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...
Bhagavad Geeta: An Exposition of the Maha-Vakyam—Sentence Sublime
There is a tenor common to all the great scriptures of the world. Directly or indirectly they are all exponents of the maha-vakyam, the Sentence Sublime. Now, what is this maha-vakyam? It...
The Motherhood of God: A Trace of History
Although the idea of the Motherhood of God is today a specialty of Hinduism, it had wide prevalence in the ancient world. The religions of Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, Greece and other...
Bhagavad Geeta is simultaneously a Sruti and Smriti
The popularity that the Gita enjoys is indisputable. The reason for this is patent. It occupies simultaneously the position of the Sruti and Smriti. What these two types of scripture are...
