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Kalki Avatar, the Last of the Maha Avatars of Vishnu

Kalki Avatar, the last of the Maha Avatars of Vishnu, is yet to appear towards the end of the Kali Yuga or the Dark Age. The Kali Yuga is the Iron Age. So Kalki will be the Avatar or the Incarnation in the age of machines.

He is described in the Vishudharmottara Purana as a robust young man, riding on his white horse, Devadutta and with a shiny sword raised in his hand. While some sketch him as being four-armed, most of the records focus on him as a two-armed. The scriptures picture Kalki`s emergence "as a blazing Light" when He descends from heaven. This hailing of the Avatar resembles the Second Coming of Jesus.

The portraiture of Kalki is imbued with symbolic overtones. Kalki would ride on the horse of purity and might, and ward off and destroy the prevalent evil with his lashing sword of Dharma or righteousness. Therefore his name is endowed with deeper meaning. The name Kalki, literally communicates the meaning, "Annhilator of Ignorance". Vishnu Purana affirms the resurrection of Dharma that Kalki will usher in: " …And the minds of those who live at the end of the Kali age, shall be awakened, and shall be as pellucid as crystal.

The men who are thus changed by virtue of that peculiar time,
Shall be as the seeds of human beings,
And shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the Krita Age, the Age of Purity."

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Handcrafted necklaces are usually unique and stylish. The Paten or design is usually invented by the designer. Two of them can combine forces or he can do it all by himself. However, there is a uniqueness, uniformity or lack of it in each peace. These beautiful pieces are made from ceramics, wood, shells, corals and metal beads to mention a few. These necklaces give the wearer a casual and elegant look.

A necklace means much more than a piece of cloth or beads round the neck. Other than completing the trendy casual or elegant dress that one wears,in ancient times it had other meanings. A necklace signified the nativity or geographical area that a person hailed from. The manufacturing process was much tedious and it included rocks, wood, shells, plant gems etc and that was why a necklace was not just a mere decorative item.

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Buddhism - The Eightfold Path & Its Goals

Buddha’s solution is the eightfold path to liberation from miserable states of being, The first point is called right view -- the right way to view the world. The right view is to see things simply, as they are. It is an open-minded and accommodating attitude.

The second step in the path is right intention. It proceeds from right view. If we are able to abandon our expectations, our hopes and fears, we no longer need to be manipulative. We don't have to try to con situations into our preconceived notions of how they should be. We work with what is. Our intentions are pure.

The third step is right speech. Once our intentions are pure, we no longer have to be embarrassed about our speech. Since we aren't trying to manipulate people, we don't have to be hesitant about what we say. We say what needs to be said in a simple, genuine way.
The fourth step on the eightfold path, right discipline, involves renunciation. We need to give up our tendency to complicate issues and practice simplicity. We give up all the unnecessary and frivolous complications of our usual lives.

Right livelihood is the fifth step. It is only natural and right that we should earn our living. Most of us grudge work and count the hours to get home and enjoy the evening. The Buddha teaches that we should be glad of our job, whatever it is. We should form a simple relationship with it. We need to perform it properly, with attention to detail.

The sixth step of the path is right effort. Unless it is in the right direction, effort becomes painful struggle. Right effort doesn't involve struggle at all. When we see things as they are, we can work with them, gently and without any kind of aggression.

Right mindfulness, the seventh step, involves precision and clarity. We are mindful of the tiniest details of our experience. We are mindful of the way we talk, the way we perform our jobs, our posture, our attitude toward our friends and family, every detail.

Right concentration, or absorption is the eighth step of the path. Usually we are absorbed in absentmindedness. Our minds are usually distracted and cluttered. Right concentration means that we are completely absorbed in things as they are. This can only happen if we have some sort of discipline, such as sitting meditation. This is why the Buddha spent most of his life in meditation.

The goal of this eightfold path is nirvana. It has become a corrupted but popular concept through rock bands and pop philosophy! Actually, nirvana means cessation. It is the end of passion, aggression and ignorance; the cessation of the struggle to prove our existence to the world, to survive. It is the goal of Buddhism.

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Hanuman, the well-known monkey god, can be seen in temples throughout the country. In some temples his image is set up alone standing with a mace in the right hand or sitting in a devotional posture before the images of Rama and Sita. He is considered to be the god of power and strength, who remained a celibate through his whole life. He is worshipped as being the greatest devotee of Rama, who loves Hanuman the most.

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Hanuman's other names are HANUMAT and PAVAN-SUTA. He is the son of VAYU, the lord of winds and ARIJANA, the female seduced by Vayu. Along with Rama, Hanuman is invariably worshipped and he is the most favored deity of wrestlers and grapplers. Tuesday is the sacred day on which lakhs of Hindus worship Hanuman and pray to him for strength and prosperity.  Hanuman's deeds of bravery and feats of valor are related in great detail in the Ramayana and also scantily in a few other religious books like Mahabharata and Agni Purana.

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Hanuman as redeemer of scripts is the protector of common folks. He is invoked by common masses also for redeeming them but more often to protect them from everything untoward. His images are installed and worshipped invariably as the protector and patron deity having power to ward off misfortune. He is Kherapati, the patron deity of ‘khera’ – village, and Ghatoria, the protector of ‘ghats’ – valleys, to include river-crossings, descents, ascents, forts and village boundaries.

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As Balaji, he keeps evil spirits and maladies away and exorcises ghosts and ills from within. His name by itself has the status of the ‘mantra’ – hymn, which, being commemorated, dispels evil, evil spirits, ghosts : ‘Bhuta pishacha nikata nahin abein’ – ghosts and evil spirits dare not come around. As Bajaranga – with body made of ‘vajra’, or Bajrangabali – having ‘vajra’-like strength, he presides over gymnasiums and wrestlers’ rings infusing into wrestlers’ bodies his own might, and in the bodies of gymnasts and acrobats, his own agility and swiftness.

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The Buddha's teachings are based on the four Noble truths. First that life is rooted in Dukkha, suffering. This suffering is caused by tanha, craving for power, pleasures and a long life.

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To be released from this craving is to be released from suffering. An the way to achieve this is through the Noble Eight Fold path. This path is of right understanding, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right awareness, and right concentration.

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The Buddha was critical of the Hindu priestly caste of Brahmins and said that enlightenment was possible for everyone irrespective of their caste. The Buddha and his monks spent four months each year discussing and rehearsing his teachings, and after his death his monks set about preserving them. A council was held shortly after his death, and another was held a century later.

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At these councils the monks attempted to establish and authenticate the extant accounts of the life and teachings of the Buddha following systematic rules. They divided the teachings into distinct but overlapping bodies of material, and assigned specific monks to preserve each one. From then on, the teachings were transmitted orally.

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From internal evidence it seems clear that the oldest texts crystallized into their current form by the time of the second council or shortly after it. The scriptures were not written down until three or four hundred years after the Buddha's death. By this point, the monks had added or altered some material themselves, in particular magnifying the figure of the Buddha.

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