Thadhagadhan

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Old Photos- Various Vintage Photos - Part 129

Pohtos of 1954 Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh

Monday, February 03, 2014

Old Photos- Various Vintage Photos - Part 128

A Snake-Charmer at the Mela - Chota Nagpur c1900

A Temple at Pandra, Chota Nagpur c1900

Chutia Temple - Chota Nagpur 1903

Gama and his brother Imam Baksh square off during an exhibition match held in front of the Red Fort, New Delhi, circa 1940s

Girls and Musicians at a Santal Dacne - Chota Nagpur c1900

Hook Swinging at the Churuk Puja - Chota Nagpur 1903

Pahelwans in Hyderabad, c 1870

Santal Women Carrying Pitchers from the Well - Chota Nagpur c1900

Small Temple at the Foot of Jagannath Temple - Near Ranchi, Chota Nagpur 1903

Some Followers of the Prophet Birsa Munda being Escorted to Jail by the Police - Chota Nagpur C1900

The Main Street, Chaibasa - Chota Nagpur c1900

The Manjhi Than - Chota Nagpur c1900

The Saheb Bandh - Purulia, Chota Nagpur c1900

The Temple of Jagannath - Near Ranchi, Chota Nagpur 1903

Travelling on The Grand Trunk Road on Foot - Chota Nagpur c1900

Travelling on The Grand Trunk Road. Riding a Native Tat (Pony) - Chota Nagpur c1900

Tribal Women on their Way to Assam Tea Gardens - c1900

Two Men Carrying a Dooli - Chota Nagpur c1900

Friday, January 31, 2014

Mind

Adi Sankara was walking through the market place with his disciples. They saw a man dragging a cow by a rope. Sankara told the man to wait and asked his disciples to surround them. “I am going to teach you something” and continued...

“Tell me who is bound to whom? Is the cow bound to this man or the man is bound to the cow?

The disciples said without hesitation “Of course the cow is bound to the man!. The man is the master. He is holding the rope. The cow has to follow him wherever he goes. The man is the master and the cow is the slave.”

“Now watch this”, said Sankara and took a pair of scissors from his bag and cut the rope. The cow ran away from the master and the man ran after his cow. “Look, what is happening”, said Sankara.

“Do you see who the Master is? The cow is not at all interested in this man. The cow in fact, is trying to escape from this man.” This is the case with our mind.

Like the cow, all the non-sense that we carry inside is not interested in us. We are interested in it, we are keeping it together somehow or the other. We are going crazy trying to keep it all together under our control.

The moment we lose interest in all the garbage filled in our head, and the moment weunderstand the futility of it, it will start to disappear. Like the cow, itwill escape and disappear.” We can allow disappearing of all the unwantedthings from our mind and feel relaxed.