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Rigveda 1:164:46 इन्द्रं॑ मि॒त्रं वरु॑णम॒ग्निमा॑हु॒रथो॑ दि॒व्यः स सु॑प॒र्णो ग॒रुत्मा॑न् ।एकं॒ सद्विप्रा॑ बहु॒धा व॑दन्त्य॒ग्निं य॒मं मा॑त॒रिश्वा॑नमाहुः ॥४६॥ indram mitram varunam agnim Àhur atho divyah sa suparno garutmÀn |ekam sad viprÀ bahudhÀ vadantyagnim yamam mÀtarishvÀnamÀhuh || They call him Indra, Mitra, Varuṇa, Agni, and he is heavenly nobly-winged Garutmān.To what is One, sages give many a title they […]

When Duryodhana was removing the sari of the Draupadi devi, Lord Krishna gave unlimited sari and saved the disgrace of Draupadi in the courtyard. Why didn’t Lord Krishna cut the hands of Duryodhana and kill him at the spot? The answer to this lies in how God works in this world in a mysterious way. […]

There are many angles in which we have understood this episode. If the case is that Yudhisthira stakes Draupadi first in the game of dice, then he does not have ethics. Knowing well that it would be unjust to stake one’s wife (whom he has sworn to protect during the marriage oaths) from the words […]

Knowing that it would be unjust to stake his wife whom he has sworn to protect during the marriage (husband takes a oath during the marriage ceremony that “For Righteous reasons, financial reasons, personal desire reasons, or spiritual reasons, I will not leave her”), Yudhistira stakes himself first before staking Draupadi. If Yudhisthira stakes Draupadi […]

There is another story in Brahmavaivarat Purana that is linked to the story of the Shiva Purana. You have to combine the background story in other Puranas to understand the original story in a Purana. Here is that story: Once Sage Durvasa was travelling from Vaikuntha to Kailasa. He came upon King of Demigod Indra […]

Let us understand the standard concept of a religion. In order to call some common religious or divine beliefs or divine knowledge as belonging to a religion, it has to come down from a common prophet or angel or messenger of God. Since Hinduism is not started by a specific prophet and it has different […]

Most historians say that Lord Indra is praised more than Lord Vishnu or Lord Shiva (Rudra) in Vedas and Indra is the real God of Sanathana Dharma (Pre-vedic time when Yagna is only way of worship of God and not idol worship) and not Vishnu or Shiva. In fact Indra ruler over other devas in […]

Dwaita, Adwaita and Visishtadvaita talk about the relationship between 3 main realities of this universe or very basic fundamental aspects of this universe. They are God, the souls (jivas or consciousness), and insentient matter (jada or moola prakriti or the material energy which science discusses). If you do comparative study of these 3 siddantas (viewpoints) […]

Vibhuti yoga of Bhagavad Gita answers this. By declaring that His glory present in some of the selected things, beings and living beings, God is declaring His ubiquity in this chapter. It explains where exactly the God’s glory is found in this material world. Even the angels (devathas) use the same energy or power of […]

Do you know that even the scientists have the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information that confirms or supports their prior beliefs? It is called as knowledge filtering (suppression of some of the evidences that opposes the convention discoveries that was made). Cremo and Richard Thompson published a booked called Forbidden Archaeology […]