I'm curious to know the following: In panchabhutas, we all know, Akasha or ether gave birth to air. Air to water and so forth. Likewise, is there any such planetary ascension/relationship between planets? A friend suggests this partial sequence: Ketu->Mars->Sun->Saturn. Is this correct? If so...

In Ramayana, when and Who named Sita mata as Vaidehi? What is the meaning of the name?

In the Uttara Gita Chapter 1, Sloka 35 describes the Atma as ऊर्ध्वशून्यमधःशून्यं मध्यशून्यं यदात्मकम् । सर्वशून्यं स आत्मेति समाधिस्थस्य लक्षणम् ॥ This means - When (one perceives) the Atma is perceived as Nothing Upwards, Nothing down, Nothing in between and nothing everywhere, he is e...

Question1: Have basic question that while returning to home immediately after visiting any hindu temple, can we eat non-vegetarian (Fish,chicken, mutton etc.) on the way? Question2: Am planning to visit hindu temple at a different state, which is one day journey and planning to stay. Can we eat ...

" श्रेयान्स्वधर्मो विगुणः परधर्मात्स्वनुष्ठितात् । स्वधर्मे निधनं श्रेयः परधर्मो भयावहः ।।3.35।। 3.35 - It is far better to discharge one’s prescribed duties, even though faultily, than another’s duties perfectly. Destruction in the course of performing one’s own duty is better than engaging in...

Villagers in Odisha sometimes perform Trinath Mela at their own house, where all the three supreme gods Brahma, Vishnu and Maheswara altogether are worshipped at the same time. This Pooja is said as Trinath Mela. What is the significance of this Pooja? Is there any story? Also Is there any te...

One night I made promise to God that I won't smoke cigg again and if I do I become poor and never able to earn money.

This is a very confusing thing I see in indian religions . They say one's own karma is the cause of both joy (in whichever form , be it mental joy, materialistic joy, money , gold, relationships, etc or even spiritual bliss) as well as the cause of one's suffering (again be it of any type). B...

Malkauns or malkaush is one of the oldest Indian classical rAga. Its equivalent in Carnatic music is raga hindolam. The raga is believed to have been created by goddess Parvati (the wife of Shiva) to calm Shiva, when the lord Shiva was outraged and was not calming down after Tandav in rag...

So this might be a little controversial, but I was really curios what is the earliest reference of names "Hari" and "Ram" in vedic scriptures ? The way I think it is this way : Names like Ram and Hari were originally used for Brahman , but it might have been given to avatars of Vishnu later as ...

I've read somewhere that there are many shakhas of vedas and some of them have been lost, how much of the 4 Vedas have survived to this date? How many shakhas are surviving, and what are the names of the lost shakhas?

Hindus believe in a cyclic nature of time. Here the same key events are repeated forever. Then we should have the same 'Chiranjeevi's born repeatedly. This means, we should have an infinite number of them now. Else, they should die at some point of time. When and how does this death happen?

Generally the Advaita philosopher Adi Shankaracharya only imposed one Bhashya or commentary for each of the Mukhya or primary Upanishads. But in the case of the Kena Upanishad, he composed two Bhashyas: the Kena Upanishad Pada Bhashya and the Kena Upanishad Vakya Bhashya. There are many competi...