Indian Temples & Iconography

Oh Sweet Mother Who is seated on the lap of the Lord Who is seated in this divine realm Who has won his mind and heart Who rises out ...

Chilling winds blow through the mountains as the fog descends on to sacred land. There in the horizon, high up overhanging the cliff stands...

I sit here swinging between two worlds. I met her, a practicing tantric and what a wonderful woman she turned out to be. She unraveled her l...

Look up to the bright sky and train your eyes to see the brightness in it, you will notice the faint clouds that glow even brighter in that ...

Adi Shankaracharya has composed 5 stanzas of excellence that describe Maya. Three Stanzas that really made me smile are: Stanza 2: Maya, whi...

Mysticism is an ocean of unexplainable phenomenon... well what can I say about it, except that the ingredients are different, the rules are ...

Sound, stone, darkness, light, water, flowers, incense, and most importantly the very sacred shrine that resides deep within the temple brin...

Vaishno Devi Shrine The Thirumanthiram quotes: "From thence evoluted Maya Latent in Shakti like lustre in crystal Mighty its power Beyo...

In this chaotic world You have come to reside in my home In this noisy jungle You have brought silence to my mind In this blind rush for wea...

Om Na Ma Shi Va Ya Attainment of spiritual bliss has its various levels. To the totally ignorant just the mention of these syllables is a gr...

From the darkness there rises A power of superior nature That thinks not before destroying evil That leaves only blood and ashes to spare Sh...

I sit in front of His sacred shrine, My emotions flow like a river of love My mind fights back with an army of thoughts My vision keeps my t...

Srinivasan stood contemplating over the beauty of the monument that lay silent in front of him. In the cool breeze, he could hear the wind e...

How do we define knowledge? How do we define the difference between academically gained knowledge and that of divine wisdom? How do we compr...

Where the void meets chaos Where diversity meets unity Where noise meets silence Where the self is and isn't This is the moment of truth...