Just after the ‘Durga Puja’ there comes ‘Lakshmi Puja’. It’s a worship of Goddess ‘Lakshmi’…she is the goddess of prosperity and of wealth… People of India does this Puja to bring the prosperity and wealth for their family…and it is believed that if the puja is done with faith and respect then surely Devi bless the family…in entire this puja is been followed by many state and casts… this puja mainly belongs to the Hindu s… in West Bengal this puja is also done with faith and hope by practicing so many rituals… here this puja is known as Kojagori Lakshmi Puja… coz this puja is mainly done in the day of Full moon…which is called as ‘Purnima’.
Lakshmi Puja is done in common houses mainly and is been worshipped by the priests but sometimes it is organized by different clubs of some localities… this puja continues for only one day… one of the main ritual that is been done is ‘Aripata’…and the ‘Mangal Ghat’ is placed infront of Devi’s idol… here the Bengali wives use paddy and paddy – grains in the puja… ‘alpana’ or ‘fulkari’ is made in front of the entrance of the house and of other doors within the house… as a deity to the goddess different types of fruits are given and beside this ‘Bhog’ is also made mainly with the ingredients…are: rice and pulses… and several types of ‘Bhaja’ are also made… these are the fried vegetables… followed by sweets and curds. People visits to their near and dear ones houses to offer their prayers…
This puja is been enjoyed by the people of India and all these brings happiness and joy to the entire country one after another …till the time of New Year. This is what India is…
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Durga Puja....
In every culture there are certain days which are regarded as a very special days of their calendar… every religion has their own customs and rituals… every country celebrates different types of Festivals according to their time period…
Just like Christmas and Id and any other customs like others all over the world…India also celebrates its rituals and customs and a complete festive season occurs in different times of the year in India… As India is a multi – religion country with its vast different cultures and rituals so every time in India people enjoys different festivals within the country…. Among all other festivals there is another huge festival that all over the people of the country enjoys is…”Durga Puja”. It is one of the most big and lively festival within India… though it is been mainly celebrated in West Bengal… but all parts of the country enjoys this” Puja” (worship) with huge celebration and with full of joy. This festival comes at the end of the year mostly in the months of September – October. In this festival Goddess Devi Durga is been worshipped and it is been said in the Hindu religion that this time Devi Durga comes with her 4 children to visit her maternal home on the earth from “Kailash”… which is an imaginary place where Devi Durga lives with her husband Lord Shiva… this festival is a Hindu festival but there is no such restrictions of enjoying this festival… every people enjoys this festival equally…
In Kolkata and in other parts of the country this Puja is been celebrated with full of lives and with immense enjoyment… and in several areas in Kolkata “Pandals” are made where the Idol of Goddess Durga is been worshipped… people from everywhere visits these pandals to say their prayers and to see Goddess Durga and to invite her cordially to the world of humans… this is believed that when Devi comes She spreads love and fraternity all over the places on the earth and creates peace and secures Her worshippers and devotees from every kind of evils and ominous forces…
In Kolkata this festival is been said as the “Festival of Joy” and delights everybody specially the children… this festival is quite a long awaited festival for everyone. People wait a whole year only for this festival. Specially Bengali s enjoys this festival immensely and buys new cloths for themselves and for their friend and relatives and exchange presents among each other’s and gives treat to their friends and relatives with different delicious foods and desserts… like: luchi (a kind of fried bread), alur dom (potato curry), shukto( a kind of vegetable curry), beguni (egg plant / brinjal fry), polao / ghee bhat( fried rice), kopi and potoler danla( a cauliflower curry), ilish mach bhaja / bhape / doi ilish( Ilesha fish) , chingri macher malaikari ( shrimp ‘s curry) etc..And in desserts they takes roshogolla , mishit doi, nolen gurer shondesh,etc and lastly they end with pan as a mint.
