Gods and Goddesses of Nainital

A lthough Queen Victoria could never visit India, she took special interest in it as the Empress of India and amongst all towns in the Himalayas, Nainital. Some Himalayan mystics believe that Queen Victoria was a European reincarnation of the goddess Nanda (as also the Tibetan goddess Tara) and her great great grand daughter Queen Elizabeth may be a divine or angelic reincarnation too, for goddesses when they reincarnate on Earth have often done so as royalty and in current times there is none more supreme than Her Majesty amongst royalty and she has all the attributes of a divine personality. Today she became the longest reigning British Monarch in a thousand years. The reason for a European reincarnation of a Himalayan goddess are discussed at length in the author's book - The Babaji Affair - available at all major online outlets including Amazon. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Second. Long May her reign be.  Image source: https://twitter.com/BritishMonarchy/st...

A s we move through life we run into people whose words offend us deeply, others whose words are pleasant and sweet and most in mixed formats. That is what creates a character different from a bland vegetable. If we are unable to tolerate offensive words of someone we know or meet, we can minimize communications with such persons and even cut off completely in the case maxima. A similar thing can be done for electronic communications too, through various means known to those familiar with its use in places like social media through use of block, private etc.   However, two things must be remembered in all this, first is not to be offended much by all kinds of remarks on social media where people having the advantage of distance may feel freer to make offensive remarks, as the picture suggests. I preferred the color red for the graphic in a shade that is the favorite of a a South and East Asian epic god – Lord Hanuman – who was famed for his most appropriate an...

https://twitter.com/BEAUTIFULPlCS/status/634690181459800064/photo/1 The most heavenly parts of our lovely planet in my experience have involved the following features They are located near or within mountain areas that have sufficient level or very gradually sloped ground for habitation Are green and   include both large areas of trees as well as open grassland and some rocky areas, The portion with trees have a lush undergrowth so not much soil is visible Have bodies of fresh water such as lakes, streams etc. Has a habitation that is not too dense and buildings that are no higher than four stories, most less so that lifts are not required Have a climate that is not too harsh for any significant portion of the year so that one may live without air-conditioners or central heating but just some clothing and minimal local environmental control such as a room heater or a fan. Are sufficiently pr...

Himalayan Cannabis   “Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security and joy of living than discoverers of knowledge” Albert Einstein “Those who seek joy and dignity through an attainment of wealth devoid of goodness and compassion lose both and drive themselves to the top of a mountain of misery and the edge of an abyss” Ashok M. https://www.whaxy.com/news/himalaya-marijuana   Cannabis is presently an illegal substance in India . It was not so in the past and there is much history and mythology associated with substance. names of God in Himalayan and sub – Himalayan regions is Shiv or Shiva. Many Himalayan sages have meditated on the Infinite Lord known as Shiva. Shiva because of His infinity can have no form, but devotees have personified him in numerous and varied forms the most famous being  the dancing Shiva or Shiva Natraja, as the creator of life, the Shiv Linga and as a meditating sag...

  A Boat Race on Nainital Lake B oat races on the Nainital Lake are celebrated events of Nainital for more than a century now. Here is an old classical photo of one shared by a friend Harish Bhatt on Facebook. It was originally a black and white picture but has been retouched with digital color by this blogger. Nainital is best described as a blue lake surrounded by lush green hills of oaks and pine and undergrowth of ferns and sweet wild flowers with mountain springs and snow covered peaks, the abode of the goddess Naini Mata when not resting in the snow white peaks of Nanda Devi with her sister Sunanda Devi. May Nainital be protected from the ravages of human lust and greed, may the goddess not be compelled again to wash the town and its people into the lake once again as she did more than a hundred years ago but instead grant them heavenly peace, contentment and tranquility filled with beauty, and may Nainital forever remain the place from where a cry f...

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cannabis_ruderalis_%28wild_marijuana,_habitus%29.jpg Although cannabis is presently an IILEGAL substance in India, around much of Nainital district as well as adjoining districts of Tehri Garwhal and   Almora, wild cannabis of a good variety grows freely as a wild herb. For millenniums the herb was used by local persons and herbalists for many purposes from medicinal to meditation and from recreational to a relaxant. Then somewhere far away in USA in 1930’s it was made illegal. It is said although not proven that it was because of commercial interests of Du Pont that had come up with new fiber nylon and that another produced from hemp a taller variety of the plant was a competition.  In the ensuing years, other far more powerful commercial interests from the legal and illegal drug industries appear to have developed to keep it illegal. So powerful were these interests that it seems even research was made near ...

The lake in Nainital town, there are several more in the surrounding Nainital District. Jai Naini Mata ki     Scroll down to towards the end of the post for the recipe of drink A n ancient highly revered Sanskrit book, the Rig Veda describes the powerful Soma drink obtained from the god amongst plants called Soma. This plant appears to have become extinct from the Himalayas some three thousand years ago perhaps due to over harvesting, grazing and ancient climate change around the time the ancient Saraswati River began to disappear from the Indus valley. Ever since then many attempts have been made to search for it and many proposals of alternative substances made, several narcotic, intoxicating or psychedelic. But the heavenly Soma was none of these. It was neither intoxicating nor psychedelic but made warriors alert and strong for battle and others full of happiness, wisdom and poetry. The best thing is that compounds in the drink appear to retard or stop aging ...