Spirituality/Culture

“Time is not just a concept that we invented; it is deep-rooted in the system, in the very way we are made.” – Sadhguru Time – the invisible current behind every story. And Mahabharat is no exception. In this video, Sadhguru gives us an eye-opening insight through the ancient concept of yugas (eras or ages [...]

A county judge in San Diego CA has ruled that yoga is not always religious (Washington Post, 2 July 2013). Parents in a San Diego school district had complained that yoga is intrinsically intertwined with the Hindu religion and that its practice in a public school setting violates the constitutional separation of church and state. [...]

Book : The Immortals of Meluha : Author : Amish Tripathi The legend of Siva would be fertile ground for authors to adapt from and weave magical tales of adventure from. But only for the talented and hard-working. This book reflects neither talent nor hard work. The fascinating premise remains just that. What if the [...]

It was a historic moment for California’s Hindu American community, when the senate floor at the Capitol unanimously passed the resolution on Monday designating October 2013 as Hindu American awareness and appreciation month. The bill was authored by state Senate Majority Leader Ellen M Corbett, who said, “As the senator representing the 10th state senate [...]

Featuring some of Hanuman’s best loved teachers and Music by Saul David Raye. [...]

The technique, known as Transcendental Meditation, involves a particular sound being repeated over and over again with the eyes closed Students who performed two 20-minute sessions twice a day were up to 25 per cent more likely to graduate from high school  A meditation technique made famous by the Beatles could boost brain power and [...]

We have drunk of the soma; we have become immortal, we have seen the light; we have found the Gods… Rig Veda 8.48.3 The search for the elixir of life, the quest for the Holy Grail has been since time immemorial the preoccupation of every arcane mystery religion. From the Chinese to the Greco-Egyptian, to [...]

Aditi (Mother of the Universe, the Primal Being) is all the Heaven, Aditi is the space, Aditi is Mother, Father and Children. Aditi is all the Gods and Goddesses, Aditi is the five bases of creation. Aditi is all that has been and all that will take birth. Rig Veda 1.89.10 [...]

Many people have heard about the Kama sutra, but generally the ideas that circulate are rather distorted, vague and confused by ignorance and prejudice. [...]

In 1968, only six years after founding the AEPi chapter at his Long Island University campus, Steven Silberfein took one of the thousand names of the Hindu god Vishnu and became Sridhar Silberfein.A year later, the one-time Jewish fraternity brother escorted the Hindu teacher Swami Satchidananda to the stage at Woodstock to deliver an invocation [...]