Or would it be more appropriate to ask if humanity misled religion? Religion has helped humankind to keep its sanity. Every major religion has been founded with the best of intentions. But somewhere along the way, it seems, we lost the ways of our religions, and now we find ourselves standing face to face in…
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Namaste, the Indian way of greeting with folded hands, is beautiful and the most respectful and meaningful. In the simplest terms, Namaste comes from the Sanskrit words “Namah,” meaning bow or pray, and “te,” which means “to you.” However, who one is bowing to has a much deeper meaning. Hindus believe in one Supreme Reality, Brahman, the…
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Narendranath Dutta, born on 12 January 1863 when India was under British rule, took the monastic name Swami Vivekananda after his Guru Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa gave up his mortal body in August 1886. Swami, meaning the Master of himself, is the monastic title after renunciation. Vivek in Sanskrit means the power of discernment. Narendra was…
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Hindu Dharma is not “Hinduism”, just like Christianity is not Christianism. Hindu Dharma is not a religion either. Hindu Dharma is a way of life. There are no restrictions or rules. The aim of Hindu Dharma is the realization of one’s Self. So the focus is not on just believing something written in a book…
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The Rishis in ancient India were the enlightened beings who understood the inner world and its relationship with the external world. Therefore, all ancient Indian knowledge came from the Rishis. Normally, the Rishis were also the Gurus who imparted knowledge to their disciples. The word Veda means knowledge. It is derived from the Sanskrit word…
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The word Hindutva means the essence of being a Hindu. In other words, it means the essence of Hindu Dharma. However, lately, politics and the western media have degraded Hindutva to mean Hindu nationalism. Hindu Dharma is better known as the Sanātana Dharma. Sanātana means eternal. Dharma stands for the eternal truth, the rules of…
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