Rudra (Devanagari: रुद्र) is a Rigvedic God, associated with wind or storm, and the hunt. The name has been translated as "The Roarer", or "The Howler".
The theonym Shiva originates as an epithet of Rudra, the adjective shiva "kind" being used euphemistically of the god who in the Rigveda also carries the epithet ghora "terrible". Usage of the epithet came to exceed the original theonym and by the post-Vedic period (in the Sanskrit Epics), and the name Rudra has been taken as a synonym for the god Shiva and the two names are used interchangeably.
The etymology of the theonym Rudra is somewhat uncertain. It is usually derived from the root rud- which means "to cry, howl." According to this etymology, the name Rudra has been translated as "the Roarer". An alternate etymology suggested by Prof. Pischel derives Rudra ("the Red, the Brilliant") from a lost root rud-, "to be red" or "to be ruddy", or according to Grassman, "to shine". Stella Kramrisch notes a different etymology connected with the adjectival form raudra, which means wild, of rudra nature, and translates the name Rudra as "the Wild One" or "the Fierce God". R. K. Sharma follows this alternate etymology and translates the name as "Terrible" in his glossary for the Shiva Sahasranama.
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A girl, Vrinda, who finds out that she is the illegitimate daughter of a rich man.. on his deathbed he leaves all his property to her with the request that she join his disjointed joint family.. and how she embarks on that journey.. putting her life on hold!!!and also endangering her life as the "legitimate family" hates her.. so she goes incognito with her mother's best friend and her own best friend, Rudra.. The trysts of destiny.. with love and hate balancing each other out, Vrinda goes to set her father's last wish true.. at the cost of losing her mother... by the very people she had gone to join as a family.. what follows is the main crux of the story....
A daughter's search for her rightful respect
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Kesar comes from rural Punjab. A very charming, loving girl whose twin sister (Kangna) died tragically together with her first husband (Rudra Mallya) in a bomb blast. Kesar changes her identity in order to find her daughter Muskaan and her adopted son Krish. On the day of her engagement, Muskaan ran away after everyone thought her fiancé, Abhi, had died in a fire. She actually secretly married him. Kesar's struggle is on going for on for her Life, Husband, Family, Family Values and her social position.
Love Story and Family Drama
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A small town in rural India gets to witness a confrontation between two fathers - one a rich, powerful, influential, and cruel Zamindar Thakur Avadh Narayan Singh - who wants the man who filed a police complaint against his two sons to be killed immediately. And the other is Rudra, a poor laborer employed by Avadh, who wants justice when he finds out that his nine year old daughter, Durga, has been beaten and brutally raped by Avadh's sons, Bachhu, and Bhola. Amidst this background we have a corrupt doctor, who is willing to change his medical report after he is bribed appropriately; and a Police Inspector, Ramnarayan Bhardwaj, who is willing to drop any charges against Avadh's sons provided he gets his "dues" from the Thakur.
Keywords: class-struggle, farmer, father-daughter-relationship, injustice, judge, landlord, oxen, race, rape, vigilante
Never try a father's patience
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Young, beautiful, and intelligent Maya lives with her father in a palatial mansion in rural India. When her father suffers a stroke, she calls for the local Dr. Charu Das, who arrives on his bicycle and prescribes treatment for her dad. He comes often, more on the pretext of seeing her, than her dad, and eventually both get married. Years pass by, and Charu is busy engrossed in treating patients, leaving Maya alone to ponder her own fate and life. And it is not long before a young man named Rudra enters her life, and an affair follows. This affair does not last long, as a much younger man, Lalit, now enters Maya's life, and thence begins another passionate affair. But again, Maya is not satiated. She longs for more than bodily needs, and it is perhaps this that leads to her sudden death, leaving two investigators to probe who or what really killed Maya.
Keywords: adultery, bare-breasts, based-on-novel, bored-housewife, character-name-in-title, doctor, extramarital-affair, female-nudity, foreign-language-adaptation, husband-wife-relationship
Perception and inference are your gods
Observation is your ritual
You are a believer after all with faith in your
deductions
Your pramanas are limited
What you don't know, you'll never know until you discover
that ignorance is bliss!
Shrotrasya shrotram manaso manah
Vaco vacam pranasya pranah chakshushashchakshuh
Pratibodhaviditam matam*
[Solo devan vinod]
Your pramanas are limited
What you don't know, You'll never know until you know
that
The assumed colour of the crystal is not its true nature
Shrotrasya shrotram manaso manah
Vaco vacam pranasya pranah chakshushashchakshuh
Pratibodhaviditam matam*
[*Kena Upanishad]
Perception and inference are your gods
Observation is your ritual
You are a believer after all with faith in your deductions
Your pramanas are limited
What you don't know, you'll never know until you discover that ignorance is bliss!
