Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah: To Uphold To Sustain To Integrate Part 3/3
By Pujya Swami Prakashanandaji (Feature address delivered at Varsha Pratipada Sansad, 2025)
TULASIDAS JI
While we speak of truth being to foundation of dharma, there is an interesting doha by...
Hindu Scriptures Part 6/6: Mahabharata & Bhagavad Geeta
Amonsgt the four main Itihasas, is the Mahabharata. The Mahabharata is the history of the Pandavas and the Kauravas. It gives a description of the great war, the Battle of Kurukshetra,...
Bhagavad Geeta commentaries are grouped according Vedanta schools
Commentaries on the Gita being very many in number, there is the possibility of their contradicting one another. Can contradictory ideas be at the same time soul-elevating ideas? This is the question...
Ecological Reverence in Hinduism
By Aachaarya Pt. Ramdial Balbadar
A verse in the Atharva Veda says: ‘O Death, we pay homage to thee for saving us from the scientific weapons of the learned; from the instruments and arms of kings; and...
The best commentary on Bhagavad Geeta is Sri Krishna Himself
Among this multiplicity of commentaries, is there not the possibility of a student getting stranded as in a forest? As they run into hundreds, which of them is to be...
Hindu Scriptures Part 5: The Itihasas
In Part Five we will focus on the Itihasa category of Hindu Scriptures.
There are four books under this heading: The Valmiki-Ramayana (and now Tulsidasa Ramayana or Sri Ramacharitamanas), the Yogavasishtha, The Mahabharata and the...
Commentaries on Bhagavad Geeta are naturally cropping up
The function of a commentary is to expand, explain, expound and extol the contents of a great book. It is but natural that numerous commentaries crop up round divinely inspired books. Several...
Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah: To Uphold To Sustain To Integrate Part 2/3
By Pujya Swami Prakashanandaji (Feature address delivered at Varsha Pratipada Sansad, 2025)
SATYAM EVE JAYATE
It is little wonder why this line from the Mundaka Upanishad has become so hugely...
India congratulates Guyana on 59th Independence Anniversary
Her Excellency, President of the Republic of India has extended greeting and felicitations to the Government and people of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana on the observance of Guyana’s 59th Independence Anniversary.
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Hindu Scriptures Part 4
The Puranas
In part four we will examine the Puraanas.
Puranas have five characteristics (Pancha-Lakshana) viz., history, cosmology (with various symbolical illustrations of philosophical principles), secondary creation, genealogy of kings and of Manvantaras. All the Puranas belong...
