Indian Temples & Iconography

I have been spending a good amount of mind time trying to understand what led up to the transformation of Karaikkal Ammaiyar - from a devot...

Shiva Nataraja dances for Karaikkal Ammaiyar I have lived and I have wondered all the time, what's the real point of this life. ...

Have you ever wondered why green parrots were chosen for being pet birds? In mythology, there has been a strong association of the damsel ...

For a very long period of time I believed that the answer to my quest for the supreme resided in my actions. It was all about doing, what ...

The mental detachment has set in, all that is around me appears like relative existence. Where then is my true home?  It has taken man...

It is yet another blessed day and I find myself headed to Puri once again with my colleagues. We called on the Lord really early thi...

Pati (grandmom), a brilliant woman who lived up to her late nineties, left her earthly presence a month ago. During her last few years...

So many years have gone by as I reflect on the Great Lord Jagannath. He has made such a presence in my world, so silent and yet so sure. H...

Vamsa - Quest for the Divine Calling is a fiction story that has been stitched together to make us think a bit - this has been the ...

This journey has finally culminated into my first book, it possibly explains the lack of posts. Its been an arduous journey of nearly 12+ ...

The term "love" has many depictions in the scriptures, from rapturous sensuality as a form of expression to divine intoxication....

Twenty years and counting, I have come across so many version of expression that describe the form of Shiva, so many in the past have tried...

It's been a journey this far, one into deep spiritualism... deeper than you have been possibly, and also one of the most enriching. Th...

Yes, it’s been the year of Jagannath, the year of Kamakshi Amman and Tara Ma, the year of the great lord Shiva himself. Call it a twist o...