Indian Temples & Iconography

Its been a while since I took to serious worship, and when I say serious worship I mean a certain level of orthodoxy being practiced in my ...

It was a realization this morning that the story of the hare and the tortoise can be interpreted in more ways than one. While the common so...

The Shiva Path is a state of mind that raises me from the dead... ||Om Namo Bhagavate Rudraya|| To live the state of Shiva Is to give ...

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...