If God is omnipresent and formless, then how did he attain human form in Puranas? What is the belief behind that? how did Brahman become God in human form? Are Puranas just for understanding the brahman better? or did Brahman really incarnated as Rama, Krishna etc? Why did Brahman born as a ma...

Hanuman is the partial incarnation of Lord Shiva. So if someone is devoting Lord Hanuman then it's mean he is devoting to Lord Shiva? For example: If one being told (from aspect of kundali or any other source) that to get desired fruits you need devotion towards Lord Shiva. And he/she decides to ...

According to both Smartha and Madhwa traditions, Vyasa is said to have met Adi Shankaracharya and Madhvacharya respectively, and even endorsed their commentaries on the Brahma Sutras. This is what the Shankara Digvijaya, the most accepted biography of Adi-Shankaracharya, says about the meeting...

As we all know that eating non veg is not acceptable. For our religion .when I ask this question everyone seems confused ,they told me that we should not eat by harassing other organisms ,so if we take veg as food we are still harassing other organisms, right? plants are also a living organisms r...

What are the differences between respective three, and their Traditions, As in Shrauta Parampara, Smarta Parampara, And Pauranika Parampara?

Mahabharat, Vana parva, tirtha-yatra parva https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-mahabharata-third-book/d/doc7362.html. Says: One should next proceed to the excellent tirtha of Brahma. Bathing there, a person, of the (three) inferior orders, obtaineth the status of a Brahmana, and if on...

I would like to ask if somebody can help with identifying some of Vishnu’s avataras and two figures belonging to Shiva in the attached image. The image shows Harihara with Vishnu on the right-hand side of the picture and Shiva on the left-hand side. The image is from the British Museum. It is...