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Rudraksha in Nakhon Si Thammarat: sights from exploring

10/21/2019

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 Main statements from our Rudraksha-journey

      Our exploring of Rudraksha trees was not too long, but so productive and informative - we visited and left the Rudraksha in many places of NakhonSi,  met many wonderful people, explored many new amazing plants and stayed in new places. The guidance of Rudraksha was with us - that's how we were able to accomplish all that in one adventourus journey around miracolous Nakhon Si Thammarat.
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created Rudraksha exhibition
Collection of Rudraksha  includes r distinctive and rare beads from various areas of Phangan island plus newly-found beads from NakhonSi. Adress to visit: Ruesi Mettanca temple, Phrom Khiri. 
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Planted first sprouts of Rudraksha
Four first sprouts of few-months old Rudraksha brought in coco-shells and were given to plant in the most auspicious places of NakhonSi, including Wat Parian, Wang Lung waterfall and Phrom Khiri.
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Discovered trees of Rudraksha
  Starting from Ganitri - the most famous specie in Rudraksha tree family, through the only tree seen in Krung Ching area, to unique-shaped Rudraksha of Phrom Khiri. We hope to continue the research during the fruit season. 
    Important add-on: after creating the Rudraksha exhibition in NakhonSi we now preparing a complete Grand Rudraksha Collection (link with details), which includes all the best of Rudraksha island plus extensions from NakhonSi and other Rudraksha-areas around the world. Supported by huge interest to Rudraksha at recent time, we plant to launch this GR-Collection during the following season.

Rudraksha trees grows in Nakhon Si Thammarat. About its importance for nature

     Rudraksha trees prefers to grow on the lands with clear cold streaming water. Recent research of INTACH (Indian National Trust For Art and Cultural Heritage) explained how trees of rudraksha growing in a deep connection with water streams, - when all of that trees were cut down due to the war supply, the water gone completely, and landscape looks deserted. That's how big areas of the whole country of India with lots of people living there became out of water. As a practical result of that work thouthands of trees of rudraksha were planted in Himalayas of Nothern India by INTACH. Read this informative RUDRAKSH documentation here.
  
    Our experience can only prove that information - when we see dried flow of waterfall river on the island, its means that no Rudraksha there. While most of all of the remaining Rudraksha groves has a water supply*. 

      Our latest observations in NakhonSi, sights from which we highlighting in this article, also showing that fact - most of the trees of Rudraksha we met at Phrom Khiri - the waterfall centre of the province. Even in Krung Ching area, during the daily rains we didn't see so much clear, cold waterflows as in Phrom Khiri. 

    Some of the reasons of that influence of Rudraksha and water became visible with time:
  • animals, who eating the fruits and then spit the seed, such as fruit flying foxes and birds, prefer areas with frest water to drink it with food.. Usually its a high trees, which can be in a distance of from few to up to hundreds meters from the fruiting rudraksha tree.
  • Rudraksha seeds are heavier than the water, so seed is rolling by the river bottom, until its stick at the lower stream on one of the circumvolutions.
  • Roots of Rudraksha goes very deep, and can both twine rocky stones outside (even right in a water), and hold land underground. Rudraksha seeds are the most tough in nature - its not possible to open it without hammer (it stronger that bricks), and in some areas, such as a sand or cold water seeds of Rudraksha can stay alive for years. This stretch of seeds's endocarp make the land stable to water's flows also on a outer surface.
All that makes the news about the exsisting of Rudraksha trees in Nakhon Si Thammarat not just interesting and potentially valuable by individuals (read chapters below), but very potential for the whole area of province, as a healing solution for the water and Nature in whole.

*Exceptions exsists, but each of them  require its own story - few of trees in that out-of-water areas were fall down "naturally", being not old yet. Some of the other trees don't has a leaves right not - no leaves at all, Some trees has underground waters.  
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Rudraksha art - untreatened Rudraksh seeds with copper wire

Let's start from easy reminder "What is Rudraksha?" - Rudraksha is a seed from a fruit of rudraksha tree (some kinds of elaeocarpus family in botany). Seeds of beautiful, healing and holy trees are many, but this Rudraksha-seed is one of the main and most well-known atribute of god Shiva in His human-alike depictions,  Apart of that ancient Vedic culture, what before called commonly "Hinduism" and now appeared to be much wider also in its Geo-borders, that seeds has many other names and high value in many other cultures around the world*.  Not just for specific rites and special ocassions - Rudraksha used to wear in daily life and especially adviced in practice of mantra, as best among any other beads (such as crystal, coral, lotus seeds etc.). The word "Rudraksha" means "Tears of Rudra", where Rudra is other name of Shiva - the supreme god, who performing great ascetic act for the benefit of Being. As a result of that act tears were fallen from 3 eyes of the god - Lunar, Solar and Fire, and Rudra blessed that tears to became Rudraksha's. Importance of Rudraksha widely explained in various ancient Vedic scriptures, such as Vedas, Agamas, Tantras, and Upanishadas. Recent interest to healing properties of plants indicating the divinity of Rudraksha, expressed in many aspects - according to the subject of exact research.  Here we sharing the information about rudraksha trees, which were discovered in Nakhon Si Thammarat during short visit in a rising Moon of October. Also you can find useful links about Rudraksha at the end of this post.
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Variety of big Rudraksha from one of the island near Nakhon Si Thammarat - prepared to be sent to Karmapa

