

Time: 5 pm EST | 4 pm CST | 6 am Seoul Time Lecture Title: K-beauty discourses: Korean Americans, racial resignifying, and the making of ‘good’ neoliberal subjects Saraswati is also associated with anurāga, the love for and rhythm of music, which represents all emotions and feelings expressed in speech or music" (Wikipedia). The most famous feature on Saraswati is a musical instrument called a veena, represents all creative arts and sciences, and her holding it symbolizes expressing knowledge that creates harmony. In some texts, the pot of water is symbolism for soma – the drink that liberates and leads to knowledge. A pot of water represents the purifying power to separate right from wrong, the clean from the unclean, and essence from the inessential. The book she holds symbolizes the Vedas representing the universal, divine, eternal, and true knowledge as well as all forms of learning. The four hands hold items with symbolic meaning - a pustaka (book or script), a mālā (rosary, garland), a water pot and a musical instrument (vīnā). "She is generally shown to have four arms, but sometimes just two. Her iconography is typically in white themes from dress to flowers to swan – the colour symbolizing Sattwa Guna or purity, discrimination for true knowledge, insight and wisdom" (Wikipedia). She not only embodies knowledge but also the experience of the highest reality. "The goddess Saraswati is often depicted as a beautiful woman dressed in pure white, often seated on a white lotus, which symbolizes light, knowledge and truth. It is also a Sanskrit composite word of surasa-vati (सरसु+अति) which means "one with plenty of water" (Wikipedia). Originally associated with the river or rivers known as Saraswati, this combination, therefore, means "she who has ponds, lakes, and pooling water" or occasionally "she who possesses speech".

Learn to think fearlessly there is no subject too spiritual, no subject that cannot stand the analysis of mind spirit depends upon the channel, mind, for reality."Saraswati, is a Sanskrit fusion word of saras (सरस्) meaning "pooling water", but also sometimes translated as "speech" and vati (वती) meaning "she who possesses". In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. There have always been wars and troubles such as famine and disease, and some folks are born with money, some with none. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance that imitation is suicide that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. In extreme cases, mental turmoil, major stomach operations, and accidents of a serious nature could occur.Įvery situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity. You also would have a sensitivity in your solar plexus. The intensity of your nature would cause you to suffer in the senses of the head, as well as with digestive problems.Verbal expression is difficult for you, and you can be forthright in situations requiring delicacy, even though it is not your intention to be.Many disruptions in friendship and association have thus resulted.When annoyed or offended, you can be very candid and sarcastic in your speech.You are inclined to make changes abruptly in your life as an escape from such conditions.You cannot tolerate any domination by others, or circumstances that restrict your freedom and independence.You have strong likes and dislikes and tend to respond to your hunches about people, depending on whether they have made a good or not-so-good first impression on you sometimes you are correct in your assessment other times, your hunches may be coloured by your personal feelings and thus may not be accurate.Hence you have many bitter experiences and generally rather unsettled conditions in your life, with little progress and financial accumulation.On the other hand, you can be impulsive and forceful when opposed, and act without due forethought and discretion.When you have the opportunity to pursue your own goals and interests free from interference, you can feel very agreeable and express a buoyant optimism.You can be creative, inventive, and ingenious in practical matters, such as handicrafts.The influence of Aruna makes you positive, self-assertive, and independent.