Shrotrasya shrotram manaso manah
Vaco vacam pranasya pranah chakshushashchakshuh
Pratibodhaviditam matam*
[Solo devan vinod]
Your pramanas are limited
What you don't know, You'll never know until you know that
The assumed colour of the crystal is not its true nature
Shrotrasya shrotram manaso manah
Vaco vacam pranasya pranah chakshushashchakshuh
Pratibodhaviditam matam*
Not knowing that the way out is the way in
Thousands of fools worship the feet of the scornful
ones
The key to freedom is in his pocket yet he claims that
you are free
He claims divinity but utters 'your are divine'
Unquestioning faith is glorified
What a holy deception
Sarvashruti shiroratna virajitapadambujah
Vedantambuja suryoyah tasmai shri surave namah*
[Solo devan vinod]
Acaryavan purushoveda**
The acarya points out your innate freedom like pointing
out the arundhati
The one who sees non-duality as his essence
And he who sees no second reality is a satguru
For he has to be a Shrotriya and a brahmanishtha
Sarvashruti shiroratna virajitapadambujah
Vedantambuja suryoyah tasmai shri surave namah
[*Skanda Purana]
Pratah smarami hrdi samsphuradatma tattvam**
Sat chit sukham paramahamsa gatim turiyam
Yat svapna jagara sushuptam avaiti nityam
Tad brahma nishkalam aham na ca bhuta sangham
Pratar bhajami manasam vacasam agamyam
Vaco vibhanti nikhila yadanugrahena
Yan neti neti vacanair nigama avocuh
Tam deva devamajam achyutam ahuragryam
Pratar namami tamasah paramarka varnam
Purnam sanatana padam purushottam akhyam
Yasminnidam jagad asheshamashesha murtau
Rajjvam bhujangama iva pratibhasitam vai
Why! Do you enslave yourself!
They have made you a pauper by making you lose what has been always yours
Can't you see that there are many who want you on your knees?
Praise the Self that you are
You need no proof for your existence
That you are free, is known to you but covered by ignorance
Anandam brahmano vidvan na bibheti kadacana*
[Solo devan]
You are not a sinner! You are not a slave!
The feebleness you are is not your nature, but it belongs to the creeds that enslave
You see yourself as the space limited by walls but what you are is the all pervasive space
Asangoham
Asangoham
Asangoham
Eternal! That's what you are
The witness to the changing phenomena
Knowledge is your nature
Deathlessness is your abode
You have no soul to purify
You need no redemption
You need no salvation
Cause you are the Master of this Universe
Anandam brahmano vidvan na bibheti kadacana
[Solo vinod]
The one who sees a worshipful form in the form of a lord without
And he worships, sings and dances to enjoy bliss within
His love enduring, his faith consuming the potential of freedom
Bound by love, dependent on faith and mistaken freedom
Taste the nectar within, not the water of this mirage
That which appears as far without, is within
There is no lord in the Uni other than the Atma
In bhakti there is no atmatrpti, Parabhakti is indeed Atma anubhava
There is no Lord in the Uni other than the Atma
Yas tvatma rattirevasyat atmatrptashcamanava
Atmanyeva ca santushtah tasya karyam na vidyate*
Taste the nectar within, not the water of this mirage
That which appears as far without, is within
There is no lord in the Uni other than the Atma
Where is your saviour now?
Is he up in the skies?
Are you a seeker?
Are you a believer?
Seeking salvation when you are already Free is like a wave wanting to be water!
[Solo devan]
I am that God in Truth
Everything else is Mithya
There is no formless God
That resides in Paradise
There is no holy Book
All are but Lies!
Nothing compares to the Self
The Self that witnesses the Universe
[Solo devan vinod]
There is only the Self Supreme
Which is eternal
Which is Absolute and That I am
Nothing compares to the Self
The Self that witnesses the Universe
I am the God in Truth
[Solo devan]
It is a reasoning of a different kind not divorced from
shruti and anubhava
There is a supposed truth which leads you to
nothingness
They whisper mantras but leads you to shunya
They cry that all is pain
They die just like all of us in vain
Kshanikavada Chedanam
Om brahmane namah
Reality can't be like the son of a barren woman 'cause
I perceive it
Their dry logic based on perception obstructs what lies
beyond
Why, must they deny that I am immortal!
