The #MahaShivratri milk and honey is a nectar you should have daily – India Today
Every year, on this very day, thousands of people celebrate Maha Shivratri by bathing Lord Shiva’s idol or the Shivalingam in a mix of milk and honey. But have you ever wondered why? Rituals are usually based on ancient traditions that have multiple aspects–most of the fluids that are used in Hindu rites are auspicious and nutritious at More...
This adman is documenting deities that rule Mumbai’s gullies
While walking along Mumbai’s narrow bylanes, Gopal MS realised the abundance of shrines in slums. And most of these, he says, hark back to the local community’s village or hometown — a clue to lives More...
The Kamika Agama-A Textbook for Vedic Living
A Spiritual Renaissance The Shaiva Agamas (Lord Shiva’s precepts that have come down through the ages), also known as Shaiva Siddhanta Shastras (or the Shivagamas) in Sanskrit, are replete with mantras, techniques More...
Sivagamas: The Praxis of Hinduism
By Prerna Dusija A Foray into the Agamas of Hinduism ‘Agama’ literally means, that which has been bequeathed or ‘come down.’ They are an assemblage of scriptures of a gamut of Hindu devotional schools, with More...
When temple processions delighted Tyagaraja
Tyagaraja clearly did not lay much store by visits to temples. In his ‘Darshanamu Seya’ (Narayana Gowla), he makes fun of the behaviour of the standard temple-goer, whose mind is eternally focussed on external More...
Conversation Times – Rooted in the past, living in the present, for the future
BENGALURU: From the outside, it looks like a marriage hall – not the kind you see in Palace Gardens, of course, but one of those traditional places that people of a certain age would call a “choultry”. More...
Sanskrit for the modern times
Dr. S. Ramaratnam explains the relavance of the language The Madras Sankrit College, Mylapore, in association with Hayagreeva Vidya Peetam, Taramani, Chennai, recently felicitated S. Ramaratnam, vice-chancellor, More...
Ahmedabad Gurukulam: A dip into Vedic education, organic living, but no degrees
Wooden carts and horses in the front yard, mooing cows in the barn, walls with hand painted frescoes and food being cooked on a stove fired by cow dung cakes — this is not a set for a period drama, but a residential More...
Diwali 2016: Diabetic-friendly healthy and delicious sweet recipes for your sweet tooth
Diwali celebrations are incomplete without indulging your sweet tooth in traditional Indian sweets. Nothing adds life to festivities as boxes and boxes of rasgullas, kaju barfis, gulab jamuns do. But then, there More...
These girls learn Upanishads at school
MYSURU: As many as 18 girls from the state have enrolled at the Kaveri Kanya Gurukulam at Srirangapatna in the last three years to learn Upanishads. The institute offers a five-year integrated residential course More...