based holy men. Lord Shiva was also present. Sometime later, Daksha arrived. Everyone there rose up to pay respect to Prajapati Daksha. But Lord Shiva ignored his entry and kept sitting. [Read More]
hinduism  religion  sati 

Origin Of Creation

 Posted on January 10, 2016  |  6 minutes  |  1074 words  |  

The basic element of manifest and the un-manifest, Power Eternal started the creation in manifested Lord Brahma form. First, water came into existence. By the will of power eternal, Lord Shiva, a divinity got vested in the water and was called “Narayana” (Water borne). Then an egg appeared in the water and out of it came Lord Brahma who split the egg in two halves horizontally. The upper half became celestial world and the lower half the base. [Read More]
hindu  hinduism  religion  origin 

Glory of Eternal Uma–7 Manifestations (Part-I)

 Posted on January 10, 2016  |  6 minutes  |  1067 words  |  

The eternal force Mahamaya, an eternal part of Lord Shiva. Also known as Ma- Uma or Adi-Shakti, manifested in seven different avatars as Mahamaya, Yogmaya, Mahakali, Mahalaxmi, Gauri, Durga and Yaksharoopa, since the very beginning of creation. Mahakali and Yogmaya Manifestations [![250px-Mahakali](/images/250px- mahakali.jpg)](https://vibhormahajan.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/250px- mahakali.jpg) At the very beginning of the creation water came into existence by the will of force eternal Lord Shiva. In water, Lord Vishnu vested. A long penance tired him out and he went to deep sleep of yoganidra. [Read More]
hindu  hinduism  religion  Uma 

Glory of Eternal Uma-7 Manifestations (Part-II)

 Posted on January 10, 2016  |  7 minutes  |  1308 words  |  

Gauri (Kaushiki) Tale Once there existed two demon brothers called Shumbha and Nishumbha. They were mighty and very big trouble makers. All the three worlds and their populaces were living under the fear of those two demons. They had let loose a rule of tyranny. The gods and other celestial races had fled to the caves and forests to hide. That made the demon duo more arrogant and cruel. [Read More]
hindu  hinduism  religion  Uma 

Glory of Eternal Uma-7 Manifestations (Part-III)

 Posted on January 10, 2016  |  4 minutes  |  651 words  |  

[![adi-shakti-tridevi](/images/adi-shakti- tridevi.jpg)](https://vibhormahajan.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/adi-shakti- tridevi.jpg) Shatakshi Durga Tale A great trouble maker demon named Durgama was once the scourge of all the faithful’s, the gods, sages, nobles and peace loving people of the three worlds. Great was his physical power and master of Vedas he had become. He had made a long penance and had asked for Vedas as a boon from propitiated Brahma. He had studied them all and had become all knowing. [Read More]
hindu  hinduism  religion  Uma 

Story Of Navratri

 Posted on January 10, 2016  |  3 minutes  |  575 words  |  

The story of Navratra is the symbolic message of the fact that however glorious and powerful the evil become, at the end it is the goodness that wins over all of the evil. The story is associated with Maa Durga and Mahisasura, the buffalo headed demon. The story begins from the life of two sons of Danu called Rambha and Karambha who performed austerities to gain extreme power and authority. When their prayers became deeper and austerities became exceptional, the King of the heaven God Indra got perturbed. [Read More]
hinduism  hindu  religion  navratra 

Song of God – The Bhagavad Gita (Part – I)

 Posted on January 10, 2016  |  6 minutes  |  1098 words  |  

The armies of the Pandavas, and the Kauravas stood facing each other on the battlefield. Then suddenly, a chariot drew away from the Pandava side and came between the two armies. A banner displaying the image of a monkey fluttered above it. It was Arjuna. Arjuna looked at the army before him. Then he looked at the army behind him. Brothers, uncles and nephews, ready to fight and kill one another - for what? [Read More]
hindu  hinduism  bhagvad gita  religion 

Hindu Mythology

 Posted on January 10, 2016  |  1 minutes  |  197 words  |  

Hindusim is a religion that is commonly dominant in the Indian sub-continent. Though personally not very religious, I am born in a Hindu family, and was brought up following the Hindu religion. As a religion following human, I do have my favorite god, Lord Shiva - The god of death. With my website’s this section, my desire is to document whatever I think is true and legitimate. One of the reason is, India (where Hinduism is most common) was invaded by many rulers, from different religions. [Read More]
hindu  hinduism  religion 

Device Mapper Multipath status in Debian

 Posted on December 29, 2015  |  3 minutes  |  478 words  |  

For Debian Jessie, the multipath support relied on sysvinit scripts. So, if you were using systemd, the level of testing would have been minimal. At DebConf15, I got to meet many people whom I’d worked with, over emails, over the years. With every person, my ask was to use the SAN Storage stack in a test environement, and report bugs early. Not after the next release. This applies also to the usual downstream distribution projects. [Read More]
iscsi  multipath  SAN  systemd