Shunyavada Chedanam
Om brahmane namah
Vijnanavada Chedanam
Om brahmane namah
[Solo devan]
Om brahmane namah
[Solo vinod]
Om brahmane namah
Kshanikavada Chedanam
Om brahmane namah
Shunyavada Chedanam
Om brahmane namah
[Solo devan]
Vijnanavada Chedanam
Om brahmane namah
Satyamevajayate Nanrtam*
Om brahmane namah
You see divinity in the other but not seeing it within oneself
The art of love deceives the heart which knows no reason
What is within cannot be sought through another body
Fools believe that maithuna leads to Brahman
You are not the body that you depend on
You are like a lotus leaf that's untouched by water
Naham prana
Naham Kama
Deluded by pleasures
Obsessed with sensations
Addicted to ecstasy
Love hides your inadequacy
A non-dual experience is but a sleep in disguise
What can be learned from such a state of ignorance
Stretching your limbs and mind, is karma indeed
Will these actions lead you to freedom?
And action is limited by nature, how that can confer freedom?
It is the mind that is the seat of avidya
It is knowledge alone that's needed, when you mistake the nacre for silver
When will these foolish deeds end?
Notpadyate vinajnanam vicharenanyasadhanai
Yatha padarthabhanam hi prakashena vinakvacit*
The Self is immortal by nature, can't be gained by action
Attaining the Self is accomplishing the accomplished
Notpadyate vinajnanam vicharenanyasadhanai
Yatha padarthabhanam hi prakashena vinakvacit
[Solo devan]
Notpadyate vinajnanam vicharenanyasadhanai
Yatha padarthabhanam hi prakashena vinakvacit
The Self is immortal by nature, can't be gained by action
Attaining the Self is accomplishing the accomplished
There is no other, no second thing when I am the only
reality
The universe, known and unknown, is a manifestation of
Brahman
That reality revealed by the Shruti and echoed by the
Smrti
Confirmed by my self experience, beyond disputations
Like the One Sun,
But many reflections,
I am that one Light
In my vision there is only I, that which is the
parabrahman
There is no experience other than the Self
What can displace the vision that conforms to the sole
Existence!
What can negate that which is self-established!
Nitya Shuddha Buddha Mukta Atmasvarupam
Nitya Shuddha Buddha Mukta Ishvarasvabhavam
Advaita Samrajya
[Solo vinod devan]
I am the Light of Lights, I am the God of Gods
I am the very satyam on which the universe rests
In me you exist. In reality you don't exist at all
I lend my existence to this world phenomenon
Nitya Shuddha Buddha Mukta Atmasvarupam
Now, therefore, the enquiry into Brahman leads to the
Immortal Self
It is a reasoning of a different kind not divorced from
shruti and anubhava
Discriminate between the rope and the snake
Shun the impermanent
Invigorate the Antahkarana
Yearn to be Free!
Athato brahmajijnasa janmadyasya yatah
Shastrayonittvat tattusamanvayat*
Nityanityavastu viveka
Iccharahityam
Shatkasampatti
Mumukshutvam
[Solo devan vinod]
Athato brahmajijnasa janmadyasya yatah
Shastrayonittvat tattusamanvayat
Mind creates a subjective notional world
Limited by knowledge we see what we want to see
The mind can't see beyond its thought constructs
The lack of a valid pramana leads to self-deception
Destroy your world by seeing yourself as the essence of the universe
[Solo vinod]
Like the eye which can't see itself, the I can't see the inner I
Without shabda, you can't know your Self
Without shruti, you can't see your Self
Manobuddhyahankaracittani naham
Na ca vyomabhumir na tejo na vayu
Cidanandarupa shivoham shivoham*
Destroy your world by seeing yourself as the essence of the universe
Like clay in the pot, see yourself as the essence of the universe
[Solo vinod]
Vain reasoning is a bottomless pit
Inflates the non-self with conceit
Shabda alone leads the mind beyond the limit of thoughts
To the self which is beyond logic and reason
Aham nirvikalpo nirakararupa
Vibhutvacca sarvatra sarvendriyanam
Na casangato naiva na muktirna bandha
Cidanandarupa shivoham shivoham*
Pratah smarami hrdi samsphuradatma tattvam**
Sat chit sukham paramahamsa gatim turiyam
Yat svapna jagara sushuptam avaiti nityam
Tad brahma nishkalam aham na ca bhuta sangham
Pratar bhajami manasam vacasam agamyam
Vaco vibhanti nikhila yadanugrahena
Yan neti neti vacanair nigama avocuh
Tam deva devamajam achyutam ahuragryam
Pratar namami tamasah paramarka varnam
Purnam sanatana padam purushottam akhyam
Yasminnidam jagad asheshamashesha murtau