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1: Cost-Effective Wedding Favor Ideas
Whether the economy is good or bad, people are still going to get married. During an economic decline, many people look for ways to reduce costs without negatively affecting the wedding. One way of s..
2: Understanding White Collar Crimes?
White collar crimes are perhaps the most commonly committed crimes that happen today. And just like any type of crime, white collar crimes come with punishments. Sure, the punishment may not be as har..
3: Twenty-Fifth Wedding Anniversary Gift Ideas
If you know someone who is celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary, you should consider giving them a nice gift. This is, after all, a tremendous accomplishment, particularly in today's world. Be s..
4: A Little Valentine Romance With Your Sweetheart
This Valentine's Day is the perfect occasion and opportunity for you to incorporate a little romance into your life with your sweetheart, and it is not as difficult to do as you might think.Romance is..
5: Buying Lingerie With Comfort In Mind
When you are looking for lingerie, whether for yourself or for someone special in your life, you really need to look for lingerie that will be comfortable and sexy as well. The point here is to stretc..
6: Another Kind Of Lunisolar Calendar
In the lunisolar calender, there is another kind, which differs from the former in the way that the months are named. When a full moon, instead of new moon, occurs before sunrise on a day, then that d..
7: The Five Properties Of The Hindu Calendar Day
The Hindu calendar that was used in ancient times has undergone many changes in the process of regionalization, and today there are several regional Indian calendars, as well as an Indian national cal..
8: The Nice Realizations Supplied By Krishna
A famous King in India during the reign of Aurangazeb, who was known as Chatrapati Sivaji, was riding his marvelous horse in the forest as he hunted. While riding a big stone suddenly hit him in the h..
9: The Dwelling Place Of Kali
Kali's final dwelling place, which was the cremation ground, denotes a place where the five elements are dissolved, and is where dissolution takes place.In terms of devotion and worship, this denotes ..
10: The Lost Months Of The Lunar Calendar
If the sun transits into two rashis within a lunar month, then the month will have to be labeled by both transits and will take the epithet kshay, which means loss. There is considered to be a loss, b..
11: What Are Our Children Supposed To Read
Parents often ask for advice about reading material for their children, because they want to expose their children to as much Krishna consciousness as possible, and limit their exposure to materialism..
12: The History Of The Hindu Calendar
The Hindu Calendar descends from the Vedic times, and there are many references to calendrics in the Vedas. The Vedanga called Jyautisha, which is the celestial body study, prescribed all the aspects ..
13: The Power Hidden In Thunder Storms
Besides old growth trees and forests, clouds are a favorite display of Krishna's energy, which is referred to as those huge white, fluffy cotton like clouds with contrasting shades of gray, and in the..
14: Higher Vocations In The Educational System
The Srila Prabhupada educational system is designed to produce high class people, high not in wealth or status, but in character. The ideal character can be described the intellectual as tolerant and ..
15: The Disease Of Modern Age
Sex is the overwhelming obsession of modern society and sexual promiscuity is unrelentingly stressed that anyone who does not appear to the highly interested in it is generally considered to be a cran..
16: The Techniques Used In Batik Art
Batik is a medium that lies somewhere between art and craft, and is believed to be at least two thousand years old. The Batik process is an extremely demanding one.In general, the final design must be..
17: Tattooing Is A Permanent Form Of Art
In the Krishna faith, the process of initiation consists of the five purification processes that includes either the branding or the tattooing of the four symbols and wearing the tilaka markings.This ..
18: The Technique Of Pata Chitra
Pata is a Sanskrit derivation, which literally means canvas. So, pata-painting means a scroll painting on canvas, which is practiced by the artists of Orissa, which is a state on the Eastern Coast of ..
19: The Coloring And Shading Of Thangkas
Coloring is more than a visual proposition in sacred Buddhist painting. In fact, the five basic colors are white, yellow, red, black, and green, which all have a different symbolic meaning.Black symbo..
20: New And Old Hindu Denominations And Movements
Shaktas worship Shakti, who is known as the divine Mother, in her many forms that include Kali, Durga, Laxmi, Saraswati, and many others as well. The Shakta form was one of the oldest forms of Hindu r..
21: The Mughal Artist As A Naturalist
Accuracy achieved by well defined outlines and the rendering of maximum detail are the chief characteristics of Mughal studies of nature. Attention is paid to the use of pigments that reflect the actu..
22: Lakshmi In Forms Of Art
Tradition associates Lakshmi with Kubera, who was the ugly lord of the Yakshas, which was a race of supernatural creatures that lived outside the pale of civilization.Their connection with Lakshmi spr..
23: Now The Impermanence Of Knowledge
Many of use enjoy and love the libraries, but it seems as if at times I worry about their future. It is not just the libraries, but more the nature of the information and the knowledge in this materia..
24: Divine Lover In Indian Art
The major gods in Indian art traditions have rarely been described as celibate recluses, especially in their incarnate form in their demonstrative attraction for the opposite sex.Krishna was physicall..
25: Feminist Ideals In Buddhist Art
Goddess Tara, who was a female Buddha and meditation deity, is arguably the most popular goddess in the Buddhist pantheon. She is considered to be the goddess of universal compassion who represents vi..
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