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The Deep Meaning of the Ghanta in Hinduism

In Hinduism, the bell—or ghanta—is not just a ritual object. It is a sacred symbol that connects the physical world with the divine. Each part of its structure holds a spiritual meaning:

Body: It represents Ananta, infinite time, reminding us of the eternity of the universe and the endless cycle of life.

Tongue (inner hammer): It symbolizes Saraswati, goddess of knowledge and wisdom. It is the part that generates the sacred sound.

Handle: It contains prana shakti—vital energy—and often features figures such as Hanuman, Garuda, or the Trishula, each with its own symbolic power.

🔔 The sound emitted by the ghanta is no coincidence: it purifies, focuses the mind, and wards off negative energies. Its vibration is related to Om, the primordial sound of the universe.

📿In temples, homes, and even in modern meditation apps, the sound of the bell marks the beginning of the sacred. It's used in daily rituals, major festivals like Diwali or Shivaratri, and also in modern yoga and healing practices.

💡Fact: The sound of the ghanta is believed to harmonize the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, and space) and can even have beneficial effects on the brain, promoting calm and mental clarity.

More than an instrument, the ghanta is a bridge between the earthly and the eternal.

If only we had the original manuscripts and texts, we'd be able to answer these questions. A lot of things get lost in translation, sadly ofcourse.

Reading is such a journey cz sometimes you know what you're reading and the story has a base but sometimes it's just mahabharat and you can do nothing about it.

literally sat down with clenched teeth and had to calm down myself after I started reading Sambhava Parva.

I've read until Arjun's birth if anyone's wondering

My thoughts until now:

Shakuntala deserved better.

no way you just said that

yes wayy you just said that! Slayyy

Ok so I was cheering on the wrong side apparently

So then Devyani was the earliest sister-zoned lady

Devyani is such a papa ki pari.

Sharmistha— girl— that's not how it's supposed to work and we all know it.

Brother find a therapist— wait did they have therapists back then?

It can't be that bad???

Oh it is sO BAD!— who allowed this?

I have absolutely zero idea if that's how it's supposed to work.

And what about that one time you lied to Devyani sir?mmmmmmmm sus

BHISHMA NO

BHISHMA YES

bhisma wait— what are you TALKING ABOUT!?

Satyavati what shampoo dyu use gurl— snatched an entire king

Me killed Myself kinda situation ngl

Hmmm earliest teenager guy.

oh he dies right

Yeah he died

Who is making these rules ohmygod

BLUER EYES HYPNOTISE TERI—

red heads? back then? is this mahabharat?

no way you just said that

no wait they seriously had blue eyes?

Wait no what

When i asked who was making these rules i didn't expect an answer sir

Oh wait so like this existed!?

I don't know whose side I'm on now so I'll just wait it out until krishna pops up and has arjun kill yall

The amount of things that make no sense whatsoever

Lmao Vikrodara and Duryodhan born on the same day twinsies

Aint no way a child cracked a mountin tho

No wait thats bheem were talking abt

Arjun was born the main character

Im dying

Wait— they mentioned a guy before but his name aint here

Aaaand he pops back here somehow...

I saw a post by one of my mutuals talking about dhoti. But I can't find it now. I just wanted to reblog it to say that I've heard many relatives and even my mother call a saree dhoti while talking in awadhi.

Which reminds me of this one very wholesome moment with my (now late) grandmother.

I was 5years old. And like every other summer vacation, we were visiting our grandparents in uttar pradesh. My parents had bought a really simple beautiful saree for my dadi. And the second day of us being there, my parents and I were sitting with my dadi and my parents told her that I had chosen and bought a saree for her (which was a lie but idk why my parents do that to involve me like all the time to show that I do think about all this). And my dadi got so happy saying "अरे हमार भैया हमरे खातिर धोती लाये अहेन? कहाँ बा?" So my mother sent me to go get it, because "i had picked it". But I replied to my mother "but hum toh dhoti laaye hi nahi hai. hum toh saree leke aaye hai dadi ke liye. dadi ko dhoti kyu chahiye? dadi dhoti pehente ha?". My mother replied didn't explain this to me. She just laughed and went with me to bring the saree and we gave it to daadi.

It was Kashmir a few years ago, it was Bengal recently, it was Kashmir again today.

Who knows when they'd come knocking on your doors, asking you're a Hindu, and shoot you point blank just for that.

