Dakshina's Play Ground

Hide English Hide Telugu Show Telugu Slokas Show English Slokas Show All Introduction: The Purusha Sukta holds that the world is created by and out of a Yajna or exchange of the Purusha. All forms of existence are held to be grounded in this primordial yajna. In the seventeenth verse, the concept of Yajna itself is held to have arisen out of this original sacrifice. In the final verses, yajna is extolled as the primordial energy ground for all existence. Purusha suktam is hymn 10.90 of the Rigveda, dedicated to the Purusha, the "Cosmic Being". It is also found in the Shukla Yajurveda Samhita 31.1-16 and Atharva Veda Samhita 19.6. The Purusha is described as a being who pervades everything conscious and unconscious universally. He is poetically depicted as a being with thousand heads, eyes and legs, enveloping not just the earth, but the entire universe from all sides and transcending it by ten fingers length - or transcending in all 10 dimensions.

In the Shrek animated Hollywood movie the heroine in search of true love -- so that she wouldn't change personality between day and night- finds it in the hero Shrek, whom many consider as ugly, and marries him in the climax. So what is true love? Is ordinary love, such as we have for our parents, spouses, children not true, fake, concocted? Then why have true love? Let us see what attributes are important in love. The first thing is timelessness. Love transcends time and space. When we love a person, animal or tree, we love it every instant. There is no scope for true love to diminish, dissipate, decay over time. We hold on to the loved ones in thick and thin as though we are immortals, have no disease or untimely death. We love regardless of geography, where we are living; the national and state boundaries, fences don't matter. Love is impersonal. We can love a mountain, a tree, a dog, etc. the same way we love a person. There is no discrimination among the loved