ঔপনিষদিক – ১
ওঁ। তিনি অনির্বচনীয়, অচিন্ত্য। তাঁর রূপ, মহিমা ও গুণের বর্ণনা ভাষার সাধ্যাতীত। তাঁর More...
Death in Indic Thought – II
[contextly_sidebar id=”DIBFrNQ9qF2kfIEVJ2EZ76gYGod8BZrw”] Death, like most other profound phenomena in life, cannot be fully understood unless experienced at close quarters. My own first intimate encounter More...
What Are We? A Contemplation on the Hindu Identity – 1
What makes us Hindu? What makes us different from, say, a Christian or a Jewish community? Are we even a single monolithic community, capable of being identified by one or more unique traits? These are questions More...
Glory Of Lord Kameshwara- II: Creation through Purusha & Para-Vak
[contextly_sidebar id=”2PnxFwqCataTNW2XgEoB2Bm9dpDXWmy2″] We’ll discuss Puruṣa and Vāk in two sections. However, that is only for structuring the content, there is no difference between them. Creation More...
Proclaiming the Path of Surrender: 750 Years of Vedanta Desika
On this Shravana nakshatra of the month Bhadrapada, we celebrate the 750th birth anniversary of Sri Vedanta Desika, one of the foremost acharyas in the Srivaishnava Sampradaya and one of the greatest luminaries More...
The Concept of Ābhāsa in the Yogavāsiṣṭha – 2
[contextly_sidebar id=”UlyKsjwAFnnGUQk9DQrBro0r0eLhljI5″] Ābhāsa in the Mokṣopāyaśāstra/Yogavāsiṣṭha[1] The illusory nature of ābhāsa is consistently found in both Buddhist sources and More...
The Concept of Ābhāsa in the Yogavāsiṣṭha – 1
Studying classical Indian philosophy poses multiple challenges. One of them is the shift in the meaning of terms at different times, and another is the application of the same term with a different intent in different More...
Vedanta Darshanam
Veda and Vedanta Most people have heard of the Vedas. However, many are unsure of what exactly the Vedas are, and what the subject matter of Vedas is. Vedas are the undated (undateable?, although many researchers More...
The greatness of Lord Sri HayagrIva in Indian tradition
Introduction To understand who Lord Sri HayagrIva is, one needs to know what is jnAna and vijnAna. These two terms need some explanation since they pertain to the subject, namely the I or the knower within us and More...
Plato and the Upanishads – 3
[contextly_sidebar id=”EqVbcEHFtqHfQz1vQR3Y6N3gecKK9Wd4″] In the Introduction and in the previous part, the author had discussed several parallels between Upanishadic teachings and those of Plato. In More...