The way these degenerates put out false information so articulately. Unbelievable 🤬

Should anyone tell OP that India’s so called “occupation of Kashmir” did not start with Modi. Even congress held on to Kashmir and so did any party that came in power (as they fucking should). Plus, OP telling that Modi sent 10,000 soldiers in Kashmir is interesting because he manages to fucking forgets to mention that there had been a terror attack in February that killed 40 army personnel (Pulwama). Also it makes sense for Kashmir to be militarized because they are on a border with a country that would love to annex Kashmir (already did annex a part of it), and plus it is a region where terrorists have done things again and again. Also for revoking article 370, well any sensible PM would revoke it because it caused a fucking GENOCIDE in the past when it was misused. Plus, it makes sense that a region that is continuously attacked, has terror attacks etc. should be in more gov’t control? Because are we really going to burden the state government with that responsibility. Keeping in mind that Kashmir’s main revenue source is tourism, why wouldn’t the people want tourism. The locals seem happy the economy is doing well? Also, if Indian army was abusing people of Kashmir, how the fuck would tourism be on the incline? Because for people who have not lived in India, Indians would fucking die than have any interaction with the police or army. So if there was any abuse sure as fuck no one would have gone there.

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even if i consider this man's "analysis" true how the fuck should one accept that it was completely okay that tourists were attacked. Also, why is OP not mentioning that TERRORISTS (and the locals who supported them) were responsible for this attack majorly. One of the reasons everyone is freaking out about Pahalgam that it has been a while since civilians were killed in a terrorist attack in such a high number.

And i am no political analyst but can see through it pretty clearly. Please correct me if i am wrong

Naah I can’t with these mfs anymore. They are embarrassing and so out of touch. Echo chamber gang is expert at twisting facts and omitting important details in order to nab support from other ignorant lefties on tumblr that are ready to fume and set fire to themselves at the very mention of Israel and Netanyahu.

Anyone who’s interested in learning more about how Islamists invaded the region of Kashmir and ravaged it for centuries, converting, raping and forcing it’s native hindu, buddhist and sikh people to leave is welcome to read my pinned post on Islamic jihad and Kashmiri hindu genocide on my blog.

Lastly, Kashmir was never an “open air prison” Kashmiris like any other Indian citizen are allowed to visit, stay and live in other parts of the country. What was making Kashmir an open air prison was article 370 which was abrogated by the Modi government and now the average Kashmiri citizen has the same rights as other Indian citizens which were previously denied to them including women, lgbtq and other marginalised groups 👇

Google Lens-ed it and it says something like "it's wrong to look at them kiss"

A divine kiss by mmmmmr

Wow how well manufactured this is smh

Nearly ten days after the Pahalgam attack, watching the various responses to said attack...part of me is shocked, and another confused. Yet another thinks that something like this is inevitable.

Too many people reacted to what is undoubtedly a terrorist attack by channelling their rage and grief into persecuting innocent people because the terrorists asked those they killed to recite the kalma, undoubtedly being Islamic in their origin.

Yes, they were Muslim. Does that mean there should be violence against innocent Kashmiri students because 'Hindu khatre mein hain"? No. Do you know why? Because a large part of why such Islamic organisations sway local sympathies towards them is by the catchphrase "Islamiyat khatre mein hain." Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Why wouldn't it? We've heard an alternate religion version of it over TV channels and so-called "news" and "leaders of the free world" screaming Hindu khatre mein hain, khatre mein hain, after all.

So many of us believe it, too.

Why, some of us may ask, shouldn't we believe so? We are Hindus, and we aren't safe even in our own land, our own country. Perhaps we should look deeper into the 'why' of it. So much of violence against us is by ourselves, for daring to be different. Lynching, beating, far more for far too less. So what if someone eats meat? They aren't stopping you from living your life. Why should you put an end to theirs?

But, then, as people who hold power today ask, what about the invaders who invaded India 1000 years ago, 1200 years ago? People whose descendants divide the country today, covet its assets for themselves? Including Kashmir, the jewel of India?

To that is my answer: If that is what you believe, then we should all leave this land. Most of us, at least. None of us are indigenous to the land we live in, except perhaps the tribes in Sentinel island. Other than that, all of us, except for the populations that are tribal/adivasis, probably migrated from somewhere else, simply some time longer ago than 1200 years.

But then, argue some, what about religious texts that speak to tens and thousands of years of ancestry? The Mahabharata, the Itihasas, the Puranas?

In that case, well, might I remind you that Sanskrit is not the single sole classical language that speaks of thousands of years of history? There is the matter of at least one other culture and language that exists alongside. The Sangam literature too speaks of thousands of years. Three whole Sangams, might I mention.

Almost every single ancient culture claims grandiose descent. We do not know how much credence should be given to any of these claims, but, if we are giving credence to one claim, why leave the others behind? Give equal credence, why don't you?

Coming back to 1200 years of "slave mentality" and "coveting territory" I will be paraphrasing words written nearly a 100 years ago by a man who identified as Kashmiri, if not perhaps Hindu, though he rather did admire the title Pandit. He very famously preferred to be known for his scientific temper, possibly a reason why today's rulers loathe this man.

He said, and I paraphrase, that those rulers are not considered foreign rule because there was marital intermixing of races and blood relations, because whatever money was made was spent inside India, because it did not go to another country (Ghori and Ghazni aside, the temple was rebuilt within 50 years, though the 'collective trauma' was first heard of in the British parliament sometime in the 19th century)

People have a beautiful tendency to syncretise, to meld with each other, to form cultures of harmony. Look at each state of India, the cultural plurality (that a homogenous overarching 'desi' identity cannot and will not encapsulate, but this discussion is for another post) especially Kashmir. There is amazing cultural syncretism in their literature, art, architecture, even notions of Kashmiri identity.

