once krishna said

 Ganesha is one of the most popular and wellknown of all the Hindu gods and is always worshipped first. He is the god of Wisdom and the patron of learning. Everything that we perceive in the universe must be grasped and expressed by the mind through the means of categories, therefore "category" is a fundamental principle of existence. The 'principle' by which all classifications, and the relationship of one thing to another in the universe can be understood is called Gana-esha — "The-Lord-of-Categories". Ganesha — the Lord-of-categories has two wives Siddhi — Success, and Buddhi —Intelligence sometime his second wife is said to be Riddhi — Prosperity. Ganesha represents one of the basic concepts of Hindu Philosophy — the identity between themacrocosm and the microcosm. In religious terms this is the identity between the individual and the universe (humankind made in the image of God). This idea of the potential divinity of the person and the immanence of God

 It used to happen that seekers would come to Gautam Buddha. A great philosopher of those  times, Maulingaputta, came with his five hundred  disciples. He himself was a well-known teacher, and he had come to challenge Gautam Buddha to a debate; that's why he had brought all his disciples.  In India it was a common phenomenon that has now disappeared ... it was so beautiful - but now to challenge somebody seems to be a way to create enemies. For centuries it was not considered that way in India; challenging was simply a matter of coming face to face, with inquiring, penetrating questions, and finding out who has gone deeper. The one who went deeper was victorious. It was a very loving phenomenon, very friendly.  Maulingaputta said to Gautam Buddha, "I have come here to pay my respects to you and also to challenge you."  Buddha said, "I love your challenge. But you will have to fulfill a condition which I have been keeping my whole life. I cannot make any exception.&qu

 *Durga* Durgā's feminine power contains the combined energies of all the gods. Each of her weapons was given to her by the various gods: Rudra's trident, Vishnu's discus, Indra's thunderbolt, Brahma's Kamaṇḍalu, etc. etc. 1.Siva's energy her face was developed, shiva means the auspicious one  shiva represents the deep silence . Perception of the formless transcendental Reality is achieved only in the state of deep silence, in the emptiness of the mind. (sushupti = Siva). ( its understandable , so not going to elaborate ) 2.and by yama's energy grew her hair,  The word yama means "binder, restrainer." It is Yama who keeps humankind in check.  so the hairs of devi represents the karma of humans which  binds us to this samsara leading multiple births and death. 3.and her arms by vishnu's energy,   It is this centripetal tendency that holds the cosmos together and ensures its continued existence. It pervades all existence and is therefore known as

 Hui Neng, a Chinese master, was working under his master. When Hui Neng went to his master, the master said, ”For what have you come here? There is no need to come to me.” He couldn’t understand. Hui Neng thought that he was not yet ready to be accepted, but the master was seeing something else. He was seeing his growing aura. He was saying this: ”Even if you do not come to me, the thing is bound to happen sooner or later, anywhere. You are already in it, so there is no need to come to me.”  But Hui Neng said, ”Do not reject me.” So the master accepted him and told him to go just behind the monastery, in the kitchen of the monastery. It was a big monastery of five hundred monks. The master said to Hui Neng, ”Just go behind the monastery and help in the kitchen, and do not come again to me. Whenever it will be needed, I will come to you.”  No meditation was given to Hui Neng, no scriptures to read, study or meditate upon. Nothing was taught to him, he was just thrown into the kitchen.

 One Zen master used to ask his disciples: Some time ago, I put a goose in a bottle. Now the goose has grown, and the neck of the bottle is very small so the goose cannot come out. The bottle is very precious and I don't want to break it, so now there is a crisis. If the goose is not allowed out, she will die.  I can break the bottle and the goose will be out, but I don't want to break the bottle - the bottle is precious. I don't want to kill the goose either. So what would you do?  This is the problem! The goose is in the head and the neck is very narrow. You can break the head, but it is precious. Or you can let the goose die, but that too cannot be allowed - because YOU are the goose.  That old Zen master continued asking his disciples,  and beating them, and saying to them: Find out a way because there is no time.  And only once did he allow an answer.  One disciple said: The goose is out!  Many answers were tried, but he would always beat the person and say no. Someone

