Hindu prayer opening Lyon County Commissioners meeting in Nevada for 1st time
Friday,August 3, 2018
Urdu recitation of Mahabharata performed at Tihar Jail
Wednesday, March 7, 2018A recitation of the great epic Mahabharata was performed in Urdu here at Tihar jail
Senate & House of Lowa State of USA to open with Hindu mantras
Tuesday, December 19, 2017Lowa State Senate and House of Representatives in Des Moines will start their respective sessions with Hindu prayers
BBC planning to produce films on Hindu scriptures is the best thing to read today
Friday, August 4, 2017BBC would project Hinduism in these films accurately based on the ancient Hinduism scriptures
Of Vedas and hymns
Tarapada Chowdhury| Thursday, December 8, 2016Many deities were worshipped by the Vedic people and their worship consisted mainly of offering of hymns. Although, ...
What are Smritis?
Friday, October 14, 2016Hindu religious texts are categorized as Shruti and Smriti texts. What are they and what texts fall into those ...
How many Ramayanas?
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu”| Saturday, August 27, 2016Ramayana are many. We may consider “Valmiki Ramayana” as the standard Ram Katha text and beside it we can also adore ...
Vedas : Unfolding of a wonderful mind with the glow of poetry
Jawaharlal Nehru| Monday, August 22, 2016In Rig Veda we can find the first outpourings of the human mind, the glow of poetry, the rapture at nature's loveliness ...
Gita is not sectarian, It is for everyone
Jawaharlal Nehru| Saturday, August 20, 2016The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue
Is there a single coherent doctrine in “Upanishads” and the “Brahma Sutra”
S Radhakrishnan| Thursday, July 21, 2016Different commentators attempt to find in the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutra a single coherent doctrine, a system of ...
Where ends Vedas, there begins Vedanta
S Radhakrishnan| Thursday, July 21, 2016Literally, Vedanta means the end of the Veda, “Vedasya-antah”, the conclusion as well as the goal of the Vedas. The ...
What are the principal Upnishads and why
S Radhakrishnan| Thursday, July 21, 2016The principal Upanishads are said to be ten. Samkara comented on eleven. They are : “Isa”, “Kena”, “Katha”, “Prasna”, ...
Upnishad means “to sit near the teacher and learn from him the secret doctrine”
S Radhakrishnan| Thursday, July 21, 2016The word ‘Upnishad’ is derived from upa (near), ni (down) and sad (to sit), i.e sitting down near
Unpishads : A metaphysical curiosity for a theoretical explanation of the world
S Radhakrishnan| Thursday, July 21, 2016The Upnishads have shown an unparalleled variety of appeal during these long centuries and have been admired by ...
Death penalty and Mahabharata
Gurcharan Das| Wednesday, July 20, 2016Crime and punishment is the central theme of Ashwatthama’s story in the Mahabharata.
A brief history of Vedic thought
Devdutt Pattanaik| Tuesday, July 19, 2016When the British came to India, they translated the Vedas for the first time. It forced Hinduism to reframe and ...
Differences between Bhagavata and Mahabharata
Devdutt Pattanaik| Tuesday, July 19, 2016Bhagavata is a very feminine narrative where Mahabharata is a masculine one, bringing God from grand things outside the ...
To see Upanishads as a revolt against Vaidic Brahmanical orthodoxy is a flawed notion
Yajvan| Tuesday, July 19, 2016Upanishads are a revolt against or a departure from Vaidic Brahmanical orthodoxy. But is it true? And what does it ...
A game went wrong and resulted in epic war
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu”| Tuesday, July 19, 2016In Mahabharata, The epic war of Kurukshetra could have been avoided, had it not been for that fateful game of dice.
Death while making love : another root cause of Mahabharta
Aniruddha Joshi “Shatayu”| Tuesday, July 19, 2016Death in lovemaking, this was one of the few very root causes of Mahabharata. How? The story is very intriguing.