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Adi Shankaracharya

1. Brahma Bhāvanā - Viveka Chūḍāmaṇi - Contemplation on Brahman ‘Brahma Tat Tvam Asi Bhāvayātmani’ - New!
2. Krishna is the Supreme Lord, the Self of All says Sri Adi Sankaracharya ji in Prabodh Sudhakar
3. Panchāyatana Pūjā - Panchadevopāsanā - NEW Page added to Understanding Advaita Website - New!
4. Sri Dakshinamurty Stotra Sanskrit - Gujarati - Hindi - English Translation

Announcements

1. Important Announcement
2. Indiaspirituality Blog now available in HTTPS - protocol for secure communication
3. Samata Books Needs Funds
4. Volunteers needed to Translate Puri Shankaracharya ji's discourses
5. What is Dharma - New Article on Sanatan Dharma Website
6. [Announcement] Retirement of Google Friend Connect
7. [Update] Pages with TOC are now working
8. [Update] Understanding Advaita and Sanatan Dharma Websites Migrated to New Platform

Bhagavad Gita

1. Introduction of Madhusūdana Sarasvatī’s Gūḍārtha Dīpikā, a unique commentary on Bhagavad Gītā

Book Review

1. [Book Review] Musings on Hinduism by Shri Nithin Sridhar

Diwali and New Year

1. New Article Series - What is Dharma | Happy Diwali 2020
2. Notes on Sānkhya Kārikā based on Various commentaries | Happy Diwali 2024 - New!
3. Shubh Deepavali and Prosperous New Year - 2019 - [An Article on Raja Yoga]
4. Wishing You a Joyous and Happy Deepavali and Prosperous New Year - 2018

For Gujaratis

1. ChatuH Sloki Bhagavat - Gujarati
2. Guru Gita - Gujarati - Full Unicode (No Sanskrit)
3. micchami dukkadam - મિચ્ચામી દૂકડમ - ક્ષમા પ્રાર્થના - Gujarati - English
4. श्रीदक्षिणामूर्ति स्तोत्रम् Dakshinamurthy Stotram - Sanskrit - Gujarati
5. શ્રી રમણ ગીતા - Sri Ramana Gita A5 With TOC Gujarati
6. સદ્દર્શન ચાલીસી - 40 verses on reality - Gujarati Full unicode

Gita

1. Essence of Kapila Gita by Swami Tejomayananda
2. Gems from Kapila Gita

Guru Gita

1. Guru Gita - Gujarati - Full Unicode (No Sanskrit)
2. Guru Gita - Gurus to be avoided
3. Guru Pūrṇimā kī hārdika śubhakāmanāye - 19th July 2016
4. Happy Guru Purnima - 12th July 2014
5. [Update] Rev 2.0 of Guru Gita in Gujarati uploaded

