Eight reasons why the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ is already upon us
We are witnessing one horrific terrorist attack after another the world over and it shows absolutely no signs of stopping. Since 2015, there seems to be at least one incident in Europe every month. In 1993, American More...
Insights from Mahabharata-III: When Kunti met Karna
[contextly_sidebar id=”RUuId7PWMN60KiZw28S7AGIfKphwVA1f”] The second meeting Karna had was with Kunti. Kunti, the mother who had abandoned her first-born son and Karna, the son who could not bring himself More...
Krishna’s Lila: Stories from the life of Sri Krishna-I
The Avatāras are the manifested Forms of Īshvara in historical contexts. They are the physical forms that Īshvara takes in full vision of humanity. Among the innumerable Avatāras, Krishna Avatāra is considered More...
Hindu View of Menstruation- VI: Menstruation Restrictions and Attitudes
[contextly_sidebar id=”8b0F9v71irDQ4RDQyeTZbvv5kZIGwu5t”] In the previous articles, we successively saw how Hinduism associates menstruation with Ashaucha, austerity, self-purification, rest, and sacred More...
In the Beginning- I: An analysis of ancient Vedic philosophy
In this paper, I examine briefly the real situation regarding the religio-philosophical frame of belief in Ancient India and particularly in the Vedic period. While undoubtedly the worship of many different, as More...
Demystifying Tantra-II: Subject Matter of the Tantras
[contextly_sidebar id=”qJSsWkFalJ8Rse5v5Elvj92PcvFc40XB”] In the previous article, we had examined the place of Tantra Śāstra in modern Hinduism, and presented the case that Tantra is an integral component More...
The Human Soul: A Dialogue Between East And West
This column developed from private correspondence between Lawrence David Moon and myself during the first quarter of 2016. He suggested that readers might enjoy seeing an actual dialogue between two representatives More...
Hindu View of Menstruation- V: Menstruation in Ayurveda
[contextly_sidebar id=”LJxtirgPTnAsKfaPocqbIypSsozofB0L”] In the previous articles, we successively saw how Hinduism associates menstruation with Ashaucha, austerity, self-purification, rest, and sacred More...
“Theory V” for Victory
Dharma, which is defined as “that which upholds the truth” cannot be fully viewed from the fragmented and fractured lens of Adharma – simply put as “that which does not uphold the truth”. More...
Call For Worldwide ‘Ghar Wapsi’
One kind of terrorism is affecting the whole world. There is no singular phenomenon other than Islamism that motivates terrorists from Asia to Europe to Africa. Now even the US, protected geographically on either More...