gayatri mantra chanting
Friday 07 December 2012 at 8:33 pm
Gayatri Mantra Chanting
Benefits of chanting the Gayatri Mantra
We find the Gayatri Mantra within the esoteric texts of major Upanishads (Vedic texts).
The Gayatri Japa is the core part of the Sun Worship Ritual Sandhyavandanam: the salutation to Sandhya: ‘twilight and solar noon’.
It is believed that reciting this mantra bestows wisdom and enlightenment, through the divinity of the Sun.
Chanting Gayatri Mantra creates specific energies. Gayatri mantra inspires righteous wisdom. In traditional Brahmin practice the Gayatri Mantra is often devotionally offered to God at sunrise and sunset. It is a prayer to God, as the divine life giver, symbolized by Savitr (the sun), to inspire within us His Divinity and His Light to guide our Wisdom towards Righteousness.
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Om Mani Padme Hum Meaning and Benefits
Friday 07 December 2012 at 10:15 am
Meaning and Benefits of Om and Om Mani Padme Hum
Mantra for Achieving Buddhahood
A Mantra is a word or sound that is repeated, during meditation. Mantras are considered capable of creating transformation of energy / vibration into divine qualities. Mantras are used within various spiritual paths to enhance meditation or to lead to meditation.
The Buddha leads us to enlightenment manifesting in the form of the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum...
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by Natasa Pantovic, Jeni Caruana, Jason Lu and Christine Cutajar
Thursday 06 September 2012 at 09:03 am
Art of 4 Elements | Discover Alchemy through Poetry
The Art of 4 Elements is a poetry and art book
The poetry, written by Nataša, acted as an inspiration for the work of other artists. The poetry represents the element of Earth, that is the Mother of all we know and experience, that within its womb carries Spirit going forth into the magic of manifestation. Jason's paintings represent the element of Air, that has no shape and is incapable of a fixed form. It is a symbol of thoughts. Christine's element is Fire that is boundless and invisible, and is a parching heat that consumes all. Within its highest manifestation Fire becomes Divine Love. Jeni's element is Water that carries within: a Rhythm of Creation, and a strength of Tantric flow. Water symbolizes the world of emotions.
The golden thread weaving in and out of each poem are the 4 elements – earth, water, air and fire. Earth represents the poems, fire represents the life force, air represents meditation and mental work and water represents the flow of emotions and letting go...
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Dante Alighieriquotes, Poems by Dante
Thursday 31 May 2012 at 09:16 am
Dante Alighieri Life and art (1265 – 1321)
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence around 1265. In Florence, in 1300, he became an ambassador and was appointed "prior", one of the 100 leading citizens who ran the city in rotation. He confronted the Pope Boniface who condemned him to be burnt at the stake for his political beliefs.
"It was Boniface," writes Duffy, "who declared the first Jubilee or Holy Year in 1300, when tens of thousands of pilgrims converged on Rome to gain indulgences, adding enormously to the prestige of the papacy and the spiritual centrality of Rome." All who visited were promised "full and copious pardon", and so enriched Rome's churches that the sacristans "had to scoop in the pilgrim offerings with rakes".
It was Boniface, too, who in his bull of 1302, Unam Sanctam says: "It is absolutely necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman pontiff."
When Boniface sent a military envoy to Florence to conquer the place for the Church, Dante agreed to go to Rome with two other ambassadors of the republic. While he was away, enemies at home cooked up charges against him, Boniface detained him in Rome and he was sentenced to death.
Dante holding a copy of the Divine Comedy in Florence Michelino fresco
In 1315 he was offered an amnesty, and friends and relatives wrote urging him to come back. He rejected them all, and in return was once again condemned to death, this time in company with his children. He died in Ravenna in 1321.
Dante's visit to Venice was also the cause of his death, because on the way back, he contracted malaria which killed him in Ravenna September 14, 1321.
The Florentine poet Dante Alighieri is considered one of the greatest poets of all time
Poems by Dante
The Divine Comedy is an epic poem written around 1300. This sacred poem is an allegory of our journey to enlightenment. It describes our paths through Hell, Purgatory and Heaven to understand the Divine Essence, and attain the union with the Divine Love.
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Interview with Jason Lu Artist of the Art of 4 Elements Book (AoL Mindfulness Training #1)
Tuesday 17 January 2012 at 6:56 pm
Art of 4 Elements: Discover Alchemy through Poetry (AoL Mindfulness Training Book #1)
Art of 4 Elements is a Spiritual Poetry and Art Book published by Artof4elements in 2014.
The poetry, written by Nataša, acted as an inspiration for the work of other artists. The poetry represents the element of Earth, that is the Mother of all consciousness we know and experience, that within its womb carries Spirit going forth into the magic of manifestation. Jason's paintings represent the element of Air, that has no shape and is incapable of a fixed form. It is a symbol of thoughts. Christine's element is Fire that is boundless and invisible, and is a parching heat that consumes all. Within its highest manifestation Fire becomes Divine Love. Jeni's element is Water that carries within: a Rhythm of Creation, and a strength of Tantric flow. Water symbolizes the world of emotions.
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