#sati

[itsmissing]

all my wizards speak esperanto (to varying degrees)

#wizardposting #esperanto #my art #my ocs #ahura #sati #mi estas nur komencanto #please be nice to me... #final image translation: if you laugh at her again i'll melt the eyeballs from your skull

[kaal-naagin]

True Love has the habit of coming back

(Pictures:

1. Lord Shiva uplifting the corpse of Sati Maata and feeling Viraha

2.Shiva-Parvati Vivaha

3.Sita Maata entering Patala

4.Maata Rukmini and Lord Krishna)

Tagging:@nirmohi-premika @jukti-torko-golpo @krishnaart @krishnapriyakiduniya @krishna-sahacharini @krishna-priyatama @shyamsakhii @sanskari-kanya @enigma-the-mysterious @chaanv @shut-up-rabert @budugu @witchhere @desi-stree @just-a-seashell-in-kavaratti @janaknandini-singh999

#desiblr #krishna #hinduism #desi culture #vedic culture #vedic #shiva #sati #parvati #sita #rukmini #shivaparvati #krishnarukmini #true love #love #viraha #hindu #sanatan dharma #sanatana

[aonik]

#shaman king #shaman king the super star #butsu zone #anna i #senju #sati #sachi #koma #art

[synthient]

big news (found a folder of text post memes from last november that I completely forgot about)

#the matrix #neo #trinity #agent smith #sati #text post meme

[sorenblr]

Talk about the new Persona 3 Reload models or I'll egg your house!

So these are new in the sense that they hadn't yet received HD models, or were imported/updated from SH2 etc.? I no longer keep up with who appears in what, so it's getting harder to follow.

Anyway, I guess they're fine! I think the sort of flat, faux-cel shading adapted for P5/P3R generally looks good. The stiff, monotonous detailing on 'Helel's wings reminds me of like, one of the angel Digimon. Also a missed opportunity to update Wu Kong/Take-Mikazuchi's models to their DS counterparts. Omoikane looks very handsome.

why are virtue and sati serving cunt now. 'fire transparent png' image search looking ass fire

#ask #smt #megaten #persona #persona 3 #persona 3 reload #sati #virtue

[dasenergi]

#meditation #present time awareness #mindfulness #sati

[neotrinitysource]

Sati.

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) | The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

#the matrix series #the matrix revolutions #the matrix resurrections #neo #sati #parallels #neotrinitysourceedit #matrixedit #neotrinitysource #. not neotrin #the oracle

[woman-for-women]

Sati and Misogyny

I wrote a 15-page paper on the practice of sati, or widow burning, where a widow burns herself alive on her husband's funeral pyre. I wanted to design something to share some of the facts I learned about the class/caste/religious/gendered motivations for why women committed sati (and yes, it was a deeply misogynistic practice).

I had a lot of fun making this and I want to make more desi-focused feminist infographics in the future as well!

#gender abolition #w4w post #w4w infographic #stats #feminism #feminist #desi #desi history #desi feminism #sati #desi feminist #south asian #south asian history #indian history #womens history #herstory

[themotherofrevelation]

You must vow to honor me as the Great Goddess/Universal Mother. If you do not, eye shall instantly exit my body, for eye will know that the time is not yet right for me to act fully in the world.

#personal #divine feminine #sacred feminine #sati

[femalepinhead]

Fashion

#gloves #black gloves #Sati

[vizthedatum]

CW: self-immolation is a sacred testament that cannot be silenced (Free Palestine)

During my current spiritual awakening as a scientist, healthcare data scientist, writer, and varied-trauma survivor, not only am I growing into myself, I am growing into what it means to truly be a citizen of the world.

I grew up Hindu, and I only really connected with it spiritually to my core after a series of traumatic events I faced in this lifetime, including events I brought on myself.

Being spiritual has brought me so much peace. However, I am still living in a world, where there is so much turbulence, where there is so much suffering.

In so many religions and spiritual practices, the concept of worldly suffering is heavily discussed. Everyone has their own justifications and their own way of mitigating (or propagating) suffering.

In this post, I will be addressing the genocide of human life in the Gaza Strip, along with the various other genocides that have plagued my lifetime, including the Rohingya genocide. The following topics will be mentioned as well: the constructs of hierarchy that somehow lesson some people's lives and elevate others, self-immolation as a spiritually grounded form of protest when your soul cannot find another way, suicide and attempted suicide, complicit-ness, and generational and worldly abuse/trauma.

--

When Aaron Bushnell self-immolated on February 25, 2024, I avoided the news even more than before.

I fully understood why he did it, but it also brought back memories of the time when my brother, in his teenage years, went behind his high school to self-immolate. He failed and went to the hospital with burns. This suicide attempt was one of several that he would face for most of his life.

Aaron did it out of protest to Free Palestine. My brother did it out of an intention to commit suicide because not only did he not want to live, he did not feel wanted in this world.

What makes a person not wanted? What compels whole swaths of people to either protest or support mass murder?

These are some of life's big questions, huh?

Spiritually, I consider self-immolation an act from the soul. My belief stems from my worship of the matriarchal depiction of godly being from Hinduism. She is known by so many names: Mahadevi, Devi, Shakti, Ma, Mahamaya, etc.

One of her forms is Sati. Later, "sati" became the name of the self-immolation practice that widows perform on the pyre of their husband's body, during his funeral.

