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Wall Paintings Designs Pictures in India

In the villages of Rajasthan the array of painted homes gives the whole village the appearance of an elaborate art gallery: peacocks dance on walls, gods and goddesses frolic and flowers bloom in the bountiful vigour of spring. Shekhawati is especially celebrated for its havelis painted with powerful elephants, graceful horses and palanquins cerrying beautiful damsels.

The warli tribe of Maharashtra decorate their huts with stark white images on matt terracotta walls. Representations of trees, birds and people going about their daily task crowd the canvas in a naive geometric style. Warli Paintings are now available as small wall hangings, plaques or even on trays and table linen, and trible art has caught the fancy of people doing up their homes in India's middle class, urban sector.

In the south wall paintings are drawn on plaster, a technique evident in the region's many temples. The various tribes of the north-east paint pictures on their walls for different reasons. The Monpas follow Buddhism and draw Buddhist images on wooden panels. The Santhals use wall paintings purely as decoration; the Saoras draw a pantheon of gods, celestial beings and ghosts to flatter them and keep them happy. Madhubani in Bihar is famous for its naive frescoes of people, animals, birds and trees in compelling pinks and yellows. In Orissa, Lord Jagannath, a local form of the god Krishna- takes pride of place in wall paintings.

The Four Noble Truths in Buddhism

The most important teaching of the Buddha is the four noble truths. This was the first sermon that the Buddha preached after his enlightenment. The first noble truth is that life is frustrating and painful. Sometimes it is downright miserable! Look around and see other people also in the most appalling conditions: children starving, terrorism, hatred, wars, intolerance, people being tortured. Pain and suffering are all pervasive.

The second noble truth is that suffering has a cause. We suffer because we are constantly struggling to survive and prove our existence. The harder we struggle to establish ourselves and our relationships, the more painful our experience becomes.

The third noble truth is that the cause of suffering can be ended. Our effort to prove ourselves and solidify our relationships is unnecessary. Buddha teaches us to be simple, straight-forward people. We do this by abandoning our expectations about how we think things should be.

The fourth noble truth concerns the path to end this suffering. The way is through meditation. Meditation, here, means mindfulness and awareness. Being mindful of all the things that we torture ourselves with, we can end the suffering. Out of our mindfulness we develop an awareness of the way things really are.

Hanuman Statue, Hanuman Monkey God, Hindu God Hanuman

Accounts of Hanuman’s birth and parentage in the Ramayana, Skanda Purana, Bhavishyottara Purana, Brahmananda Purana and some other texts are almost identical. The myth in the Brahmananda Purana begins with Anjana’s father Kesari, a demon. 

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The childless Kesari underwent rigorous penance for a son. Pleased by it Shiva appeared and asked him to name anything he wanted. Kesari asked him to grant him a son who was unparalleled on warfront and in might, wisdom and steadfastness. Shiva showed his inability for Providence had not allowed him a son. He, however, granted him a daughter who would bear a mighty son. In due course his wife bore a girl with exceptional beauty. Kesari named her Anjana. When fully grown, she was married to a mighty monkey, also named Kesari. For quite long they had no child. One day, Dharma, god of Righteousness, disguised as a low-born woman adept in astrology, came to their place. She told Anjana that if she performed penance for seven thousand years on mount Venkatachala, she would have a mighty son. She underwent seven thousand years long penance. Afterwards she bore a son with no one like him in valor, wisdom and might.

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Hanuman, the redeemer, is hence more widely worshipped and has a larger number of shrines dedicated to him than even Rama, his master. Hanuman’s power to redeem is not a mere theological conceptualisation or a believer’s hypothesis, his life, as it reveals in different sources, is its example. In Rama-katha – story of Rama’s life, which is broadly also the story of Hanuman’s life, this emissary and servant of Rama often rises above his master at least in the face of a crisis.

