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  Naṭarāja performing the Ānanda tāṇḍava — the "Dance of Bliss" . In this icon we are been shown  five functions of the Supreme Being; creation, sustenance, transformation, revealing and concealing. Ring of flames The Dance takes place within a ring of flames which symbolises the cycle of births and deaths, thecycle of universal creation and destruction —projection and withdrawal.  Mulayaka the dwarf of Ignorance The god dances upon the back of the "Dwarf of Ignorance" known as Mulayaka. It is ignorance of our true nature that binds us to cycle of continual becoming and it is wisdom/ enlightenment that releases us. The damaru The hour-glass shaped drum (damaru) — held in the right upper hand symbolises the act of creation. According to Tantric teachings the act of creation takes place through sonic vibration. This primary sound is symbolised by the drum, from which all the sounds of the Sanskrit alphabet originated at the beginning of time. The flame The flame — he...

  satyA vishhNorguNAH sarve satyA jIveshayorbhidA |  satyo mitho jIvabhedaH satyaM cha jagadIdRisham || 1.68 All the attributes of Vishnu are true; the difference between the souls and the Lord is true, the difference between the atma inter se is true. This world of names, objects, deeds etc. is also true.  (world is not false or untruth as how adi shankaracharya said) asatyaH svagato bhedo vishhNornAnyadasatyakam |  jagatpravAhaH satyo.ayaM paJNchabhedasamanvitaH || 1.69 . The only unreality is the supposed difference between Vishnu and His limbs, between Vishnu and His attributes, between Vishnu and His incarnations. Nothing else of the Lord is unreal. This eternal cycle of the universe consisting as it does of five essential differences is real jIveshayorbhidA chaiva jIvabhedaH parasparam |  jaDeshayorjaDAnAM cha jaDajIvabhidA tathA || 1.70 viz., (1) the difference between the supreme Lord and the atma (S) (2) the difference between the atma(s) inter se (3) t...

  kvachid granthAn praxipanti kvachidantaritAnapi |  kuryuH kvachichcha vyatyAsaM pramAdAt kvachidanyathA || 2.3 3. In some places (of the Mahabharatha) verses have been interpolated and in others verses have been omitted in some places, the verses have been transposed and in others, different readings have been given out of ignorance or otherwise. anutsannA api granthA vyAkulA iti sarvashaH |  utsannAH prAyashaH sarve koTyaMsho.api na vartate || 2.4 4. Though the works are really indestructible, they must be deemed to be mostly altered. Mostly all of them have disappeared and not even one crore (out of several crores of slokas) now exists. grantho.apyevaM viluLitaH kimvartho devadurgamaH |  kalAvevaM vyAkulite nirNayAya prachoditaH || 2.5 When the original work itself is so altered in the kali Age, What is there to say of its meaning which is intelligible (even) to the Devas only with difficulty. hariNA nirNayAn vachmi vijAna.nstatprasAdataH || 2.6  under the d...

 Which scriptures should be taken as an authority as per sage madhva sarvottamo hariridaM tu tadAj~nayaivachettuM xamaM sa tu hariH paramasvatantraH | pUrNAvyayAgaNitanityaguNArNavo.asau ityeva vedavachanAni paroktayashcha || 1.29 29. Hari is the most supreme; and this world is capable of moving or understanding command. That Hari is indeed most independent. He is the ocean (repository) of all pervasive, imperishable infinite and eternally good qualities. Such is the saying of the Vedas as will as the teaching of Vyasa. R^igAdayashcha chatvAraH paJNcharAtraM cha bhAratam | mUlarAmAyaNaM brahmasUtraM mAnaM svataH smR^itam || 1.30 30. The four Vedas beginning with Rig Veda, Pancharatra, the Bharatha (mahabharata) , Moola Ramayana and Brahma Sutra are said to be self sufficient authority aviruddhaM cha yattvasya pramANaM tachcha nAnyathA | etadviruddhaM yattu syAnna tanmAnaM kathaJNchana || 1.31 31. Whatever else is not contradictory to these is also authority and not otherwise. Whate...

  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...

source : mahabharata ( sabha parva.ch V ) we already know who narada is and what was his job but little we know anything about his accomplishments and siddhis . It is been mentioned in the mahabharata Vaisampayana-said, ''While the illustrious Pandavas were seated in that Sabha  along with the principal Qandharvas, there came, O Bharata, unto that assembly  the celestial Rishi Narada,  conversant with the Vedas and Upanishadas, worshipped by the celestials acquainted with histories and Puranas, well-versed in all that occured in ancient kalpas (cyles), conversant with  Nyaya (logic) and the truth of moral science, possessing a complete knowledge of the six Angas  (viz., pronunciation, grammar, prosody, explanation of basic terms, description of religious rites, and astronomy and astrology).  He was a perfect master in reconciling contradictory texts and differentiating in  applying general principles to particular cases, as also in interpreting contrar...

Kula and Gotra, like clans and tribes are methods of identifying  kinship among people it can be called as the social arrangement or the social science. In all Community Generally the child gets the gotra from his father The gotras of brahmins can be traced back to the saptharishis And for other communities they have their respective clans For example There is an another system of arrangement in costal karnataka region which is called as " bali " In which the child inherits the gotra from his/her mother. There are three sources of Gotras. Your family clan learned from the elders in the family. When a woman and man marries, the woman joins the Gotra of her husband.(This doesn't go in case of " bali " The woman still inherits the bali of her mother only and her children gets the same bali of herself) If you don’t have a Gotra and are initiated by a guru, then you take the guru’s Gotra since through the process of initiation (dīkṣa) y...