MEETING DEVI SITA
As Lord Hanuman lies across the ocean to do the karya of Shri Ram, he is tested on the way.…
Category: Know Your Roots
Interesting facts about our culture, busting myths, basic tenets etc
Fate Served on a Plate
Our past, present and future is governed by the world of energy, physical attempts to alter it do not work.…
Essence of Herbs – Rasa (taste)
Dashanan’s wife, Mandodari was bearing his child in her womb, and under terrible pain, when she asked him, ‘Oh Lord…
Madhubani
Madhubani, literally translates as ‘from the forests of honey’, and refers to the traditional wall art of the ancient city…
700-YEAR-OLD Sun Dial
“Here the language of stone surpasses the language of human,” expressed Rabindranath Tagore, for the architectural ingenuity of the Sun…
mind over matter
Religion and science go hand-in-hand; they are the two windows we look out of to understand and steer life towards…
THANK INDIA FOR THESE
Bharatvarsha is the mother to a lot of inventions, which are widely used even today. Often we attribute these to…
GEOMETRY AND SCIENCE OF YAGYA
Fire, is a magical element and its magic was explored square and wide by the Vedic seers, quite literally. Most…
EDUCATION BEFORE AND AFTER MACAULAY
Vedas say Sa vidya ya vimuktaye, in other words, ‘that it is Gyan which liberates us’. Our ancients put gyan on the highest…
SADHANA PAAD, YOGSUTRA 50
Patanjali now details the three kinds of pranayama, बाह्याभ्यन्तरस्तम्भवृत्तिर्देशकालसंख्याभिः परिदृष्टो दीर्घसूक्ष्मः॥५०॥ Baahyaabhyantarastambhavrittirdeshakaalasankhyaabhih paridrishto deerghasookshmah Baahya: external Abhyantara: internal Stambha: cessation…
RELIGION AND SCIENCE
Religion and science go hand-in-hand; they are the two windows we look out of to understand and steer life towards…
OUR ANCESTORS WERE NOT APES
Our ancestors were not apes, those who say they were, theirs were, said Sir John Woodroffe. The Ramayana and the…
SANSKRIT, THE SCIENCE OF DHWANI
Often we tend to consider Sanskrit as just another language, like English, Hindi, Arabic, Urdu etc. Sanskrit in fact is…
GODDESS OF BASAR
Gnana Saraswati Temple is a temple of Devi Saraswati located on the banks of Godavari river at Basar in Telangana.…