Bhagavad Geeta studies Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Part 2/2
Inert matter exists; a living being also exists. The difference between the existences of these two has to be taken note of. A living being is aware of its own existence while the...
Bhagavad Geeta studies Existence-Knowledge-Bliss Part 1
God in His absolute state is beyond the ken of mind and speech. He is indefinable. But when He is immanent in the universe, He is denoted as Sat-cit-anandam—Existence-Knowledge-Bliss. There is no other...
Bhagavad Geeta: The way of Sri Krishna
The knowers of Truth have equated Sri Krishna with Reality or Paramatman. The plan and purpose of Vedanta is to lead the aspirant towards the Reality. Seemingly man is encaged within a mortal...
All Schools of Vedanta seen through Bhagavad Geeta
The principles enunciated in the Scriptural Trinity go by the name of Vedanta. The word is a compound of Veda and Anta. It means the end or culmination of the Vedas....
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 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...
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...
Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah: To Uphold To Sustain To Integrate Part 1/3
By Pujya Swami Prakashanandaji (Feature address delivered at Varsha Pratipada Sansad, 2025)
Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitah: He who protects dharma is protected by dharma. Dharma is that which upholds, sustains and...
Hindu Scriptures Part 2
By Pt. Charranlall Avishkar Nandalall
Vedas are Self-authorities
Unlike modern faiths, the scriptures of Hinduism that is Sanaatana Dharma does not have any special person as the authority of over the scriptures. The Vedas are themselves...
Hindu Scriptures Part 1
By Pt. Charranlall Avishkar Nandalall
Scriptures are essential to religion. Religions are often preserved by their scriptures. Bhagavad Geeta says, “One, who acts under the influence of his or her desires, disobeying scriptural injunctions, neither...
