Though the Vedas insist that the reality is a Principle, it allows worship of personal God,Ishwara.
Divya Desam Srivilliputhur.
For Realization, the contribution of the Gd is necessary.
Even for the Karma to take effect God is necessary,Adi Shankaracharya avers.
This personal God differs from individuals to individuals, depending on their dispositions and their tendency towards a particular trait or emotion.
So you can worship God as Male, Female or an impersonal image, Linga.
It could be worshiped as one would a Child, Father, Mother,Friend, Love or even as a Foe!
Later came the Agamas, where collective worship was stressed(which is not in the Vedas).
The Agamas laid down Rules for Construction of Temples, sanctifying them with Mantras and the daily Rituals to be followed.
Some great Temples were built and they are in existence even today with Pooja being offered as laid sown by the Agamas.
Of the three principal Deities,Lord Shiava and Lord Vishnu have the maximum number of Temples.
Of these some are considered more Sacred than the others.
These Temples are called Punya Kshetras.
Legend lists 108 such temples for Lord Vishnu.
Though it said to be organised by the Azhwars,the savants of Vaishnavism,these places trace their origin to ancient times and are referred to in The Purans.
The Deities of the Temples have been praised and poems were composed on them.
These places of Pilgrimages are called the Divya Kshetras,
Of the 108, two, The Thirupaarkkadal, wich alludes to the Milky Way Galaxy and Vaikunta, which is a Space location are not located in the Earth.
The First Divadesam is Sriranagam, the second being Srivilliputhur.
Being from Srivillputhur I would cal it as the first for Vishnu came in search of Andal while people seek him!
Read my post on Vishnu’s Navel, confirmed by Science.
The List of the Vaishnava Kshetras, based on Geographical Locations is provide below.
A small, dense object only 12 miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula that spans 150 light years. At the center of this image made by NASA’sChandra X-ray Observatory is a very young and powerful pulsar, known as PSR B1509-58, or B1509 for short. The pulsar is a rapidly spinning neutron star which is spewing energy out into the space around it to create complex and intriguing structures, including one that resembles a large cosmic hand.
In this image, the lowest energy X-rays that Chandra detects are red, the medium range is green, and the most energetic ones are colored blue. Astronomers think that B1509 is about 1,700 years old and it is located about 17,000 light years away.
Neutron stars are created when massive stars run out of fuel and collapse. B1509 is spinning completely around almost 7 times every second and is releasing energy into its environment at a prodigious rate — presumably because it has an intense magnetic field at its surface, estimated to be 15 trillion times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field.
The combination of rapid rotation and ultra-strong magnetic field makes B1509 one of the most powerful electromagnetic generators in the galaxy. This generator drives an energetic wind of electrons and ions away from the neutron star. As the electrons move through the magnetized nebula, they radiate away their energy and create the elaborate nebula seen by Chandra.”
According to Dr. Steven Laureys, a Belgian neurologist who heads the Coma Science Group at the university hospital in the city of Liege (Belgium), has spoken to many patients over the years who have awakened from a coma and told him about “journeys” they have been on during the near-death experience.
The team, which was made up of scientists from the Coma Science Group and the University’s Cognitive Psychology Research Uni, conducted Memory Characteristics Questionnaires, which test for the sensory and emotional details in recollections. They then compared near-death experiences with other memories of intense real-life events, as well as memories of dreams and thoughts. However, the scientists were surprised to find that near-death experiences were much richer than any imagined or real event, including births and marriages.
On April 10, 2013, Dr. Laureys told CNN that patients in intensive care are often scared to tell their stories of near-death experiences, as they are afraid that people won’t take them seriously; but people who go on the journeys can be forever changed, with some no longer fearing death.
The questionnaire asked survivors about how certain they were that a remembered experience was a real event. Dr. Laureys, who believes that the experiences originate in human physiology, said, “They (the patients) are very convinced that it is real.”
It has also been discovered that it is enough just to think you’re dying to have a memory of a near-death experience.
The study said, “Many individuals having had NDEs were not physically in danger of death suggesting that the perception, on its own, of the risk of death seems to be important in eliciting NDEs.”
Laureys doesn’t want to speculate on the existence of Heaven or Hell, but he does say that only a small minority of near-death experiences are horrifying. Most of them are pleasant and uplifting. From his accounts, it sounds like more people go to “Heaven” than “Hell.
There are more cases which can be checked out in the web.
God Exists, Biology.
In his mind, Dr. Collins admitted that the science, which he loved so much, was powerless to answer the following questions:”What is the meaning of life?” “Why am I here?” “Why does mathematics work, anyway?” “If the universe had a beginning, who created it?” “Why are the physical constants in the universe so finely tuned to allow the possibility of complex life forms?” “Why do humans have a moral sense?” “What happens after we die?”
