~ By Maria Wirth Religious fundamentalists are on the rise and that is bad for our societies. Most people will agree on this. Yet few examine...
~ Udaylal Pai An American girl was sitting on the right side, near window seat. It indeed was a long journey – it would take nearly...
In India, this is called as Karna(ear) Vedha(piercing) ((Sanskrit: कर्णवेध) and is one of the Shodasha Samskaras (16 ceremonies) performed on a human between birth and death. Ear...
~ By Stephen Knapp The typical Indian mentality and the path of Hinduism, or the Vedic path of spiritual progress, is one of great individuality and...
“According to the Mahabhasya of Patanjali, there were 21 Shakhas of Rigveda, 9 of Atharvaveda, 101 of Yajurveda (86 of Krishna Yajurveda and 15 of Shukla...
There is an active movement going on today in which orthodox members of the Sikh community are working to protect the sanatana heritage from which their Sikh religion...
~ Swami Vivekananda, 26th September, 1893 I am not a Buddhist, as you have heard, and yet I am. If China, or Japan, or Ceylon follow the teachings of the Great...
Vibhuti (Sanskrit : vibhūti ; Tamil : Thiruneeru ) is a word that has several meanings in Hinduism. Generally, it is used to denote the sacred...
~ By Udaylal Pai Those who historically murdered, looted, raped and pillaged and destroyed are today forgiven in modern India in the name of forgetting the...
Chiranjivi are permanent lived beings in Hinduism who are to remain alive through this Kali Yuga until the next Satya Yuga. The term is a combination...