But before the beginning of the celebration they believe the starting of Devi Pokhsha which actually starts from the time of “Mahalaya” and this indicates the end of “Pitri pokhsha” and starting of “Devi pokhsha” when the Puja of Goddess Durga happens. This puja lasts for 5 days… the first day is called ‘Panchumi’, second day as ‘Shoshti’, third day as ‘Shaptumi’, forth day as’ Ashtumi’ and fifth day as ‘Nabami’ and the last day when the puja ends that day is called as ‘Bijoya’ and this is the most important as well as sorrowful day for everybody because it is said that on this day Devi returns to Her home in Kailash and after a long gap of a year She will visit once again…. This day the festival finally ends and this is mainly a thanks giving day where everybody bids thanks to one another and does “Pronam “to the elders and men also does “kolakuli” with one another to create brotherhood and fraternity among themselves for the rest of the year and to maintain peace among themselves.This is how for a year Puja ends and countdown starts for the next year for this festival to come once again in their lives and again to spread happiness among the people…whether they are rich or poor or of different religion or of different customs…
Just like Christmas and Id and any other customs like others all over the world…India also celebrates its rituals and customs and a complete festive season occurs in different times of the year in India… As India is a multi – religion country with its vast different cultures and rituals so every time in India people enjoys different festivals within the country…. Among all other festivals there is another huge festival that all over the people of the country enjoys is…”Durga Puja”. It is one of the most big and lively festival within India… though it is been mainly celebrated in West Bengal… but all parts of the country enjoys this” Puja” (worship) with huge celebration and with full of joy. This festival comes at the end of the year mostly in the months of September – October. In this festival Goddess Devi Durga is been worshipped and it is been said in the Hindu religion that this time Devi Durga comes with her 4 children to visit her maternal home on the earth from “Kailash”… which is an imaginary place where Devi Durga lives with her husband Lord Shiva… this festival is a Hindu festival but there is no such restrictions of enjoying this festival… every people enjoys this festival equally…
In Kolkata and in other parts of the country this Puja is been celebrated with full of lives and with immense enjoyment… and in several areas in Kolkata “Pandals” are made where the Idol of Goddess Durga is been worshipped… people from everywhere visits these pandals to say their prayers and to see Goddess Durga and to invite her cordially to the world of humans… this is believed that when Devi comes She spreads love and fraternity all over the places on the earth and creates peace and secures Her worshippers and devotees from every kind of evils and ominous forces…
In Kolkata this festival is been said as the “Festival of Joy” and delights everybody specially the children… this festival is quite a long awaited festival for everyone. People wait a whole year only for this festival. Specially Bengali s enjoys this festival immensely and buys new cloths for themselves and for their friend and relatives and exchange presents among each other’s and gives treat to their friends and relatives with different delicious foods and desserts… like: luchi (a kind of fried bread), alur dom (potato curry), shukto( a kind of vegetable curry), beguni (egg plant / brinjal fry), polao / ghee bhat( fried rice), kopi and potoler danla( a cauliflower curry), ilish mach bhaja / bhape / doi ilish( Ilesha fish) , chingri macher malaikari ( shrimp ‘s curry) etc..And in desserts they takes roshogolla , mishit doi, nolen gurer shondesh,etc and lastly they end with pan as a mint.
But before the beginning of the celebration they believe the starting of Devi Pokhsha which actually starts from the time of “Mahalaya” and this indicates the end of “Pitri pokhsha” and starting of “Devi pokhsha” when the Puja of Goddess Durga happens. This puja lasts for 5 days… the first day is called ‘Panchumi’, second day as ‘Shoshti’, third day as ‘Shaptumi’, forth day as’ Ashtumi’ and fifth day as ‘Nabami’ and the last day when the puja ends that day is called as ‘Bijoya’ and this is the most important as well as sorrowful day for everybody because it is said that on this day Devi returns to Her home in Kailash and after a long gap of a year She will visit once again…. This day the festival finally ends and this is mainly a thanks giving day where everybody bids thanks to one another and does “Pronam “to the elders and men also does “kolakuli” with one another to create brotherhood and fraternity among themselves for the rest of the year and to maintain peace among themselves.This is how for a year Puja ends and countdown starts for the next year for this festival to come once again in their lives and again to spread happiness among the people…whether they are rich or poor or of different religion or of different customs…
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Global Warming.....to think!!!
