This story appears in Sambava Parva / Adi Parva of the great epic, Mahabharata. Sage Mandavya was sitting in deep meditation at the entrance of his hermitage at the foot of a tree in the forest, with his arms upraised. He had been in this state for years together. But tumultuous things started happening around [to be continued...]
Read by Swami Vivekananda at the Parliament of Religion at Chicago, U.S on 19th September, 1893 Three religions now stand in the world which have come down to us from time prehistoric — Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Judaism. They have all received tremendous shocks and all of them prove by their survival their internal strength. But [to be continued...]
The Sun is considered supreme God in Hinduism, like Zeus in Greek mythology. He is worshiped in different names, chiefly as Surya Narayana, Bhaskara, Aditya, Ravi, Mitra, Bhanu etc. The sun has been recognized and understood as the prime source of all kinds of energy in the world by our forefathers much before any western [to be continued...]
According to Vedas, the real place of worshiping God, or rather invoking gods for worship is your own self! (Aham brahmaasmi = I am the god!). It is the basic tenet of Hinduism that every human being has a soul called “Atma” in Sanskrit, which is the very incarnation of God (subset of the whole [to be continued...]
Though it seems superficially so, Hinduism cannot be classified as “monastic idealism” since monastics do not have a total control over all phases of your life like birth, induction to religion, marriage and even death. In Hinduism, you are your own part of the overall God’s domain. Hinduism acknowledges that an individual has an “atma” [to be continued...]
Hinduism preaches salvation of the soul but it doesn’t ask you to be inactive. That is the feeling one gets when reading the famous verse of the Bhagavat Gita, which goes like this: “karmanyeva adhikaraste` maa phaleshu kadhaachana” (You are entitled to do your karma (duty) unmindful of the result of your action since you [to be continued...]
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