Friday, November 6, 2015
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Aloof of Material Desires / Shiva's Blessing
He remained completely brahmacari, although naked he is. He is. He doesn’t require, and neither he is agitated.
Just like when he was passing, the girls were taking bath. They did not take care. They knew that he is not at all affected by any woman. And when his father was going, they covered. So father inquired, Vyasadeva, a personality like Vyasadeva, said, “Why you covered? I am old man, and my young son he was passing naked.” They said that, “He is paramahamsa. He has no agitation of the mind. But you are grhastha. You live with woman. You have got distinction, man and woman.”
At that time, Lord Siva appeared before Vyasa. “O saint Vyasa! On that day when I asked to choose whatever you like, you have chosen for a son who is beyond five elements. I blessed you with such a son. With my blessings and with your divine power, your son, Suka got a status, beyond divine bodies. You have to feel proud of him. O Saint Vyasa! your son’s name and fame shall remain till sun and moon remain in this Universe.” so saying Maha Siva disappeared.
Just like when he was passing, the girls were taking bath. They did not take care. They knew that he is not at all affected by any woman. And when his father was going, they covered. So father inquired, Vyasadeva, a personality like Vyasadeva, said, “Why you covered? I am old man, and my young son he was passing naked.” They said that, “He is paramahamsa. He has no agitation of the mind. But you are grhastha. You live with woman. You have got distinction, man and woman.”
At that time, Lord Siva appeared before Vyasa. “O saint Vyasa! On that day when I asked to choose whatever you like, you have chosen for a son who is beyond five elements. I blessed you with such a son. With my blessings and with your divine power, your son, Suka got a status, beyond divine bodies. You have to feel proud of him. O Saint Vyasa! your son’s name and fame shall remain till sun and moon remain in this Universe.” so saying Maha Siva disappeared.
Monday, September 14, 2015
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Shukratal / Photos / Site / Map / Temple / Places of Interest / More
Shukratal: Where Sukadeva Goswami Explained the Srimad Bhagavatam
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http://www.jantareview.com/Muzaffarnagar/biz_22163/Shukratal
http://www.dattapeetham.com/india/tours/2009/north-india-2009/shukasthal/shukasthal.html
http://www.mysterindia.com/article528.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzaffarnagar#Some_important_places_of_Muzaffarnagar
http://iskconnews.org/search/?q=shukratal
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http://www.jantareview.com/Muzaffarnagar/biz_22163/Shukratal
http://www.dattapeetham.com/india/tours/2009/north-india-2009/shukasthal/shukasthal.html
http://www.mysterindia.com/article528.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzaffarnagar#Some_important_places_of_Muzaffarnagar
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
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Monday, June 29, 2015
Sukadeva Gosvami - The Personalised Bhagavat
☺ In his previous life Sukadeva Goswami was a parrot. But he was not any ordinary parrot. He was the personal parrot of Srimati Radharani. He used to take messages from Her to Krishna.
☺ When Srimati Radharani was about to leave this world back to the spiritual world, She told her parrot, called Suka, to stay here. But the parrot did not want to stay here without Her. Then Srimati Radharani assured her wherever the transcendental pastimes of the Supreme Lord are being narrated, you will not feel separation from Me
☺ Thus the parrot Suka started looking out for a place where Hari Katha was going on. He finally reached Kailash, the place where Lord Shiva and Parvati live. Lord Shiva was reciting Srimad Bhagavatam to Parvati. The Parrot Suka hide himself in the green leaves of the tree under which Lord Shiva was sitting and started hearing the nectarean pastimes of his beloved lord.
Shuka means tropical bird, particularly, parrot.This bird has the special privilege of resting on the right shoulder of Goddess Meenakshi, who is none other than Goddess Raja Matangi also known as Raja Shyamala.This Goddess is the upasana murthi for fine arts,especially music and dance.Meenakshi is identified with Raja Mathangi or manthiri,the minister of Sri Lalitha Tripura Sundari.The parrot resting on Her shoulder is certainly not a decorative bird,but the celestial partner of the Goddess,imparting knowledge of all the 64 arts to Devi. The saint composer,Sri Syama Sastri
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in many of his compositions on Goddess Meenakshi has mentioned Shuka Shyamala(Meenakshi with the parrot).
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☺ Lord Shiva was completely absorbed in reciting Srimad Bhagavatam. Every few minutes Parvati would make some sounds like, Hmmmm… so that Lord Shiva would know that she was still listening. However after sometime she went to sleep and stopped making any sound. Then Suka, who was hiding behind the leaves, started making sound in the same way as Parvati.
☺ When the Srimad Bhagavatam was about to end Parvati woke up. Lord Shiva wanted to know how she liked the narration. Parvati begged forgiveness from the Lord and admitted that she had gone off to sleep.
☺ Lord Shiva was amazed and asked her who was making that sound. When she said that she did not know, Lord Shiva started looking all around to see if someone was hiding and hearing these pastimes. He finally spotted the parrot hiding in the tree.
