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इतनी शक्ति हमें दे ना दाता मन का विश्वास कमजोर हो ना हम चलें नेक रस्ते पे हमसे भूलकर भी कोई भूल हो ना इतनी शक्ति हमें दे ना दाता मन का विश्वास कमजोर हो ना दूर अज्ञान के हो अंधेरे, तू हमे ज्ञान की रौशनी दे हर बुराई से बचके रहे हम, जितनी भी दे भली जिन्दगी दे बैर […]
» Read moreGoswami Tulsidas was an Awadhi poet and philosopher. He was born in Rajapur, India in 1532 A.D. during the reign of Akbar. Tulsidas wrote twelve books and is considered the greatest and most famous of Hindi poets. He is regarded as an incarnation of Valmiki, the author of Ramayana written in Sanskrit. The most famous book is his Ramayana in […]
» Read moreBorn on February 22, 1856 at village Talwan in Jalandhar district of the Punjab province, Swami Shraddhanand ji was named as Brihaspati and Munshiram. The young boy, a pampered child, moved from place to place on his dad’s transfers and was bereft of formal education in the formative years of life. Nonetheless, he learnt a lot in the school of […]
» Read moreShankaracharya’s name stands out very prominently in so far as Hindu religion is concerned. Before the advent of Shankaracharya, Buddhism had a strong hold in India. Shankaracharya propagated the Hindu-Veda Dharma or Vedanta. Hence he was known as the World Teacher or Jagad Guru. Shankara was born in very poor family 1400 year ago in South India in a village […]
» Read moreGuru Nanak ji was a poet singer who founded Sikhism and was the first of the ten gurus of Sikhs. He was born in 1469 in Talwandi, Punjab (in present day Pakistan). He preached that there was one God. He was able to remove many objectionable religious practices. Both Hindus and Muslims came under the influence of his teachings and […]
» Read moreSwami Dayanand Saraswati (1824 – 1883) was an important Hindu religious scholar born in Gujarat, India. He was known as the founder of Arya Samaj. He was a sanayasi from his boyhood. Throughout his life, he preached against many Hindu traditions, which he felt were dogmatic and oppressive. These included traditions like child marriage, caste by birth, exclusion of females […]
» Read moreContinuing with our 2007 topic of “Great Religious Leaders and Philosophers of India”, this month, we will cover teachings of one of influential religious leader of Nineteenth century, Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa. He fought against ritualism and superstition that was wide spread and all pervasive in India . As such, all of our religious leaders addressed various aspects of religion, spiritualism […]
» Read moreWe will start the year with Swami Vivekananda, the Valiant monk who proclaimed in America the greatness of Hinduism and of Indian culture at a time when the west regarded India as a land of Barbarians . The beloved disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, he was the great thinker and mighty man of action. Swami Vivekananda was born on 12th […]
» Read moreWhat is yoga? Yoga means union. In religion, Yoga means union of soul with God. Name eight limbs of yoga? Yam, Niyam, Aasan, Pranayam, Pratyahar, Dharna, Dhyan and Smadhi. What are five Yam? Satya (truthfulness), Ahinsa (non-violence), asteya (non-stealing), brahamcharya (celibacy), aparigrah (non-covetousness) What are five Niyam? Sauch (Purity), Santosh (Contentment), Tapa (Austerity), Swadhyaya (Study of Vedic literature), Ishwar Pranidhan […]
» Read moreSamadhi is the final state of meditation in yoga. Samadhi means “to bring together, to merge.” In this state of Samadhi the body and senses are at rest, as if asleep, yet the mind and reason are alert, as if awake; one goes beyond consciousness. It is final experience in which yogi attains to a state of perfection. The achievement […]
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