What does the symbol Swastika Means.
  I have seen this being used universally starting from the mayan civillization in the west to the buddhist culture in the east. I have also seen the spikes in clockwise direction in some culture and in anticlockwise direction in some.
  Is it the symbol of the galaxy are the universe?.
  Can some one throw some light on it.

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its originally a sanskrit symbol and meant auspicious or lucky charm if memory serves me correct.  If you wore it on yourself it was a symbol of good luck.

The swastika took the origianal symbol and twisted it round and took out the small dots in it.

Permanent Spiritual Victory.

There seems to be 2 ways it can be drawn, one is positive and one negative meaning inhalation.
http://reclaimtheswastika.com/symbolism/

i found an interesting article about swastika.i was impressed.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

dhav

[color=green]The swastika is an ancient symbol that has been used for over 3,000 years. (That even predates the ancient Egyptian symbol, the Ankh!) Artifacts such as pottery and coins from ancient Troy show that the swastika was a commonly used symbol as far back as 1000 BCE.
During the following thousand years, the image of the swastika was used by many cultures around the world, including in China, Japan, India, and southern Europe. By the Middle Ages, the swastika was a well known, if not commonly used, symbol but was called by many different names:
The word "swastika" comes from the Sanskrit svastika - "su" meaning "good," "asti" meaning "to be," and "ka" as a suffix.

Until the Nazis used this symbol, the swastika was used by many cultures throughout the past 3,000 years to represent life, sun, power, strength, and good luck.

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