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Music Pervades all nature. it is co-eval with the creation. There is nothing in nature that arouses our attention or affects our feelings so quickly as a sound. The murmuring of water, the sighs of the zephyrs, the whispers of the evening breeze, the roar of the storms, the chirpings of the birds, the cries of the animals, the hum of distant multitudes, and the concussion of sonorous bodies, excite in our minds feeling of pleasure, pain, or fear, and contain in ...
Hindu tradition recognizes twenty-four avataras of Vishnu, who, in association with Brahma, the Creator, Mahadeva, the Destroyer and Himself as the Preserver, constitute the Trinity of the Hindus. Avatara means ‘one descended’ or ‘one who has come down’ and also identified as an Incarnation of Godhead. Vishnu, as believed, visits the earth, in different shapes, called periodic Incarnation, with a view to destroy the Evil and restore the Order of the ...