There is a unity in diversity. When is this threatened? When a section of the population felt trampled on by the 'high-handed' handling of things (in their own words) by the 'elected' powers (there is widespread allegation of electoral rigging over the years in Kashmir)

In the '80's and '90's it comes in the form of 'Islamiyat khatre mein hain' because at that point, they felt they weren't given the opportunities they should by the Indian Government. There was liberal support from external organisations, and insurgency flourished. The Kashmiri Hindu exodus takes place in these decades, and there is an element of "Hindu khatre mein hain" which is fanned by the government. The following two to three passages are from a report by Human Rights Watch in 1992, during said exodus.

A number of Hindu refugees from Kashmir have subsequently denounced the government for encouraging them to leave under false pretenses. In a letter to the editor of Alsafa in October 1990, some 20 Pandit refugees alleged that: There can be no dispute about the fact the Kashmiri Pandit community was made a scapegoat by Jagmohan, some self-styled leaders of our community and other vested interests ... [T]he plan was to make the K.P.'s [Kashmiri Pandits] migrate from the valley so that the mass uprising against occupation forces could be painted as a communal flare up.... Some self-styled leaders of the Pandit community... begged the Pandits to migrate from the valley. We were told that our migration was very vital for preserving and protecting 'Dharm' [religious integrity] and the unity and the integrity of India. We were told that our migration would pave the way for realizing the dream of Akhand Bharat [undivided India].... We were made to believe that our migration was very important for Hinduism and for keeping India together.... We were fooled and we were more than willing to become fools.205

At the same time, it is clear that many Hindus were made the targets of threats and acts of violence by militant organizations and that this wave of killing and harassment motivated many to leave the valley. Such threats and violence constitute violations of the laws of war, and Asia Watch was able to document many specific cases. • On September 20, 1989, O.N. Sharma, a 47-year-old travel agent from Srinagar found a letter written in Urdu in his mailbox, signed by the JKLF. Sharma told Asia Watch that the letter was addressed to him by name and it referred to him as an "Indian dog." The letter told Sharma to leave the valley by September 27, or he and his family would be killed. At the time, Sharma was living with his wife, two children and his mother.

Again paraphrasing words written very soon after Indian independence. "Minority communities should feel secure in their rights as Indian citizens and that is the part of the majority to ensure. Communalism in all forms is the greatest danger to Indian sovereignty as a whole."

Even today, Kashmiri rights are not ensured. The Indian Army and militant/terrorist bodies have both behaved horribly with Kashmiri women over the years with multiple documented cases of rape still pending action (Human Rights Watch has multiple reports on such cases) and so...such boiling over feels inevitable, on some counts.

The Kashmiri people deserve a voice in their own fate.

@scribblesbyavi bhaiyya, you may like to read this.

It just did. Pakistan did violate the ceasefire. I heard from a friend from Jammu.

New development.

It is highly likely that Pakistan agreed to de-escalation and ceasefire due to pressure by China and USA. India taking down multiple F-16 among others may have put USA in China in a very awkward position

This was an overall win for India as India took down their air bases and bunch of terrorists. it is likely that Pakistan may break the ceasefire again or try to commit another terror attack in Indian territory. India has already announced that any further terror attacks in Indian territory will be considered an act of war.

Jai Hanuman

This sounds like "I'm friends with black people, so I can't be a racist".

Also, he might have actually fooled her into being with him, and since he said "my girl was", I'm going to assume she left him after seeing his real face. And the whole "relationship" must have lasted just a day. And who knows he might have intentionally sought her out to claim that "oh I dated a kashmiri pandit once" and then spew his own views and opinions.

????

Does this person has any thinking skills at all?

Oh I once had a romantic relationship with kashmiri pandit girl so it means i can't be hinduphobic!!!

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Idk if he is trying to be dumb because his interactions with my friend Rhysaka proves he probably doesn't have any reading comprehension whatsoever. Here, he proves it yet again, for anyone that's curious, this is the post that he is referencing.

HE THINKS HES SMART CUZ HE DOESNT EVEN KNOW IF THERE ARE ANY OTHER LOK THAN MRITYU LOK OMGGGGGGGGG...

I'm genuinely laughing so hard 😆🤣🤣😭🤣🤣😭🤣

Every post of his is one embarassment after another! each sentence of this grown man is so damn ignorant, that his entire point becomes laughable. Sorry, I just can't take him seriously and would advise everyone else to do the same. He isn't worth engaging with.

Recent terrorist attack on Hindu Tourist (after confirming they're Hindus) should really tip you off, right? Or are you gonna find another way to blame attacks on hindu on Hindus yet again? But because you used to have a Kashmiri Girlfriend it exempts you from being a hinduphobe.