Nataraja idol in home is not recommended? I was advised not to keep a small 2 inch brass natraja idol in my puja room. I was told that special poojas need to be conducted everyday if i keep it. I do Pooja's only once in a while. Can I still keep the idol? Was is generally said? 3 2 replies
A song by Sri Ramdulal describing how the non dual brahman is perceived by different people differently 1 1 replies
Ramayana The Legend of Prince Ram is finally releasing on 24th of January Ramayana The Legend of Prince Ram is finally releasing on 24th of January 3 4 replies
Prayers when health is at risk? Jai Siya Ram everyone. I find out sometime this week or next week if something is wrong with my heart. It’s been a very tough last 2-3 weeks, and I keep thinking about death and how my family will feel if something is wrong. How I have not done anything significant in life and if something bad were to happen, the after state that would be. I even skipped a day of shower today, and don’t feel like doing anything. How can I pray for good health and hope... 3 2 replies
The truth about Hindu Gods. I BEG YOU TO READ! **It's a bit long but I promise it will be worth it🙏** A few years ago, I stumbled upon demonology and Demonolatry. I didn't practice it but was really fascinated by it so I dug deeper and deeper. Read books, and studied a lot about it. Read about different demons, their origins etc. At first, I just observed the similarities in the ways people connected with these demons—through meditation, rituals, and focused worship, exactly the same as hinduism. At that point, I thought, "Are all Hindu gods actually demons?".... 4 11 replies
Initiation in North America Any place to get initiated/find a guru? I wanna get into shiva mantras, wondering if I can get deeksha. And if there is nath sampradaya there 2 3 replies
What does this mean? Spiritual context What does it mean when I hear chanting of mantras even though no one was chanting inside home? I went to my neighbors home and I heard someone say “ommmm” and another phrase ending in “namaha”. I left thinking they are doing their daily prayer and came back 20 mins later to find that they have been on a meeting and sending messages with time stamps. At the time I heard it. The diya wasn’t lit, pooja for the day was already done. No body in the home was... 3 2 replies
Here is slap to those who accuse hindus of idol worshiping I quote two verses by Bhagavan Raman Maharishi : 1. O you that ridicule idol-worship, having not discovered through heart-melting love its secret, how is that you [daily] worship the filthy idol of your body as ‘I’? 2. mistake a body as Self, and to treat it accordingly, is also a form of idol worship. Indeed to treat and love a body as ‘I’ is the primal mistake which leads to all other forms of idol worship. If one first roots out and destroys the ‘I am the body’... 5 8 replies
diya going out early hello everybody, i'm fairly new to hinduism and started offering deepam daily as of late. things have been going pretty smoothly up until around yesterday when my diya started going out much earlier than it should. from my own research i concluded that this shouldn't mean anything and that i should just relight it, so that's what i've been doing, but i've had to repeat making wicks and lighting again up to three times in a row before it finally would stay lit for longer than ten minutes. it... 5 1 replies
Futility of Jati based surnames A lot of Hindu surnames are derived from Jati. Jatis are associated with specific occupations. But in today’s society many people using those occupation based surnames are not engaged in the said occupation. A Jati surname was used to identify what a person does for a living. Shouldn’t we bring back the original usage of Jati ? 4 11 replies
Deep understanding of sorrow/suffering - An Advaita Vedantic perspective | Swami Sarvapriyananda Deep understanding of sorrow/suffering - An Advaita Vedantic perspective | Swami Sarvapriyananda 4 1 replies
Brahmamuhurtha Pooja no positive results I have been waking up at 4:15 in the morning and doing the pooja before 6:30 for the past 1 year. But all of the sudden, i am facing more problems in my life especially financial tightness. Can I continue this? Also, in the meantime I did Lakshmi Kubera Pooja for 48 days this Dec. Till now I didn’t get any results. 2 13 replies
Lakshmi is derived from the root word lakṣ (लक्ष्) & lakṣa (लक्ष), meaning 'to perceive, observe, know, understand' & 'goal, aim, objective'. These together mean: know & understand your goal. A related term is lakṣaṇa: 'sign, target, aim, symbol, attribute, quality, auspicious opportunity'. 13 0 replies
Celebrating Krishna's birthday, people dress up like him and take to the streets to dance and sing. Celebrating Krishna's birthday, people dress up like him and take to the streets to dance and sing. 5 2 replies
Is Harishankar Jain a true Hindu hero? For decades, 70-year-old advocate Harishankar Jain has fought relentlessly for what he considers the restoration of India’s spiritual heritage: reclaiming Hindu temples allegedly demolished during centuries of foreign rule to build mosques. In a career spanning over four decades, Jain’s legal battles have expectedly stirred both admiration and controversy. Jain’s journey was deeply influenced by his upbringing. His mother, a staunch Hindu well-versed in scriptures like the Bhagavad Gita and the Vedas, homeschooled him during a frail childhood. Her teachings imbued in him a sense of purpose: to restore... 3 0 replies
Can anyone here explain to me how the Hindu calendar works? So I checked my birthday from Hindu calendar on this website called janmtithi.in (https://janmatithi.in/index.html) They gave me the tithi of phalguna amavasya (15th) and in Gregorian Calendar that's 29th March but in kalnirnay ( a brand of calendar) that day is showing chaitra amavasya so it's not confusing 2 3 replies
What does shambhari vidya mean? As the title says For context, I've seen it in an astrology book which says Budha is the god who is well versed in it. (శాంబరీ విద్యా is the spelling of the word) 1 0 replies
