Scientifically ancient India was developed and our ancient saints discovered many things and lost everything under the foreign rule.Sacred texts like Srimad Bhagavatham , Holy Gita, Vedas, Upanishads contain technical and scientifical advancd informations. In astrology we were well advanced. 1. First of all, Bhagavatam had its origin from Bhagavan Himself when he told to Brahma sitting in the lotus of his navel in four verses called the cathussloki Bhagavata (II-9). 2....
1. Please know that God is within you. 2 God is infinite love and peace. 3. God is the eternal light and joy that shine the whole universe. 4. People should rise to the occasion to do their duty. 5. People should reach the height and glory of God’s supreme presence. 6. The feeling that I and mine should be given up and see every thing equal. 7. Have an elevated thinking. 8. Remember God in the beginning, in the middle, and in the end for all ventures. 9. Be hu...
Where is God? Where is God? Somebody's (especially youth) curios enquiry .How it can be explained The only answer is that "God is everywhere means in living and nonliving things yet localized, all-pervading yet aloof. He walks yet doesn't walk. He is far away yet very near as well. also like taste of water , ligt of sun " Such contradictory statements are not whimsical. Rather, they indicate God's inconceivable power.We can only feel and enjoy. The Absolute Truth, Krshna, can be realized i...
Suklam baratharam vishnum sasivarnam sathurbujam Prasanna vadanam dyayeth sarva vignoba santhaye. All worship, puja or any rituals of Hinduism start with Ganesh puja and He is the first to be worshipped whenever we start anything. Lord Vinayaka has got an elephant face and human body. He is worshipped by many names like Vinayaka, Ganesha, Pillayar, Vigneshwara, Gajanana, Ganapathy, Mooshika Vahanaa, Modhaga priya etc. He rides on an animal called mooshika(a...
LEGENDS OF GURUVAYURAPPAN Guruvayurappan Lord Krishna at Guruvayur, a city located in Trichur district in Kerala - India, is worshipped as Lord Guruvayurappan. It is said that the idol of Lord Guruvayurappan was worshipped by Vasudeva, father of Lord Krishna and represents the full manifestation of Lord Maha Vishnu. The idol is made of a stone called "Patala Anjanam" or black bismuth and is in the standing pose with 4 arms carrying the shanku (conch), the chakra (discus), the gada (ma...
In the early visits of Swami Chinmayanandaji to USA, many were attracted towards his oratory, rational explantion to the modern youth etc; BUT one young man had posed a question to the Swamiji " Sir, why is it there are so many different Gods in the Hindu pantheon, while other religions have only ONE God and swear by HIM " With ready wit at his command, Swamiji replied " Look here, my friend, it is advantageous and useful; you have only one God; when there are many people making demands, cr...
In the early visits of Swami Chinmayanandaji to USA, many were attracted towards his oratory, rational explantion to the modern youth etc; BUT one young man had posed a question to the Swamiji " Sir, why is it there are so many different Gods in the Hindu pantheon, while other religions have only ONE God and swear by HIM " With ready wit at his command, Swamiji replied " Look here, my friend, it is advantageous and useful; you have only one God; when there are many people making demands, cr...
Holy Ramayana month begins in Adi month. Kowsalya supraja Rama poorva sandhya pravarthathe Uthishta narasardoola karthavyam daivamahnikam 1. Sri Rama! Kausalya's endearing son! Wake up, dear; You have to do Your day-to-day duties; Do wake up please. 2. Uthishtothishta Govinda uthishta garudadhwaja Uthishta kamalakantha thrilokyam mangalam kuru 2. Sri Govinda! All the three worlds are under Your rule; they have to prosper. Wake up, my child. Holy Ramayana ...
Tirupati Temple's Eight Tons of Gold Ornaments Source TIRUPATI, INDIA, June 15, 2004: If you donate more you will get more.The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), the second richest religious body in the world after the Vatican, is facing a problem of plenty. As much as 8,000 kg of studded ornaments, to be precise. The Devasthanam is not authorized to dispose of gold jewelry studded with stones, presented by the devotees of Lord Venkateshwara. Not that the cash-rich Devasthanam wants to s...
Omkar Omkar ... Is the medium by which every Atman (soul) connects itself with the Creator of the cosmos. Every Yogi, Mystic or a Sadhu chants this word again and again to rise higher and higher on the Cosmic plane. One has to maintain absolute purity of thought to reap the fruits of practicing such austerities. Domain of religious and mystic personalities, right chanting with hundred percent faith alone shall produce results. Omkar has a resonating effect and produces non-audib...
Satsang ... It’s importance in daily life!! How the company of saints affects us is best explained by the phenomenon of coating. We can make Brass look like gold by coating and polishing it with liquid gold. If we coat it again and again the upper layer of gold would become so thick that with passage of time we may tend to forget the item was made of Brass. What we see gets stored in our memory cells. What is inherent pales into insignificance. In human life whenever a beastly c...
In almost every Indian home a lamp is lit daily before the altar of the Lord. In some houses it is lit at dawn, in some, twice a day - at dawn and dusk - and in a few it is maintained continuously (akhanda deepa). All auspicious functions commence with the lighting of the lamp, which is often maintained right through the occasion. Light symbolizes knowledge, and darkness, ignorance. The Lord is the "Knowledge Principle" (chaitanya) who is the source, the enlivener and the illuminator of al...
LONAR (BULDANA): There's an air of expectancy over the Spirit rover's exploits on Mars, but not many know that this place on earth is one of the main reasons why it is so. Coinciding with the Mars exploration, a geophysicist associated with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is studying the surface of one of only two impact craters created by a meteor strike on basaltic land, which is located at Lonar in Maharashtra. Horton Newsom, a research pro...
ORIGIN OF LIFE The Jivatma gets human body and mind, after having been embodied in eightyfour lakhs of inferior births. Prior to the Jivatma acquiring this body, he had undergone births and deaths and births and deaths, as trees, insects, worms, beasts and assumed many other bodies like those of bugs and buffaloes and bees and beetles. At long last, by the grace of GOD, he come to acquire a human body. To acquire a human body again after death, he has to undergo another long cycle of births...
Where is God? When does He incarnate? Where does He incarnate? These are the questions that are troubling the minds of people today. God is omnipresent. All are the embodiments of God. Today, people attribute various names and forms to God like Rama, Krishna and Jesus, and celebrate their birthdays. Truly speaking, can there be a birthday for God? No. To think that God took birth on a particular day in a year is a sign of ignorance. God is in the form of breath in every man. 'Soham', this symb...