Guru Purnima

1. Guru Pūrṇimā kī hārdika śubhakāmanāye - 19th July 2016
2. How to Find a Guru? How to Practice until we meet our Guru?

Hinduism

1. Hindu Dharma – The most organized, integrated spiritual and practical way of life.
2. Ignorance of fundamental principles by activitsts and rational thinkers
3. A False Practical Perspective - Violence can only be won by Non-violence
4. Chariot Analogy from Katha Upanishad – Sanskrit – Hindi – English
5. Eight Types of Marriages in Hindu Dharma
6. Essence of Kapila Gita by Swami Tejomayananda
7. Evolution of 24 tattva-s of Sānkhya as per Patanjali Yoga Sūtras 2.19 and Sānkhya Kārikā 3 - New!
8. Holī kī hardika Śubhakāmnāye - 2018 - Symbolism behind Holikā Dahana
9. How does one progress spiritually (on the path of Jñāna)?
10. Is humanity the Greatest Religion?
11. Is Śiva Linga a phallic Symbol? Do we Hindus worship private parts? What is Śiva Linga?
12. Kapila Gita FULL Ch 23-33 of Bhagavat Purana Skanda 3 - Sanskrit-English
13. Krishna is the Supreme Lord, the Self of All says Sri Adi Sankaracharya ji in Prabodh Sudhakar
14. Manu Smriti talks about offences and punishments
15. New Article Series - What is Dharma | Happy Diwali 2020
16. Non-violence and Vegetarianism
17. Notes on Sānkhya Kārikā based on Various commentaries | Happy Diwali 2024 - New!
18. Nourishment of 5 bodies (Panchakośa-s)
19. Panchāyatana Pūjā - Panchadevopāsanā - NEW Page added to Understanding Advaita Website - New!
20. Pran Prathistha, Rama and Adhyatma Ramayana – What Birth of Rama Means - New!
21. Prayer to Lord Ganesha
22. REFLECT on your true nature this Year: Happy Deepavali
23. Rare Biography of Sri Abhinava Vidyatheertha Mahaswamigal
24. Reclaim Temples – An initiative to reclaim and revive our Identity
25. Sadhana on Lord Shiva as explained by Swami Sivananda
26. Sri Balarama ji’s Updesha to Srimati Rukmini devi – Bhagavat Purana, Skanda 10, Adhyaya 54
27. Sri Ramakrishna on how caste can be abolished
28. Sri Shukadeva ji’s Last message to Maharaja Parikshit - Brahmopadesha – Srimad Bhagavat Purana BP 12.5.1-13 and BP 12.6.1-10 - New!
29. Surya as Brahman in Aditya Hridayam - Advaitic Interpretation
30. Swami Swaroopananda Saraswati, Shankaracharya of Jyotir Peetam and Sharada Peetam, Dvarka Peetham attained Mahasamadhi on 11-Sep-2022 - New!
31. Theories of creation in Hinduism
32. Three types of Brahman in our Sāśtra-s - New!
33. What is Dharma - New Article on Sanatan Dharma Website
34. Why do Gods Pray?
35. Wishing You a Joyous and Happy Deepavali and Prosperous New Year - 2018
36. Wishing you a Very Happy Deepavali and a Prosperous New Year - 2015
37. Women and sanAtana dharma
38. [Happy Diwali 2016] Vedas - 3 or 4?
39. [Update] Hindu Dharma – Traditional Overview v9.3.1 b released
40. varnAshrama dharma of Hinduism from traditional viewpoint
41. yoga, haTha yoga, nAtha yoga, aghora, tantra and kriyA yoga
42. Śrī Rāma - Significance of his birth and Rāma Janmabhūmī Mandira Bhūmī Pūjana – 5th August 2020

Inspirational Quotes

1. Quotes of Sri Yukteshwar from Autobiography of a Yogi Ch 12 - New!

Meditation

1. Brahma Bhāvanā - Viveka Chūḍāmaṇi - Contemplation on Brahman ‘Brahma Tat Tvam Asi Bhāvayātmani’ - New!
2. Happy New Year 2015
3. Sadhana on Lord Shiva as explained by Swami Sivananda
4. What should we do to control our mind and stay detached?

Mind

1. What should we do to control our mind and stay detached?

Parmarth Prasanga

1. Parmartha Prasanga - Prayer and Spirituality

Prayer

1. Happy New Year 2017 - Few words on Prayer
2. Parmartha Prasanga - Prayer and Spirituality
3. Prayer to Lord Ganesha

Puranas

1. Brahman divides into four parts during creation, preservation and destruction
2. Three Gunas and Beyond - Uddhava Gita, Bhagavat Purana