* - "lOCAL NAMES OF RUDRAKSHA INCLUDES: Kambi, Mindri, Ndrivi, Vathea, Taputoi, Malalava, Mamalava, Siapo Atua, Tongovao, Umasa, Wailoaloa, Kesa, Sivia, Mamakura..." - from STUDIES OF PACIFIC ISLAND PLANTS, XV THE GENUS ELAEOCARPUS IN THE NEW HEBRIDES, FIJI, SAMOA, AND TONGA. Read more Rudraksha texts here.

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Krung Ching Waterfall area

9/21/2016

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     Here are short intro to few places nearby the largest waterfall in South of Thailand:
great Namtok Krung Ching, located in Noppitam sub-province of Nakhon Si Thammarat. Its can be good to know if you’ll not climb to the Krung Ching itself, being somewhere around, as it happens to us. And its good way to explore the beauty of that area - just to follow the "Krung Ching" road signs!
​And that’s how it happens – there are many guide sings all the way,  closer to the desired point its a big  stone with sign, then one more, and you hear that jungle bugs and birds and recognize the plants, whats can be found in other few waterfalls. And then there are the last crossroad without any sign with 3 roads, which are also separated.
Its was some kind of luck to choose a “wrong” way there, because one of that roads leads to the "Nam Ron" - Krung Ching Hot Spring,  amazing healing bath with few pools of hot and very hot water, what is good for skin and total health. My own-experienced scorpio bite and bits of wild-prewild bees were healed here!

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Flowers

3/2/2016

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In honor of the Spring day

There are no way to post all the beautiful flowers, what we see around Nakhon Si Thammarat - with all the variety of its colours, and we still far from ability to  share also its fragances. So it wil be just a random pictures here. Frangipani probably the most famous - its has few types, each with its own aroma -  yellow with a honey note, white as a most-most, red with thin delicate smell...

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Funny lucky dogs

1/29/2016

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Oh, there are hard to find adult people, so happy as that dogs, who live on beaches and other nice places in NakhonSI and other areas in Thailand. However dogs in Malaysia don't look so happy.  Its also the reminder for us - "Life is always easy".

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Butterflies of Southern Thailand

1/29/2016

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Few butterflies and Co around us

Below just a few from many of  butterflies, spiders and other inhabitants of Nakhon Si Thammarat.
On some areas they are much bigger in size, you can see it in Khao Plai Dam conservation center.
Will add more after exploring the jungles of Khao Nan national park.

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Cocoa tree

11/3/2015

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Cacao is very delicate culture what is not easy to care, collect and prepare, also it was cheap to sell. That's why most of cocoa trees in province already was cut - now its durians and other trees there instead. Tarnsai Cocoa farm and resort located on a river Klay - notorious river of ancient Kingdom Amarutthani.
​River takes beginning in a Krung Ching Waterfall - one of the largest in Thailand - and flows into the sea in a sunrise beach approximately in 8 km from the cacao farm.  Look more information and recipes together with our concept of first-in-a-kind Tree Owners Club.

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Frendly animals

10/24/2015

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Ants

Bulls and the water buffalo

 Here we will post photos of  bulls from NakhonSi. Nakhon Si Thammarat and its neighbouring province Phatthalung are the places with a biggest and  nicest bulls what we saw around.  ome of the biggest among them decorated with garlands on their neck and horns.  Water buffalows in NakhonSi are more seldom - one of the most picturesque grass field with many water buffalows located in Sao Pao - not far from Sichon. 

Many people are loving cows & bulls here – In a temples (Wat) we’ve met the statues of giant golden bull, probably its Nandi – divine bull of Shiva. Bulls and cows were the sacred animal of all the ancient world – from Egypt (book of Celestial Cow) to India – where the people still respect them as before. For thousands of years c
ows were inviolable on all the land of ancient Bharata, while cows products commonly used in food, medicine, rites, and the murder of cow concidered as a great sin.  Nowadays, due to the globalization most of people don't stay informed and not follow the traditions - more steak-houses and burgers opening in South of Thailand (including Muslim cafes with "Halal" sign), and to eat the steaks & beef burgers look like a new trend.
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