How Ragini is different from Raga in Indian classical music
Monday,February 19, 2018
The power of the supreme power
Tuesday, January 30, 2018The omniscient has been always with every Identity.
Onam is not just a festival!
Monday, August 14, 2017One of the most marvelous facets of Onam is the unfolding of its rich and well-established culture
Decoding Varna Order of Hindus!
Yajvan| Saturday, March 4, 2017To comprehend why Varna-Ashrama is a more accommodating system, we need to understand the conception of cosmogony ...
What is Jati, Varna and Ashrama?
Yajvan| Saturday, March 4, 2017Even in this era of the overall decline of dharmic values in our life and despite concerted actions of anti-dharmic ...
The difficulty of awakening
P D Ouspensky| Friday, February 10, 2017As soon as a man awakens for a moment and opens his eyes, all the forces that caused him to fall asleep begin to act ...
To be born, we must first die, and to die, he must first awake
P D Ouspensky| Wednesday, January 25, 2017'To awake,' 'to die,' 'to be born.' These are three successive stages. If you study the Gospels, you will see that ...
A millennium needed to decode India
P D Ouspensky| Tuesday, January 24, 2017There are only special schools in India, there are no general schools. Every teacher, or guru, is a specialist in some ...
Meeting with a remarkable man
P D Ouspensky| Monday, January 23, 2017I was deeply interested in everything G, said. I felt in it some new points of view, unlike any I had met with before
Gurdjieff : A “Hindu”?
P D Ouspensky| Wednesday, January 18, 2017Among people whom I met during my lectures in Moscow there were two, who very soon began to speak to me about a group ...
My attempts to find schools of truth in India
P D Ouspensky| Tuesday, January 17, 2017The idea of schools in itself was fantastic and nothing seemed to me too fantastic in relation to this idea
Why I came to India to seek the miraculous?
P D Ouspensky| Monday, January 16, 2017I already knew then as an undoubted fact that beyond the thin film of false reality, there existed another reality from ...
Some problems with the 'Universal' values of Dharmic tradition
Pushpahaas| Thursday, December 22, 2016The foundation of Dharmic value is Viveka just as the base of Abrahamic value universe is commandment and law
Rajdharma and Hinduism
K. A. Nilakantha Shastri| Monday, November 14, 2016Of all the Indian writers on polity, Kautilya stands closest to Hobbes as he exalted royal power much more than any ...
Capitalist Financial Colonialism and the Dharma
Yajvan| Thursday, November 10, 2016This Capitalist Financial Colonialism is an extension of erstwhile political and military colonialism lead by European ...
Of Varnas and Ashramas
K. A. Nilakantha Shastri| Thursday, November 3, 2016Plato thought that the greatest possible happiness of the community as a whole was promoted by its being divided into ...
Manu and Chanakya
K. A. Nilakantha Shastri| Tuesday, October 25, 2016Dharma-shastra and Artha-shastra alike study man in society. The former treats of social life from the point of view of ...
The amazing parallels between Dravidian and Indus Valley civilizations
Prof. C. Kunhan Raja| Monday, October 24, 2016It is doubtful whether the Indus valley civilization is distinct from the Dravidian civilization. Scholars have ...
Why animals play little part in early Vedic tradition?
Prof. C. Kunhan Raja| Saturday, October 22, 2016Cow-worship becomes an important feature in Hindu life, but this is an aspect that did not appear in the Vedas. Various ...
Are there no prominent Goddesses in Vedic religion?
Prof. C. Kunhan Raja| Friday, October 21, 2016Aditi is the only goddess that has a high position in the Vedic pantheon, being the mother of the gods. But even Aditi ...