Search for Sita: An Adaptation of Select Passages from Kishkindha & Sundarakanda
One of the saddest things about our society today is how few of us go back to the original sources to read about Rama, Krishna and our other devatas from our Itihaasa (our civilization’s history) and the Puranas. We rely on secondhand tales, often from biased anti-Hindu sources, including fictional TV serials and novels, to learn about our own traditions More...
Ayurveda : a distinctive approach to health and disease
Abstract The enormous complexity of human body offers scope to conceptualize its dynamic organisation in a number of ways such as structural, biochemical, functional, etc. The conventional western medicine views More...
Marathas and Bundelkhand III- Govindpant Bundele and Panipat!
[contextly_sidebar id=”5DBMirKCFiWi3VmEdmpavJJdp22n4uTN”] In the previous two parts of this series, we saw how the Marathas came to influence Bundelkhand right from the time of Chhatrapati Shivaji. The More...
Yogi Adityanath as CM: Can a Sannyasi take up Kshaatra role?
With Yogi Adityanath, Peethadishwar of Goraksha Peeth and a Sannyasi in the Nath Sampradaya taking over the political responsibility as the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, some people have raised a concern regarding More...
Dasha Mahavidyas-I
Perhaps the most intriguing and esoteric manifestation of different forms of the Goddess are the ten Mahavidya-s, who hold a preeminent position of great practical prominence in the Shakta traditions particularly More...
‘Rama and Ayodhya’ and ‘The Battle for Rama’, by Meenakshi Jain
This review relies on material from both “Rama and Ayodhya” and “The Battle for Rama” on the Ayodhya dispute by Meenakshi Jain [contextly_sidebar id=”THIF177BhAXIzBM0lcogZf3CQLk7l9SN”] Circumstantial More...
Vairaagya and Sri Rama
The Valmiki Ramayana, for the most part, describes the Lord’s avatara as a human being who is a stickler for Dharma and a paragon of Vairaagya (renunciation). Rama’s inborn renunciation is well known and even More...
Book Review: Ushas, the Divine Dawn by Yogi Baba Prem
Ushas, the Divine Dawn: Awakening the human spirit and potential by Yogi Baba Prem can be purchased from here. Ushas, the Divine Dawn: Awakening the human spirit and potential by Yogi Baba Prem is a timely, encouraging, More...
What constitutes the idea of abuse of Yoga?
There is a system of “Yoga” wherein a woman lays down on a yoga mat without her bottom in a completely relaxed position, before a “trained person” who then massages her clitoris and other parts of vagina. More...
Genius of the Jains
[contextly_sidebar id=”sRDJUZQANeCN55doIbJM0F9BfxGKSchJ”] In my previous articles “Reconstructing the History of the Ājīvikas” and “Materialism in ancient India”, we discussed the intellectual More...