Bowing: A Hindu View of Divinity All-Pervasive—Part 4
Bowing and its Development
Bowing is a mark of humility. It is the most natural expression one of the most noble emotions of the human heart: the desire to acknowledge and express...
Krishna’s life vividly manifest the ideal to be achieved
Sri Krishna’s life was His message; He practiced what He preached. He is the very embodiment of the ideal of Karma Yoga. He teaches that we must remain unperturbed by...
Sri Krishna: The Supreme Personality
Sri Krishna’s Message has been an eternal source of inspiration, not only to spiritual aspirants, but also to patriots and philanthropists, social and religious reformers, politicians, and leaders of people everywhere. He has been...
Sri Krishna: The Miracle Worker
Accounts relate that among His acts was the performance of miracles – right from His very ‘birth’. He ‘appeared’ at the time of “birth” in the transcendent four-armed form and then immediately assumed the form...
Sri Krishna: The Poorna Avatara—A complete Manifestation of Glory and Power
In 3102 BC, in Mathura, India, a child was born who was destined to reshape the spiritual and temporal destiny of mankind. He was given the name Krishna....
Sri Krishna: The epitome of absolute glory and greatness
All traditions assert that God is great. Lord Sri Krishna graphically demonstrates that Greatness. In the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, Sri Krishna gives Arjuna a glimpse of His awe-inspiring greatness by displaying...
Bowing: A Hindu View of Divinity All-Pervasive—Part 3
Bowing in the Hindu tradition
Hindus have evolved a great spiritual and cultural trait of bowing before teachers, elders and other reverential persons. This bowing can be seen in many of the Asian...
HINDU PHILOSOPHY—Part 3
The Philosophy of Yoga—Part 1
Prostrations to Sri Patanjali Maharshi, the exponent of the Raja Yoga system of philosophy, the first systematiser of the Yoga school, whose ‘Yoga Sutras’ is the basic text.
The word Yoga comes from...
THE SHAD-DARSHANAS—HINDU PHILOSOPHY—Part 2
The Orthodox and the Heterodox Systems of Indian Philosophy
The six systems of Indian philosophy or the Shad-Darshanas are the six orthodox systems of philosophy. They are the six ways of looking at the Truth. They are...
TULASIDASA: THE POET, REFORMER AND DEVOTEE PAR EXCELLENT
Today we observe Tulasidasa Jayanti—the birth of the poet, Hindu reformer, devotee, philosopher and most celebrated synthesizer of Hindu thought of recent.
Tulasidasa is regarded as the greatest Ramaite poet. He was...
