In the Ramayana of Valmiki, Hanumana goes to Lanka and sees the body of Ravan's wife Mandodari, Hanumana believes that she is Seetha (even though she's not in actuality), so why did Hanumana not come in-front of Mandodari and talk to her during this incident in the first place? Sundara kanda ...

The Sarva Siddhanta Sangraha is a work by the Advaita philosopher Adi Shankaracharya describing the views of various schools of Indian philosophy which existed in his time. One of the schools he discusses is the Vaisheshika school, which subscribed to a philosophy of atomism. Now the Vaisheshika...

In one of exhibition,the guy told me some script and claimed after reading this script I will feel force over my head immediately,which,indeed worked. I forgot the script ,but, as far as i remember,it was repetitions about asking forgiveness from The God,etc. related. Does anybody know this or th...

Just like all religions Hinduism also maintains that eating animals outside of religious sphere, without offering it to god (s) leads to sin/bad karma, is this applicable unto kshatriyas too?

As some of you must be knowing, Shaktism has 2 sects: Kalikula sect, which is mostly prevalent in Eastern India. Sri Vidya sect, which is mostly prevalent in Northern India. I am aware that the Sri Vidya sect rejects Vedanta. I want to know which Vedanta school does the Kalikula sect subscri...

Can someone kindly provide me the pdf of Bhairav tantra. (I am looking for the original text and not the one written by osho) And yes, it should have both Sanskrit and hindi translation.

Adi shankaracharya quotes this in his Brahma sutra bhashya Third Adhyaya, Second Pada, Sutra 17 That Brahman is without any difference is proved by those scriptural passages also which expressly deny that it possesses any other characteristics; so, e.g. 'Next follows the teaching by No, no' (Br...

lokavat tu lila kaivalyam [Brahma Sutras - 2.1.33] The creation is merely a sport of Brahman. How can a formless entity enjoy Lila? Doesn't it sound too nihilistic?

Why most of hindu don't read such great scriptures provided of great sage with the experiance on various topics. Such Scriptures are extremelly knowledgeable and available with all the concern points for betterment of Life and Society. All such scriptures covers almost all the areas like Health,...

A pure soul is considered to be the same as the Supreme Soul,i.e Brahman.As per my knowledge,I know that the soul consists of: 1.Mind 2.Intelligence(Buddhi) 3.Ego(Ahankar) If a pure soul merges with the Supreme Soul,does that mean that the soul loses its identity and therefore stops thinking?...

Apart meditation is there other paths that one can take to understand oneself?

Adi shakti is Prakriti herself, so she dies.But she reborns to unite with shiva again and again.