As today us the day when bhagwan shri krishna ,subhadra and balram going on a rathyatra. And that is very famous in Jagannathpuri. But since last 137 years thats happening in ahmedabad as well.And it is said that two Rathyatras i.e. Jagannath puri and Ahmedabad are very famous. I know abt the ja...

Hindus place an important emphasis on karma. Karma simply means action. It is one's actions that makes one achieve moksha or be consigned to experience the tortures of Yampuri. However, my question is simple. Out of all the karmas, which one karma if done correctly yields one to experience bliss ...

Meaning of the words used : Kundali - Horoscope Mangal - Planet Mars Peepal Tree - Ficus religiosa or Sacred Fig Dosh - Blame Indian people often match Kundalis before they allow the boy and the girl to marry. The most often thing I always mark is that they see whether a boy or a girl is mang...

I have my eyes on the sites statistics everyday on Area51 and it seems like we are rapidly going down with the visitors rate per day. I agree that the site is in Private Beta so we can't expect 1000's of visitors straight away but what am seeing is that people used to be much more active for the...

Recently a user posted the questions listed below : Why Hindu Saint are targeted very badly in India?I am living out of India from last couple of years but i saw plenty of fake cases against Hindu Saints in India. Why Hindus Saint are targeted in India ? There are plenty of Indian Saint running...

Sai Baba should not be given Prayers. How many of you agree with me? Sai Baba was a human and not a GOD.

I edited out 3 questions recently where OP used hindu which makes no sense as site itself is about hinduism and hence, I would request a moderator to delete the flag before it goes viral. List of questions I removed the tag from Why can we eat 'living' plants but not 'living' animals? Why Hin...

Why is that people shave babies head when they go for the babies first haircut? Be it a girl or a boy. According to my sub religion i.e Vaishnav (Gujarati), we call it as a Mundan (Head shaving ceremony). This is done after a specific period of time after the birth of the child, and as far as I ...

I read that Ekalavya was a great archer similar to Arjuna and Karan. He made believe himself that Dronacharya is his Guru by keeping a statue. One day Dronacharya saw him and understood the situation that he is his disciple. Dronacharya asks him his thumb as "Guru dakshina" (Teacher fee) knowing ...

I see a lot of times in many temples, especially with snake idols, that the priest offers milk to snake idols. What is the reason behind it? Do snakes really drink milk?

Recently I posted a question to remove hindu as it makes no sense, same way, some users are tagging questions with hindi words, so we have to decide whether we are sticking with those, or we are going to mark them as synonyms? Personally I think we should tag in English as much as possible, unf...

I have heard that in Kalki avatar, God Vishnu will marry Goddess Vaishnav devi as promised(The promise event occurs when God Vishnu were in Ram avatar and returning to Ayodhya after 14 years of exile). It is also said that Lord Ram has offered his complete army (including Lord Hanuman) to protect...

As the title explains, why do we have specific days to worship specific gods? For example Sunday - Lord Surya Monday - Lord Shiva Tuesday - Lord Ganesha Wednesday - Lord Vithal Thursday - Sai Baba, Lord Vishnu Friday - Mahalakshmi Saturday - Hanuman, Shani Bhagwan So is there any reason behin...

I recently came across an answer where a user hyperlinked a page in Tamil Language. I thought to post this question so that it doesn't cause a problem in the long run because users with various sub Hindu castes will participate, so we need to normalize the language part. If you are quoting any o...