Could anyone please share what their sadhana is like during Brahma muhurta? What rituals and mantras do you chant and in what order? Do you do achamanam and pranayama? Chant mantras or sing bhajans? Meditate? Thanks.

Sri tantrAloka is a magnum opus text in the Kashmir Shaivism. How many verses and chapters are there? Are there any commentaries available ?

I see this Shloka in many places which means "as you think so you become". The Sanskrit verse is Yad bhavam Tad bhavathi. Is there a scriptural source for this verse?

A soldier killing enemy is not violence, because it's done as a part of war (Yuddha Dharma), or police killing criminals is not violence to reduce burden from society. Similarly in what situations, a husband is allowed to raise hand on his wife? This is not about marital domestic violence. Rathe...

I hope not to offend, but I should admit that I don't intend to read the entirety of the Vedas to find whether or not it forbids murder, rape, lying, hypocrisy, etc. As I am sure you are well aware, other holy texts have a great deal of commandments such as 'do not kill' or 'murder infidels', a...

I never heard this story before, but I'm curious to know about this. Why Shiva burnt kamadeva (Manmadha) to ashes? What is the story behind it?

In this question the reason for celebrating Holi was asked but the answer given is based on wikipedia which also says: The Holika bonfire and Holi signifies the celebration of the symbolic victory of good over evil, of Prahlada over Hiranyakashipu, and of the fire that burned Holika. Consid...

In Hinduism, the peoples are followed some of process called "Harichandra" at the last time of human body in the burial ground. And they also saying some slogans at the time of the same. Did anyone knows about the things and any scriptures we are following in this kaliyuga?

Evil stranger Family members from outer domain who constantly exploited attempted to harm me millions of times from birth just like Kansa, Kauravas, stole my pic, one from when I was baby (PS; I'm very beautiful from birth, perfect in everything thanks to karma of me & my esteemed ancestors), sme...

Wiki says : "that the first ship bearing Muslim travellers was seen on the Indian coast as early as 630 CE. H.G. Rawlinson in his book Ancient and Medieval History of India[21] claims that the first Arab Muslims settled on the Indian coast in the last part of the 7th century CE. (Zainuddin Makhdo...

Only Hindu scripture is Pramana - that is reasonably clear. But there are two caterpillars in the salad: (1) The allegation of "Tamasic Puranas" which non-sectarian modern scholarship has rejected. Are posters allowed to say evidence from some purana can be rejected a priori because it has bee...

Wiki says: "The Bhavishya Purana (Bhaviṣya Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major works in the Purana genre of Hinduism, written in Sanskrit.[1][2] The title Bhavishya means "future" and implies it is a work that contains prophecies regarding the future, however, the "prophecy" parts of the extant...

I remember one TV Serial Ramayana in which he fights Rama and Rama is victorious and Parashurama transfers all his powers to him. Parashurama seemms to be a mixed avatara - there is a Ganesa serial being broadcast now in which he is a Siva devotee and Siva teaches him all the martial arts and ...

https://qz.com/408493/india-is-building-the-worlds-biggest-temple-even-bigger-than-angkor-wat/ "Angkor Wat could potentially lose its status as the world’s largest religious monument to a $78 million upstart being conceived in the backlands of Bihar, one of India’s most impoverished provinces. ...

The Banasura fight as related in Harivamsa is one example. Are there any others?

I asked a question: What are all the Vishnu avatar from current Mahayuga according to scriptures? then it got closed as a dupe of: What is chronological timeline (in Manvantara and Mahayuga) of Lord Vishnu incarnations? I left a comment replying to mod who suggested they are dupe with no resp...

In the link which hindu sect's sectarian literature places itself having more authority than veda comment there mentions that 'Sri-Vidya sect places its own texts having more authoritativeness/canonical than Veda'. Now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri_Vidya#Major_texts mentions list of major...

Its great to be god, but not so great to be victimized by god. (1) You put a comment out there, and one of the gods of the board feels it is inappropriate and summarily removes it without notification. (2) You put a question out there and sometimes it is summarily declared a duplicate by one of...

In particular I am concerned about a site called narayanastra that spouts virulent hatred not only against Siva but also against revered figures like Chandrasekara saraswati - the sankaracharya of Kanchi before the present one. It is full of erroneous facts and erroneous arguments and it is just...