By Prashant Parikh, a student of traditional Vedanta from Arsha Vidya Gurukulam Foreword: In late 2009, just days before I left for USA after vacationing in India, I was given a commentary on the Gita written by Pujya Swami Dayananda ji (Arsha Vidya Gurukulam), by an elderly gent who felt it might be of use to […]

Kshamavani, also known as Forgiveness Day is a Jainism celebration and a day of universal forgiveness, in which Jains ask forgiveness of others for wrongs committed during the previous year, and they also forgive those who have caused them suffering. In 2012 Ksamavani is celebrated on the Samvatsari, the last day of the annual Paryusana festival, which […]

By Dr. OP Sudrania Read Is Caste Only a Hindu Problem? Part 1 Read Is Caste only a Hindu Problem? Part 2 Read Is Caste only a Hindu Problem? Part 3 Read Is Caste only a Hindu Problem? Part 4 In this part I shall try to deal with some residual aspects of prevailing castes in other communities. I shall […]

By Abhishek Tondon 1 ) In India, with 80% Hindu population, and the only homeland of Hindus in the world, the birthdays of great sons of the soil, Shri Ram and Shri Krishna, are not compulsory central government holidays, while the birthday of Saudi Arabia born prophet Mohammad and both the birth and crucification day […]

By William Haskell Levine At first I hardly noticed the pinkish rose.  It was a warm L.A. December, and I was rushing around doing what I thought to be important activities (music, yoga, playing with my son), and I noticed a tightly wound rosebud on a neglected backyard bush.  An industrious stem had grown a […]