Trip to Gaumukh Shree Kashi...
vani from a mallu movie..expossing her naval vani vishvanath
The pretty slokam for siva lingam. Lingashtakam
Hindu Temples Destroyed - History SuppressedAurangzeb was a very cruel ruler ' some might even say monstrous. What are the facts? Aurangzeb did not just build an isolated mosque on a destroyed temple, he ordered all temples destroyed, among them the Kashi Vishvanath, one of the most sacred places of Hinduism and had mosques built on a number of cleared temples sites. All other Hindu sacred places within his reach equally suffered destruction, with mosques built on them. A few examples: Krishna's birth temple in Mathura, the rebuilt Somnath temple on the coast of Gujurat, the Vishnu temple replaced with the Alamgir mosque now overlooking Benares and the Treta-ka-Thakur temple in Ayodhya. The number of temples destroyed by Aurangzeb is counted in 4, if not 5 figures. Aurangzeb did not stop at destroying temples, their users were also wiped-out; even his own brother, Dara Shikoh, was executed for taking an interest in Hindu religion and the Sikh Guru Tegh Bahadur was beheaded because he objected to Aurangzeb's forced conversions.People might say: 'ok, this is all true, Aurangzeb was indeed a monster, but why rake the past, when we have tensions between Muslims and Hindus today' ? There are two reasons to this exhibition. The first one is that no nation can move forward unless its children are taught to look squarely at their own history, the good and the bad, the evil and the pure. The French for instance have many dark periods of their history, more recently some of the deeds they did during colonization in North Africa or how they collaborated with the Nazis during the 2d world war and handed over French Jews who died in concentration camps (French people are only coming to terms with it now).The argument that looking at one's history will pit a community against the other does not hold either: French Catholics and Protestants, who share a very similar religion, fought bitterly each other. Catholics brutally murdered thousands of Protestants in the 18th century; yet today they lived peacefully next to each other. France fought three wars with Germany in the last 150 years, yet they are great friends today.Let then Hindus and Muslims come to terms with what happened under Aurangzeb, because Muslims suffered as much as Hindus. It was not only Shah Jahan or Dara Shikoh who were murdered, but also the forefathers of today's Indian Muslims who have been converted at 90%. Aurangzeb was the Hitler, the Asura of Medieval India. No street is named after Hitler in the West, yet in Delhi we have the Aurangzeb road, a constant reminder of the horrors Aurangzeb perpetrated against Indians, including against his own people.Finally, Aurangzeb is very relevant today because he thought that Sunni Islam was the purest form of his religion and he sought to impose it with ruthless efficiency - even against those of his own faith, such as his brother. Aurangzeb clamped down on the more syncretic, more tolerant Islam, of the Sufi kind, which then existed in India.But he did not fully succeed. Four centuries later, is he going to have the last word ? I remember, when I started covering Kashmir in the late seventies, that Islam had a much more open face. The Kashmir Muslim, who is also a descendant of converted Hindus, might have thought that Allah was the only true God, but he accepted his Kashmir Pandit neighbor, went to his or her marriage, ate in his or her house and the Hindu in turn went to the mosque. Women used to walk with open faces, watch TV, films. Then the shadow of Aurangzeb fell again on Kashmir and the hard-line Sunnis came from Pakistan and Afghanistan : cinemas were banned, the burqua imposed, 400.000 Kashmiri Pandits were chased out of Kashmir by violence and became refugees in their own land and the last Sufi shrine of Srhar-e- Sharif was burnt to the ground (I was there). Today the Shariat law has been voted in Kashmir, a state of democratic, secular India,UP's Muslims have applauded, and the entire Indian Media, which went up in flames when the Government wanted Vande Mataram to be sung, kept quiet. The spirit of Aurangzeb seems to triumph. Hindu Temples...
Lingashtakam Lyrics===================Brahma Murari Sura architha Lingam,Nirmala bashitha Shobitha Lingam,Janmaja dukha vinasaka lingam.That pranamami sada shiva lingam.Deva Murari pravarchitha Lingam,Kama dahana Karunakara lingam,Ravana darpa vinashana lingam,That pranamami sad shiva lingam.Sarva sukandhi sulepitha lingam,Budhi vivarthana karana lingam,Siddha surasura vandhitha lingam,That pranamami sada shiva lingam.Kanaka mahamani bhooshitha lingam,Panipathi veshtitha shobitha lingam,Daksha suyagna vinasana lingam,That pranamami sada shiva lingam.Kunkuma chandana lepitha lingam,Pankaja hara sushobitha lingam,Sanchitha papa vinasana lingam,That pranamami sada shiva lingam.Deva Ganarchitha sevitha lingam,Bhavair bakthi pravesa lingam,Dinakara koti prabhakara lingam,That pranamami sada shiva lingam.Ashta dalopari veshtitha lingam,Sarva samudbhava karana lingam,Ashta daridra vinasana lingam,That pranamami sada shiva lingam.Suraguru sura vara poojitha Lingam,Sura vana pushpa sadarchitha lingam,Parathparam paramathmaka lingam,That pranamai sada shiva lingam. Lingashtakam
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walking in the streat near vishvanath temple........... myself in...

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