Hey, do you know about Sister Nivedita?
She was an Irish woman who met Swami Vivekananda in London, and later came to Bharat to work with him. She became a celibate in 1898, when she was 31…
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How Yoga Can Save You From Depression
Yoga is the most popular, yet the most misunderstood and misrepresented Hindu science. Yoga is commonly practiced as a physical training or “spiritual” exercise to rejuvenate yourself. This is not…
Westerners Stealing Hindu Intellectual Property is More Than Plagiarism
Colonial or a white supremacy mindset may be clever enough to adopt Hindu practices but denies giving credit where it is due. Stealing Hindu intellectual property, they do not hesitate…
Cosmology and Consciousness: A Comparative Study of Hindu Metaphysics and Physics
The latest theory of Cosmology, ‘Cycles of Time’, as put forth by Roger Penrose and debated by others including Stephen Hawking who has written the magnum opus on Brief History…
On The Question of What It Means to be a Hindu Philosopher
In early December, I sat down with a member of my PhD cohort and had a conversation over coffee about what it means (to me) to be a Hindu. This…
Bharatiya Traditional Knowledge: A Public Policy Perspective
Recently, twitter witnessed huge outrage over an article tweeted by American Scientific Association which referred to the ancient yogic technique of Pranayam as “Cardiac Coherent Breathing”. This article raises the…
Hinduism Today – A Magazine Written by Monks in Hawaii for 40 Years
For the last 40 years, a small group of monks living in a monastery in Hawaii have been diligently preserving, upholding and promoting Hindu Dharma through their publication, “Hinduism Today.”…
Interviews with non-Bharatiya Hindus: Ram Goodman
The phenomenon of non-Bharatiyas adopting Hindu Dharma is not new. However, the stories of how individuals came to the religion have not been regularly recorded. I hope to rectify that…
Nothing Wrong With Hindutva Or Hinduness – On The Contrary
Is being a Hindu okay or is Hindutva not okay and even dangerous? Many Hindus seem wary to be associated with Hindutva, in spite of the fact that Hindutva simply…
Beautiful rendition of Sanskrit shloka from Markandeya Purana goes viral
Social media is sometimes reviled for driving unsociable behavior and for reducing human connections. But there are times when social media can exhilarate, connect people from different parts of the…