The picture above is of a beautifully crafted metal sculpture of the palm of the Buddha depicted in some ancient icon kept in some unknown Buddhist “vihara” perhaps … The graceful pose in which Buddha’s palm is seen… in Sanskrit language … it’s called a “mudra” … A “mudra” in Vedic cultures — and moreContinue reading “The “chinn mudra”: what does it symbolise in Sri Visishtaadvaita Vedanta ?”
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Are Vedic rituals meaningless? Certainly not… not if you understand it in the Japanese sort of way.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-japan-trains Reading the above interesting article and watching the two short video/clips in it, reminds me so much of our own traditional Vedic ritual cultural practices which unfortunately are fast vanishing today in our families and ordinary daily ways of living. While the Japanese Railways devised shisha kanko ritual to regulate their trains in anContinue reading “Are Vedic rituals meaningless? Certainly not… not if you understand it in the Japanese sort of way.”