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Shiva

  • How many eyes do you have?

    How many eyes do you have?

    ‘With a woman by your side, you are like the three-eyed Shiva. Without her, you are the one-eye Shukra, though you may look like the two-eyed Kama.’…

  • Breaking the royal pillar

    Breaking the royal pillar

    Stories are not created in vacuum. They respond to a historical context and emerge to communicate a point of view…

  • Our relationship with wealth

    Our relationship with wealth

    In the Hindu Puranas, the problem is never with wealth. The problem is with our relationship with wealth…

  • Hatred is not Divine

    Hatred is not Divine

    when someone says that homosexuality is not ‘approved’ by Hinduism, they are missing the whole point of Hinduism…

  • Yoga of the Jogis

    Yoga of the Jogis

    Yoga can be seen in three ways: the modern way, the upanishadic way and finally the Siddha way…

  • The yoga trap

    The yoga trap

    Is yoga Hindu or Indian, secular or religious?…

  • The Glamorization of Alcohol

    The Glamorization of Alcohol

    When the gods churned the ocean of milk, amongst the many treasures that emerged there was a lady called Varuni, daughter of the sea-god Varuna, who was the goddess of wine. Actually goddess of alcohol, but wine sounds so much better than alcohol…

  • The World is never flat

    The World is never flat

    How sweet is the notion of equality !!…

  • Yoga of the yogis

    Yoga of the yogis

    Yoga,Tantra,Jogis,Nath-Panthis and all that come in this pantheon of mysticism and power…

  • Legends of the Nath-Jogis

    Legends of the Nath-Jogis

    Legends,tales,stories,and myths of the great Nath-Jogis…

  • Elder Brother of God

    Elder Brother of God

    Two brothers-yet so vastly different…

  • Talking Heads

    Talking Heads

    His laughter is not the kind we want to hear,for it mocks us and reminds us of what only we and he know…

  • The Context of the Mahabharata

    The Context of the Mahabharata

    To understand the Mahabharata we have to appreciate the Ramayana and to appreciate both we need to appreciate the Vedas…

  • Ardhanareshwara

    Ardhanareshwara

    Two halves of a complete Whole…

  • Celebrating Shiva’s Holy Night

    Celebrating Shiva’s Holy Night

    An unconventional God – an unconventional way and rituals of worship…

  • HANUMAN — an Introduction

    HANUMAN — an Introduction

    This book is an attempt to understand the imagery, ritual and philosophy associated with Hanuman worship in our time…