Showing posts with label Pooja. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pooja. Show all posts

Friday, December 7, 2012

DharmaQuiz Session 180: 4-Dec-2012

Theme: Hindu Renaissance leaders of 19th century.
  1. Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century who founded a new Samaj devoid of untouchability. Family name was Tiwari. #DharmaQuiz 1256. Ans: Swami Dayananda Saraswati -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Dayananda
  2. Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, whose writing on Vedas came the book "The Secret of the Veda".   #DharmaQuiz 1257. Ans: Sri Aurobindo -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Aurobindo
  3. Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, who used ancient Upanishads as a vision of rationalist 'modern' India. #DharmaQuiz 1258. Ans: Raja Ram Mohan Roy. More ->   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Mohan_Roy
  4. Name the Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, who immortalized the "Arise, Awake" message of Katha Upanishad.  #DharmaQuiz 1259. Ans: Swami Vivekananda. Kathopanishad says: “Uttishthata jagrata Prapyavarannibodhata, Kshurasydhara nishita”, meaning " Arise, awake, Empower yourself through knowledge, As sharp as the razor’s edge”. Vivekenanda used this splendidly in his speeches & slogans inspiring 100s of millions till date.
  5. Name this Hindu Renaissance leader of 19th century, who in 1894 started the public Ganesha poojas. #DharmaQuiz 1260. Ans: Bala Gangadhar Tilak --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_Gangadhar_Tilak
Just for this session, I could not compile the full scores. So I will leave out that part. The response was very good and I had to browse through 100s of tweets. Sorry,  it got too late then.

Friday, November 16, 2012

DharmaQuiz Session 175: 16-Nov-2012

Theme: Basics of a Hindu Pooja or Worship.
  1. During poojas, the man doing pooja is asked to do "Achamana". What is Achamana? #DharmaQuiz 1231. Ans: Drinking spoon quantity of water three times, chanting Krishna's name. Purification of the body before worship. Essentially swallowing water 3 times from the base of the right thumb, while reciting different mantras in praise of the lord like Keshavaya Swaha, Narayanaya Swaha and Madhavaya Swaha. Names change based on local customs.
  2. Few Hindus worship Vishwaksena before the main deity. But whom do majority of Hindus worship as the first deity in a pooja? #DharmaQuiz 1232. Ans: Ganapati.
  3. When Hindus setup a Kalasha or pot for sacred water during pooja, symbolically how many rivers' water is invited in that?  #DharmaQuiz 1233. Ans: Seven rivers: Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, Saraswati, Narmada, Sindhu and Kaveri.
  4. In any pooja, you symbolically wash the feet of Deva or Devi using "padya". Which is the very next step in most poojas? #DharmaQuiz 1234. Ans: Arghya or offering water to cleanse the hands. There are more meanings too: http://vedabase.net/a/arghya
  5. {Final, Open till 11PM} Usually poojas involve "Ashtottara" name chanting. Ashta = 8, Uttara =After. Eight after what? #DharmaQuiz 1235. Ans: Full name is Shata-Ashta-Uttara or 8 after 100. In short used as Ashtottara. There is also Sahasra-Ashta-Uttara or 1008.
Top scorers of session 175:
  1. @cubicle_warrier : 5
  2. @anandt_05 : 5
  3. @DevNakshi : 5
  4. @hindujanjagruti : 5
  5. @Right2bRight : 5
  6. @arunz : 5
  7. @Tasmayi : 5
  8. @man8shree : 5
  9. @surenc1974 : 5
  10. @surnell : 5
  11. @vipulgupta1976 : 5
  12. @dolby_mehul : 5
  13. @sweetandu : 5
  14. @rahulghildiyal : 5
  15. @sharathinindia : 5
  16. @ramas_cal : 5
  17. @iSaakshi : 5
Congratulations to:
  • @Manojakrishna : 4
  • @raopm9 : 3
  • @pvaidyaraj : 3
  • @philAmit : 3
  • @fas_gayi_garari : 3
  • @rainaamit : 3
  • @Rasraj : 2
  • @Keefarqpaindha : 2
  • @ishuaadi : 2
  • @khaishk : 2
  • @Manjunaath : 2
  • @dominodeck : 2
  • @rinku3009 : 2
  • @Darksider150 : 2
  • @psudo : 1
  • @PANDIT_SAURABH : 1
  • @rucheesharma : 1
  • @AvinashCKM : 1
  • @aanchall : 1
  • @Vimzy_ : 1
  • @halovivek : 1
  • @yoginisd : 1
  • @antidespondent : 1
  • @mayureshgaikwad : 1
  • @saggirex : 1
  • @DAmunRa : 1
  • @rkjain2903 : 1
  • @DrShobha : 1
  • @KPGanesh : 1
  • @Modi4India : 1
  • @SathyaSher : 1
  • @Anirvachan : 1
  • @im_adi : 1
See you next time. If you have topic ideas, please do drop in a comment. I will surely read and incororate it.