The Advaith

An excellent Telugu translation of Bhagavad Gita Bhashya into Telugu is by mahaamahopaadhyaaya Shri Pullela Shri Ramachandrudu Garu (Shri Pu...

This is a beautiful mantra. The devata for this sUkta is jn~Anam, the only such in Rig Veda and perhaps one of the only such in entire saMhi...

May the divine mother, the shakti who manifests Herself in all beings as icchha-shakti, j~nAna-shakti and kriya-shakti bless us in all our e...

A picture of Shri Venkateshwara of Tirumala hills. This is the only time when photography was allowed in the holy garbha griha of the temple...

Here is the actual reference from Sayana's bhashya on Rig Veda (Sayana's Commentary on Rig Veda). The first two lines in the Comment...

Bow to Ganesha who removes all the obstacles in our progress. Bow to Shankara who could write such beautiful poems about the clearest form o...

Introducing Chapter of 13 Gita, Madhusudana, in His gUDArtha-dIpika says dhyanaabhyaasanavashiikR^itena manasaa tannirguNaM nishhkriyaM jyot...

Om vishvarUpAya namaH Reading Chapter 11 of Gita raises a lot of questions in the seeker: "Who saw what and when and how?". The fo...

Vyasa ashtottarshata-namavalii, thanks to Shri Sunder-ji (who is a moderator of Advaitin group and respected member of online Sanskrit commu...

The Veda-pUrva-bhAga is the forest in which the trees have bloomed, of which the flowers are the Upanishads. Upanishads are like the final f...

In general, the second aashrama (namely grihasthaas) have the main responsibility of protecting dharma as they follow the jaImini mImaMsa sU...

Who were the Advaitins before Adi Shankara? gauDapAda's kArika is a commentary on mAnDUkya. What about other Upanishads? Kena is said to...

What did bhagavaan Ramana mean when he referred to as the scriptures? Did He mean the scriptural words of all the world, which could be inte...

The basic promise of a tradition (sampradAya) is by the measurable results that it provides, under different times and places, some of them ...

What are the basic premises that an organization or an individual has to satisfy to get his message to the listeners? Is it just charm or su...

In the past, I had linked to a Gita Quiz posted on advaitin list by Prof. VK. Here is a link to a Gita Quiz from Chinmaya Mission.

Here are a few links on Jagannatha Pandita Raya, a world renown poet who was perhaps a contemporary of Akbar as well as of Appayya Dikshita....

A young black man walked into the train, was dressed as young people do, the train was not that full, as it was a holiday. He walked in, the...

Here are some links on yoga and vedanta, mainly from April 2005 archives. yama and niyama by Shri. VS Part 1 , Part 2 (yama and niyama) ...