A TO Z INDIA - MARCH 2022
AWESOME ASSAM: WHAT IS ASSAM ABOUT... - Assam is the central state in the North-East Region of India and serves as the gateway to the rest of the Seven Sister States. It is known to visitors for its World Heritage Site - Kaziranga and Manas National park, home to the one horned Rhinoceros.
AWESOME ASSAM: WHAT IS ASSAM ABOUT... - Assam is the central state in the North-East Region of India and serves as the gateway to the rest of the Seven Sister States. It is known to visitors for its World Heritage Site - Kaziranga and Manas National park, home to the one horned Rhinoceros.
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A <strong>TO</strong> Z <strong>INDIA</strong> ● <strong>MARCH</strong> <strong>2022</strong> ● PAGE 6<br />
India and Culture:<br />
Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi<br />
Kokila<br />
Q: What of idols?<br />
M: They have a deep significance. Worshipping them is a method<br />
of concentrating the mind. The mind is apt to move externally. It<br />
must be checked and turned within. Its habit is to dwell on names<br />
and forms, for all external objects possess them.<br />
Certain names and forms are symbolic concepts used to divert the<br />
mind away from external objects and make it dwell within itself.<br />
Thus the idols, mantras, sacred syllables, rites etc, are all meant<br />
to give food to the mind in its inward course so that it may<br />
become capable of being concentrated. Only after this can the<br />
supreme state be reached - Conscious Immortality.
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