For someone alien to Sanātana-dharma or its allied faiths, the most curious feature is the multitude of gods and the curious forms they assume. Neither pantheism nor zoolatry or the worship of animals (in which humans are partly included) is restricted to Bhāratīya culture. Many religions . . .
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In the previous article, the conversation between king Yadu and an enlightened brāhmaṇa was presented, in which twenty-four facets of nature were put forward as preceptors of Vedic wisdom. Of the twenty-four preceptors were a pigeon, a prostitute by the name Piṅgalā, a Kurara bird . . .
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Science points out that the ability to adapt is the core of evolution and anything that cannot adapt necessarily dies out. This incisive observation is not true merely of organisms, but of religion as well. While the core values of religion are eternal and hence are not subject to decay . . .
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Theories of meaning explain that a man makes sense of the world around him based on distinctions. For instance, if a man must understand a tree, he must first distinguish a tree from everything that is not a tree. Hence, drawing distinctions is not necessarily evil or problematic, but is . . .
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The word ‘medieval’ often brings pictures of horrific cruelty to mind; cruelty that would have any individual of the present-day vociferously denouncing the perpetrator. This analogy essentially highlights the ideology that the evolution is linear; the nearer it is to the present day, the more “sophisticated” the ideologies . . .
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As presented in the previous article, Goddess Śrī is in conversation with lord Viṣṇu and is curious to know why he appears to be asleep. The lord responds that he seems to be asleep when, in reality, he reclines meditating on the Truth that is embodied as the . . .
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The word ‘Purāṇa’, as is popularly known, means ‘ancient’. The Bhāratīya tradition holds that the Purāṇas are a corpus of sacred literature that explicated the esoteric teachings of the Vedas1. What has been alluded to or presented in an abstract form in the Vedas unfolds in . . .
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Patriarchy is a universal problem that plagues all societies, irrespective of race or colour. We are led to believe that feminism is a modern-day phenomenon, launched to give women the dignity they deserve. However, there is textual evidence to suggest the contrary. It points out that modern-day is . . .
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