Dr. Collins always assumed that faith was based on purely emotional and irrational arguments, and was astounded to discover, initially in the writings of the Oxford scholar C.S. Lewis and subsequently from many other sources, that one could build a very strong case for the plausibility of the existence of God on purely rational grounds.
Actually, Dr. Collins says that he finds no conflict here. Yes, he also claims evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. He affirms that if there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, then the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things.
According to Dr. Collins’ words, he found that there is a wonderful harmony in the complementary truths of science and faith. The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. God can be found in the cathedral or in the laboratory. By investigating God’s majestic and awesome creation, science can actually be a means of worship.
When Gödel died in 1978, he left behind a tantalizing theory based on principles of modal logic, a type of formal logic that, narrowly defined, involves the use of the expressions “necessarily” and “possibly,” according to Stanford University. So the theorem says that God, or a supreme being, is that for which no greater can be conceived. God exists in the understanding. If God exists in the understanding, we could imagine Him to be greater by existing in reality. Therefore, God must exist.
God Proved by Computer .
Using an ordinary MacBook computer, they have shown that Gödel’s proof was correct, at least on a mathematical level, by way of higher modal logic.
In their initial submission on a research server, “Formalization, Mechanization, and Automation of Gödel’s Proof of God’s Existence,” the pair say that “Goedel’s ontological proof has been analysed for the first-time with an unprecedented degree of detail and formality with the help of higher-order theorem provers.”
But unsurprisingly, there is a rather significant caveat to that claim. In fact, what the researchers in question say they have actually proven is a theorem which was put forward by the renowned Gödel, and the real news isn’t about a Supreme Being, but rather what can now be achieved in scientific fields using superior technology. The mathematicians say that their proof of Gödel’s axioms has more to do with demonstrating how superior technology can help bring about new achievements in science.
Benzmüller and Paleo believe that their work can benefit areas such as artificial intelligence and the verification of software and hardware.
I have quoted from sources in this article and I will post on how God is proved by Indian Philosophy through Intuition,Faith,Logic and Personal experience.
Hinduism is unique in that it treats Gods as one among them.
Chidambaram Gotsu
Gods are bathed,dressed up,fed, married, sent to bedroom with consort .
The offerings to God at the end of a Pooja or Payer is mandatory.
Standard daily offering is Betel-leaves, Betel-nuts and Plantains.
Coconut is also included during special functions.
The belief is that what plan to eat must be offered to God as a mark of thanks giving to Him for having provided us with food.
Another reason is that it is the belief of the Hindus that Food articles, whether cooked or uncooked are impure,might contain negative thought waves by those who produced them because of their personal problems or they not having been compensated adequately.
Edible products may also contain some inherent properties which may be injurious to our Physical and mental health.
By offering these to God before we eat, God relieves of these impurities and makes the food fit to eat.
For details please read my post Naivedyam, How to Offer, filed under Hinduism.
Some special food items are offered to Deities in the Temples.
Some items offered are odd.
They are in tune with the local legend of the Deity.
Aravanai Payasam Sabarimalai
In Uppiliaapn Koil, near Mayuram,Tamil Nadu, Lord Venkateswara is offered Food without Salt.
Legend has it that Father of.Tamil Saint Andal,of Srivilliputtur,wife of Lord Vishnu in his form a manga Mannar, informed and prayed Lord Vishnu that his daughter whom he has married was brought up by him .
He being s Sanyasi used to take less of Salt or no salt at all.
Their fore His daughter may not know how to cook or cook with less or no Salt at all. He prayed God that He bear with her.
Lord Vishnu replied that hence forth He would accept food ony with out Salt at Uppiliappan Koil.
This is being practiced even to-day. Cooked Rice with Kumkum and turmeric powder is offered for Mariamman in general and it is also offered in Samayapuram.
In Madurai and Srivilliputtur a specially cooked Milk, which tastes Divine, called/Arvanai Pal, is offered.
In Sri Rangam and Srivillputhur,a Special Huge Dosa, cooked with out oil and containing dried Ginger is offered.
One can not eat even a half of thi and this Dosa does not go stale even after a week.
Every one knows the Tirupati Laddu. In Sabarimala, Lord Ayyappa is offered Aravanai Payasam, an exquisite sweet delicacy.
In Ujjain Lord Kala Bhairva is offered country liquor!
Special Maha Prasad id offered at Puri, to Lord Jagannath.(Orissa, India) In Andhra Paramaannam is offerd to Gods.
This contains Cooked Rice Jaggery, coconut gratings, a slight variation of Sarkarai Pongal of Tamils ,
Other standard offerings are Ven Pongal, Thayir Sadam.
In Chidambaram Nataraja temple, a special dish, Brinjal Gotsu is offered to the Lord along with Samba Saadam.
I shall post the Recipes for for offering to God and course for us to eat and enjoy.
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