Q and A

1. Alas, I am a sinner, how shall I attain liberation?
2. Can a Doer be a Witness at the same time?
3. How can I develop love for God?
4. How can one see God?
5. How can one see God?
6. How can we experience the one who does not change?
7. How do we detach ourselves from our lower nature and attain Brahman?
8. How the Self (soul) which is sentient, becomes the onlooker of the insentient intellect etc?
9. How to ward off negative thoughts?
10. In the end, will Self merge in the Supreme or is a part of it or remains separate
11. Is assuming this world as illusion or unreal enough? Does it not contradict day-2-day experience?
12. Is bhakti alone sufficient for the attainment of God, for His vision?
13. Is spiritual practice necessary?
14. One cannot teach men without direct command from God
15. Sri Ramakrishna explains two ways that lead to moksha
16. Sri Ramakrishna on Bhakti and Importance of Vairagya
17. Sri Ramakrishna on Bound Soul, Renunciation and way to achieve Liberation
18. Sri Ramana Maharshi on Many Gods, Relative Existence and Supreme Truth
19. Swami Ramsukhdas ji on Satsang
20. We are sinners, what will happen to us?
21. What does a man see when he attains the Knowledge of Brahman after reaching the seventh plane?
22. What is the relation between my freewill and God's will
23. What should one do for salvation (Kalyan and Mukti)?
24. What should we do to control our mind and stay detached?
25. When a man becomes liberated?
26. Why are we bound in Maya? Why don't we see God?
27. Why doesn't God free us from the world?

Rama Gita

1. Wishing You a Joyous and Happy Deepavali and Prosperous New Year - 2018

Ramakrishna Kathamrita

1. Be Positive says Sri Ramakrishna
2. Daya and Maya
3. Different types of Renunciation as expained by Sri Ramakrishna
4. Four Classes of Human Beings
5. God has form and He is formless too. Further, He is beyond both form and formlessness
6. God manifests to different degree in different beings
7. God sees bhakti and not our riches
8. How can I develop love for God?
9. How can one see God?
10. How can one see God?
11. Is bhakti alone sufficient for the attainment of God, for His vision?
12. Is spiritual practice necessary?
13. Let me tell you one thing - God can be seen
14. No one can understand God's action and his motive
15. One cannot teach men without direct command from God
16. Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna on bhakti
17. Sri Ramakrishna explains two ways that lead to moksha
18. Sri Ramakrishna on Bhakti and Importance of Vairagya
19. Sri Ramakrishna on Bound Soul, Renunciation and way to achieve Liberation
20. Sri Ramakrishna on Brahmajnana and Samadhi
21. Sri Ramakrishna on Ego and Free Will
22. Sri Ramakrishna on Escaping one's duties
23. Sri Ramakrishna on God with form and formless Brahman Satchidananda
24. Sri Ramakrishna on Jnana, Bhakti and Ego
25. Sri Ramakrishna on Mental State of Self Realised Person
26. Sri Ramakrishna on Nitya-Siddha, the ever-perfect Jivas
27. Sri Ramakrishna on Reading Scriptures
28. Sri Ramakrishna on Suicide
29. Sri Ramakrishna on Temporary Vairagya and advice to those Grieving for Loved Ones
30. Sri Ramakrishna on Theosophy
31. Sri Ramakrishna on how caste can be abolished
32. Sri Ramakrishna on how to look at God
33. Sri Ramakrishna on importance of Dispassion (Vairagya)
34. Sri Ramakrishna on nitya-siddha bhaktas (ever-perfect devotees since birth)
35. Sri Ramakrishna says Bhakti suits better than Jnana in Kaliyuga
36. Sri Ramakrishna's advice to Business Community
37. Sri Ramakrishna's first experience of Samadhi
38. Sri Ramakrishna: Sanyasi is a world teacher
39. Tendencies inherited from Previous Births
40. Thakur ji, how do you feel in samadhi?
41. We are sinners, what will happen to us?
42. What does a man see when he attains the Knowledge of Brahman after reaching the seventh plane?
43. When a man becomes liberated?
44. Why are we bound in Maya? Why don't we see God?
45. Why doesn't God free us from the world?

