leap of faith

 

pa~ncha 5 पञ्च

 

All 5 natural elements - earth 🌎 water 💧 fire 🔥 air (wind) 💨and sky (space) 🌤️

पञ्चभूतानि - one more time :-)

shubha-dinam starts with इन्द्रधनुः

आदिगुरु-शंकराचार्य-जयंती starts with a 🌞 rising sun rainbow 🌈

इन्द्रधनुः

just yesterday (in online book reading session) we looked at Page 19 (under Physics section) of the "Science in Sanskrit" book which mentions the following

सूर्यस्य विविधवर्णाः पवनेन विघट्टिताः कराः साभ्रे ।
 वियति धनुःसंस्थाना ये दृश्यन्ते तदिन्द्रधनुः ।। ३५.०१ ।।

- बृहत्संहिता (अध्यायः ३५)

belated or early?

 it was probably the first day in 2025 when i was least expecting or prepared for this snow/driving conditions ❆☃ (unusual, since winter in my opinion is ideally from 21st Dec to 21st Mar)

so 🤔 was it weather's way of making us "April fool" belatedly -or- was it early "April fool" by the groundhog on 2nd Feb 🤣

nature is forgiving!

we received the orchids on 23 Aug 2024 .. and it had flowers already which gave it a nice look for about a month or two ... the upkeep as prescribed was interesting - you put couple of ice cubes in the pot once every week .. since the frequency is not "daily" it was little tricky to remember - but the visible signs (of smiling flowers) helped us remind in some way .. and then one by one the flowers started to fall off .. and then it was only bare stems .. this is when we lost track .. we did try with hope that one day they will start blossoming again .. and tried to keep up with the routine of feeding the plant with few ice cubes every week

 

then the season of winter sets in - figuratively as well as literally .. and we felt it has nothing more left in it. without much difference to notice we felt our act of watering (with ice cubes) was of no use .. and somehow we had probably "written off" the plant in our thoughts .. we did not have the hopes but we did not have the courage to let go as well .. and once in a month either of us would still put the ice cubes .. and look at the current (status) picture -  we were happily surprised (after hibernation of some 4 months?) to see it spring back to life with more flowers (and buds) then it earlier had .. we realized - nature is so much forgiving? .. even if we miss our duty, it doesn't stop from nurturing us ... even more interesting - since it is still very cold and snow covered outside !

how do you cross a river ...

.. from one shore to another ... without swimming or boating? (not even paddle/dive) .. you can walk on it! (provided it is frozen - just wait for the time and opportunity) :-)

this is something that usually happens every year - at least the weather is cold enough for sufficient period of time .. i guess, we walked on frozen credit river some 15 years ago as well :-) see here

beauty in diversity

 

elements

Nature is unbelievably amazing! All 5 elements together :)

what's new?

snow :)

 

sun

sunset before the snow day :)

 

ahh! the colors of leaves at Algonquin Park in fall :-)

 

once again - canfall.cf

bright

 

canada day

 

at Hindu Sabha mandir (Brampton)

flowers

 

suprabhaatam

 3 of us from our evening yoga group (www.99yo.ga) walked about 5km starting 5am in the morning to a nearby lake (in Port Credit) and watched the sun rise ... (return was also on foot - making it morning walk of 10+ kms)

come September?

while official start of the 'Fall' is 3 weeks away .. seems half the leaves have fallen already?!