(CHAKRA) Mahavir Janma Kalyanak is the specialist religious holiday in Jainism for Jains located all around the world.. It is the birth celebration of Lord Mahavira, the last Tirthankara. On the Gregorian calendar, the holiday occurs either in March or April. This year in 2012, it falls around April 5th. Mahavir Jayanti’s biggest celebrations take [...]

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 scholars [...]

(CHAKRA) Mahavira is the name most commonly used to refer to the Indian holy man Vardham?na who established what are today considered to be the central tenets of Jainism. According to Jain tradition, he was the 24th and the last Tirthankara. In Tamil, he is referred to as Aruka or Arukadevan. He is also known in texts [...]