Shreenath | Celebrating Devotion & Culture

Vocal for Bharat | Bharatiya Culture & Devotion | Talks about Bharat's soft power through art, music, travel, temples, food, textiles, literature, gurus & more.

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@YesKhush_5 Already built this at https://t.co/EVV1cuf2eG

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@dushyanthsridar 🙏. What a beautiful rendition

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@prathoshap What can be better than Vardhenu. Waiting !

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@kamath_sutra What does this mean to your customers though ? I have been using Sarvam ( free version ) to build in the devotion space for sometime now. Wanted to understand how can this be better.

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Exciting? Sure. Monetization? Less so. So far AI has mostly been a force multiplier for people downstream — freelancers, indie marketers, small agencies, small consumer focussed teams ( like us) doing more with less. Great for them. But that's value captured by users, not revenue for the labs. The real question: will that crowd ever pay top dollar on tokens, or is the actual paying customer (high-stakes enterprise workflows) still years from showing up at scale?

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@delhivery your team has lost 2 of my shipments. I am not sure what is happening with the resolution. Can I speak to some one in your team instead of talking to AI agents.

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Every marketing AI tool / company is oversimplifying marketing by pitching an all in one kinda solution tool. Marketing is about emotions, connecting with customers, understanding them deeply. All these tools are making young marketers look at customers as just another data point unfortunately. I hope art of story telling doesn’t get lost in all of this AI marketing hype.

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You have been told your whole life — never blow out a diya with your mouth.

Here is why.

In Hindu tradition, Agni is not fire. Agni is one of the Pancha Bhutas — the five elements of creation. The diya you light is Agni's living presence in your home.
Your breath carries the impurities of the body and mind. To blow on Agni is to direct those impurities at a divine presence.

The right ways to extinguish a diya:

→ Wave with your right hand — flat, to the side, one gentle motion
→ Use a flower petal from the puja — fan it out in one motion

Never pinch. Never blow. Never the left hand.

And always — fold your hands before the deity first.

#HinduTradition #OorjaDevotion #KnowTheWhy #Agni #PujaEssentials #HinduRituals #DailyPuja

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Hindu tradition prescribes 5 offerings in every puja. Each one assigned to one of the five senses. This is Panchopachara — the complete puja prescribed by the Agama Shastra.

Gandha — Sandalwood paste. Applied to the deity. The first act of welcome.
Pushpa — Fresh flowers. Each one a thought directed to the divine.
Dhupa — Incense. Purifies the space. Prepares it for the divine to reside.
Deepa — The lamp. Removes ignorance. The heart of the puja.
Naivedya — Food. Offered to the deity first. Returns to you as prasad.

Five offerings. No pandit required. Spiritually complete.
This is what your ancestors did every single morning.

#Panchopachara #HinduPuja #VedicTradition #OorjaDevotion #KnowTheWhy #AgamaShastra #DailyPuja #HinduRituals

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Your grandmother's Naivedyam plate wasn't random.

Rice. Payasam. Pickle. Coconut. Papad. Banana.
Ayurveda says a complete meal needs all 6 tastes — Sweet, Sour, Salty, Pungent, Bitter, Astringent.
Her plate had all 6. Every single time.

She didn't study Ayurveda. She followed what was handed down. And it was nutritionally perfect.

The puja and the meal were never two separate things.

#Naivedyam #Ayurveda #HinduTradition #OorjaDevotion #KnowTheWhy

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Every time you ring the bell at a temple entrance — you are not informing the deity you've arrived. You are preparing yourself to meet them.

The Agama Shastra is specific: "I ring this bell so virtuous forces enter and all that is impure departs."

Temple bells are cast from Pancha Dhatu — five metals in precise proportions. It reverberates for 7 to 12 seconds. That sound physically pauses the brain from distraction and switches the body into a calm, receptive state. Ready for Darshan. Ready for Dhyan.

The bell is not the beginning of the puja. It is the end of your ordinary mind.

#TempleBell #HinduTemple #OorjaDevotion #KnowTheWhy #Darshan

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Thousands of years ago, our tradition saw both sides of a woman. The quiet, nurturing side. And the decisive, creative side. This manifested into Turmeric & Kumkum calling them Saubhagya Dravyam.

Saubhagya means auspiciousness. Dravyam means substance. Among all Saubhagya Dravyam, Turmeric and Kumkum are the most sacred — and they embody the two natures of a woman.

Turmeric — the yellow — represents the woman who holds everything together. Quiet. Nurturing. The one who gives without announcement.

Kumkum — the red — embodies the woman the world cannot ignore. Decisive. Creative. Placed at the Ajna Chakra — the centre of the forehead, the seat of consciousness in the human body.

At every Devi puja — Lakshmi, Parvati, Durga, Saraswati — Turmeric & Kumkuma is the first offering placed before the goddess. And at the end of the puja, the same is gifted to every sumangali invited. The divine feminine and the human feminine, honoured in the same breath.

Before the world debated what a woman should be, our Hindu tradition said both. Yellow and red. Quiet and fierce. Nurturing and powerful.

The next time you see Turmeric Kumkuma together — you know the truth behind it.

#turmeric #kumkum #hindutradition #devotion #varamahalakshmifestival🙏

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@chandrarsrikant Something like Sarvam needs to exist & flourish so that some one like us - https://t.co/1KSIhiWq72 can be built. No other foreign based platforms have got India right. Sarvam’s text to speech makes our life easy with Indian languages.

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Sarvam has been a blessing for a company like ours. - https://t.co/SGSpC6gs9A. Building in devotion space in India is hard, however Sarvam has made our life tad bit easier because of there fabulous text to speech generation tool in local languages. Super good. Super accurate tone, pronunciation etc. More power to Sarvam.

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@delhivery pathetic service & fraud. one more shipment stuck for last 3-4 days without any clue on shipment & delivery timeline. whats happening ? @NexusVP please give 'danda' to your portfolio company for the pathetic service.

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@delhivery there seems to be some fraud related to delivery of the parcel going on. I had raised a ticket regarding one of the shipment but got resolved without any action.

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In Vedic tradition, 108 energy channels (Nadis) converge at the heart chakra. Each bead you count on a Japa Mala activates one. Completing all 108 opens the Sushumna — the path to the crown chakra.

And that extra bead — the Meru — is never counted. When your fingers reach it, you turn back. Because in Japa, there is no end. Only return.

These answers have been in our tradition all along.

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Here is the story of Adhik Mass, the extra month this year in the Hindu calendar. Due to Adhik Mass, all the hindu festivals have been pushed forward by 15-20 days than usual ( on English calendar).

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@pratikpoddar @ownlyfoodapp @rapidobikeapp If one side giveth, then the other side taketh. Do the same thing with Rapido cab rides and you will realise that Rapido is by far the expensive + the amount of cancellations that happen on Rapido cab & auto rides is insane.

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it’s calendar adjustment so that the upcoming Hindu festivals follow the rutus ( seasons). The adhik ( more) has come because of roughly 30 days extra in this Vedic calendar year from 3 previous Vedic calendar years. Because of this there are no prescribed muhurats during this month and subsequently people don’t start anything new / buy any thing new.