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पितृ पक्ष : स्मृति, एवं कृतज्ञता का पर्व

“श्राद्धेन पितरः तृप्ताः, श्राद्धेनैव दिवौकसः।श्राद्धेन विधृतं सर्वं, श्राद्धं नः परमं तपः॥”(महाभारत) इन दिनों पितृ पक्ष चल रहा है. भाद्रपद पूर्णिमा से अश्विन अमावस्या तक चलने वाले सोलह दिनों के इस कालखंड को हम श्राद्ध पक्ष भी कहते हैं। उनके लिए जो पितरों के अस्तित्व में विश्वास रखते हैं, यह समय उनके प्रति अपनी श्रद्धा और कृतज्ञता को अभिव्यक्त करने काContinue reading “पितृ पक्ष : स्मृति, एवं कृतज्ञता का पर्व”

If Tea Had Stayed Home — II

The Rise of Tea and Its Global Triumph Tea Drinking in Tang Dynasty Tea’s story begins, as so many civilizational sagas do, in the folds of myth. Chinese legend places its origin with Emperor Shen Nong in 2737 BCE, when a few wild leaves drifted into his pot of boiling water. Whether accident or providence,Continue reading “If Tea Had Stayed Home — II”

If Tea Had Stayed Home -I

Introduction — The Universal Cup “The cup that cheers but not inebriates,” wrote Tennyson, and in those few words captured the quiet dominion of tea over human life. It is perhaps the most universal of all human addictions, woven so seamlessly into our civilizational history that to imagine existence without it seems almost unthinkable. ItContinue reading “If Tea Had Stayed Home -I”

The Oak-A tree of Time, Myth, and Memory- VI

In Memory and Intimacy: A Personal Companion “The tree is the slowest, most patient of all living things. To sit beneath one is to be reminded of what endures when everything else passes.”— John Fowles If myth made the oak divine, and art made it eternal, then memory makes it beloved. There are trees weContinue reading “The Oak-A tree of Time, Myth, and Memory- VI”

गणेश चतुर्थी

आज गणेश चतुर्थी है, भाद्रपद माह के शुक्ल पक्ष की चतुर्थीं। भगवान गणेश के शुभागमन का प्रथम दिवस। “त्वमेव प्रत्यक्षं तत्वमसि। त्वमेव केवलं कर्ताऽसि।त्वमेव केवलं धर्ताऽसि। त्वमेव केवलं हर्ताऽसि॥” गणपति अथर्वशीर्ष का यह प्रारंभिक आवाहन गणेश को केवल विघ्नहर्ता नहीं, बल्कि सृष्टि के आधार, धारण करने वाले और हरण करने वाले प्रत्यक्ष तत्व के रूप में स्थापित करता है। लेकिन गणेश की विशिष्टContinue reading “गणेश चतुर्थी”

The Oak-A Tree of Time, Myth, and Memory – Part V

Oaks in Thought, Word, and Image: Literature, Art, and Human Creativity “Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,Sermons in stones, and good in everything.” -Shakespeare (As You Like It, Act II, Scene I) John Constable, The Cornfield (1826), National Gallery, London. If in myth the oak stood as a sacred emblem, and in ecologyContinue reading “The Oak-A Tree of Time, Myth, and Memory – Part V”

The Oak—A Tree of Time, Myth, and Memory – IV

Of Gods and Druids: The Sacred Oak in Myth and Ritual ““The oak is called the king of trees, the pride of the forest, the glory of the landscape.” — William Gilpin Temple of Zeus at Dodona with oracle Oak If the oak is the heartbeat of the forest, it is also the pulse ofContinue reading “The Oak—A Tree of Time, Myth, and Memory – IV”

The Oak — A Tree of Time, Myth, and Memory -III

The Green Sovereign: The Oak’s Environmental Generosity “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” — John Muir There are trees that stand in quiet splendour, content to let the centuries pass without fanfare. And then there is the oak — a monarch not onlyContinue reading “The Oak — A Tree of Time, Myth, and Memory -III”

कृष्ण

आज कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी है। ईश्वर के ज्ञात अवतारों में जितना लिखा, गाया और सोचा गया है, उतना किसी और अवतार के बारे में नहीं। शास्त्र कहते हैं कि कृष्ण ईश्वर के पूर्ण अवतार हैं, सोलह कलाओं से सम्पन्न। और कृष्ण की ज्ञात लीलाओं से इस धारणा की पुष्टि भी होती है। और कृष्ण ने जितनी परम्पराएँ और मान्यताएँContinue reading “कृष्ण”

Oak and Spirit: The Silent Alchemy

(The oak–liquor relationship finds expression in the cadence and emotional charge of this poem. Its imagery, symbolism, and metaphorical resonance seeks a distillation that is both timeless and transcendental) Long before lips knew the taste,oak and liquor found each other.It was not a meeting of moment,but of destiny—two strangers who spoke the same ancient tongue.The oakContinue reading “Oak and Spirit: The Silent Alchemy”