The term, "sati," stands for nobility and truth in Sanskrit. It's not literally about self-immolation - it's about standing up for what you think is right and being very clear about what is suffocating you to the point of your soul being burned alive.

In short, Sati's story is about her protest of her husband, Shiva, not being respected by her family. She marries Shiva - her godly companion through every reincarnation of the Mahadevi - and her father doesn't like it.

Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu are the male counterparts of the "holy trinity of Hinduism" - they're considered *the supreme Gods.*

Her father prepared a ritual sacrifice event (a yajna) and did not invite his son-in-law. There are so many details to this - including that her father was human (well this is contested since he was a part of Brahma) and had devoted himself to Brahma, that all these figures were among the early humans (and gods) in Hindu mythological lore, and that despite factuality the stories are metaphors and descriptions of the layered nature of humanity.

Sati wanted Shiva to come, but he refused since he wasn't invited. Sati instead went to the yajna and she was humiliated by her entire family. Her husband's name was also tarnished.

She couldn't take it - not only was Shiva in the same class of deitic prolificness as Brahma, Shiva was her husband.

She threw herself in the fire of the yajna and self-immolated. She sacrificed her life's energy to go back into the universe or higher power, because she could not stand for this injustice.

Shiva became so stricken with grief and anger, he destroyed the yajna (later the yajna was restored) and threatened his father-in-law's life.

He took his wife's body and wandered around. 51 pieces of Sati's body fell to the earth and became what is known as the Shakti Pithas.

These 51 sites are in South Asia, and people still pay pilgrimage and worship at these sites.

I've personally only been to one - the one in Kalighat where my maternal family line lives. I'm a strong worshipper of Kali Ma, and I believe she spoke to me there, amongst the crowds, when I was 25.

The number, 51, is contested of course - but that's not the point.

The reason why Hindus make pilgrimage to these sites is because of her great sacrifice. It was a test of divinity.

She recognized what was important to her and that Shiva was indeed a supreme deity - and then she sacrificed her own supremeness to both defend him and herself.

--

In South Asia, self-immolation is spiritually considered a noble act of protest due to this story (and so many other stories).

Unfortunately, it becomes a problem when people are FORCED to self-immolate (as in the case of the sati practice where it's rooted in misogyny and patriarchy) or when people are COMPELLED to self-immolate due to lack of community and mental health resources (such as in the case of my brother).

I don't think it becomes noble or truthful in those instances, even if there are hints of the truth underlying these issues.

I think back to Sylvia Plath in these cases sometimes - she committed suicide by suffocating herself in her oven. Her poetry and words will probably inspire generations upon generations. But I understand why she did it - I am of the opinion that she was surely abused by her husband and traumatized by the lack of support from her community. In short, I believe her husband (whose second wife died from the same method of suicide) was abusing her in the form of narcissistic, sociopathic, or psychopathic abuse to the point where she felt suffocated. Since she could not bring herself to break free, she suffocated herself.

And in the case of mass genocide where a person who has dedicated his life for the protection of humanity (Aaron was a serviceman of the United States Air Force) - I can see why he had to stand up for what he believed to be noble and true.

--

It's hard to look away when someone so young gives up his life for a cause. I think that was precisely the point. He knew he had power as a young, white man serving a militaristic force in America.

There are so many people who are doing nothing in the face of all of these mass genocides in the world. I don't think it is fair to leave the concept of human suffering up to the higher power.

It is not the higher power's job to fix this for us. I believe that to my core.

Being silent about human suffering is being complicit in it.

I know that many people are not able - or they don't even know - to have an impact on the lessening of suffering. But we must do what we can. A quote I often quote on many, many occasions is by Angela Davis: she says: “Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.” Do something, take inspired action - don't be silent. You don't have to self-immolate, but please consider the sacrifice and the severity of the situation.

#free palestine #self immolation #cw abuse #cw suicide #cw trauma #cw war #cw genocide #cw spirituality #spirituality #war #palestine #gaza #rohingya #aaron bushnell #angela davis #humanity #hindu #hinduism #sati #jai Ma #mahadevi #Devi #sacrifice #trauma #heartbreak #harm #harm reduction

[moonwriter-7]

introducing sati rai 💗💗

#tcd #sati #kingfire #bookblr #writing #bookish #booklr

[mizutaama]

shiva to sati after she completed the nanda vrat

#hindublr #shiva #sati

[ancientorigins]

Ancient India was home to some pretty shocking traditions. Women could be forced to marry trees; babies were dropped on purpose and grieving widows were set on fire.

#India #Sati #Astrology #Marriage #Caste-System #cremation #ancient #history #ancient origins

[miracleinfeathers]

#myart #protoss oc #protoss #starcraft #agnest #shirin #Sati #they're cuties #:3

[vipermenace]

Sati poofed into existence from a Flohlyn lore dream!

Meet the big strong lady with a chill touch, second to the Queen and one of Bregopel's strongest fighters.

She is the youngest of the elite guards, however, her age doesn't sway her team's respect for her. Fighting side by side with Flohlyn during the war, Sati is one of few who calls the queen her old war nickname.

#demon oc #Sati #new oc drop #thanks vivid dream! #canonically never wears a shirt #is half northerner/southerner #she's very much the trope of “unrequited love for the person she's sworn to protect” #would die for flohlyn #i can feel the brainrot consume me #her axes clicks into place to form a double ended axe! #incredibly lovable and sweet #like karlach vibes