No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying. ~ by Unknown ~

Photography started with  blogging  travel experiences as a Photo-Blog i’v really enjoyed my journey travelling and picturing moments , it kept me learning and travelling. I enjoyed taking pictures of people and places as times went by friends asked me if i would like to cover their weddings……., instantly I fell in love with the magic of Wedding Photography. Today the journey has manifested itself into ‘PHOTO BRAHMA’. I love playing with Light. PhotoBrahma is all about Creating and Xpressing Light.I Hope you guys like what you see here.

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Mangalaya Dharane: The groom ties the sacred ‘taali’ on the bride. The sacred ‘taali’ (a small inscribed gold ornament, strung on a yellow thread) is kept on a silver platter along with a piece of jaggery, rice, a coconut and a heavy nine yard Kanjeevaram sari which is given by the groom’s mother to the bride. This platter is taken around to all the guests for their blessings. The bride changes in to the nine-yard sari, wearing it in the ‘katche seera’ style and returns to the ‘mantap’. Amongst Vedic chants, the groom ties the first knot of the ‘taali’ around the bride’s neck and his sisters tie the other two knots. Akshathe: The couple is blessed with the showering of coloured rice All the elders present at the wedding are given coloured rice, which they shower on the couple after the ‘mangalaya dharane’. The bride’s mother gives the groom a ‘paan’ or betel leaf to proclaim her support of the marriage.

~Aparna Murthy

Pashupatinath Temple – Shiva’s Home in Kathmandu Valley

The Pashupatinath temple in the east of Kathmandu has been a religious site for both Hindus and Buddhists for maybe over 2000 years. Daily thousends of pilgrims visit Pashupatinath, with a top day on Maha Shivaratri when hunderds of thousends of pilgrims come to pay their tribute to Shiva. The Pashupatinath temple complex is one of the Unesco world heritage sites of the Kathmandu Valley.

History of Pashupatinath :

Pashupati means ”Lord of the animals” and it one form of Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva has 1008 name and forms and as Pashupati he watches over the souls of men and is worshipped as the patron deity of Nepal. Though there is no proof when the temple originated the oldest evidence is data 477 A.D but the temple may have stood here nearly 1000 years before that.

One of the legend about Lord Shiva is that once Shiva took the form of an antelope being weary of throngs of worshipping demigods and wandered in the Mrigasthali Forest on the Bagmati river’s east bank. The Gods were looking for him and finally found him as an antelope and they grabbed him by horn and forced him to come back to his divine form. The broken horn was worshipped as a linga, and it was buried and lost. Centuries later an astonished farmer found him cows showering the milk on the earth. Digging deep in the site, the farmer is believed to uncover the divine linga of Pashupati.

Lord Pashupati is invoked on official treaties, pledges, political speeches and appears on coins and royal coat of arms. Pashupatinath is one of the great holy Shiva places of the Indian Subcontinent, and no pilgrimage is complete without a visit to it.

Where is Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu ?
Pashupatinath temple is in the banks of Bagmati river on the eastern side of Kathmandu. The place where Pashupatinath is located is called Gaurighat, Kathmandu. People often say the location as Gaushala, Jaya bageswori etc. So, when you reach near the intersection of Gaushala or Jaya Bageswori or Mitrapark then you will see the board where it is written “The Way to Pashupati”. The another easier way to figure out is “Bagmati river is flowing beside Pashupatinath“.

Baby Srivatsava !

“If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle”.

This is from a Friends Post on her BLOG.

Unfinished conversation…

A new year’s night.The moon acting as the lovers’ light.

Two of them sitting side by side.Gazing out at the star-lit sky.
She:

I looked into his eyes.And willed myself not to cry.
I know he loves me with all his heart.But yet today,we must part.
Then I reached out for his hand.To let him know that I understand.
We were lovers not meant to be.Though my love for him will never cease.

He:

She’s so beautiful and so delicate.It just breaks my heart to see her hurt.
I could feel her pain when she touched my hand.
How I wish I could always be her man…….. : Read MORE : 

I believe in the sun, even though it slowly rises
I believe in you, even without realizing
I believe in the rain, though i see no cloud in the sky
I believe in truth, even though everybody lie  ——  The Dewarists – I believe

Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without.

Picture taken : Hampi 

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