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US-based spiritual leader, Moksha Puri Baba narrates his journey from the US Military to adopting Sanatan Dharma and eventually taking Sanyaas. He felt a past life connection to Sanatan Dharma, and said that he felt like a reunion with other ‘mahatmas’ here in India. At the Kumbh Mela, Moksha Puri Baba is actively promoting the [...]

Fitness training is an essential part of Hindu practice and also something most Hindus haven’t worked out yet but think Krishna on the battlefield was telling Arjuna to eat pakoras and samosas 50 times a day while smoking 10 packs and drinking 20 bottles of alcohol daily to become an intellectual ‘Kshatriya’ with a massive [...]

Swami Satyanand joined the divine order of Sannyasi when he was initiated by his Guru Swami Ghananand Saraswati on the 12th February, 2012. Swami Satyanand was a Ghanaian born a Catholic and in his adult life became a Hindu and worked for the Hindu Dharma for over 35 years. [...]

“All men dream,” said T. E. Lawrence, “but not equally.” Artistic, introspective and questioning, even as a child it was clear to those around me that I was, in Lawrence’s terminology, a “dreamer of the day.” I disliked what I regarded as the shallow materialism and trivial ways people interacted in the West. But above [...]

I am an American like many other Americans, born into a family of mixed European and Native American ancestry. My interest in my own origins started early. I knew that my European ancestors were pagans who were converted to Abrahamic faiths, and that my Native ancestors were pagans mostly obliterated by those Europeans. I knew [...]

In 1968, only six years after founding the AEPi chapter at his Long Island University campus, Steven Silberfein took one of the thousand names of the Hindu god Vishnu and became Sridhar Silberfein.A year later, the one-time Jewish fraternity brother escorted the Hindu teacher Swami Satchidananda to the stage at Woodstock to deliver an invocation [...]

While In ‘secular ‘ India Hinduism is often portrayed as being backward, irrational , anti woman and is ridiculed as an obstacle standing in the way of progress. Where the ‘progressive’ West is shown to be the standard template to copy and follow. But meanwhile in the real West Hinduism is on the rapid rise. [...]