Today the global warming has become a great issue for the world…there are many people who are searching the root causes of this and on the basis of this they found some mind blowing facts… which are quite threatening to our existence in the world. Several studies are been made and the shocking incidents which have emerged are the earth’s most coolest places are melting and the existence of living beings is coming to a stake… what’s your view?
Friday, September 19, 2008
About Civilizations....
There are so many things in and around us which we might never be able to come across………. There are plenty of unknown facts that are yet to be revealed…yet to be unturned. But man is still trying hard to find out the root causes according to his limits. He is every day trying to excavate new things but still there are so many things that are left to do….
If we take the example of the incidents of different inventions of till now that what was been done by the mankind…we will find that still now what man had done gives us certain matter of study and also from where we can get at least some clues related to it. There are many facts which are still not invented. Though it is been said by many expeditors or the inventors that they had revealed many truths……..but the fact is that there is no exact cause that is been given…which can only arise a question ….do they really know the truth? The truth of the diminishing of so many civilizations from the heart of the world … because there are no such evidences that can be traced from these… are they aware of the fact that due to what reason these civilizations came under destruction? Can anybody who is attach with the expeditions tell that what made those big and so called famous civilizations to come to their uncertain future of the past? I had gone through an article where it has been depicted the picture of the collapse of the Egyptian Civilization and where it has been said that the fact of the collapse of this civilization was not a foreign invasion or not because of the involvement in a major war or of any kind of military activities or any sort of isolation from the rest of the world caused by certain natural barriers … but instead of all these root causes of the collapse what is been ultimately said was the Social Revolution. It has been also said that the entire structure of the then Egyptian society was destroyed. It is also said regarding this was …the chaos which took place within the society turned the entire civilization again into a complete boorishness.
Not only the Egyptian Civilization but also many other big Civilizations unlike this contains several different views and predictions and plenty of comments are been made regarding their diminishment which can come under contradictions and also quite debating...but still no such conclusion can be extracted from those various comments that are actually made by the famous historians or by the other related persons to this…
Still there are so many questions left which are yet to be revealed and is still very much difficult to find out their answers. Different people have different thoughts…….some of them states their views by finding some new materials or elemental proofs from the dark debris of those Civilizations and some of them are who only try to conjecture the root causes of destruction.
But nobody is even been able to give the final answer of all these questions. Even I am also trying to find out these answers and circling around within the same loop … still to know many facts and am trying to find out the actual answer….
If we take the example of the incidents of different inventions of till now that what was been done by the mankind…we will find that still now what man had done gives us certain matter of study and also from where we can get at least some clues related to it. There are many facts which are still not invented. Though it is been said by many expeditors or the inventors that they had revealed many truths……..but the fact is that there is no exact cause that is been given…which can only arise a question ….do they really know the truth? The truth of the diminishing of so many civilizations from the heart of the world … because there are no such evidences that can be traced from these… are they aware of the fact that due to what reason these civilizations came under destruction? Can anybody who is attach with the expeditions tell that what made those big and so called famous civilizations to come to their uncertain future of the past? I had gone through an article where it has been depicted the picture of the collapse of the Egyptian Civilization and where it has been said that the fact of the collapse of this civilization was not a foreign invasion or not because of the involvement in a major war or of any kind of military activities or any sort of isolation from the rest of the world caused by certain natural barriers … but instead of all these root causes of the collapse what is been ultimately said was the Social Revolution. It has been also said that the entire structure of the then Egyptian society was destroyed. It is also said regarding this was …the chaos which took place within the society turned the entire civilization again into a complete boorishness.
Not only the Egyptian Civilization but also many other big Civilizations unlike this contains several different views and predictions and plenty of comments are been made regarding their diminishment which can come under contradictions and also quite debating...but still no such conclusion can be extracted from those various comments that are actually made by the famous historians or by the other related persons to this…
Still there are so many questions left which are yet to be revealed and is still very much difficult to find out their answers. Different people have different thoughts…….some of them states their views by finding some new materials or elemental proofs from the dark debris of those Civilizations and some of them are who only try to conjecture the root causes of destruction.
