Indian Temples & Iconography

It has taken me a long time to realize just how much I have not understood your presence in my life. I have come to a point where I feel ho...

I am not completely aware of Krishna consciousness, and neither have I spent too much time trying to understand Vaishnavism. Maybe its time...

Everyone wants to reach the state of perfection, of course perfection at the moment continues to be a relative term and in the nuances of h...

Ganesha, Devi, Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma... we believe in them deeply, our lives are dotted with their repeated presence and we have grown up l...

It was a bright Saturday morning and the crowd had begun to gather at the Kamakshi Amman temple, Kanchipuram. We waited patiently for our t...

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...