Tag Archives: Hinduism

Actress Jenna Dewan, who recently welcomed her son Callum, had a smooth birthing experience. In an interview to People magazine, the Step Up star opened up about her experience delivering her second baby and how Sanskrit music helped her a lot to maintain calmness during that time. “I’d heard this from a lot of people, that there’s something that happens …

India is an amazing country and unique in several aspects. For example, in every age great spiritual personalities appear who are aware of their true nature and act as guides to the truth. One such outstanding personality in recent times was Raman Maharshi, who left his body in April 1950 at the foot of Arunachala Hill in Tiruvannamalai. His teaching …

During the Kumbh Mela in Haridwar in 2010, a young Frenchman exclaimed, “Oh, it must have been so different then” when he came to know that I was in 1986 at the Kumbh already. “No, it was not”, I realised. It was very much the same. It may have been the same for centuries. Here is my description of the …

“Where you are from? Do people there also know about Ram?” Some boys had discovered me sitting at the back of a shrine at the outskirts of Chamba near Tehri and typically for Indian kids, who are never shy, had asked this question. “No, where I am from people don’t know about Ram”, I replied. They looked disappointed. Only then …

– By Dr. David Frawley, Dr. David Frawley a.k.a Acharya Vamadeva Shastri is a recipient of the prestigious Padma Bhushan award, one of the highest civilian awards granted by the government of India. He has written more than thirty books on topics such as the Vedas, Hinduism, Yoga, Ayurveda etc published both in India and in the United States. He is the founder …

– By Katarina Mitra (Sarasvati), Katarina is a mystic based in Vancouver, British Columbia. I grew up in a home where Hindu Gods were no foreign phenomena, my mother studied the Yoga Sutras and my father was well versed in many ancient Hindu and Buddhist texts. When I was around 6 years old I opened two books, one was Western Religions …