Drishta

You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself.

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Gautama Buddha

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Maha-Tara Jayanti.

Maha-Tara Jayanti is the day dedicated to goddess Tara, it falls on April 4 2017. I’ve been looking for some articles about Maa Tara to post for this day but I’ve found it difficult to connect to what’s available, my Guru placed great emphasis on this form of the Divine Mother and She’s very dear to me, so I’m making a humble attempt to write something myself, here goes….

Maa Tara is the second or ninth (depending on which tradition you follow) of the Mahavidyas or great wisdom forms of the Divine Mother, as a Vidya she represents sound, Mantra Shakti the power of sacred sound. The Vedic Goddess of sound is Saraswati, therefore Tara is often referred to as Nila Saraswati or Ugra Saraswati-‘fierce’ Saraswati, in the tantric tradition she is the feminine form of the sacred syllable 'Om’. She resembles Mother Kali greatly in appearance, but they have subtle differences, as Kali represent time, She who is beyond time, Tara is sound, beyond sound. The Divine Mother is one, Saraswati, Kali, Tara, they are all different expressions of the one Shakti. Sri Ramprasad Sen and Kamalakanta both use the names Kali and Tara interchangeably in their poetry.

According to the traditional story She appears in the tale of the Gods and demons churning the ocean for the nectar of immortality. A great poison was produced in the process which was swallowed by Lord Shiva to save the universe from imminent destruction. Shiva drinks the poison but falls to the ground due to its burning sensation in His throat, Maa Tara then appears on the spot and feeds Shiva with her breast milk to sooth the burning. Maharishi Vashistha is said to have revived Her Worship after learning it in Tibet (incidentally Tara is revered by both Hindus & Buddhists), he located her Shaktipeeth in Birbhum district West Bengal, identifying the place as the location Sati’s third eye fell in the Daksha Yagna tale, She is worshipped to this day in the famous Tarapith temple in the same location.

Bonus Fact #1: One of the most frequent questions the director the late Harold Ramis was asked over and over again was how many actual years passed during the movie. Ramis finally answered “at least 10,000 years”,

Bonus Fact #2: The main reason that director Harold Ramis, a Jewish-Buddhist, picked the script was because it was an allegory of the teachings of the Buddha. Bill Murray’s character only broke out of the cycle of “rebirth” after he learned compassion and abandoned “self”.

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