But nobody is even been able to give the final answer of all these questions. Even I am also trying to find out these answers and circling around within the same loop … still to know many facts and am trying to find out the actual answer….
Monday, September 15, 2008
Remembering Incidents....
Isn’t it strange sometimes that so many things happen within the world on a same time one after another … and that becomes the news of day to day phenomenon? Whether that might be the news of destruction or the news of construction… but the world goes on… for a particular time period the news contains certain values for everyone or creates some interest … but with the passing of time and days that news which was the centre of interests for everyone turns fade… nobody remembers it… but if I turn around the other side of the same coin then there will be noticed that there are many such incidents that took place before in many parts of the world are still contains much values as well as are still meaningful to the world… news may be of new experiments or terrible devastations or any sort of criminal activities or any kind of natural incidents whatever they might be are always remains within the memories of the world …these incidents people are compelled to recollect every time as the resemblance happens every moment… what to do? If we take the example of natural phenomena then that might be categorized under the “laws of nature”… but if we take the incidents of terrorist’s attacks then we can’t say it as a natural one… because those are manmade incidents.
Another thing that occurs simultaneously with these incidents … are the criticisms or in some cases are of appreciation… both are the two sides of the same coin…let’s take, an incident has the occurred and on regard to this some sect of people appreciates it and some of the others criticize it… both happen side by side but nobody thinks that for what they are actually doing all these? Are these incidents would change the figure or will remain the same… what about those who faced these situations… or what will happen to them who suffered from these… does anybody really think of it? ………… What’s your view?
Another thing that occurs simultaneously with these incidents … are the criticisms or in some cases are of appreciation… both are the two sides of the same coin…let’s take, an incident has the occurred and on regard to this some sect of people appreciates it and some of the others criticize it… both happen side by side but nobody thinks that for what they are actually doing all these? Are these incidents would change the figure or will remain the same… what about those who faced these situations… or what will happen to them who suffered from these… does anybody really think of it? ………… What’s your view?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Frustrated Psychology...
There are some people in the world whose psychology is not been recognized by any body!!
Rather I can say it’s quite hard to determine them… their sentiments, their emotions, their opinions and last but not the least their view about the others…I personally think that their psychology is very much complex…they don’t treat people even their near and dear ones with true respect, love or with any kind of sympathy or an attachment…all what they think is all about themselves and about their own problem…these people does not remain satisfied or does not make others satisfy…they only belongs to their own…not for anybody not for their own families and not for any near ones…these kind of people are mainly self oriented person…they always think about their own benefits no matter what happens with the others…but they only cares about themselves…people think of them as very selfish and ruthless in nature…but I must say regarding this that these type of people are actually mentally sick…
If I say then it’s better that if any symptom of this kind is visible within any body then it will be good to visit to a proper Psychiatrist…really these sect of people need proper treatment…the main symptoms are….
1) Person will feel jealous of others…who so ever...Does not matter at all.
2) He / She will predict that everybody is jealous of them… (That which is actually not in real case)
3) He / She will suffer from immense feel of either superiority complex or of inferiority complex.
4) They will easily express their emotions and feelings in front of everyone.
5) They will try hard to insult others who ever they are…
6) They will always feel insecure from others and will always think that all people / or any particular person / persons are trying to do bad to them… (Alas! This will never happen coz; people don’t have so much time to do any harm to others…who are actually of their near ones...)
7) They may sometime would pretend to be quite or very much familiar to the other s actually what they are not.
8) They will express their anxiety / anger in front of their near ones.
9) They will always try to do harm to their targeted person whom they does not like at all…
10) They will always try to involve themselves in doing dirty politics with others.
So lastly before I shall conclude I would like to say…please visit to a Psychiatrist if these all happens to you or with anybody else.