 A lot of people come to me and say, ”We know anger is bad; it is poison, it burns, it is fire, it is hell, and yet we are not free from it.” Then I tell them, ”It is a mistake on your part to think that you know it. You think you already know and yet you ask yourself, ’What should be done so that anger goes away?’ This is your mistake. In fact you do not know that anger is hell.” Is it ever possible that a person would not leap out of anger once he knows it is hell? Buddha has said this somewhere. A person whose life was full of troubles and anguish had approached him for advice, for a way out of his miseries. There was nothing but sorrow and affliction in his life. Buddha told him to give up those cares and miseries, to come out of them immediately: ”I will show you the way to be out of them,” he said. The man said, ”Show me the way now, and then I will try, by and by, to follow your way.” Then Buddha said, ”You are like a man whose house has caught fire and who says, ’Thank you very

 One man, a great criminal, a murderer, a sinner, came to be initiated by Buddha. When he came he was afraid that people might not allow him entry, the disciples might not allow him to see Buddha. So he came at such a time when there were not too many people. And he didn’t enter from the main gate, he jumped from a wall. But by chance Buddha was not there – he had gone begging – and he was caught. And he said to the disciples, ’I have not come to steal or anything, I was just afraid that you wouldn’t allow me through the main gate. Everybody knows me, I am a well-known figure around here. I am the most hated and feared man around here, everybody knows me. So you might not allow me, you might not believe that I want to become a sannyasin.’ So they took him to one of Buddha’s great disciples, Sariputra – who was a great astrologer too, and who had a capacity, a telepathic capacity, to read people’s past lives. So they asked Sariputra, ’Look into this man. We know that in this life he is

 There is a famous story about Tansen. He was the musician in the court of Akbar. Akbar was very interested to have the best from all directions in his court – the best musician, the best poet, the best philosopher, and so on and so forth. He had chosen Tansen, and Tansen was perhaps one of the greatest musicians the world has ever produced.  Akbar had given orders that where Tansen used to live, throughout the whole neighborhood, nobody could play music. It would be a disturbance to Tansen. Anybody playing music there would be put into jail, or he had to accept a challenge and come to the court and face Tansen with his music.  So many people came and were defeated; Tansen had certainly something higher to give. But there was a man, Baiju Bawara. His name was Baiju; bawara means mad.  People thought he was mad, so his full name became Baiju Bawara. His whole ambition was to come to a point where he could defeat Tansen – he was a great musician himself.  He worked hard for twenty-four h

  Murti of Brahmā are quite rare in India but more common in South East Asia. He is usually depicted in art in association with others and seldom on his own. Brahmā as the Creator God is always shown with  four heads  which represent the  four volumes of the Sacred Scriptures  — the Vedas by the power of which Brahmā effects the work of creation. In Hindu mythology Creation occurs by Brahmā projecting created beings from his own mind into the four directions. Brahmā is the Space-Time or Revolving Principle of the Cosmos. The possibility of manifestation requires a "space" in which to appear or expand — a "space" which is the result of equilibrium between the two forces of concentration (Viṣṇu) and dispersion (Śiva). Brahmā thus represents the possibility of existence resulting from a union of pairs of opposites. He is the "immense being" a personification of the great vastness — the first personal stage of existence. In terms of consciousness and state

 After having won many archery competitions, the town champion sought out the Zen master. “I am the best of all,” he said. “I did not learn religion, I did not look for help from the monks, and I have been considered the best archer in the whole region. I heard that some time ago you were the best archer in the area, so I ask you: did you have to become a monk to learn to shoot arrows? “No,” answered the Zen master. But the champion was not satisfied: he took out an arrow, placed it in his bow, fired, and hit a cherry at a considerable distance. He smiled, as if to say: “You could have saved your time and just dedicated yourself to technique.” And he said: “I doubt if you can do the same.” Without demonstrating the least concern, the master took his bow and began to walk towards a nearby mountain. On the way there was an abyss that could only be crossed by an old rotting rope bridge that was almost falling down: with the utmost calm, the Zen master went to the middle of the bridge, too