~ Venkata­pa­thy and Soorya­narayan This is an ongo­ing series on the Sid­dhar Param­abarai of India. Sid­dha refers to per­fect­ed...

One day Shan­tanu sees Satya­vati and falls in love with her. He approach­es her father, and her father lays down con­di­tions which...

Om sahanaava­vatu sahanaub­hu­nak­tu sahaveeryam kar­avaava­hai Tejasv­inaavad­heethamas­tu maavid­vishaava­hai­hi Om shan­thi shan­thi...

Study­ing for exams, mem­o­ry tech­niques and prepar­ing for inter­views (extract­ed from Vikasa 2016 – 27/12/16 ses­sion “Who am I?”) ...

Bha­jagovin­dam was com­posed by Sri Adi Shankaracharya. In this com­po­si­tion, Adi Sankaracharya talks about the impor­tance of...

Remedy#1 Cut gin­ger into pieces and mash it using pes­tle and mor­tar to extract the juice. Take the extract­ed gin­ger juice in a pan...

Divine Humor : Parni­ka Issue 7 As nar­rat­ed by Sad­hgu­ru Jag­gi Vasudev So right now unfor­tu­nate­ly our approach, what we call as...

Story of Bharata Bharata’s par­ents are Shakun­ta­la and Dushyana­ta. Shakun­ta­la is the daugh­ter of Vish­wami­tra and Mena­ka....

Swa­mi Rama nar­rates this per­son­al life event in his book Liv­ing with the Himalayan Mas­ters. On a cer­tain day, he want­ed to know...

A great Indi­an Yogi and mys­tic, Nagar­ju­na, used to live naked. He had only a beg­ging bowl and that was his only pos­ses­sion. But he...

The Indi­an sys­tem of med­i­cine looks at the body and mind as one inte­grat­ed enti­ty. Infact, per­son and his envi­ron­ment, both are...

Excerpts from the Q&A Ses­sion dur­ing Rishikesh Retreat Pro­gram (Dec 2015) Q: How did the uni­verse orig­i­nate? From where did the...

Why is Arju­na con­sid­ered the ide­al stu­dent? When a teacher sees a lot of stu­dents, actu­al­ly he or she can rec­og­nize those...

India is the sec­ond largest edu­ca­tion sys­tem in the world with learn­ers from diverse social and eco­nom­i­cal back­ground. The...

As it appears in the “Appren­ticed to the Himalayan Mas­ter” by Sri. M On the last day of our stay at Arund­hati cave, I was prac­tis­ing...

Bha­jagovin­dam was com­posed by Sri Adi Shankaracharya. In this com­po­si­tion, Adi Sankaracharya talks about the impor­tance of...

Remedy for wounds Crush kadukkai (Black Myrobal­an), add kar­pooram pow­der (edi­ble cam­phor) and apply to open wounds to stop the...

There are twen­ty-six ‘Daivi sam­pathi’ or ’ Divine char­ac­ter­is­tics’ that are recit­ed by Bha­ga­van Krish­na to Arju­na in the 16th...