I am insisting all of you because in my personal life I know someone who is suffering from this terrible problem…but not taking any sort of proper measures to resolve this problem…what to do? Only I can alert that person through this writing…
NB. This post is not to hurt any one personally. This is my personal observation only. :)
Rather I can say it’s quite hard to determine them… their sentiments, their emotions, their opinions and last but not the least their view about the others…I personally think that their psychology is very much complex…they don’t treat people even their near and dear ones with true respect, love or with any kind of sympathy or an attachment…all what they think is all about themselves and about their own problem…these people does not remain satisfied or does not make others satisfy…they only belongs to their own…not for anybody not for their own families and not for any near ones…these kind of people are mainly self oriented person…they always think about their own benefits no matter what happens with the others…but they only cares about themselves…people think of them as very selfish and ruthless in nature…but I must say regarding this that these type of people are actually mentally sick…
If I say then it’s better that if any symptom of this kind is visible within any body then it will be good to visit to a proper Psychiatrist…really these sect of people need proper treatment…the main symptoms are….
1) Person will feel jealous of others…who so ever...Does not matter at all.
2) He / She will predict that everybody is jealous of them… (That which is actually not in real case)
3) He / She will suffer from immense feel of either superiority complex or of inferiority complex.
4) They will easily express their emotions and feelings in front of everyone.
5) They will try hard to insult others who ever they are…
6) They will always feel insecure from others and will always think that all people / or any particular person / persons are trying to do bad to them… (Alas! This will never happen coz; people don’t have so much time to do any harm to others…who are actually of their near ones...)
7) They may sometime would pretend to be quite or very much familiar to the other s actually what they are not.
8) They will express their anxiety / anger in front of their near ones.
9) They will always try to do harm to their targeted person whom they does not like at all…
10) They will always try to involve themselves in doing dirty politics with others.
So lastly before I shall conclude I would like to say…please visit to a Psychiatrist if these all happens to you or with anybody else.
I am insisting all of you because in my personal life I know someone who is suffering from this terrible problem…but not taking any sort of proper measures to resolve this problem…what to do? Only I can alert that person through this writing…
NB. This post is not to hurt any one personally. This is my personal observation only. :)
Monday, August 11, 2008
All about work!!
I have a question always in my mind…what is the reason behind that every man is struggling for their survival? What makes them to work whole day…without having food properly…concentrating deeply into their work…devoting themselves completely…
Why do people work? Do they work for their own or to gain mental satisfaction or to feed their families their near and dear ones or just they are bound to do some activity as per nature’s rule…what? What drags them to work? Is it purely driven by the system of the society or by their self realization or will? In the past history our ancestors used to work for to feed their families…they worked for their survival…some did farming and some did other works…but at that time they lived a peaceful life…
But now the picture has changed…even still now to say clearly people are doing their jobs in their own fields very efficiently but still their remained a dissatisfaction…we can’t predict any person that he / she is completely happy with their work status…this is all happening just because of tremendous competition…every body is trying to gain wealth and prosperity as much as they can but nobody is thinking about the real fact…they are turning into a machine…their work culture and procedure is nothing different than a machine…yes, they might are earning for their families but they are not been able to give as much time to their near ones…these days work culture used to run like, in this manner say…a person after almost a sleepless night wakes up in the morning, have his breakfast and then run to the office…this I am telling about the office going people to those busy people who don’t have time for their families…after a long work.. suppose starting from the morn at 8 o’ clock till evening at 8:30 these people returns to their home with immense pressure and fatigue and tiredness…their health does not permit them to work or to think on the extra topic they even don’t get time to speak to their children and wives..They come like a guest who is very tired dare to sleep in their own house without any obstruction and then after having their dinner finally go to sleep, again on the next day the same case happens and it starts to repeat day after day…
These people don’t be able to maintain social relationships just because of their jobs their wish to achieve the highest position in their field and just because of the craziness for their work…can anybody state that what makes them work so much? What will bring peace in their mind and they will be able to make out a little time for their families? What happens to their families and their near ones when they see their man is working throughout the whole day without giving any attention towards them??What’s the reason behind it? Why there is so much competition?? Why the people can’t spend their times with doing all sorts of activities including their jobs simultaneously…like their own ancestors did before…why? Balancing everything simultaneously is really necessary to maintain a good and healthy relationship with the near ones. Isn’t it true? Can anybody justify this?
