Ghatasthani

This is one of the many names of the goddess Kali. She was a tantrik goddess adopted by the Hindus. Her name means "pot breasted" but let this not fool u. She is said to be one of the most fearsome avatars of kali who is also called Maya meaning "deception or illusion".

She has huge breasts, a garland of human skulls and stains of human blood on her lips. She is naked except for a skirt made up of severed human arms. She is the goddess of death and destruction.

She is otherwise known as Smasana Kali, Smasana meaning cremation ground. I have not been able to deduce the central idea behind this avatar of hers, but she is supposed to be a personification of the raw power that fuels this universe. And yeah, her seat is the corpse of her dead consort whom many say is actually the god Shiva.

Now it is known that Shiva loves his partner or wife if u may dearly. This whole thing about the corpse is meant to symbolize the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of love I think.

Kali has been viewed as a mother and some have even called her a lover. There is one I know of who calls himself her consort. She requires sacrifices. But most of all, more than sacrifices she needs u to have the spirit of sacrifice. Those who did consider themselves her consorts sacrificed their bodies to her and killed themselves. But this one I talk of sacrificed his soul to her and waits for her to come accept his sacrifice.

Ghatasthani is not common among the normal folk. It is used by the aghori. Aghoris are the practitioners of aghora which is a more severe form of Tantra.

Tantra is mistaken as plainly sex, but it is a system of meditation which involves everyday activities as its constituent rituals, sex is just one of them.

The aghori perform various rituals either using human remains or sometimes even human corpses to appease this goddess. Just because her name suggests that she has a large bosom doesn’t mean that her fury is gentler. She is supposed to be very scary and hideous in appearance, but to her true devotee she is the personification of beauty. Those who have claimed to have been granted a boon of being able to see her have said that at first they were alarmed by her ugliness, but later she transformed the personification of beauty.

A lot about kali and the tantrik traditions can be gleaned from the site

SHIVASHAKTI- A GOOD RESOURCE FOR TANTRIK LITERATURE

this is a site that contains a lot about the tantrik ways, but just like any other resource about kali, it suffers the inherent flaw of being incomplete. For the amount of literature compiled about kali is too large to be consolidated into any one resource.

Actually the fearsome image of kali is so that the common folk who are at times very fickle should not forget to pay their respect to the raw power of the heavens. For that’s what kali represents, the power that feeds the universe.

There is actually a verse in Tantra literature that says that a person can see kali in any form he/she wishes as long as he is able to respect that form of hers.

The Gist Of My Novel - DIfferent Epochs

The year is 2084, humans have been contacted by an extraterrestrial life form, and they are all set to make a landing in the Indus delta region, the site of one of the oldest civilization in the world. A space ship appears and descends to the ground where a battalion of Indian troops await their arrival.

They watch with bated breaths as one of the extraterrestrial creatures makes its descent and starts moving towards them. Then suddenly one of the soldiers fires a weapon at both creature and ship destroying both. This soldier turns out to be an emissary of another race of extraterrestrials who in fact are humans.

The leaders of the earth then realize that there is an empire of humans spanning thirty-five galaxies, and that the earth had been quarantined off from it as the outcome of a war fought over ten thousand years ago. They also learn that there is currently a war brewing between the humans and the race which spawned this creature which attempted to land on earth for the possession of the earth.

As it turns out, the milky way galaxy is said to be a border galaxy on the border with the alien species called the Ghaik. Amid all this, there is talk of the inclusion of the earth into the human empire as it is called. The emissary then takes with him a member of the Indian secret service called the RAW. She explores the facets of the complex imperial government which is in fact somewhat a semi-monarchical democracy and is a capitalist society of various communes as opposed to a capitalist society of individuals.

This agent then discovers that this emissary is not a human being but a member of an order of supernatural warriors called the yativikrant who once were human beings. This revelation shocks her a little but being a trained espionage agent she hides it. The warrior by the name of Ajayaxara then offers her a chance to join the order which she accepts after some thought. As soon as her training is done, the war between the human empire and the Ghaik commences. The humans on the earth also play a part in this war and the war is won. As it turns out, the enemy is helped by a rogue member of the yativikrant. Ajayaxara fights the arch villain and kills him. After which he ascends to a higher level of the universe.

After the war is over, as a run up to the inclusion of the earth in the human empire, the leaders of the ten most powerful and influential countries on the earth decide to send two teams of scientists one after the other to study the empire and its citizens. The first team is meant to do the basic ground work and as the calculated culture shock is too large, the information they collect is meant to act as a means for the second team to brace themselves. They discover that the humans of the empire have modified their bodies in such a way as to make it completely robust and capable of survival in the harshness of empty space. They are all biomechanical, in other words they are all cyborgs.

The second team goes more in depth into the sociology and other aspects of the human empire. One member of the second team gets into an emotional relationship with one of the members of the host team of scientists from the imperial university and discovers the similarity between the earth humans and the humans of the empire despite the physical differences. He even volunteers to have his body engineered so that he too could be made a cyborg.

