Indian Temples & Iconography

Om Prabhaayai namaha: I bow to Her, who is radiant like the sun, surrounded by a golden hue she glows like a thousand brilliant suns. Om ...

When the fire of pure knowledge burns When the fragrance of divinity embraces the air When the aura around her is resplendent with her be...

Arunachala Mountain When all knowledge fades into oblivion When the curtains of faith are drawn to look beyond When the essence of exi...

  Shivling Mountain When the ancient world leaves impressions of a superior world behind, we ignore it When tradition tries to teach us i...

  She walks the earth The silent Goddess, Mother of the cremation ground Mother to the Lord himself The blue hued one In the moonless n...

Where there is abundance of wisdom there is love and worship Where the value of wisdom is not as much there is ignorance But where there is...

  He lay there on his deathbed, his eyes graying within their dark circles as he furiously fluctuated between this world and the other. He b...

Srinivasan sat down and took a deep breath, and lit the lamps to the Lord. He stared at the flame catching on, while the fire grew graceful...

What would it be like if Kannappa Nayanar lived in these times and still managed to achieve his goal! Let’s revisit his lifestyle in the ...

There is darkness all around, stillness and nothing can be seen or heard. There is just space, void and all I can feel is the thin breath p...

  I sit here in silence observing the Lord seated in His sacred shrine within this chamber and wonder, how distant and aloof He is from the...

The Tripura Rahasya beautifully quotes: 72. "Just as things unseen in darkness are found on its removal by means of a lamp, and are ...

Inspired by Chapters 1 & 2 of Tripura Rahasya [THE MYSTERY BEYOND THE TRINITY] Srinivasa looked up to the presence of the Lord withi...

I was this candle that never burned I was this piece of matter that exists in this universe without purpose I was this drop of life that ...