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Nag Panchami
This year 2016 Nag Panchami (नागपंचमी) also known as festival of snakes will be observed on Sunday, 7th August. It is celebrated throughout India and falls on the fifth day of the moonlit fortnight of...
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Spiritual Significance of Mata Saraswati Image- Basant Panchami Special
Most Popular Saraswati Prayer1"Yaa Kundendu tushaara haaradhavalaa, Yaa shubhravastraavritha| Yaa veenavara dandamanditakara, Yaa shwetha padmaasana|| Yaa brahmaachyutha shankara prabhritibhir...
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Similarities Between Teachings of Christ and Krishna-Christmas Special
Lord Krishna says in the Gita: "Whenever, O Arjuna, righteousness declines and unrighteousness prevails, my body assumes human form and lives as a human being." He also says, "In order to protect the...
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Shravani Teej or Hariyali Teej (July 30, 2014)
This festival is celebrated in the memory of the union of Goddess Parvati with Lord Shiva. This festival is known as Hariyali Teej in Western India. However, it is also famous as 'Madhushrava...
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The Saptapadi In Hindu Weddings
Yesterday in my online special Karva Chauth (tomorrow October 22) broadcast on www.bhajanawali.com I reminded the listeners about the seven vows (Saptapadi) the Hindu couples take at their weddings....
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Gems from Gandhi
Today, October 2nd is the 144th birth day of the icon of peace and non-violence, Mahatma Gandhi, the father of Indian Nation. Let me give you my selection of his quotes that have inspired me the...
View ArticlePitri-Paksha for Living Parents
In my blog http://www.speakingtree.in/public/spiritual-blogs/seekers/faith-and-rituals/pitru-pakshagrossly-misinterpreted I said "if you think by performing Shraadha ceremony every year you will be...
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Reminder of Pitri-Rin in Pitri-Paksha
The annual ancestor-worship or 'Pitri(Pitru)-Paksha' is a period that is observed during the dark half of the Hindu month of 'Ashwin.' This period of 15 days starting tomorrow, September 19 in Canada,...
View ArticleIs it your or God's will?
One of my listeners (www.bhajanawali.com) asked me a question, "When not a leaf can move without the will of God, how do merit and sin crop up ?" The question was worth considering and this is how I...
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Ganesh Mantras and Ganesh Gayatri
In my article "The Power of Mantra Chanting, Why and How to Chant" published by Hinduism.about.com (http://hinduism.about.com/od/prayersmantras/a/mantrachanting.htm), I wrote: ""Mananaat traayate iti...
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A Spiritual and Scientific view of Janmashtami Fast
There are many auspicious occasions when fasts are observed by Hindus. Examples include Janmashtami, Ganesh-Chaturthi, Mahashivratri, two Navratras (each of nine days), Ekadasi, Pradosha etc. Fasting...
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My Glorious Heritage-An NRI Perspective
Today is the 67th anniversary of India's Independence Day. I have been an NRI since 1964 visiting India as often as I can. Since 1981 I have been broadcasting a non-commercial charitable Vedic religion...
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Tulsi's Shabari on his birth anniversary tomorrow
Today, the most popular and widely read Ramayana is that composed by the greatest Hindi poet cum saint Tulsidas in the sixteenth century. Its proper name is Raamacharitmaanas. It's simple melodious...
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Fire of Aversion
Is there not burning some latent or patent fire, consciously or unconsciously, in an innermost corner of your heart? You will have to explore it fully into the depths of your innerself with a...
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My Online Spiritual Broadcast on Shravani Shiv
Shravani-Shiva Special-Why "Kanwarias" offer the Ganges water (Ganga Jal) to Jyotirlingam in Shravan chanting "Bol Bam"( English)? My unique 2005 spiritual experience in Baba Baidyanath Dham (English...
View ArticleIndian Family Life Disintegrating
When I immigrated to Canada from India in 1964, one of the things I missed the most was a joint family environment. In the western society I found that lacking and felt sorry for them thinking they...
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Shiva's Symbolism on His Favourite Month Shravan
Shiva is worshiped by millions of devotees around the world but there are two most auspicious occasions when worshiping lord Shiva is considered most fruitful. First is the eve of 'Shivaratri', the...
View ArticleConstant Alertness
Just ponder; what is the direction of your thoughts? Does your mind always look backwards into the past and evaluate the present in terms of the past? If so, please give up this habit. What is there in...
View ArticleMy Sapt Shloki Gita
In the "Stotra Ratnavali" by Gita Press Gorakhpur is given a Sapta-Shloki Gita, which starts with "omityekaaksharaM brahma vyaaharanmaamanusmaran.h. yaH prayaati tyajandehaM sa yaati paramaan gatim."...
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