Swastika is Hinduism

[rcscwc]

Swastika is Hinduism

If Hinduism can be represented by a single symbol, then it is swastika.

This is the Hindu swastika, just one representation. It can be drawn in red, yellow or saffron colors, or even as floral design. It is in black only in books.


Swastika is derived from Sanskrit and means Well Being. It is easily the most replicated single symbol.

Place in Hindu religion and culture.

Ganesha is our first deity to be invoked on any religion occasion. He is considered to be the Remover of Obstacles and difficulties. He is also represented by the swastika. In fact, swastika is also called Ganeshji.


The symbol is drawn on altars. An altar is incomplete without it.


In Ayurveda, it is the symbol displayed outside a physician's house. In stores selling Ayurvedic medicines, it is painted on the sign boards. Many other shops too display it.

When a Hindu buys a vehicle, a priest blesses it and a swastika is drawn on it, which fades away with time. It is printed on the invitation cards, on a single card it might be replicated 20, 30 times. Envelopes for cash gifts on various occasions have it printed on them. Traders paint it on their cash chests, first page of account books etc. An average Hindu household might have dozens of swastikas. All the temples have it, of course, in metal, stone etc.

Swastika, drawn slightly differently, is a holy symbol in Buddhism too. So in every Buddhist country, you will find it everywhere.

[hinduism♥krishna]

Namaste.
Yes, what you have written is right. But there must be some slight change !
In hindu dharma, ॐ ( om) is the symbol of dharma and " swastika " is the symbol of purity and divinity.

Thank you.

[rcscwc]

Swastika is the holiest symbol, Om is holiest sound.

[ShivaFan]

Namaste rcscwc

Yes I think you are correct distinguishing the exemplar sound from the exemplar symbol.

This symbol, the swastika, is almost a marker of Dharma based truth, for isn't it true we see it appear in offshoots such as in Jain Dharma and on some Buddhist iconography?

So in one way, it reflects a debt to original Dharma, or aspects of it.

I am curious, do you know by chance the oldest example of this symbol appearing on Hindu or Dharma iconography which still exists today despite the ravages of time (obviously its antiquity predates even such an artifact, but nature eventually returns all material things back to "dust")?

How far has this symbol traveled (outside of modern use by propagandists and modern movements such as the NAZIs)? Has it been found anywhere in Europe, Africa or the New World, Australia, etc.?

Om Namah Sivaya

[JaiMaaDurga]

Namaste ShivaFan,

Perhaps the Navajo "Whirling logs" would interest you;
try an internet search for it.

Though it's been said many times before, I would like
to remind readers that the symbol associated with the
abomination of Nazism is properly called a "hakenkreuz"
(translated "crooked cross").. and the true swastika will
long outlive attempts by the insane to appropriate it
and pervert its meaning.

JAI MATA DI

[yajvan]

hariḥ oṁ
~~~~~~
namast�

The ~secret~ to appreciate the meaning of svastika lies in its spelling:

sva + sti + ka or su + asti + ka

I will leave it to the interested reader to discern the value of each akṣara (sound or phoneme).

iti śivaṁ

[smaranam]

hariḥ oṁ
~~~~~~
namast�

The ~secret~ to appreciate the meaning of svastika lies in its spelling:

sva + sti + ka or su + asti + ka

I will leave it to the interested reader to discern the value of each akṣara (sound or phoneme).

iti śivaṁ

praNAm

su + asti = [may there be] auspicious existence ?

The devas and Rshis chant "svasti svasti" as they see KRshNa's Universal form (Bhagvad Gita Chapter 11)

The vedas say "svasti na indra ..... "

May auspiciousness prevail.

ka --- holder, container and giver of this blessing of svasti

Hence svastika.



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svasti --- could also be regarding sva - Self? Perhaps not, otherwise it would become svAsti, not svasti. I was thinking more on the lines of
sva sthiti (dwelling in the AtmA (Self))

dwelling in Self == auspiciousness.

Well, at least I tried

_/\_

[rcscwc]

Namaste rcscwc

Yes I think you are correct distinguishing the exemplar sound from the exemplar symbol.

This symbol, the swastika, is almost a marker of Dharma based truth, for isn't it true we see it appear in offshoots such as in Jain Dharma and on some Buddhist iconography?

So in one way, it reflects a debt to original Dharma, or aspects of it.

I am curious, do you know by chance the oldest example of this symbol appearing on Hindu or Dharma iconography which still exists today despite the ravages of time (obviously its antiquity predates even such an artifact, but nature eventually returns all material things back to "dust")?

How far has this symbol traveled (outside of modern use by propagandists and modern movements such as the NAZIs)? Has it been found anywhere in Europe, Africa or the New World, Australia, etc.?

Om Namah Sivaya

On an Indus Valley Civilization seals, swastika is found.

Many European culture, like Finland, had it. They even painted it their air force planes.