Samanya Dharma and Spirituality
Hindu dharma speaks about four fold goals of human life termed as “chaturvidha purushArtha”. “Purusha” means human and “artha” means object or goal. This framework of life wherein each human being has More...
A Daoist Interpretation of Gandhian Thought and Dharma
Mohandas Gandhi is a living spirit in the forest of Indian politics, rustling with every leaf and bustling with every beast, though nobody sees that spirit with their own eyes. Great men shape history in their own More...
Asymmetrical Application of Dharma: Unlearnt Lessons
Fiction or otherwise the movie “Padmavat” quintessentially repeats what can be called as the asymmetric application of “Dharma” by Indian rulers. In one of scenes, the Mewar king Ratan Singh following his More...
Who Really got the Divine Mango: Gaṇeśa or Kārthikeya?
Dhārmic traditions rarely stipulate hard and fast rules which makes them the most natural and the most evolved of all traditions. This freedom is what paves the way to higher possibilities in life experiences. More...
ನಗರದ ಧಾರ್ಮಿಕ ಅನಕ್ಷರತೆ ಹಾಗೂ ವೈದಿಕ ಉದ್ಯಮ
ಜ್ಯೋತಿಷ್ಯ ಹೇಳುವ ಆಚಾರ್ಯರು ತುಂಬಾ ಗರಂ ಆಗಿದ್ರು. ಏನಾಯ್ತು ಅಚಾರ್ರೆ ಅಂತ ಕೇಳಿದ್ರೆ, “ಈ ದೇವಸ್ಥಾನ More...
Towards achieving ‘critical mass’ for Indic cause: How we can contribute
Many of us remember old movies related to Indian Independence, often black and white, aired around some ‘national days’ on lazy weekends. For some of us, these movies became background sounds and without knowing, More...
धर्म और रिलीजन
धर्म क्या है? धर्म अपने मूल रूप में बहुत व्यापक अर्थ वाला है | एक सामान्य पारम्परिक More...
Book Review – Interfaith Marriage: Share and Respect with Equality
Interfaith Marriage: Share and Respect with Equality by Dr. Dilip Amin is published by Mount Meru Publishing and is available on Amazon. Interfaith Marriage: Share and Respect with Equality by Dr. Dilip Amin is More...
Indian Academia and its Colonized Self
The Self is Brahman, Speech is Brahman The Upanishads, some of the foundational texts of the Indic religious-ethical tradition, are replete with a profound humanism. They do not conceive the Divine as something More...
Vedānga: The limbs of Vedic knowledge
The meaning of Saṃskrta (Devanāgarī: संस्कृत) word Veda (Devanāgarī: वेद) means knowledge of primordial origins, which Rishi-s (Devanāgarī: ऋषि) gathered over the time through More...