Exploring Flowers, Flower Rangoli And Flower Photography

It all started when last night, we were in the Radha Krishna Temple. Yesterday was the last day of the swing festival (Jhoola Utsav). After the festivities got over, we were cleaning up the decoration. While we were doing that, I collected loads of flowers that adorned Radha and Krishna and brought those flowers home. 

This morning, my mother had a brilliant idea. And the idea was to explore the flowers, do some sensory activities like smelling, touching and exploring each part of the flowers. While I was doing, she asked me if I am interested in practicing photography skills using these flowers. I started to capture pictures of the flowers. Slowly, I got other ideas. I started to arrange the flowers along with the tools from the mechanics kit that I was playing. Later, I also captured some flower designs along with some Lego blocks. Then I used some cloths as background for the flowers. 

Then, Amma got a very amazing idea. She thought of making a flower rangoli. I helped her in making this wonderful Krishna flower rangoli. 

Below are the pictures that I captured, take a look. I had to work on my thinking skills to come up with a caption/sentences for each picture.

Sri Krishna - MS Paint Art

Krishna And Trunavarta - Oil Pastel

Krishna, Bheema and Jarasanda - Oil Pastel

Krishna Steals Butter - Oil Pastel

Krishna And Putana - Oil Pastel

Hanuman Burns Lanka - A Water Color Painting

Lord Srinivasa - A Sketch Using Oil Pastels

From Brahma to King Yadu

I continue to learn more on how to use MS Word. Today, I learnt about how to insert Hierarchy List into MS Word. And, I also learnt about the ancestral lineage from Brahma to King Yadu. King Yadu comes from the Lunar Dynasty, his ancestral father is Soma. From King Yadu, the Yadu dynasty was called as Yadu kula, the clan of Yadu. Lord Sri Krishna is a Yaduvanshi, meaning born in the Yadu dynasty. The following two pictures shows the hierarchy right from Brahma to King Yadu. 

Learning About Computers, Sudarshana and Star of David

Research On Mount. Krauncha Based On Ramayana

My mother gave me this verse from Valmiki Ramayana and asked me to research on where Mount. Krauncha could be in the current world. 

The following is the verse and translation. 

क्रौन्चम् तु गिरिम् आसाद्य बिलम् तस्य सुदुर्गमम् |
अप्रमत्तैः प्रवेष्टव्यम् दुष्प्रवेशम् हि तत् स्मृतम् || ४-४३-२५ Valmiki Ramayana

Translation:
Thereafter on reaching Mount. Krauncha, you shall cautiously enter into a highly impassable tunnel of that mountain to search Sita. That tunnel, they say is an un-enterable one.

My Research Below:

Research On Regions Based On Tree Names From Ramayana

Research Done by me.
Mentor : My mom

I was given this verse from Valmiki Ramayana. My goal was to find out in which regions the trees mentioned by Sugreeva, are found in the current time. I was also asked to find out the botanical name of the trees and write few sentences about the trees.

Verse from Valmiki Ramayana

लोध्र पद्मक खण्डेषु देवदारु वनेषु च |
रावणः सह वैदेह्या मार्गितव्या ततः ततः || || ४-४३-१३ Valmiki Ramayana

Sugreeva instructs a vanara Shatabali and his army to go up North in search of Devi Sita. The above verse comes in the Kishkinda Kanda.

Translation:
In the stands of Lodhra Trees, Padmaka Trees and in the woods of Devadaru, or Deodar trees, Ravana is to be searched there and there, together with Seetha. 

My Research below.

Lord Rama - Zentangle Art

Happy Rama Navami to all. I drew this Zentangle Lord Rama inspired by Sanjay Patel's art. It took a week for me to draw this Lord Rama. I did not find any other zentangle art for Lord Rama in the internet. So, my guess is I could be the first one to draw a Zentangle Lord Rama. How excited I am!

Jai Sri Ram.

Sriman Narayana, The Blue Colored Supreme In Vaikunta Planet

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Imagine how it would be if we went to Vaikunta and saw Sriman Narayana. Acharya Sri Ramanuja has wrote in his book 'Vaikunta Gadyam' how Sriman Narayana looks like. I read his description which helped me to describe Sriman Narayana and I have shared my feelings too. Go to this link here, to read the translation of Sri Ramanuja Acharya's 'Vaikunta Gadyam'. People say that one who goes to Vaikunta will never come back to earth, but there are certain divine messengers who descend down to earth to preach. Sri Ramanujacharya, Vashistadvaita seer is believed to be the incarnation of Adi Sesha. I thank Sri Ramanujacharya, an incarnation of Shankarshana for beautifully describing Vaikunta. Now, I'd like to share my description about Sriman Narayana in my own words, and my feelings too. My Amma was my writing coach and she helped me improve my descriptive writing skills. We wrote several drafts and edited it. I wrote for another writing prompt Amma gave few days back, that was about 'A walk on stormy spring day'. It was a simple one and I wrote only few sentences, but describing Sriman Narayana is close to my heart. 

Helix Nebula NGC 7293 - Is It The Eye of God?

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Modern Science says that Nebula is a cloud of gas and dust in outer space. A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium and other ionized gases. 

Me and my Amma are researching about nebulae and we wonder how the patterns of nebulae is similar to some of the things that we see in our life.  Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that is launched in 1990 by space organizations like NASA and ESA. This telescope is sending lots of pictures of nebulae. These pictures are so unbelievable because these nebulae looks like many things that I see around in my life in the form of rangoli, yantras and mandalas. These pictures that the hubble space telescope is sending are so fascinating.

The Fish Incarnation Of Vishnu And Comparative Studies

Matsya Avatara Sculptor, SriRangam

I will share with you the story of Matsya Avatara. This is how it all began. Once upon a time, there was a sage named Satyavrata. One day, when he was taking bath in a river, he found a fish in his hand. That fish told the sage to not let the fish get into the water again, otherwise the fish would be eaten by its predators. So, Satyavrata decided to take the fish along with him. He put the fish in his kamandala (holy vessel) and went back home. After Satyavrata reached home, he got a surprise. The fish became bigger that it could not fit into the kamandala. Then, Satyavrata took the fish and put it in a larger pot. But, the fish became more bigger than the pot. Satyavrata put the fish into a pond. The fish grew more larger than the pond. Satyavrata was puzzled. He decided to put the fish into the ocean. As soon as he put the fish into the ocean, the fish hooted and said, "Oh Sage, why are you doing this injustice to me by putting me back in the ocean. There are more dangerous predators in the ocean that can easily eat me up". Satyavrata said, "Oh great fish, you must be Sriman Narayana incarnate, are you here to teach me a lesson?"

Vishnu Mudra - MS Paint Art