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[contextly_sidebar id=”FvrRPhh3gv3PgGkSF2QXh7qyFEu1TLha”] महाभारत की इस कथा का सूत्र हरिवंश में पाया जाता है । इस More...
Bhagavad Gita as a Smriti with qualities of Sruti
Bhagavad Gita or the Song of the Lord, is the very word (shabda) of the Lord and hence, should logically be considered as a Sruti. It is further reinforced by the fact that Gita extensively deals with the subject More...
Gita Jayanti Special: All you need to know about Bhagavad Gita
Gita Jayanti or the anniversary of the day on which the Bhagavad Gita was revealed is celebrated as the Gita Jayanti festival. This day is the 11th day of the waxing moon of the Mārgashīrṣha month of the Hindu More...
Insights From the Mahabharata- IV: Jarasandha, Kalayavana, Vishwakarma, and Krishna!
[contextly_sidebar id=”siEcPvG9jtVi1SutaHNKNyYcXdjXv2M9″] This one comes from the Harivamsha. There are three mini-tales here. Two of them have to do with people, while the third has to do with a city. More...
Krishna and Narakasura: The Tale of Dharma Asserting Over Adharma
Naraka Chaturdashi, the fourteenth day of the darker fortnight of the month of Ashvayuja is celebrated as the day of Narakasura’s deliverance in the hands of Lord Krishna. As children, we have all heard of this More...
No Mr. Devdutt Pattanaik, Krishna was not a negligent father
This is a Rebuttal to Devdutt Pattanaik’s article published in Economic Times and subsequently in his website Devdutt.com titled ‘Children of the Great’ published in the category of applied-mythology and in More...
The Sweetness of Radharani: An Offering for Sri Radha Ashtami (the Appearance Day of Sri Radha)
Once, Radharani, the foremost and Krishna’s favorite of the gopis (wives of the cowherds in Vrndavana, where Krishna grew up), came to visit Krishna in Dwaraka, where he had established his kingdom. All of Krishna’s More...
Krishna’s Lila: Stories from the life of Sri Krishna-III
When to speak a Lie? Contrary to the rules of the war, Dronacharya, the Guru of the Kauravas, started attacking common soldiers with his specialized weapons, killing them in thousands, on the 15th day of the war. More...
No Mr Devdutt Pattanaik, Patriarchy did not rise due to hermits!
The popular model of a patriarch is derived from the Abrahamic mythology. Hence the patriarch is a serial rapist. Jehovah the God of Abraham sure demands absolute submission. I can agree with Devadut Pattanaik (DP) More...
Krishna’s Lila: Stories from the life of Sri Krishna-II
[contextly_sidebar id=”aNkkh8b93nkEE8BDqqD80NZ34wJeFUy7″] Sudāma, the childhood friend of Krishna visits Him Sudāma was a poor brahmin boy, who became a close friend of Krishna in Sage Sandipani’s More...