Mandar : an ancient mountain between Bhāgalpūr & Dumka, composed of one single structure unaffected by winds or weather. This proves its scriptural description as having emerged from the earth in one whole unāging piece hence Shiva’s meditation seat on earth. Kālidāsa’s Kumarasambhavam refers to footprints of Lord Vishnu on the slopes of Mandāra. The mountain is equally revered by the Jains as their 12th Tirthankara attained Nirvana here on the summit of Mandāra.
... titan’s strength, a titan’s energy… The ocean is the world-creation. The Mandar mountain is the churning stick. This Mandar mountain is our physical being. This churning goes on in this body too. Vasuki is the rope. Vasuki is the Life-Force. And so using our Life-Force as the rope, the body as our churner or Mandar mountain, we have to churn the ocean of life. The first thing that will come ...
... reason that we should look at this work only with the great mind of Vyasa and others like him and remain quiet without doing anything at all. If immensely large creatures of the size of the legendary Mandar Mountain can live in the wide spaciousness of an ocean, should not a tiny and insignificant fish swim with Page 107 freedom in it? No doubt Aruna the Charioteer of the Sun-God is always ...
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