Yoga Teachers need Yoga, not superficial imposition of Code of Ethics
In her recent article in The New York Times titled “Yoga Teachers Need a Code of Ethics”, Sarah Herrington makes a case for a need for “Code of Ethics” for Yoga teachers in the current aftermath of scandals 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...
Demonetisation – A Dharmic Perspective
Demonetisation is the reneging by a government of its promissory undertaking in regard to currency. The recent scrapping of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 notes is not demonetisation because the government still promises More...
Access to Ritual & Knowledge in Hinduism: The case of veda and āgama
One of the most prevalent misconceptions extant in modern discourse is that the brāhmaṇa-s monopolized “religious resources” at the expense of others. Now, broadly speaking, we can identify two types of the More...
Who’s responsible for our pains and gains?
For everything good or bad in life we often try to place blame elsewhere. We seek refuge or blame our opponents, destiny, and stars and even gods, deities. So, what’s, or who’s, responsible for all that’s More...
Purvapaksa & Uttarapaksa: An illustration from Ādi Śaṅkara’s Gita Bhashyam
Prologue Bharatiyas appear to have regained their familiarity with the terms pūrvapakṣa and uttarapakṣa but I don’t think many of them would be aware of what was actually involved in this process. More...
Veda and Yoga are One
Veda, from the root “vid” to know, refers to Knowledge in the highest sense as direct perception of the Eternal and Infinite Consciousness called Brahman. Brahman is present as the Atman or inner Self of all More...
Denying Yoga Its Roots- Classic Case Of Hinduphobia
“Admiration of a foreign culture or a foreign aesthetic system can connote broad-mindedness and at the same time flatter the aesthetic or political pretensions of the connoisseur. The regard for difference can More...
Sāṅkhya: a brief critique
The classical Sāṅkhya contains several contradictions both in the epistemological and in the ontological sphere, despite the claim of its followers that it is a rational system. It does display reasoning in many More...
Varna and Caste: An Analysis-I
Varna and Caste are controversial issues today. But, this controversy is not so much because of the intrinsic concept, but instead because of what it has grown to become and how it is perceived today by many people. While More...