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SaSa Bindu 

The Sri Vishnu Sahasranama - Sloka 31 Om amrtAm SUdbhavAya bhAnuh SaSabinduh sureSvarah   Says that  “Jiva  Sarva Gatah!”  Souls are everywhere! The Moon that gives life -giving rays is created by Lord Shiva during the churning of the Milky Ocean with SaSabinduh <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; color:#212121">where <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">SaSa in Sanskrit means a Hare and in Telugu it is called as <span lang="TE" style="font-family:Gautami;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">శశం <span style="color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">, <span lang="TE" style="font-family:Gautami;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">శశకం <span style="color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">, <span lang="TE" style="font-family:Gautami;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">చెవుల పిల్లి <span style="color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">, <span lang="TE" style="font-family:Gautami;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">కుందేలు <span style="color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Rabbits and Hares aren't the same. <span style="color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">A Rabbit is <span style="color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">called <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> as <span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family:Gautami;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">సీమ <span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> <span lang="AR-SA" style="font-family:Gautami;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">కుందేలు <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> and <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">bindu meaning a dot.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:#212121;mso-bidi-language:TE">  <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">When the moon is full there is a blue silver color on its surface and there is spot on the moon visible vaguely that resemble a Hare and as sasa bindu that  constantly pounds herbs for the immortals.

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:black;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">There are several reasons given as to why the hare was chosen to symbolize the moon. It is a nocturnal animal, and there was an ancient superstition-that the hare could change its sex, like the moon, which was fabled sometimes as masculine and sometimes as feminine. Again the young of the hare, unlike those of rabbits, are born with their eyes open, and it was a tradition that the hare, thus born with open eyes, never closed them. Hence it came to be identified -with the full moon, the open-eyed watcher of the skies at night. <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">The upanishads shed illuminating wisdom on the hare moon symbiosis and as it changes its sex like the moon that opens up on the phases of the moon in its waxing masculine and waning feminine and the moon at full intensity is the destroyer of darkness or sign of new life and the messenger of immortality and advising mankind to regulate the sexual energy that will increase memory power intelligence health and longevity!

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">A rabbit reaches sexual maturity at  3 to 8 months and can produce 10 to30 offspring per year. It is more or less ready to mate all the time <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">. <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">During mating <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">it humps as fast as it can, like it's a race to bust a nut as if it doesn’t care about the others. The act itself lasts about 20-40 seconds. <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";color:#212121;mso-bidi-language:TE">

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Hares have long back legs used for running and rabbits have strong front feet for digging. <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(37,37,37);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">The hare is associated with reproduction and fertility. It is so closely associated with the moon, particularly the full moon. It is a creature of fire and a symbol of many things, all involving balance, Life, creative potency, regeneration, fertility, and eternity. This symbolism manifests in associations with springtime, the Dawn, the Moon and Sacred Fire, the Egg, the Circle and Infinity symbol, Marriage etc., <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(62,62,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Look at the creative secret of <span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Self fertilization, which is the fusion of male and female gametes produced by the same individual. Male and female gametes being produced by the same individual is known as bisexual. It is an evolutionary and reproductive mechanism. It is a biological process that creates a new organism by combining the genetic <span style="font-family: "TimesNewRoman","serif""> <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">material of two organisms in a process that starts with meiosis, a specialized type of cell division.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Asexual reproduction is a process by which organisms create genetically similar or identical copies of themselves without the contribution of genetic material from another organism. <span style="font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif""> <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Bacteria divide asexually via binary fission; viruses take control of host cells to produce more viruses. Hydras and yeasts are able to reproduce by budding. Jellyfish are <span style="background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">free swimming marine animals also reproduce sexually. Most plants are capable of vegetative reproduction without seeds or spores and have the ability to reproduce asexually and the ant species fungus-growing is thought to reproduce entirely by asexual means.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">These organisms often do not possess different sexes, and they are capable of "splitting" themselves into two or more copies of themselves. This is persisted over many generations. <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Amazingly in nature there are some instances where an animal can change its gender. The highest male in leadership takes over for the female and changes gender including reproductive functions. This is however a rarity for this type of biological change to take place.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">The distance Moon is  about 238,800 miles from the Earth. However, because of the elliptical shape of the Moon's orbit, the actual distance varies throughout the year, between 225,804 miles at the perigee and 251,968 miles at the apogee.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">The average distance of the Earth from sun is  93.5 million miles and it travels at the speed of 67 thousand miles per hour.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">The moon is always partly lit by the sun, however, a full moon depends upon the position of the sun, earth and moon as to how much of the moon will be illuminated when looking from earth. It is also a time when the lunar energy is at its most intense. All full moons bring us in touch with our emotions, our sensitivities and our inner-selves. <span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(52,52,52);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> With the Earth-Moon system, gravity is like a rope that pulls or keeps the two bodies together, and centrifugal force is what keeps them apart. Because the centrifugal force is greater than the Moon's gravitational pull, ocean water on the opposite side of the Earth bulges outward  The key to understanding how the tides work is understanding the relationship between the motion of our planet and the Moon and Sun. As the Earth spins on its own axis, ocean water is kept at equal levels around the planet by the Earth's gravity pulling inward and centrifugal force pushing outward. However, the Moon's gravitational forces are strong enough to disrupt this balance by accelerating the water towards the Moon. This causes the water to 'bulge.' As the Moon orbits our planet and as the Earth rotates, the bulge also moves. The areas of the Earth where the bulging occur experience  high tide and the other areas are subject to a low tide. The same forces are at play as the Earth revolves around the Sun. The Sun's gravity pulls ocean water toward the Sun, but at the same time, the centrifugal force of the combined Earth-Sun revolution causes water on the opposite side of Earth to bulge away from the Sun. However, the effect is smaller than the Moon. Because the tides are influenced by both the Moon and the Sun, it's easy to see that when the Sun lines up with the Moon and the Earth, as during a New Moon or Full Moon (a configuration also called "syzygy"), the tidal effect is increased. These are known as spring tides, named not for the season, but for the fact that the water "springs" higher than normal.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">On the other hand, if the Sun and the Moon are 90 degrees apart in relation to an observer on Earth

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> as during the First Quarter Moon or Third Quarter Moon (sometimes called half moons), then high tides are not as high as they normally would be. This is because despite its greater distance, the Sun's mass allows it to exert enough gravitational force on the oceans that it can negate some of the effects of the Moon's pull. This phenomenon of lower high tides is called a neap tide. The height of the tides can also vary during the course of a month because the Moon is not always the same distance from the Earth. As the Moon's orbit brings it in closer proximity to our planet (closest distance within a moon cycle is called perigee), its gravitational forces can increase by almost 50%, and this stronger force leads to high tides. Likewise, when the Moon is farther away from the Earth (furthest distance is called apogee), the tides are not as spectacular.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">The human mind the mind changes throughout the day with tides of reasoning and creating new memories that keeps emotion on a short leash and attention on our surroundings. Memory ranges more freely, the mind wanders, and daydreams grow more insistent. Self-awareness fades; reflection blinks out, and changes his attitude to reach his goals, dreams and ambitions.<span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(62,62,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;"> All activity in the mind comes from the senses and   Samaskara  and floats or drowns in the waves of karma.

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'TimesNewRoman',serif;color:rgb(55,58,62);background-image:initial;background-attachment:initial;background-size:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;background-position:initial;background-repeat:initial;">Knowledge from the well tested Vedic literature and Indian traditions values and culture helps for better living. This is what Shiva Samrajyam, the latest Telugu version of Kingdom of Shiva is propagating with visual imagery….Read and cherishes…Sivkishen, Author