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Passionate Devotion for Shiva
Published on 7th August, 2022, in Mid-day. About a thousand years ago, we are told …
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Economics Of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva That Businessmen Across the World Need to Know
Published on 25th June, 2022, in Economic Times. The Puranas were composed 1500 years ago, …
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Shiva from Tibet?
Published on 19th June, 2022, in Mid-day. The idea that Tibet was the homeland of …
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Why Scholars Don’t Agree About the Origins of the Shivlinga
Published on 18th May, 2022, in Times of India. Orientalist academicians love describing the Shiva-ling …
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Is Shiva the Destroyer of Evil?
Published on 26th September, 2021, in Mid-day. In popular understanding of the mythology, Brahma is …
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When Shiva Used His Trident
Published on 7th June, 2020, in Mid-day. Some of the oldest and most spectacular images …
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One Idea, Many Expressions
Published on 15th March, 2020, in Mid-day In a typical Hindu temple, we do not …
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Mahabharata On the Hills
Published on 26th January, 2020, in Mid-day Badrinath and Kedarnath are two major centres of …
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Gods Love Water
Published on 22nd December, 2019, in Mid-day Hindu mythology is full of symbols associated with …
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Child-sage Balak Nath
Published on 23rd June, 2019, in Mid-day In Himachal, and nearby regions, a yogi is …
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A temple for a dog
Dogs are associated with Yama, who is the keeper of dharma. One of the meanings of dharma is the obligation of human beings to repay debts to ancestors, sages, gods, nature and society…
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Dogs of the gods
Published on 28th April, 2019, in Mid-day. In traditional Hindu society, dogs are considered inauspicious. …
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The metaphor of the forest
Published on 21st April, 2019, in Mid-day. To understand Hindu mythology, it is critical to …
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What came first: the world or life?
Published on 24th March, 2019, in Mid-day. As per scientists, the world began 13 billion …
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For the love of the moon
The moon started to wane and he kept waning. When he was about to disappear, he prayed to the great god, Shiva, who, through the practice of yoga, created energy within him…
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The sacred form of Kashi
In Kashi, the river Ganga, which normally runs from the Himalayas to the sea in the south, takes a turn and moves northwards. This reverse flow of the Ganga is considered spiritually significant because it is believed that one can manifest certain tantric ideas in such places…
