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The second Sunday in May has come to be celebrated as Mother’s Day the world over. This is a perfect occasion to acknowledge and appreciate a mother’s inherent characteristics of Love and Sacrifice – the two pillars that ‘motherhood’ is …
All Mahans – great yogis, jnanis and bhaktas who renounced the whole world for spiritual prowess, for Self-Knowledge, for the sake of their Lord – have nevertheless had a soft corner for their mothers. Sri Adi Shankara, the great Jnani …
Panguni Uthiram (celebrated on March 26 2013) is said to be the auspicious day when Gowri married Lord Shiva, Sita married Lord Rama, Andal married Lord Ranganatha and became one with him. In contemporary times, it was on this auspicious …
“Drink the sweet nectar of the Name of God,” urges every one of the great devotee composers of India. The significance of the Name is beyond the conceivable limits of a human mind. Likewise, these saints also point to us …
All the scriptures of Sanatana Dharma strongly proclaim that in this Age of Kali, chanting the Divine Names of God (Nama Sankirtan) is the easiest way to attain God. kalau kalmasHa chittAnAm pApa dravyOpa jIvinAm | vidhikriyA vihInAnAm gatir gOvinda …
February 14th has come to be considered as the day of ‘love’ across the world. What is the highest form of love in this world? Love of God? Perhaps. But mahatmas say that more than our love of God, it …
Feb 10, 2013 was Sri Purandara Dasa’s Aradhana day. A great saint known for his beautiful compositions filled with devotion, he was one who exhorted all to sing the Names of the Lord! In a well-known song, he sings, “When …
