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[ Transcribed from a lecture given by Sri Atmatattva Das ] There were twelve Alvars who appeared in South India. Not all at the same time, but over a period of several centuries. They established the basis of the Krishna bhakti...

Kumbha Mela derives its name from the immortal “Pot of Nectar” described in ancient Vedic scriptures known as the Puranas. Kumbha in Sanskrit language means “pot or pitcher’. Mela means “festival”. Thus Kumbha Mela literally...

Jayadeva lived in the 12th century and is the well-known author of the musical epic Sri Geetagovinda. He hailed from the Kenduli village in the Prachi valley between Bhubaneswar and Puri. Jayadeva spent most of his life at Puri...

In the Vedic culture, devotees often worship multiple Deity forms of the Lord. In addition to the principal Deities who may be installed in a large temple in the region, there has always been more localized worship because it is...

The Fountainhead of all eternal and temporal manifestations is confined in Sri Krsna alone. The non-absolute phases are emanations from a particular potency whose analytical distributions are known as gunas or qualities. In the...

The Fountainhead of all eternal and temporal manifestations is confined in Sri Krsna alone. The non-absolute phases are emanations from a particular potency whose analytical distributions are known as gunas or qualities. In the...

Vedas and Puranas dominated the ancient religious scenerio of Hinduism. Vedas are great storehouses of knowledge and deal in a very sacred holy form as to how to lead a normal life, giving stress to the ideal method of living....

The criterion of reality according to Madhva is that it should be unsuperimposed (‘anaropitam’) and given as an object of valid knowledge, as existing at some point of time and in some place. These two ideas are...

Rajarsi Bhagyachandra ascended the throne in 1759, but in 1762 the Burmese, acting in concert with his envious maternal uncle, invaded Manipur, and the king, with his queen and a few attendants, fled to the neighbouring state of...

A brahmavadi is one who is tattva-vit, as defined in the shastras: vadanti tat tattva vidas tattvam yaj jNaanam advayam brahmeti paramaatmeti bhagavaan iti Sabdyate Those who are tattva-vit understand that the Absolute Truth has...