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 a purpose. Pitching them ... Continue Reading
Category Archives: Know Your Roots
Interesting facts about our culture, busting myths, basic tenets etc
THANK INDIA FOR THESE
Bharatvarsha is the mother to a lot of inventions, which are widely used even today. Often we attribute these to the colonial powers since t... Continue Reading
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 of us know of fire as that w... Continue Reading
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 pedestal—as a t... Continue Reading
SADHANA PAAD, YOGSUTRA 50
Patanjali now details the three kinds of pranayama, बाह्याभ्यन्तरस्तम्भवृत्तिर्देशकालसंख्याभिः परिदृष्टो दीर्घसूक्ष्मः॥५०॥ Baahyaabhyantaras... Continue Reading
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 a purpose. Pitching them ... Continue Reading
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 Mahabharat, which describe ... Continue Reading
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 not a language; it i... Continue Reading
GODDESS OF BASAR
Gnana Saraswati Temple is a temple of Devi Saraswati located on the banks of Godavari river at Basar in Telangana. It is among the two impor... Continue Reading
PEEPAL : THE TREE OF LIFE
Peepal also called Ashvatha in Sanskrit means the tree of life. The Peepal is the earliest-known depicted tree in India: a seal discovered a... Continue Reading
LORD VISHNU
Of the Trinity. Lord Vishnu is the preserver, the Lord of protection and maintenance. Vishnu ji symbolises the all-pervading protective aspe... Continue Reading
UNDERSTANDING MAA LAKSHMI
force which is responsible for the creation to work in harmony. The Shriya, the consort of Lord Vishnu, the Goddess so much revered and wors... Continue Reading
RUDRAKSHA, THE BLUE MARBLE
There are three types of rudraksha available. The most popular are the Nepalese type, the second are Indonesian, and the third are Indian. I... Continue Reading
All Powerful Silence
Maharishi Ved Vyas ji was the son of Sage Parashar and was the compiler of the Vedas. When he was composing the Mahabharta, he needed a scri... Continue Reading
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