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Some other texts also allude to Anjana’s journey to Venkatachala for a son but on the advice of sage Matanga, not Dharma. Sage Matanga saw Anjana engaged in rigorous austerities at mount Kishkindha. He asked her the object of her penance. A sad Anjana revealed her heart and entreated the holy saint to tell how she would get a son. Sage Matanga advised her to go to Venkatachala. There she should first worship Venkateshvara and then take a holy dip at the sacred Akashaganga and drink a handful of its water. So purified she should stand and pray the wind-god who would bless her with a son invincible against men, gods and demons. Anjana did as advised. When she was engaged in rigorous penance, the wind-god appeared. She asked him for a son as mighty as him. The wind-god thereupon assured her that he himself would be born to her as her son. Thus, Anjana’s son was born by wind-god and was himself the wind-god. Hanuman is hence lauded as both Maruti and Maruti-nandana.

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Creation Of Goddess Durga

Goddess Durga represents a united front of all Divine forces against the negative forces of evil and wickedness. The gods in heaven decided to create an all-powerful being to kill the demon king Mahishasur who was ready to attack them.

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At that very moment a stream of lightning dazzled forth from the mouths of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh and it turned into a beautiful, magnificent woman with ten hands. Then all the gods furnished her with their special weapons. The image of Durga, the Eternal Mother destroying the demon, Mahishasur is symbolic of the final confrontation of the spiritual urge of man with his baser passions.

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As per our great epic Mahabharat, Pandavas after wandering in the forest for 12 years, hung their weapons on a Shami tree before entering the court of king Virat to spend the last one year in disguise. After the completion of that year on Vijayadashmi the day of Dassera they brought down the weapons from the Shami tree and declared their true identity. Since that day the exchange of Shami leaves on Dassera day became symbols of good, will and victory.

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This festival has immense mythological significance. As per Ramayan, Ram did "chandi-puja and invoked the blessings of Durga to kill Ravana, the ten-headed king of Lanka who had abducted Seeta and had charmed life. Durga divulged the secret to Ram how he could kill Ravana. Then after vanquishing him, Ram with Seeta and Laxman returned victorious to his kingdom of Ayodhya on Diwali day.

Kautsa, the young son of Devdatt, insisted on his guru Varatantu to accept "gurudakshina", after finishing his education. After lots of persistence his Guru, finally asked for 14 crore gold coins, one crore for each of the 14 sciences he taught Kautsa. Kautsa went to king Raghuraj, who was known for his genorisity and was an ancestor of Rama. But just at that time he had emptied all his coffers on the Brahmins, after performing the Vishvajit sacrifice. So, the king went to Lord Indra and asked for the gold coins. Indra summoned Kuber, the god of wealth. Indra told Kuber, "Make a rain of gold coins fall on the "shanu" and "apati" trees round Raghuraja's city of Ayodhya." The rain of coins began to fall. The king Raghu gave all the coins to Kautsa, who gave 14 crores gold coins to his guru. The remaining coins were lavishly distributed to the people of Ayodhya city. This happened on the day of Dussehra. In remembrance of this event the custom is kept of looting the leaves of the "apati" trees and people present each other these leaves as "sone" (gold).

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Sri Ganesha - Hindu God of Good Luck & Knowledge

Hindu mythology offers some interesting stories giving reasons for this pre-eminence to Ganesh Ji. One such story is as follows.

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Once when Ganesh Ji's mother, goddess Parvati Ji desired to have bath and have privacy for that purpose, she created Ganesh Ji from her sweat and asked him to keep guard.

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After sometime, Parvati Jis's husband Shiv ji returned but was denied entry by this guard Ganesh Ji since he was not aware of Shiv Ji's identity. This infuriated Shiv Ji who cut-off Ganesh Ji's head. When Parvati Ji arrived on the scene and explained that Ganesh Ji was her off-spring, Shiv Ji felt sorry.

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 He sent his attendants to search for a child's head, a child whose mother should be asleep so that she does not have to go through the torture of separation from her child, a child whose mother should be asleep sot that in such a position and brought it to Shiv Ji, who then transplanted this young elephant's head onto Ganesh Ji's body also arrived on the scene and granted a very special boon in favor of Ganesh Ji, to please Parvati Ji, that Ganesh Ji will henceforth be the first among all gods and will receive top eminence in case of worship.