hinduism

In his interview with the media, Will Smith revealed a shocking fact that he is immensely influenced by Bhagavad Gita and read 90% of it. He also said that he has a high influence of Arjuna on him. [...]

Vedic knowledge impressed a German scholar so much that he sold his business consultancy firm in his country about 20 years ago to embark on a mission to spread the understanding of these ancient religious texts in India and the rest of the world. [...]

THRISSUR: The Railway police on the basis of an intelligence tip-off have warned of a likely security threat to the lives of commuters, especially Ayyappa devotees, here from the so-called Islamic State(IS) terror outfit. [...]

Hindu Festival in Venice Beach where very angry and frustrated Christian protesters turn up facing another giant fail when ignored and laughed at [...]

The foundational texts of Vedanta and MahAyAna, ask the practitioner to examine the nature of the arrow of time, and recognize how consciousness or ‘such-ness empty of all identifications’ underlies the changing tenses as a sort of ‘eternal present’. Past and Future, are thought to be sets of choices and possibilities respectively, and [...]

Indian Christian fanatics burnt Hindu deity of Lord Ganesha and Indian National Flag in full public view after pouring petrol at Lunglei town in Mizoram [...]

For once, the secularists have it right. The nationalism by which the Hindutva crowd swears, is a Western invention. Feelings for your home country are universal, and natives of India will need no prodding nor any foreign or native ideology to defend their country when necessary. [...]

As many as 1,200 cows -- mostly abandoned, sick and injured -- have found a saviour in 59-year-old German national Friederike Irina Bruning. When she landed in India from Berlin in 1978 as a tourist, she had no inkling of the life destiny had in store for her. [...]

In general, the Eastern understanding of time is very subtle, and perhaps is only matched by some of the most recent theories of modern science. That time is relative, is well recognized, and the fact that the scale of time need not be the same everywhere is acknowledged. The time of the Gods for example, [...]

An Australian lamb advertisement has been slammed for using a vegetarian religious figure to promote meat. The advert, which features Hindu deity Ganesha feasting on lamb at a barbecue with other gods, has been condemned by Hindu representatives as insensitive and disrespectful. [...]