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There are no Hindu prayers that do not start with the praNava mantra Om. Buddhists and Jains too use Om in their prayer mantras. Of late, Om is a part of all yOga rituals. In fact the word Om is a combination of a, u and m sounds (the conjunction of a and u gives rise to O, called guNa sandhi). Another word that has these sounds is umA. The Om sound has a resonance associated with it and that may be the reason it is used in yOga and also at the beginning of mantras.

Lord Krishna in bhagavadgItA says that among the single letters He is the OmkAra.

This is created by me.This I have used spray paint and I have done it on ms paint. Sashank And I created this !dea.
Hpoe u like it!?!?

Sasahnak 'n' sahana

P.S.
Everyone hates this at home!!!!
Pls comment nicely!!!!

This is a poster of some kind of imasgination done by Sashank and I.We have been trying to think about what to send to ikolam since we have not been sending kolams to ikolam.So this is our most creative idea to send to ikolam.
This is done by sahana 'n' sashank.
From sahana and sashank

P.S.
Latha auntie can you save this in sashank's account????
thanks.

As soon as I wake up (usually at about 5 or 5:30 in the morning), I have the
habit of switching on and listening to the NPR (Natl Public Radio, people in
India and abroad may listen to this on the internet). There is a segment in
it called the Daily Almanac, hosted by the incomparable Garrison Keillor. He,
in five minutes, gives the day's significant events in the field of arts

"Where love is, there lurks sometimes hate too. It requires a lot of effort to become loving and noble", says mOhanaji here.

I've school day events, as well as evening events to attend until Sunday. I'll make sure to upload topical entries. Thank you for your patience.

Jayantiji's picture (http://www.ikolam.com/node/6014?p=590) made me write this.
Where love is, there lurks sometimes hate too. Here is a Love-Hate ambigram.
It requires a lot of effort to become loving and noble. It is to that noble effort
that this is dedicated. Regards! - mOhana

As I mentioned earlier, the nAga patterns are very ancient. They are at least 1500 years
old. How do we know that they are so ancient? Poets have written poems fitting the
snake pattern or nAgabandha. On the ikOlam site, Mrs Deepa has presented this
pattern a while ago (see http://www.ikolam.com/node/5136?p=590) and I made a chikku

Aarushi's first vocal concert at Sanatan Dharma Kendra.