In the Mimansa school that became popular 2,000 years ago, the Rig Veda was considered...
Hinduism is typically taught through a historical lens. We are told that there was a Harappan...
The Rig Veda has about 1,000 hymns composed as groups of Indo-Aryans migrated in waves from the...
To understand Hindu mythology, it is critical to understand the metaphor of forests. Forests...
The image of the buffalo-slaying lion-riding Durga starts appearing in Hindu mythology only in the...
This beautiful hymn of the Rig Veda is about thinking together.Sam gachadhvam sam vadadhvam sam...
There is an ancient prayer that is chanted before any kind of study begins; it’s a beautiful...
Coming back to the present, or rather to the past that sounds so much like the present, I would...
This is a raging controversy in America: was it God or random chance? The creation theory states...
In the past 100 years, especially following the rise of scientific economic philosophies such as...
It has begun. The rituals by which Jagannatha, the presiding deity of Puri, Odisha, will die and be...
Today's topic is the Gayatri Mantra. I am sure most of you would have heard of the Gayatri Mantra...