☺ Lord Shiva started thinking that the parrot was not qualified to hear Srimad Bhagavatam. If an unqualified person hears these transcendental narrations there will be lots of disturbances therefore he wanted to kill the parrot immediately
☺ Lord Shiva took his trident and ran towards the parrot. Seeing Lord Shiva, Suka started flying away, Lord Shiva followed him. Finally the parrot reached the hermitage of Srila Vyasadev. Srila Vyasadev was narrating Srimad Bhagavatam to his wife, Bitika. While hearing his wife yawned. At that point the parrot entered into her open mouth. Lord Shiva also reached the hermitage. He inquired from Vyasadev if he had seen the parrot.
☺ Then Lord Shiva narrated him the whole incident. Lord Shiva told Srila Vyasadev that anyone who hears Srimad Bhagavatam gets free from the cycle of birth and death and becomes eternal. Srila Vyasadev commented that since the parrot had become eternal by hearing Srimad Bhagavatam, he could not be killed. So Lord Shiva went away.
☺ The Parrot, Suka, inside the body of Bitika took the form of a baby within her womb. However He did not come out of the womb at the usual time. Instead of nine month he stayed in the womb for 16 years Till Krishna appeared and assured that his maya will not influence him
World Emperor Pariksit accepts Sukadeva Gosvami as his spiritual master
Sukadeva Goswami instructs Maharaja Pariksit Srimad Bhagavatham
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Mystery of talking ability solved
A long lasting mystery - how can parrots 'talk' like humans - seems to be heading to a solution at last. An international team of scientists led by Duke University researchers has found that parrot brains are different. This may explain the birds' unparalleled ability to imitate sounds and human speech.
"This finding opens up a huge avenue of research in parrots, in trying to understand how parrots are processing the information necessary to copy novel sounds and what are the mechanisms that underlie imitation of human speech sounds," said Mukta Chakraborty, a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Erich Jarvis, an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
What is surprising is that the newly found parrot brain structures had been known for 34 years but their link to speech was not made by scientists. The results also may lend insight into the neural mechanisms of human speech. The new interpretation was reported in the journal PLOS ONE on 24 June.
By examining gene expression patterns, the new study found that parrot brains are structured differently than the brains of songbirds and hummingbirds, which also exhibit vocal learning. In addition to having defined centers in the brain that control vocal learning called 'cores,' parrots have what the scientists call 'shells,' or outer rings, which are also involved in vocal learning. The shells are relatively bigger in species of parrots that are well known for their ability to imitate human speech, the group found.
This team included researchers from Denmark and the Netherlands who donated precious brain tissue for the study. They characterized the brains of eight parrot species besides the budgerigar, including conures, cockatiels, lovebirds, two species of Amazon parrots, a blue and gold macaw, a kea and an African Grey parrot.
Even the most ancient of the parrot species they studied, the Kea of New Zealand, has a shell structure—albeit rudimentary. This suggests that the populations of neurons in the shells probably arose at least 29 million years ago.
Before now, some scientists had assumed that the regions surrounding the cores had nothing to do with vocal learning.
"The first thing that surprised me when Mukta and I were looking at the new results is, 'Wow, how did I miss this all these years? How did everybody else miss this all these years?" said Jarvis, who is also member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. "The surprise to me was more about human psychology and what we look for and how biased we are in what we look for. Once you see it, it's obvious. I have these brain sections from 15 years ago, and now I can see it."
Most of the bird's vocal learning brain regions are tucked into areas that also control movement. These areas in parrots also show some special patterns of gene expression, which the scientists speculate might explain why some parrots are also able to learn to dance to music. This finding is a part of a much larger international effort to sequence the complete genomes of all 10,000 species of birds in the next five years, called the Bird 10K Project.
"This finding opens up a huge avenue of research in parrots, in trying to understand how parrots are processing the information necessary to copy novel sounds and what are the mechanisms that underlie imitation of human speech sounds," said Mukta Chakraborty, a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Erich Jarvis, an associate professor of neurobiology at Duke and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
What is surprising is that the newly found parrot brain structures had been known for 34 years but their link to speech was not made by scientists. The results also may lend insight into the neural mechanisms of human speech. The new interpretation was reported in the journal PLOS ONE on 24 June.
By examining gene expression patterns, the new study found that parrot brains are structured differently than the brains of songbirds and hummingbirds, which also exhibit vocal learning. In addition to having defined centers in the brain that control vocal learning called 'cores,' parrots have what the scientists call 'shells,' or outer rings, which are also involved in vocal learning. The shells are relatively bigger in species of parrots that are well known for their ability to imitate human speech, the group found.
This team included researchers from Denmark and the Netherlands who donated precious brain tissue for the study. They characterized the brains of eight parrot species besides the budgerigar, including conures, cockatiels, lovebirds, two species of Amazon parrots, a blue and gold macaw, a kea and an African Grey parrot.
