Namaste, I want to know the benefits and results of chanting durga name only. Can we chant durga name without guru diksha?? And what if I chant it constantly for some years. Can i get sidhi from it? Shall my tapobal increase??? Please somebody give me shlokas from scriptures about it. Dhanyavaad.

Yoga Vasistha contains the story of Prahlada in detail. It is present in Upasama khanda. The important point needed for this question is that Prahlada rules his kingdom till the end of the kalpa being a jivan muktha. Do any other scripture mentions the fact that Prahlada rules his kingdom being a...

In SB 1:3 the chapter is that that Krishna is the source of all incarnations - then it contradicts its own self says that Krishna is just a human incarnation/avatar: Nineteenth as also twentieth Bhagavân took birth in the Vrishni family as Balarâma and Krishna and thus removed the burden from th...

Is Earth Jambudvipa or Bhu-mandala? There are seven dvipas in BhUloka. One of the dvipas is Jambudvipa. Jambudvipa has 9 varshas. One of the varshas in Jambudvipa is Bharatavarsha: Text 5: Bhū-maṇḍala resembles a lotus flower, and its seven islands resemble the whorl of that flower. The length ...

You don't find even one follower of Vedic & Vaishnav scripture (including Bhagvat Gita & Ramayanji) with supernatural powers like 3rd eye. Is it because Mahakaal and Makakaali are more powerful? In Tantra it is clearly stated that Vedas don't work.... that Brahma, Vishnu themselves are created f...

Lots of dream meanings are given in Hinduism but some dreams are just pure nonsense! So who is giving Swapneshwari Devi the order to give these dreams and with what objective? Why does she send messages in this manner?

Gita Verse 7 chapter 1 asmākaṁ tu viśhiṣhṭā ye tānnibodha dwijottama nāyakā mama sainyasya sanjñārthaṁ tānbravīmi te Meaning :O best of Brahmins, hear too about the principal generals on our side, who are especially qualified to lead. These I now recount unto you. Im not getting here who are t...

Shiva Purana 3.8.2 states: Bhairava is the prior form of Siva, the great soul. Fools who are deluded by Śiva’s Māyā do not know about it. Bhairavaḥ pūrṇarūpo hi śaṃkarasya parātmanaḥ | mūḍhāstaṃ vai na jānanti mohitāśśivamāyayā Does this mean Bhairav is the primal/real/actual/original form of S...

I may be wrong, but as far as I know Vedas are not even 1500 hundred years old. Some parts of them are dated back to 1800 BCE (max) using estimates. Shiva and an unknown goddess were worshipped during Indus Valley times but even that evidence is not over 5000 years old! A Kaali temple ruin found...