केदारनाथ त्रासदी की चौथी बरसी पर परमार्थ निकेतन में किया पौधा रोपण पूज्य स्वामी चिदानन्द सरस्वतीजी व श्रद्धालुओं ने माँ गंगा के तट पर श्रद्धांजली अर्पित की> ’प्रियजन…
Hinduism
Jun 16, 2017•5 min read
Swami Ramdev : An Enigma
Swami Ramdev : An Enigma Written by Bhavya Srivastava & Published on NewsGram It was 2006 when I first met Baba Ramdev. He was in the D-block of…
Hinduism
Jun 15, 2017•4 min read
Big, bigger, biggest by Devdutt Patnaik
Big, bigger, biggest Published on 25th September, 2016, in Mid-day The idea of measurement is a key theme in Hindu mythology. Stories from the Puranas introduce us to…
Buddhism
Jun 15, 2017•5 min read
The Snake Sacrifice by Devdutt Patnaik
The Snake Sacrifice by Devdutt Patnaik First Published in Sunday Mid-day ‘Devlok’ on 27 July 2008 It is said that the Mahabharata should not be read inside the…
Hinduism
Jun 15, 2017•3 min read
Shiva’s daughter and Ram’s sister by Devdutt Patnaik
Shiva’s daughter and Ram’s sister Published on 6th March, 2016, in Mid-Day Television has introduced India to Shiva’s daughter, Ashokasundari, and Ram’s sister, Shanta. The reception in either…
Christianity
Jun 14, 2017•4 min read
Paradise is no heaven by Devdutt Patnaik
Paradise is no heaven Published in Corporate Dossier, ET, July 29, 2011 In Hindu mythology, there are two types of heaven: there is heaven (spelt without capitals) and…
Hinduism
Jun 14, 2017•5 min read
What exactly happens after death according to Hinduism? By Devdutt Patnaik
Death What exactly happens after death according to Hinduism? By Devdutt Patnaik Published on 4th May, 2017, on www.dailyo.in The simple answer is, we can either be reborn…
Hinduism
Jun 14, 2017•8 min read
What is Tamil Veda?
What is Tamil Veda? Depending on who you ask, you will find one of three books identified as the Tamil Veda, locally known as Dravida Veda or Tamil…
Hinduism
Jun 14, 2017•3 min read
जितने बच्चे उतने पेड़, वन है तो जन है
जितने बच्चे उतने पेड़, वन है तो जन है पेड़ लगेगे तो बचेंगे वन, वन बचेंगे तो बचेगा जीवन स्कूलों में जितने बच्चे उतने पेड़, घरों में किचन…
Hinduism
Jun 14, 2017•2 min read
From intellectual Gita to sensory Gita: By Dr. Devdutt Patnaik
From intellectual Gita to sensory Gita Published on 11th January, 2015, in the Mid-Day In the Uttara-khand (later section) of the Padma Purana, Shiva tells Parvati that Vishnu…
Hinduism
Jun 14, 2017•8 min read
When Saraswati met Indus: By Dr. Devdutt Patnaik
When Saraswati met Indus Published on 27th September, 2016, on www.dailyo.in The hymns of the Rig Veda speak of a culture with a vivid imagination that celebrated horses,…
Hinduism
Jun 14, 2017•7 min read
How different are the Jain Ramayana and Jain Mahabharata from Hindu narrations?
Published on 28th February, 2017, on www.dailyo.in Jainism, like Hinduism, considers itself to be sanatan dharma, the eternal faith, with no beginning (anadi) and no end (ananta). Historians,…
Hinduism
Jun 14, 2017•4 min read
The Immortals : By Dr Devdutt Patnaik
The Immortals (seven immortals) Published on 23rd April, 2016, in Mid-day In Hindu mythology, whenever an asura asks for immortality (7 immortals of hindu mythology – seven immortals),…
Hinduism
Jun 14, 2017•2 min read
The meeting of two Spiritual Leaders
The meeting of two Spiritual Leaders As soon as Swami Swaroopananda, Head of the Chinmaya Mission, landed in Pune on June 12, 2017, he visited Dada J.P. Vaswani.…
Hinduism
Jun 14, 2017•6 min read
Seva: GAU SEVA DHAM : A hospital for Cows
GAU SEVA DHAM : A hospital for Cows One day, Devi Chitralekhaji (Deviji) saw an injured cow lying on the side of the road and found that her…