Swami Mukundananda’s new book shows how to read Ishavasya Upanishad ...

As scientific understanding continues to expand, several researchers and scholars are taking a closer look at ancient knowledge systems, particularly Hinduism and finding surprising parallels. From ...

We often walk past temples, visit homes, or attend ceremonies in India and see beautiful, often mysterious symbols. From the ...

Swami Vigyananand, an IIT graduate-turned-monk has penned a treatise drawing knowledge from sacred books, vedas and other classical hindu texts. With a name similar to election time promises made by ...

The Hindu Manifesto, a new book by IIT alumnus and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) Joint General Secretary Swami Vigyananand, will be released by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) Chief Mohan Bhagwat on ...

Next time someone says they have “read the Vedas" and know it’s full of mad and violent stuff, just ask them if they have read Stairway to Heaven (point being: Veda is not a book, but a primarily ...

As historian Knut A. Jacobsen notes in Pilgrimage in the Hindu Tradition, the Vedas are barely interested in specific sacred sites. In fact, they are overwhelmingly focused on personal names—of gods, ...

The term Hindu first appeared in a written form in the Achaemenid inscriptions and Zend Avesta (the holy book of the Zoroastrians). It had multiple meanings, from geographical to colour.

In a new book, we have an introduction to 11 Great Souls, saints and seers of Hinduism: * Meerabai * Adi Shankaracharya * Soordas * Tukaram * Kabirdas * Ravidas * Andal * Ramanujacharya * Purandara ...

Scanning the pages of history an interesting and an undeniable feature can be found that when all of the old civilizations came up and perished, the Indic Civilization which is the oldest of all the ...

Sacred texts mean vary amongst religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and other times not. Sacred texts mean different things to different religions—sometimes they’re essential to ...

The study of Hinduism reveals much more than the narrow ideas of the Vedic corpus. Yet it was the Veda that was privileged by the British, who were looking for a Hindu “holy book”.