Even the most ancient of the parrot species they studied, the Kea of New Zealand, has a shell structure—albeit rudimentary. This suggests that the populations of neurons in the shells probably arose at least 29 million years ago.
Before now, some scientists had assumed that the regions surrounding the cores had nothing to do with vocal learning.
"The first thing that surprised me when Mukta and I were looking at the new results is, 'Wow, how did I miss this all these years? How did everybody else miss this all these years?" said Jarvis, who is also member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences. "The surprise to me was more about human psychology and what we look for and how biased we are in what we look for. Once you see it, it's obvious. I have these brain sections from 15 years ago, and now I can see it."
Most of the bird's vocal learning brain regions are tucked into areas that also control movement. These areas in parrots also show some special patterns of gene expression, which the scientists speculate might explain why some parrots are also able to learn to dance to music. This finding is a part of a much larger international effort to sequence the complete genomes of all 10,000 species of birds in the next five years, called the Bird 10K Project.
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Cockatiel
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Buddha
NOW it came to pass that the Buddha was re-born in the shape of a Parrot, and he greatly excelled all other parrots in his strength and beauty. And when he was full grown his father, who had long been the leader of the flock in their flights to other climes, said to him: "My son, behold my strength is spent! Do thou lead the flock, for I am no longer able." And the Buddha said: "Behold, tbou shalt rest. I will lead the birds." And the Parrots rejoiced in the strength of their new leader, and willingly did they follow him. Now from that day on, the Buddha undertook to feed his parents, and would not consent that they should do any more work. Each, day he led his flock to the Himalaya Hills, and when be had eaten his fill of the clumps of rice that grew there, he filled his beak with food for the dear parents who were waiting his return.
Now there was a man appointed to watch the rice-fields, and he did his best to drive the Parrots away, but there seemed to be some secret power in the leader of this flock which the Keeper could not overcome.
He noticed that the Parrots ate their fill and then flew away, but that the Parrot-King not only satisfied his hunger, but carried away rice in his beak.
Now he feared there would be no rice left, and he went to his master the Brahmin to tell him what had happened; and even as the master listened there came to him the thought that the Parrot-King was something higher than he seemed, and he loved him even before he saw him. But he said nothing of this, and only warned the Keeper that he should set a snare and catch the dangerous bird. So the man did as he was bidden: he made a small cage and set the snare, and sat down in his hut waiting for the birds to come. And soon he saw the Parrot-King amidst his flock, who, because he had no greed, sought no richer spot, but flew down to the same place in which he had fed the day before.
Now, no sooner had he touched the ground than he felt his feet caught in the noose. Then fear crept into his bird-heart, but a stronger feeling was there to crush it down, for he thought: "If I cry out the Cry of the Captured, my Kinsfolk will be terrified and the will fly away foodless. But if I lie still, then their hunger will be satisfied, and they may safely come to my aid." Thus was the Parrot both brave and prudent.
But alas! he did not know that his Kinsfolk had nought of his brave spirit. When they had eaten their fill, though they heard the thrice-uttered cry of the captured, they flew away, nor heeded the sad plight of their leader.
Then was the heart of the Parrot-King sore within him, and he said: "All these my kith and kin, and not one to look back on me. Alas! what sin have I done?"
The Watchman now heard the cry of the Parrot-King, and the sound of the other Parrots flying through the air. "What is that?" he cried, and leaving his hut he came to the place where he had laid the snare. There he found the captive Parrot; he tied his feet together and brought him to the Brahmin, his master. Now, when the Brahmin saw the Parrot-King, he felt his strong power, and his heart was full of love to him, but he hid his feelings and said in a voice of anger: "Is thy greed greater than that of all other birds? They eat their fill, but thou takest away each day more food than thou canst eat. Doest thou this out of hatred for me, or dost thou store up the food in some granary for selfish greed?"
And the Great Being made answer in a sweet human voice: "I hate thee not, O Brahmin. Nor do I store the rice in a granary for selfish greed. But this thing I do, Each day I pay a debt which is due—each day I grant a loan, and each day I store up a treasure."
Now the Brahmin could not understand the words of the Buddha (because true wisdom had not entered his heart), and he said: "I pray thee, O Wondrous Bird, to make these words clear unto me."
And then the Parrot-King made answer: "I carry food to my ancient parents who can no longer seek that food for themselves: thus I pay my daily debt. I carry food to my callow chicks whose wings are yet ungrown. When I am old they will care for me—this my loan to them. And for other birds, weak and helpless of wing, who need the aid of the strong, for them I lay up a store; to these I give in charity."
Then was the Brahmin much moved, and showed the love that was in his heart. "Eat thy fill, O Righteous Bird, and let thy Kinsfolk eat too, for thy sake." And he wished to bestow a thousand acres of land upon him, but the Great Being would only take a tiny portion round which were set boundary stores.
And the Parrot returned with a head of rice, and said: "Arise, dear Parents, that I may take you to a place of plenty." And he told them the story of his deliverance.
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