The Significance of Incense Burning — The Hindu Way

A Rebuttal

A rebuttal by nature is aimed at defending something precious when it is under attack, at least so is my intention here. The culture of a nation, especially that of India’s, is founded on a deeper…

The Nirvana of Sri Aurobindo

The Buddhist idea of Nirvana excludes all sense of personality and existence; it formulates upon the idea of a spiritual negation of Life, and while being in it, to follow a rigorous discipline aimed at cutting of the individual’s cord of life from everything living and…

The Sense of Nationalism

The Sense of The Bhagavad Gītā

The Gita at the outset begins with the fallen hero of the battle asking Sri Krishna the meaning behind the heartless cruelty and inevitable death to be inflicted on his own kith and kin, and still more cruel…

Surya And The Ascending Path Of The Spirit

Vedic Deities

Mahasaraswati And The Perfection of Consciousness

Vedic Deities

No great invention of the world has ever been possible without mathematical knowledge and precision in its measuring devices, but an invention is nothing more than a knowledge of arriving at…

The Legend of Radha and Krishna

For the western psyche, the idea of devotion does not exist in its purity of form. It is rather a lower movement, a turbid stream of perverse joy exalted in the lower nature than a sublime movement of the purified heart, a silent longing for the Divine without outward drama…

Sri Krishna’s Universal Form & Arjuna’s Yoga

The Bhagavad Gita, Song of the Lord, has guided innumerable aspirants to walk…

I, Garuda

Note: Garuda of the Puranas is the vahana, vehicle, of Vishnu. The approach to Vishnu Consciousness is described in the Rig Veda as one of wideness, one who measures out the spaces for other Powers to establish themselves in the aspirant. This short story emerged from the author’s musings on how the first…

Mahasaraswati And The Sense and History of the Vedic Symbol

Vedic Deities

Prehistory is the true history of the Indian subcontinent, but it is nothing more than a mere boisterous assertion of hearsay, if we do not have anything to back our assertion. It…

Age of Kshatriyahood — A Call to Action

An Essay