Indian Temples & Iconography

Over time we have made Ganesha look like such a domestic, homely God who is ever pleased with our little to no prayer. We believe he remove...

It has been cooking for a while in the mind and I am taking my time to connect the dots. Spiritualism is great fun when it comes with puzzl...

It’s been a while now, having gone through books, having visited temples, having done my own dig to find out everything I can possibly know...

Srinivasan looked around the room; the odor of sandal wood and incense was strong and a little lamp stood by the pictures of many Gods who ...

Simply put, the concept of Bhuvaneshwari is a little hard to understand. In order to understand the meaning of Bhuvaneshwari, be it the ver...

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...