According to hindu scriptures one would be punished for their bad karma. When I was in class 8 (15 years ) I started watching at the curves of the girl and I think it is a bad karma , so what should I do ? Will God punish me for this?

I am really interested in learning more about Alvars and Nayanars. While Periya Puranam is a traditional biographies of Nayanars(I read about it online). Are there any such biographies about Alwars?

Is there any story about lord Shiva in the Rigveda?

According to Nyaya school of philosophy in Hinduism, is itihaas like Ramayan and Mahabharata real history or mythology .

Fire, wind, water,sky, earth are Panchabhutas. So are they mentioned and explained in the Vedas?

Do astika schools of thought in Hinduism believe that itihaas(Ramayan and Mahabharata) are really historic and not mythology? This question asks whether scripture regards the epics as real. But the default status of all narratives in all scripture seems to be that it really happened. Are there st...

Krishna says in B.Gita (chapter #10) among the 49 winds, "marichi" is His own opulence. The Puranas further relate that Sage Kashyap fathered daityas (demons) from his second wife Diti. However, apart from the daityas, Diti desired to have a son more powerful than Indra (the king of the celestial...

the dictionary defines a narrative as "a spoken or written account of connected events; a story." I can only think of few narratives in Rig Veda Battle of 10 kings the Indra-Vrtra battles Vishnu's three steps Pururavas and Urvasi Any others?

Parasara Smriti 4.30 “A widow, who immolates herself on the same funeral pile with her deceased husband, resides in heaven for ten millions of years, which is the number of hairs on the human body.” Agni Purana 222.23 “The woman (widow) who enters the funeral fire along with the dead husband wi...

The Srivaishnavite preacher Velukkudi Krishnan quotes the original Sanskrit and also explains in Tamil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIr8TBNKj04 Is this scripture or folklore? Very rare instance of Siva-Vishnu rivalry in good humor. Lakshmi: Where is that beggar? Parvati: How would I know –...

I came to know many times that it is not good to tell someone else about what one has seen in his/her meditation(or in a dream related to God). But, I am not aware why? (i) Can it be explained why it is forbidden? (ii) What can be the consequences? Text related to this topic is also acceptable. T...

Why there are so many diffrent ways of Puja in sri vidya, why All Gurus started new difrent Puja, which shashtra one should refer to learn SRI VIDYA. ?

What are some verses that are dedicated to nirguna Brahman from the Upanishads?

Are there any foods that one can consume before beginning a long session of Japa, especially if this is a daily occurrence, so as to prevent the development of gastritis? Please give references.

Itihasapuranas often say Brahma is Rudra's father. But in this https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m12/m12c041.htm section of MBh - they are both said to be offspring of Aniruddha: The holy one said, 'In the Rigveda, in the Yajurveda, in the Atharvans and the Samans, in the Puranas and the Upanish...

For example https://anandatirtha.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/mahabharata-tatparya-nirnaya-chapter-10-part-1/ Mahabharata Tatparya Nirnaya: Chapter 10: Part 1 13 “When all of them got tired, You, the One without tiredness, started churning the ocean all by Yourself with excitement, in order to obtai...