During Ratha Yatra, Lord Jagganath goes to his maternal aunt's house. Lord Jagannath is Krishna. He is with his brother Balarama and Sister Subhadra. Now, they are all characters from Mahabharata. I know that Kunti (Arjuna's mother) is Krishna's paternal aunt. But, who is his maternal aunt? Is sh...

I would like to know the ways told by Kanchi Kamakoti peetham's 68th peethadhipathi Paramacharya Sri Chandrashekharendra Saraswati Swamigal on ways of achieving moksha.

Sri Shivendra Saraswati has written a bhasya on Shiva Sahasranama stotra (available here). While explaining the very first name "ParaDeva", he gives an entire stotra composed by Vyasa as "Shivotkarsha Stotra (शिवोत्कर्ष स्तोत्र)". He says this stotra was sung by Vyasa when his hands were paralyze...

Most of us are aware of the Syamantaka jewel incident that leads to the marriage between Satyabhama and Krishna. The total story is presented in Baghavatham in detail. I wanted an in-depth understanding of the bolded portion of the following verses Pondering over his grievous offense and worried...

I heard for commoner brahmins (non-priests), many vedic gurus don't accept them, especially if they are older like (teenagers and after). How hard is it to find a guru who could teach your vedic shakha, if you are in your 20s? Is it basically impossible for commoners to get to learn their veda?

As far as I know Gotra of fathers of bride and bridegroom has to mismatched for marriage between a man and woman.(in brahmins) Whose gotras has to be mismatched for marriage ? - Only father or both father and mother. Here I am concerned only with brahmin varna.