Tweet (CHAKRA) - Happy Holi! Also greeted as Shubh Holi, is the festival of colors celebrated mainly in India, along with a presence in Nepal.  Holi is being celebrated on March 8th, 2012 across the world by Indians around the world.  Holi is one of the biggest celebrations for Hindus and Indians. According to the Hindu calendar, Holi [...]

Tweet Narasimha is an avatar of Vishnu described in the Puranas, Upanishads and other ancient religious texts of Hinduism. The legend on King Hiranyakashipu is one of the explanations Hindus look back to. The King condemned his son, Prahlad, from worshipping the god Vishnu. However, he continued to pray to him. Filled with anger, the [...]

Tweet (CHAKRA) How can one define “Hinduism” one may ask. Is it a religion?  A philosophy?  A collection of myths?  A way of life? Lets look at the term Hinduism first: the fact is that the name “Hindu” was given to the inhabitants of the Indus Valley by foreign invaders. From there the term Hinduism was given to the amalgam of [...]

Tweet By Sarvesh K Tiwari You can read Origins of Yoga – PART 1 here We have seen in the previous part how the identity of pata~njali, about which Hindus have never had doubts, is maliciously obliterated by the western commentators of yoga. Having obfuscated yoga-sUtra and having reduced its author to obscurity, next our western [...]

Tweet Click here to Read Hindus and Monotheism PART 1  Vedic Monotheism? 2. Discovering monotheism underneath polytheism Christian and post-Christian scholars have often attempted to recast other religions in the monotheistic mould. This endeavour was usually motivated by one of two contradictory motives, both of them presupposing a superiority for monotheism. Either its intention was sympathetic, [...]

Tweet (CHAKRA) It has been often alleged that rituals are nothing but superstitions practiced by illiterates and blind followers of faith. It is even claimed that no rational person will indulge himself in meaningless practices. Most of the rituals as such have died down. Most people don’t even perform the “Nitya Karmas” suggested in the [...]

Tweet By Sarvesh K Tiwari (CHAKRA) On Pata~njali And His Works || namaH bhagavate pata~njalaye || “…we know little about the yoga author Patanjali. We know of Patanjali the grammarian and have good reason to date him to the 2nd century BC. Apart from the name, we have no solid reason for assuming that he [...]

Tweet Until his death in 2003, Bhishma Sahni was one of India’s most renowned Hindi language authors and playwrites. His 1974 controversial and popular novel ‘Tamas’ (Darkness) won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1975 and in 1987 was made into a television series for the national channel Doordarshan. Sahni wrote about the exodus of Hindus [...]

Tweet (CHAKRA) Lord Vishnu, the Lord of the Universe and a part of “The Trinity” of the Hindu concept of the Highest Universal Energy that pervades the each matter that exists in this visible world. Meditation on who leads us to “Samadhi” which culminates into realisation of the Highest Primordial Energy Self. The ultimate name [...]

Tweet (CHAKRA) In his 1993 BBC television series Akbar S Ahmed, former ambassador from Pakistan to Britain and presently Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University in Washington DC, stated that Jinnah had created Pakistan so that India’s Muslims could be “safe from Hindu reaction”. But he has remained largely silent on [...]