Who was the last person to see the short, chubby elephant headed blue God Ganesha alive and when and where did this take place ?

Do the scriptures say anything about humans being born again and taking the body of a god and how does this birth take place?

Why can't we enter in the heaven with the human body? However if some of the sage enters who are all please list them? If we can't enter with the human body in the hell then so punishment should be only for our jeeva aatma right? We couldn't able to stay in the heaven more than 5 days. Is it t...

Scriptures say Balaram the older brother of Krishna departed this world whilst in a mediative state and the white spirit snake left through his mouth, and not through Brahmarandhra. Does that mean he will be reincarnated and if so is there any evidence of this reincarnation ?

Recently I was in a discussion with a friend who had visited Chidambaram Temple and he was telling me about the legend of Vyaghrapada mentioned in this question but my curiosity was piqued by another statement he said. He mentioned that this lion-legged rishi was married to the sister of Brahmari...

Vishnu rests on the body of Sheshanaga and Sheshanaga rests on the body of bliss known as Prakriti. His being is depicted as having 5 or 7 or 1000 serpents. What are the meanings of these serpents ?

From my answer to a previous question, it was pointed out that Vishwamitra himself attempted to create a parallel world in addition to Brahma's, in which to transport Trisanku in his mortal body. svargo astu sa shariirasya trisha.nkoH asya shaashvataH | nakSatraaNi ca sarvaaNi maamakaani dh...

The famous Sri Vaishnava Acharya Ramanujacharya was once asked by his shishya Vangipuram Nambi what the obstacles to Moksha are. In response, he gave a list of 83 obstacles to Moksha, known as the Virodhi Pariharam. The 58th item on the list is "Ukti Virodhi", which means "speech is an obstacle"....

What is the soul’s journey after the death? Where and how long does it travel? If a person was chanting Lord Rama’s name an hour before all his counsciousness shut down and dieing, where does his soul go and what will be his journey like? How long does his soul travel around and what places does ...

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