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My mom normally does the daily puja in the house. And when she can’t my sister does it. But last weekend my parents were away and my sister couldn’t do the puja for some reason either, so I said that I’d do it. Well to be honest, she could but I wanted to do the [...]

The fruit of self realization is for the one who is centered. A popular Hindu story about Lord Ganesha conveys the truth. Saint Narada once handed over a mango to Shiva and Parvati. He said that it was a special mango which would bestow eternal wisdom on whoever savours it. There was also a hitch [...]

Ganesha Chaturthi and Visarjana at Kauai’s Hindu Monastery, September 18, 2012 [...]

In some Hindu cultures, Hindu God Ganesh is considered to be a bachelor. But there are some cultures in which he is a family man. Siddhi and Riddhi are the wives of Hindu God Ganesha. There is an interesting story which narrates how Ganesh Got Married. As Ganesha had an elephant-head no girl was ready [...]

Ganesh Chaturthi or "Vinayak Chaturthi" is one of the major traditional festivals celebrated by the Hindu community. [...]

A man died and went to heaven as a result of his good acts in life. God showed him all the beauties of Heaven. When He had finished, the man said, ‘Oh, Lord, all this is delightful beyond imagination. But is there no greater Heaven than this?’ ‘There is,’ said Vishnu and took the man [...]

Uddhava, the apprentice of Krishna, one day expressed his dis-satisfaction to Krishna that in-spite of studying all Vedas ,Upnishadas and Sutras, he still was not recipient of the title “Maha-Rishi”, meaning the great sage. He indirectly suggested that Krishna should use his weight in the council of wise men to honor him with the title. [...]

An Indian king had a close friend who had the habit of remarking “It’s all Good!” about every occurrence in life no matter what it was. One day he king and his friend were out hunting. The king’s friend loaded a gun and handed it to the king, but alas he loaded it wrong and [...]

Some Hindus these days think we should stop using the Hindu label as an identity because its origins are foreign. Regretfully even some Hindu gurus and swamis have joined the fray by also expressing their reservations about its feasibility for the Hindu community worldwide. However, on closer reflection any idea of ditching the term ‘Hindu’ [...]

Often we hear this refrain that the state of affairs is so bad at present that we need an Avatar to descend into the cesspool of humanity and uplift it to a new level. We Hindus have developed a habit of justifying our own inactivity by citing the above words of Lord Sri Krishna from [...]