Funtastic Fridays: Parvati Wins Shiv!

How to Win a Guy in 10 Days! Ahmmm...well OK maybe 10 years! LOL!



We at Meady's Musings have to apologize for no Maniac Mondays or Tumultuous Thursdays blog postings this week but perhaps we were so taken up with our Festival of Shiv over on our sister blog UCP that well we had no time for mania and didn't feel tumultuous! :)

It is no wonder the inspiration for today's Funtastic Friday blog posting comes from the ongoings on the Festival of Shiv where Shiv and Parvati recently got married and are celebrating their honeymoon!:) We burrowed some of the pics to create the cartoon from places about the web and we hope the owners won't mind...if you do however mind and see your photo up here and want us to take it down...please feel free to contact us and we will take 'em down! But we figured it's all good advertising for you and we list you here as a source:

The beautiful illustration of Parvati meditating in the forest (in the 2nd panel of the comic strip) is taken from this site and you can buy the poster there! It sure looks like one beautiful poster to have!

The gorgeous painting in the 3rd panel of the comic strip appears to be a reprint of a painting that is displayed on this site.

For those of you further interested in the story behind this comic check out this article...believe you me it's a proper story in Hinduism and we are not mocking the religion in any way especially since if you read our UCP postings you will know that the image in panel 1 of the comic strip has been a source of much inspiration for us over the years and for this author Shiv is the supreme yogi and my ultimate guru for whom I have the greatest respect and awe so I'm not trying to make fun of him in anyway in this comic strip but just telling the Shiv Parvati Katha(story) in a more light hearted manner and in the hope that we can all have Universal fun in a way I'd like to think Shiv would will it too!

However please accept my apologies if I've offended you in any way by publishing this cartoon though...and do write and tell me Shiv willing if you like! :)I'm assuming if Shiv doesn't like it himself he'll tell me in the kindest and hopefully nicest of ways...perhaps a dream...hopefully with no snakes...please no snakes Shiv...just a nice dream! :) But some how upon reflection I can't see how such a cosmic being would too much too care whether I blogged about him in a comic strip or whom out there it may have vexed...after all there's a whole Universe...Cosmos even for him to get about with!

Advent Calendar 2nd Dec 09-Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: The Ghosts of Past, Present and Future.

Advent Calendar 2nd Dec 09-Charles Dickens’ a Christmas Carol: The Ghosts of Past, Present and Future.

Since the beginning of the Meady’s Musings blog we’ve been exploring themes like reincarnation and parallel worlds…things metaphysical as a whole. Today as part of the Advent calendar I felt it would be interesting and exciting to explore the concept of the ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future as featured in the Dickensian classic- ‘A Christmas Carol’ with a Meady’s Musings slant! As a result I will discuss it as follows:

-On Meady’s Musings- the metaphysics of it.
-On UCP- a certain metaphysical being whom I’ve been a big fan of since the inception of that blog whom I believe has the whole past-present-future concept down pat!
- On Books and Films Corner- I will keep true to the name of the blog and just celebrate some of the potent quotes said by the ghosts in the Classic itself.

THE METAPHYSICS OF IT

Is there really anything as past, present and future? I know a lot of Buddhist tell you and perhaps some Hindus and Jains will even tell you there is only the present…always live in the present. Then there is the famous new age guru Eckhart Tolle and his even more famous ‘Power of Now’ book. But does the present even exist either?

My point is…I think none of it really exists…as a distinct space or time by itself. I feel in this whole space-time continuum business that the past, present and future are all whirled together! They are all really just one ghost not three distinct ones! At any one point in time we are really a manifestation of all three of them? What do you think?

I mean you see what we did in the past is what makes us what we are in the present. Even if we forget about the past and live in the all gracious and holy ‘Power of Now’…which I really believe is all great and good…well we really would not have been there if it wasn’t for what we did in the past. And as we all well know how we behave in this great ‘Power of Now’ is what determines our future. Of course I can see why the Asian religions and New Agers push the ‘Power of Now’. For sure at that moment it is all we have the power to change…but really now let’s get all Christmasy as an Advent calendar should be and look at the Dickensian ghost concepts. Indeed in the end all Scrooge had was the Power of Now but didn’t the ghosts show him the whole spectrum of the space-time continuum he Scrooge existed in? And really the decision that Scrooge then made in the present in the classic book was based on the information that he gathered from past, present and future. The book is more realistic and simplistic than one of my fav sci fi flicks which by the way I bought in its entire trilogy form from Amazon recently-Back to the Future.


Because you see in true metaphysical style in the Dickens book Scrooge is not really interacting with any of the scenes even when he is with the Ghost of Christmas present is he? He is just viewing it just like a spirit with these ghosts! And I feel we all can eventually travel through time like this…we all have a spirit form and that spirit form can exist beyond or be not bounded by space or time. Therefore for that spirit there is no past, present or future…it is just leaping about all boundaries of space and time and for it- past, present or future does not exist!

That spirit form that we all truly are in essence can never have any ghost of Christmas past, present or future ever taunt it! For you see that spirit just simply exists…beyond space or time…it has always existed and always will…time and space does not bound it…

What do you think?