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 ======================================================================== A priest attends to the day’s worship at a Chausath Yogini temple in the town of Hirapur. This is one of many such temples built in reverence to the 64 yoginis who are said to be manifestations of Shakti Herself. Shutterstock ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, November 9, 2021. 11:00.AM. Unusual Temples & Shrines of India : October 1, 2021 : ANURADHA GOYAL : HINDUISM TODAY. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Special Feature : Every hindu temple is a home of its deities, where they live just like we live in our homes, following a set routine through the day and celebrating special occasions around the year. Temples themselves are a form of Deity, designed to make us feel their presence at both the gross and subtle l...

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Truly unforgettable!  Here’re some glimpses of the holy city Ayodhya, that has come to life with the festivities of deepotsav.🤩 A world record has also been set for the lighting of maximum number of 🪔🪔 amidst Vedic chants! 🙏 PMINDIA ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, November 4, 2021. 6:00.AM. May you be the light for yourself and for the world.  Wish you all a very Happy Diwali.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Swami Chinmayananda and VHP The Vishwa Hindu Parishad was founded at Swami Chinmayananda’s ashram in 1962, with Swami as the founder-chairman. In that year the pope was visiting India; Catholics had vowed to convert 108 Hindus to Christianity i...

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, February 11, 2021. 07:23. AM. Chapter 1: The Vision and Its Unfoldment -1. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ We have in our daily life rarely an occasion to be alone to our own selves and bestow adequate thought on the manner in which we conduct ourselves in the world, or the way in which we live at all. A spontaneous impulsion carries us through the day and the night, and all this goes under the designation of a reasoned-out procedure of a purposeful existence. But it is evident that there is not much of a rationality in this propulsion to living, whose pressure we feel every day, if only we can withdraw our minds into our own selves for a few minutes and investigate into the extent to which our daily conduct and activity are rational or reasoned procedures. A habit that has b...

---------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, January  13, 2021. 08:20. AM. Chapter 1: The Spirit of Life -8.. -------------------------------------------- But what sort of relationship is there between ourselves and others? This relationship among persons and things in life is what we mean by life, because for us life is experience. Life is identical with what we know as experience. Whatever I experience is life for me. “Oh, what a life!” When I make a complaint like that, I mean that the experiences I had are not satisfactory. So my life is my experience. -our life is your experience. Life is experience in its essence. ----------------------------- As relationships seem to be what we mean by life, it is necessary to know what sort of relationships we have – or rather, that we seem to have – among ourselves. We can have two sorts of relationships. One is a scientific relationship, and another is an ethical relationship. When we have a very pleasurable ethical rel...

  ----------------------------------------------- Tuesday, November  10, 2020. 06:01. AM. Chapter 1: The Spirit of Life - 7.. ---------------------------------------------- The right manner of action is the technique of action; and the technique of action is to be known. If that is not known, even though our action might be continued for years and years and even aeons, we will find ourselves in almost the same condition, stagnating. Why? Really it is true that we have done many things in our life. We have passed through various incarnations. Can we say that we have not done anything? Every one of us has done much, not merely in this life but in many lives that we have lived. But where are we today in spite of all that we have done? We are nowhere better. We all have a common complaint. My complaints are your complaints also. Whatever is my difficulty, essentially, is your difficulty also. Ultimately, it is all universal suffering and disappointment in spite of everyone having ...

  ----------------------------------------------- Wednesday, October  21, 2020. 06:01. PM. Chapter 1: The Spirit of Life -6. ---------------------------------------------- 1. Nature, creation, is not a social setup, though it has a social form. It is supernormal in its structure. It is also super-moral and super-intellectual, super-scientific and super-logical, ultimately speaking. It is not as we think it to be. All the while we have been under the impression that life is something; but it is not what we think it to be. We are misled even by people whom we observe in life. We develop a sort of relationship with persons under the impression that those people are something, but suddenly there is a change in their nature and we begin to realise, “I made a mistake. I thought this person is like this, but today I learned a bitter lesson. That person has turned a different pose altogether.” We are disillusioned almost every day, and then we become better persons by practical experi...

  ----------------------------------------------- Friday, October  09, 2020. 07:19. AM. Chapter 1: The Spirit of Life -5. ---------------------------------------------- 1. Why should this be so? Why should we be so poverty-stricken in the essentiality of our being? Why are we bankrupt in ourselves while we seem to be rich in the public eye? What is this mystery? Has anyone found time to question into this and find an answer to this question? Why should we be so grieved and agonised in our depths while we are looking beautiful outside? “The spirit of life has not been known,” is again the answer. “Life has not been understood,” is the answer. Why are we not interested in knowing it, entering into its spirit, and grasping it at its bottom? We have not been put in the proper direction. We have been misled right from our birth by social circumstances and public opinions, which is the ethics that we usually follow. Our ethics is social ethics. It is not metaphysical or spiritual et...