While searching for a tyAgarAja kR^iti in the rare and mesmerizing rAga bhairavam, I came across a video of the Fire Yogin on youtube. A

shrImAtre namaH Like there are samskAras such as garbhAdhAna etc. for the aihika sharIra, dahana and other samskAras have been prescribed for the AmuShmika sharIra

vArAham vAmanam viShNum narasimham janArdanam | mAdhavam cha prapanno.asmi kim me mR^ityuH kariShyati || Bhartrhari says in vairAgya shataka: bhoge rogabhayam kule chyutibhayam vitte nR^ipAlAdbhayam

A close acquaintance from Mysore, who is also a noted musicologist, remarked during my trip to India earlier this year that shrI muttusvAmi dIkshitar was

In the current cycle of creation, tamo yuga, prANi yuga and Adi yuga were followed by a period named maNijA where human society reached a

Sri Dattatreya is described as the son of Atri and Anasuya in the Puranas. We generally read Purnas superficially without understanding the inner essence of

The purANas seem to have mixed references to Buddha. vAyu purANa sings the glory of the very Bodhi tree under which Buddha is claimed to

Dr. Bhattacharya’s inference that India knew of no deity named ekajaTA before nAgArjuna’s time is unwarranted. The colophon of ekajaTA’s sAdhana in sAdhanamAla is incorrectly

namaH shrIpurabhairavyai After listening to a lecture from our dear friend, a dean at Stanford on “Medical Accidents”, the relevance of some simple tips given

[Many seem to hold Buddhist Tantras as being close to Hindu Tantras because of the similarity in rituals or mantras. But a core principle or

guNAtIto.akSharaM brahma bhagavAn puruShottamaH | jano jAnannidaM satyaM muchyate bhavabandhanAt || A few years ago, I happened to look through various pAncharAtra saMhitAs to identify

[Query] Breath awareness during japa, does it help? Initially, shAstras and the great masters advice the aspirant to forget about everything and concentrate on japa,