Indian Temples & Iconography

Is love that simple? Love is probably the highest level of emotional intensity that we can reach and strangely it is also the most misunder...

I have been watching the news for a while, looking at the world scampering around to rescue people stuck in the mountains with no help to g...

Salvation, super philosophies and renunciation are lovely concepts, but what do we mortals do when we are tied down mercilessly by problems...

I have been asked whether I have achieved mental peace with all my study and understanding of the faith. I probably have crossed that brid...

I intended to continue blogging on the Dasa Maha Vidhyas, but this is a small post to remember JC Joshi and Raja Deekshitar who have been ...

Hinduism believes in a world of devatas who live in various strata of the visible atmosphere, the lower Kshudra devatas who reside clos...

A garland of skulls A horror to the ignorant An echo that death is the only truth How do I find love in this gory picture In the dark...

The sad story of Indian faith is largely influenced by the mimicing of the great acts of devotion by some superior soul mechanically and n...

A hollow emptiness descended on my mind and heart as I stared at the setting sun over the sacred Ganges in the holy land of Dakshineswar....

"Tat tvam asi" That thou art, or who we are, is possibly the most mysterious line ever. Our knowledge about the world, the uni...

I have wished several times that the Lord appears in my dreams and blesses me, that He teaches me divine lessons in my hours of deep slumb...

I have heard it too often; way too often as to why do Hindu's have a concept called idol worship that governs the fundamental principl...

Twilight set in, leaving behind its orange residue across the horizon and the chirping was slowly fading away. The night sounds had starte...

In the writer's own words:  "What the bloody hell, which joker wrote this bullshit!" This book or rather the series of bo...

I haven't quite seen anything like this, anything as intriguing, or secretive and yet so open. When we get down to discipline and disc...

Yama - This is not a word we would like to associate with very often in the Hindu way of life. The most prominent meaning of Yama as we ha...