Offered prayers at Kashi Vishwanath Mandir & Sankat Mochan Mandir

 

Offered prayers at Kashi Vishwanath Mandir & Sankat Mochan Mandir

Vishnu Paramatma - OM VISHNU DEV NAMAH

 OM VISHNU DEV NAMAH

 

Vishnu's supremacy is attested by his victories over those very powerful entities who are themselves devotees of other Gods such as Brahma or Shiva. It is further attested by the accepted iconography and sculptures of Vishnu in reclining position as producing Brahma emerging from his navel. Brahma the creator is thus created in turn by Vishnu out of his own person. Instead Vishnu takes various avatars to slay or defeat those demons. But it is to be noted that Vishnu also provided boons to Akrurasura, a bear faced demon who was destroyed by Lord Shiva.

Vishnu's actions lowered Indra's ranking among Hindu deities and led to the ascendancy of Vishnu.

Few temples are dedicated to the Sun or Suryanarayana, nor indeed Indra, nor does Indra figure largely in the Hindu religion.

Indra is almost completely absent from the deities considered as the chief or most important deity.

In the Rigveda, Vishnu is mentioned 93 times. He is frequently invoked alongside other deities, especially Indra, whom he helps in killing Vrutra and with whom he drinks Soma. His distinguishing characteristic in the Vedas is his association with light.  Vishnu is addressed as the god who separates heaven and earth, a characteristic he shares with Indra.

The Rigveda describes Vishnu as subordinate to Indra as Vamana. In Vaishnava canon the 'Vishnu' who is subordinate to Indra is identified as Vamana, Avatar of Vishnu, hence referred to as Vishnu by Vaishnavites. Vishnu is not a mere sacrificial deity; he is the Supreme God who lives in the highest celestial region, contrasted against those who live in the atmospheric or terrestrial regions. Vishnu is content with mere prayer, unlike almost all of the other gods who receive sacrificial offerings such as Havis, which is given using clarified butter, or Soma. The general view [citation needed] is that Vedas place Indra in a superior position to Vishnu's Avatar of Vamana. Vamana helps Indra by restoring his Kingdom as mentioned in the Vamana Purana.

OM VISHNU DEV NAMAH

Vinayagar

Vinayagar

Mokshada Ekadashi/Gita Jayanti/Guruvayur Ekadashi(in Kerala)

Mokshada Ekadashi/Gita Jayanti/Guruvayur Ekadashi(in Kerala)

Mokshada Ekadashi is a Hindu holy day, which falls on the 11th lunar day (ekadashi) of the fortnight of the waxing moon in the Hindu month of Margashirsha (Agrahayana), corresponding to November-December. Hindus, particularly Vaishnavas observe a 24-hour fast in honour of the god Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu.
The ekadashi is celebrated on the same day as Gita Jayanti, the day when Krishna gave the holy sermon of the Bhagavad Gita to the Pandava prince Arjuna, as described in the Hindu epic Mahabharata. The 700-verse Bhagavad Gita told at the beginning of the climactic Mahabharata war between the Pandavas and their cousins, the Kauravas at Kurukshetra, deals with a variety of Hindu philosophical ideas.

Santhigiri Ashram...A night view

Santhigiri Ashram...A night view

Govinda Dasa Kaviraja

He is handsome and dark. His peacock-feather crown is graceful. His smile glistens like the autumn moon.
His graceful sweet form glistens like sapphires. His ways are charming. His garland of mallika and malati flowers makes the black bees wild with its nectar scent. He has set Kamadeva's trap.
(From Padavali by  Govinda Dasa Kaviraja)

OM SHRI VISHNU NAMAH

The traditional explanation of the name Vishnu involves the root viś,  meaning "to settle" or also (in the Rigveda) "to enter into, to pervade," glossing the name as "the All-Pervading One".

Yaska, an early commentator on the Vedas, in his Nirukta, (etymological interpretation), defines Vishnu as vishnu vishateh "one who enters everywhere". He also writes, yad vishito bhavati tad vishnurbhavati, "that which is free from fetters and bondages is Vishnu".