शुभ दीपावली = shubha dIpAvalI = auspicious dIpAvalI / diwAlI - Let the lamp remove the darkness in and outside of you. - Start someth...

For about two thousand years, it seems there is fight about who others bow to in their private moment with the divine. Even when we say t...

The festival of dashaharā , दशहरा or as also written as Dussera, is celebrated on the tenth day of the ashvina अश्विन month. The previous n...

शरणागत-दीनार्त-परित्राण-परायणे । सर्वस्यार्तिहरे देवि नारायणि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥ śaraṇāgata-dīnārta-paritrāṇa-parāyaṇe । sarvas...

  सर्वभूता यदा देवी भुक्तिमुक्तिप्रदायिनी । त्वं स्तुता स्तुतये का वा भवन्तु परमोक्तयः ॥ sarvabhūtā yadā devī bhukti-mukt...

In the opening mantra of īshāvāsya upaniṣhad (IshAvAsya upaniShad / ईशावास्य उपनिषद् ) it says, ‘Don’t greed, for whose is wealth?’ meaning ...

stairs. सोपान / sopAna / sopāna निश्रयणी / nishrayaNI / nishrayaṇī Seven Falls, Colorado Springs, Colorado. 185 steps going up - ver...

What is the importance of japa? nAma japa? It reinforces the concept, the meaning of the nAma. And yes, it puts you in a kind of trance, mak...

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