The earth is successfully inducted into the human empire and life returns to normal but not without incident as some people found out that they had spent their whole life studying something that turned out to be a well constructed hoax, an act of deception.



Endnote:

My first novel took me approximately eight years to complete. I am currently researching material for my second novel which is based in the period during the invasion of the Indian subcontinent by the Aryans.

The Myths and Legends About Ramzan

Ramzan or Id -Ul-Fitr is a Musilm festival celebrated at the end of the Ramadan, the ninth lunar month of the Islamic Calendar, the day following the appearance of the new moon. The holy month of Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, is very auspicious to the Muslims the world over.

It is believed that the holy book of the Islamic faith, the Quran, came into existence during this month. Prophet Mohammad who was an illiterate person was chosen by God to be His messenger to compile the holy book. The last ten days are specially significant as the faithful watch for Lailathul Qadr (the Night of Power) during which the revelation of the book to the Prophet was completed. Apart from bringing the Muslims face to face with the hard realities of life like the pangs of hunger, thirst and deprivation, Ramzaan is an annual training period inculcating discipline and declaration of subservience to the laws of God, enumerated in the holy Quran.

The gist of this charming myth goes somewhat like this:

One day Muhammad was sitting alone in the wilderness near Mecca when the Angel Gabriel appeared to him. The Angel commanded Muhammad to read. Muhammad responded "I am not a reader." The Angel Gabriel then taught Muhammad some verses from the Quran, which Muhammad memorized

These revelations continued for 10 days. Islamic scholars believe that the first revelation occurred on the night of the 27th day of Ramadan. This night is called the Laylat-al-Qadr (Night of Power). And according to the Quran, this is when God determines the course of the world for the following year.

The receiving of the Holy Quran is to the Muslims what the receiving of the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai is to the Jews and Christians

During the Fast of Ramadan strict restraints are placed on the daily lives of Muslims. They are not allowed to eat or drink during the daylight hours. Smoking and sexual relations are also forbidden during fasting. At the end of the day the fast is broken with prayer and a meal called the iftar. In the evening following the iftar it is customary for Muslims to go out visiting family and friends. The fast is resumed the next morning

According to the Holy Quran:


One may eat and drink at any time during the night "until you can plainly distinguish a white thread from a black thread by the daylight: then keep the fast until night"

The good that is acquired through the fast can be destroyed by five things -

the telling of a lie
slander
denouncing someone behind his back
a false oath
greed or covetousness

These are considered offensive at all times, but are most offensive during the Fast of Ramadan

During Ramadan, it is common for Muslims to go to the Masjid (Mosque) and spend several hours praying and studying the Quran. In addition to the five daily prayers, during Ramadan Muslims recite a special prayer called the Taraweeh prayer (Night Prayer). The length of this prayer is usually 2-3 times as long as the daily prayers. Some Muslims spend the entire night in prayer

On the evening of the 27th day of the month, Muslims celebrate the Laylat-al-Qadr (the Night of Power). It is believed that on this night Muhammad first received the revelation of the Holy Quran. And according to the Quran, this is when God determines the course of the world for the following year

When the fast ends (the first day of the month of Shawwal) it is celebrated for three days in a holiday called Id-al-Fitr (the Feast of Fast Breaking). Gifts are exchanged. Friends and family gather to pray in congregation and for large meals. In some cities fairs are held to celebrate the end of the Fast of Ramadan.

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I am the Dark Lord

Ok this aint an original work of art. I took the basic sketch of the guy in the armor with the sword from a site called artgeek, but I put my face in there myself. And I didnt have any fancy softwares to do it. The only thing I used was MS Paint that comes with your windows Operating System.

What Happened to the Saraswati

It was purported to be one of the great rivers of the Indian subcontinent, yet no trace of it exists. Well yeah there is a channel in the ground which s said to be a dry bed of the river but the river itself does not exist and it lies a bit to the south west of the Sutlej. It was said to flow from the Himalayas, or the siwaliks to be exact into the Arabian Sea. And there have even been rumors saying that the Rann of Kutch (the vast wasteland that covers the most of north eastern Gujarat) was its mouth into the Arabian Sea. It was said to have supported many ancient cities belonging to the Indus Valley Civilization.

LANDSAT PICTURE OF THE SARASWATI CHANNEL

The channel shown in this pic is about 6-8 km wide this might have been the width of the river (from Siwalik thru Kalibangan and Anupgarh to Marot); present Shatadru (Sutlej) takes a sharp turn at Ropar.

THE SARASWATI IN PUNJAB AND HARYANA

the dotted lines in this picture are the river saraswati. by the looks of it seems to have been a very large river. so the question arises, how such a large river can just disappear seemingly into thin air.

Now we know that this river was very important as it shares its name with the Hindu goddess of knowledge and music. Clearly this river did mean a lot to those who did inhabit its banks. So where did this mighty river disappear?

That remains one of the archaeological mysteries of India.

All material taken from

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