Sri Rama, Lakshmana and Hanuman stumbled by my office.
Thus Spake Sri Krishna
January 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Sri Krishna speaks to Arjuna, the soul caught in the vortex of human condition.
Krishna – Sri Aurobindo
August 22, 2011 By 2 Comments
Of all Avatars of the Divine Sri Krishna alone has a special place. Sri Rama is venerated. Every other Avatar prior to him is acknowledged and prayed to. But none is adored with the intensity and rapture that Sri Krishna is. Why is that so? We would not know entirely, until the same intensity of [...]
Immutable One and the Baffling Many
March 27, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Why the many Gods in Hinduism? If God is one why does He(or It?) consent to confound us with many forms. And why do we consent to cast Him into form anyway?
The Symbolism of Indian Art
January 14, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Great minds have weighed in on the nature of Indian art. Its grandeur, the suffusion of riches, sometimes even a suffocating bewildering maze of beauty heaped pell-mell. Check the excesses of this race here. It seems there was not the clear path, a logical progression, like say the clearly delineated phases of styles like in [...]
No Lucifer in Hinduism
January 6, 2009 By 7 Comments
Idea of eternal damnation is an impossibility within Hinduism. There is a hell, Naraka, for sure..and the hindu versions of boiling oil and other assorted cruelties remain. But the idea that an act, however heinous, once done condemns forever is not possible. Allow me to explain. Every Asura, Rakshasa and other principalities of the nether [...]
The Mystique of the Curse in Hinduism
January 2, 2009 By 2 Comments
A curse is hard to escape. Within the tomes of Hindu mythology and its epics, the occurrence of a curse is a frequent certainty. Most ancient civilizations, ancient Greek, Biblical, Egyptian etc., had curse practitioners. The practitioners were almost always someone wronged. Someone whom the laws of Dharma were to protect but failed to. Instances [...]
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