Some contemporary scholars have suggested adding a fifth category, the Upasanas, which involves worshiping these texts. The ...

India, March 16 -- "When the Lord is omnipresent, why should I visit a temple? He is with me, here, right now." A logical protest! Omnipresent does not mean Omnimanifest, but can we "see Him or ...

So many Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, and the Bhagavad Gita… Which one truly defines Sanatan Dharma? In this enlightening video ...

Some believe that when a person dies nothing remains that death is the end of personality Others believe in the continuity of life That the present incarnation is only a link in the chain of one s ent ...

God chooses Bezalel, his assistant Oholiab, and every skilled craftsman that God has found (male or female) (Exodus 31:1-6). Skilled craftsmen, like God, are creative. They, like the Sabbath, are the ...

The practice of untouchability is most visible during the cremation. Again, no pundit would perform the funeral and read ...

However, despite Madhok being an almost forgotten name within his own party, many of the arguments presented in his book continue to be articulated in various ways by Hindu right-wing leaders. This is ...

Jacobsen notes in Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition, the Vedas are barely interested in specific sacred sites. In fact ... either in pamphlet form or in well-produced coffee table books. By the late ...

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Naga Sadhus arrive in a procession to take a holy dip in Sangam, the confluence of Ganges, Yamuna and Saraswati rivers, at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj.(AFP) The 45-day mega Hindu event has ...

In the Bankali forests near Pashupati, the temple of the Hindu god Shiva, holy men and devotees puffed on cannabis smoke, a practice that is normally illegal but is permitted during the Shivaratri ...