Pages tagged with Hindu
Pomegranate is having spiritual importance in Hindu customes, pomegranate resemble for success and richness and it is connected with both Boomidevi(the earth goddess) and lord Ganesha and pomegranate is having health benefits too.
Gokarna is located in western sea coast of Karnataka, India. It is an Hindu pilgrimage centre with lot of Shiva temples and it is also having several beaches for tourists
Makara Sankranthi falls in the month of January on 13 th of every year, most of the Hindu families celebrate this festival. It is the festival of harvests.
Navarathri festival is celebrated ever year in the month of Aswin in Lunar calender all over the India.
Riots in Assam were not communal. Deeming the violence to be a religious conflict is a misunderstanding.
Roro Jonggrang refused Bondowoso proposing marriage to be his wife, then by anger he cursed Roro Bondowoso Jonggrang into stone ...
Water is the final film in a trilogy by director Deepa Mehta after the films Fire and Earth. The film focuses on the denial of the Hindu widows by their community and their miserable condition in the 1939 in the holy city of Varanasi (Benares), popularly called Vrindavan, city of wido...
The Narmada river could be the oldest river on earth. Rocks from the Precambrian and Paleozoic ages are found in a valley that she flows through. According to her devotees, she is a mother goddess who provides for them materially and spiritually; the giver of immortal bliss.
A simple choice between what is right and what is easy leads to a legacy
A very short story about gratitude and Squirrels which are cute
Om or Am is a sacred/mystical syllable in the Indian religions, i.e. Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism.The Sanskrit name for the syllable is praṇava, from a root nu ”to shout, sound”, verbal par-nu- being attested as “to make a humming or droning sound”
This is an article on recent events that took place in my country. Very nasty events...
Most people do not know what revelation is, because what they do know has been obscured by the world, the flesh and the devil. This short writing attempts to take away what blinds the masses so they may see what the purpose of life is.
Widows have no place in Hindu society. That is the sad truth. Things are changing, but they have miles to go to reach their goal
All Souls Day is celebrated by most of the Christian denominations in the month of November. Here is a detail about how the Hindus celebrate it in the month of July.
I like Hinduism because It does not compel me to read the religious books. It leaves everything to my choice. It allows me choose my god, the shape of my god, the color and clothes of my god. At last what I said was:
[i]"I like it because It is so[b] liberal[/b] that it [b]liberally ...
Liberal "Christians", Garden Variety "Unbelievers", and Liberal Christians with little Biblical knowledge, yet may have a seed of "faith". These may be "settled" into their convictions, consider themselves adequately informed, probably has some belief in the Bible, and may accept por...
A comparison of the world's 8 major religions; their similarities and differences. I also offer a solutions to prevent further problems that spawn out of a difference of religion. A lot of material is based off the book "God is Not One" by Stephen Prothero. I also included some stu...
Catholics are 2% of India's population, but most of them are converts from the lower castes.
According to a 2009 survey, 77% of Americans believe in some description of angels. While skeptics often relate a belief in angels to irrational superstition and wishful thinking, countless new spiritual perspectives surface each year which include the possibility of angels among us....
Between 3000 BCE and 1500 BCE, a thriving civilization dominated the Indus Valley of Southeast Asia, encompassing most of what is modern-day Pakistan, the current western states of India, southeastern Afghanistan, and the easternmost part of Balochistan, Iran. Until recently, this hi...
Syrian Christians will follow Hindu rituals and traditions in their life in daily life , marriages,death and in celebrating festivals
Sikhism is relatively unknown outside its native India, yet it is the fifth largest of all world religions, with over 20 million followers worldwide. This anonymity is partly due to the fact that Sikhism was formed relatively recently—in the fifteenth century—and doesn’t have t...
