I have read this in a facebook post, I felt it as a puzzle and thought to ask here. We all know that naga sadhus won't wear cloths, but how they reach to kumba mela place? If those many people are walking on road , or travelling in buses or trains, we would have seen them or news channels have...

The elder sister of Goddess Lakshmi, Goddess Alakshmi is often seen as a negative and untouchable character among most Hindus since she is mainly associated with misfortune and poverty as well as being the consort of the demon Kali. However, since character likes Ravana and Mahishasura are worshi...

To kill the animal is said to be a sin in the eternal religion, even though, why did Shree Ram shot the Arrow on the deer asked by Sita mata ? Please justify

So please give me a clarification about the both differences.

Please let me know some stotra of lord Shiva and What are some benifit of it.Like most popular Tandav Stotra and Panchakshiri Stotra.

I had visited 'Kurinji Andavar' Temple earlier & am curious about it. On searching, found that as per the Tamil literature, Kurinji means 'hill region' and Andavar means 'God', hence Lord Muruga is referred as 'God of hill'. So far so good. Further, found that Murugan means Kartikeya. Now the que...

How can we calculate planet transits mathematically for a particular planet like Jupiter or Saturn from date of birth

What is Vishnu's body made up of? What are the bodies made of when incarnates as Rama, Krishna, Narasimha? Is Vishnu soul or the body? When he incarnates does he enter other avatars bodies? I want to know from both Vaishnav and Advait perspective

We come to learn from the Mahabharata and various puranas that Krishna had 16,000 or 16,100 wives besides his 8 principal consorts. Is there any direct or indirect reference in any of the major/minor puranas on how he used to protect his gynaeceum from intruders? In the Mughal period we find that...

I was watching a BBC documentary where they claimed that early Rig Vedic writers (early Brahmins) practiced "horse sacrifice" and were indeed non vegetarians. So at what point did they decide to embrace vegetarianism and why? Was it because of Buddha or independently?

Kindly answer to my mentioned question.

According to Hindu astronomy, solar eclipses are caused by the Moon being consumed by Rahu, and not by the Moon coming front of the Sun and causing a shadow to fall on the Earth. The Chhandogya Upanishad makes reference to it: From the dark (the Brahman of the heart) I come to the nebulo...