Why do people work? Do they work for their own or to gain mental satisfaction or to feed their families their near and dear ones or just they are bound to do some activity as per nature’s rule…what? What drags them to work? Is it purely driven by the system of the society or by their self realization or will? In the past history our ancestors used to work for to feed their families…they worked for their survival…some did farming and some did other works…but at that time they lived a peaceful life…
But now the picture has changed…even still now to say clearly people are doing their jobs in their own fields very efficiently but still their remained a dissatisfaction…we can’t predict any person that he / she is completely happy with their work status…this is all happening just because of tremendous competition…every body is trying to gain wealth and prosperity as much as they can but nobody is thinking about the real fact…they are turning into a machine…their work culture and procedure is nothing different than a machine…yes, they might are earning for their families but they are not been able to give as much time to their near ones…these days work culture used to run like, in this manner say…a person after almost a sleepless night wakes up in the morning, have his breakfast and then run to the office…this I am telling about the office going people to those busy people who don’t have time for their families…after a long work.. suppose starting from the morn at 8 o’ clock till evening at 8:30 these people returns to their home with immense pressure and fatigue and tiredness…their health does not permit them to work or to think on the extra topic they even don’t get time to speak to their children and wives..They come like a guest who is very tired dare to sleep in their own house without any obstruction and then after having their dinner finally go to sleep, again on the next day the same case happens and it starts to repeat day after day…
These people don’t be able to maintain social relationships just because of their jobs their wish to achieve the highest position in their field and just because of the craziness for their work…can anybody state that what makes them work so much? What will bring peace in their mind and they will be able to make out a little time for their families? What happens to their families and their near ones when they see their man is working throughout the whole day without giving any attention towards them??What’s the reason behind it? Why there is so much competition?? Why the people can’t spend their times with doing all sorts of activities including their jobs simultaneously…like their own ancestors did before…why? Balancing everything simultaneously is really necessary to maintain a good and healthy relationship with the near ones. Isn’t it true? Can anybody justify this?
Friday, August 8, 2008
Introduction...
I am Priyanka. A Bengali girl from Kolkata (India)…who have come abroad to create her future…this might be quite not important to all of you...you people might have think that every person have their own future… so, what’s new in it? But in this respect I would like to say that my example is bit different…I had always and even still now some wish to do something new and different…
I was a simple girl who was born and brought up in a very conservative family at Kolkata…never known about her future…what she would do? What is her motto of life? What’s her view? etc..etc..She only learnt that after completing her education…she will get married..and become depressed always of thinking that she doesn’t have anything to do…she had an idea that after marriage life stops…no one can be able to create their own destiny…the only thing that remains is to work for the family and to devote themselves completely by and for the family people…this was her trauma…as she never get out of the fact that the modern life style has completely changed…coz she only saw the restricted and dominating side of the society but not of the today’s fact…
As usual after she completed her graduation she got married to a person whom her elders selected for her…she was frightened of…what would happen after marriage? But her thought was completely turned wrong by her husband…he is a very caring and darling man…with full of affection and love and have an attachment to his wife…it’s because of him I came abroad and now creating a site pranayan.org by myself and daily writing about Japanese language and its culture…its now have become a complete involvement and I am enjoying this work a lot….what ever happened and those what I have achieved is all because of my husband…Utsab.
I was a simple girl who was born and brought up in a very conservative family at Kolkata…never known about her future…what she would do? What is her motto of life? What’s her view? etc..etc..She only learnt that after completing her education…she will get married..and become depressed always of thinking that she doesn’t have anything to do…she had an idea that after marriage life stops…no one can be able to create their own destiny…the only thing that remains is to work for the family and to devote themselves completely by and for the family people…this was her trauma…as she never get out of the fact that the modern life style has completely changed…coz she only saw the restricted and dominating side of the society but not of the today’s fact…
As usual after she completed her graduation she got married to a person whom her elders selected for her…she was frightened of…what would happen after marriage? But her thought was completely turned wrong by her husband…he is a very caring and darling man…with full of affection and love and have an attachment to his wife…it’s because of him I came abroad and now creating a site pranayan.org by myself and daily writing about Japanese language and its culture…its now have become a complete involvement and I am enjoying this work a lot….what ever happened and those what I have achieved is all because of my husband…Utsab.
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