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Info on Official Website of Gaya Pindadaan and Shradh – Vishnupad Temple

Millions of Hindus perform Pindadaan and other Shradh rituals at the famous  Vishnupad   Temple  at  Gaya  in  Bihar  during the Pitru Paksha period (September – October). To help devotees the government has created an official website with information about priests who perform rituals, calendar, photos, videos, ghats where Shradh and pindadan is performed, and other basic information. Link – Official Website of Gaya Pindadaan and Shradh

Amanaska Yoga Quotes And Teachings

A collection of quotes and teachings from Amanaska Yoga. Always leave behind the material, the mental and the troublesome. Always turn to that which is stainless, beyond the mind and beyond appearance. Some who are full of pride (although) knowing a multitude of Shastras, do not know the teaching, and (would not know it) even through hundreds of texts. The tree of the mundane world will fall when the root(s) of the mind are uprooted by the yogi who grows strong through the nectar of equanimity. The knower of the highest reality knows that the highest reality is beyond the duality of existence and non-existence; (it) passes beyond (both) sleep and wakefulness (and) is free from life and death. Putting on ochre garments, holding a skull, plucking out strands of hair, maintaining heretical observances, ashes, an ascetics clothes (and) dreadlocks; intoxication, nakedness (and) conferences on the poetry of the Vedas, Tantras etc in assemblies... All (this) is exerting onese