Sri: Sri Brahmatantra Swatantra Parakala Guru Paramparaayai Nama: Sri: Not sure if this relates to your subject but it did reminded me of couple of things: [and more questions also :) ] 1) When visualised the astrological houses in a Y-axis with the 1st house at the horizon (looking towards East), and counting 30 degrees down from there on, one can find that the location of the 9th house is directly above the head and 30 degrees back from it. (Point of origin of our shikha ?). The 9th house represents religion in Vedic Astrology. May be it is for this reason the students of Vedam (or all brahmaNas ?) shave their head except this location. I also have heard stories from our books that a punishment for a brahmaNa is to take away his education and knowledge by cutting the shikha off ! 2) Kapaala Moksham: When a dead body is burnt, some times the skull bursts with an explosion and sound, I have seen it referred as the soul leaving the body to the feet of one's Acharya thru this point in the head, also referred as Kapaala Moksham. This is considered as the best path of the journey of the Soul and also somewhat rare. (Also, is this Brahma Randhram ??) 3) Jewish men wear a small cap (I cannot remember what it is called)at that same location where BrahmaNas wear the shikha. May be that point of the head has a universal significance ?
I appreciate corrections and clarifications to this posting. rajeev Sri Laxmi Hayagriva Parabrahmane Nama: ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ * _|')_ # # | # _#_ ('|\ * * / |\_/\ # # # | # #\__# \_/| | * * / | | \ ## @ ## # | # ## | ## \ |- * * |/ / # # \ # | # / \|/ \ \| * * ## # ### # ## * ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~ ~*~
From: "Chakravartula Krishna" <chakravartula@xxxx> Reply-To: parakalamutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: SriRangaSri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SriParakalaMatham] Importance of having Sikha Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 12:11:28 +0530 Sri: Respected bhagavathas pranamams, Please educate adiyen about the significance of wearing sikha. I also heard that there is also a scientific explanation for this. Can any of the learned members throw some light on this? narayana smaranams, Gopi --------------------------------------------- http://mail.indiainfo.com India's first ISO certified portal Check world time at http://time.indiainfo.com shriimate laksmiihayagriiva lakshmiinaaraayanaabhyaaM namaH Visit the Sri Parakala Matham Home Page at http://www.parakalamatham.org Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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