Ramana Maharshi Life and Works

1. Alas, I am a sinner, how shall I attain liberation?
2. In the end, will Self merge in the Supreme or is a part of it or remains separate
3. Sri Ramana Maharshi Stressing on Need of Practice than Mere Speculation
4. Sri Ramana Maharshi on Brahman
5. Sri Ramana Maharshi on Many Gods, Relative Existence and Supreme Truth
6. Sri Ramana Maharshi on Meditation, Surrender and Prayer
7. What is the relation between my freewill and God's will
8. શ્રી રમણ ગીતા - Sri Ramana Gita A5 With TOC Gujarati
9. સદ્દર્શન ચાલીસી - 40 verses on reality - Gujarati Full unicode

Saints

1. Blog dedicated to Sri Anandagiri Maharaj Alias Tanjore Swamigal

Sarada Maa

1. Humble Mother Sarada Devi

Spirituality

1. micchami dukkadam - મિચ્ચામી દૂકડમ - ક્ષમા પ્રાર્થના - Gujarati - English

Swami Rama

1. Tempation on the Path to self-realization

Swami Ramsukhdasji

1. How can we experience the one who does not change?
2. How do we detach ourselves from our lower nature and attain Brahman?
3. How the Self (soul) which is sentient, becomes the onlooker of the insentient intellect etc?
4. Swami Ramsukhdas ji on Satsang
5. What should one do for salvation (Kalyan and Mukti)?
6. What should we do to control our mind and stay detached?

Tatva Bodh

1. Ignorance of fundamental principles by activitsts and rational thinkers
2. Creation from Panchmahābhuta-s, 5 great elements as explained in tattva bodha

Uncatagorized

1. kAnchi Jagadguru attained mahAsamAdhi on 9:00 am 28-02-2018, Shukla Trayodashi

Understanding Advaita

1. [Update] Understanding Advaita and Sanatan Dharma Websites Migrated to New Platform

Vivek Choodamani

1. Brahma Bhāvanā - Viveka Chūḍāmaṇi - Contemplation on Brahman ‘Brahma Tat Tvam Asi Bhāvayātmani’ - New!
2. Maya and her Three Gunas from Vivek Chudamani

Yog

1. 10 chakras explained by T Krishnamacharya
2. Ashtanga Yoga - Eight Limbs of Yoga - New!
3. Evolution of 24 tattva-s of Sānkhya as per Patanjali Yoga Sūtras 2.19 and Sānkhya Kārikā 3 - New!
4. Five bodies, chakra-s, nADI-s, kunDalini and brahmaDaNDa in sanAtana dharma
5. Selected Quotes from Hatha Yoga Pradipika
6. Shubh Deepavali and Prosperous New Year - 2019 - [An Article on Raja Yoga]
7. yoga, haTha yoga, nAtha yoga, aghora, tantra and kriyA yoga

advaita vedanta basics

1. Brahma Bhāvanā - Viveka Chūḍāmaṇi - Contemplation on Brahman ‘Brahma Tat Tvam Asi Bhāvayātmani’ - New!
2. Gems from Kapila Gita
3. How does one progress spiritually (on the path of Jñāna)?
4. Is assuming this world as illusion or unreal enough? Does it not contradict day-2-day experience?
5. Maya and her Three Gunas from Vivek Chudamani
6. Panchāyatana Pūjā - Panchadevopāsanā - NEW Page added to Understanding Advaita Website - New!
7. Sri Dakshinamurty Stotra Sanskrit - Gujarati - Hindi - English Translation
8. Three Gunas and Beyond - Uddhava Gita, Bhagavat Purana
9. Vedanta Saara - Sadanand Yogindra Saraswati - Part 1
10. Vedanta Saara - Sadanand Yogindra Saraswati - Part 2
11. Vedanta Saara - Sadanand Yogindra Saraswati - Part 3
12. Vedanta Saara - Sadanand Yogindra Saraswati - Part 4

bhakti

1. Krishna is the Supreme Lord, the Self of All says Sri Adi Sankaracharya ji in Prabodh Sudhakar
2. Pran Prathistha, Rama and Adhyatma Ramayana – What Birth of Rama Means - New!
3. Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna on bhakti

itrans

1. श्रीदक्षिणामूर्ति स्तोत्रम् Dakshinamurthy Stotram - Sanskrit - Gujarati

vedanta

1. Advice of Detachment and Vairagya by Sri Chandrashekhara Saraswati Swami to Sri Abhinava Vidyatheertha Swami of Shringeri Math
2. Brahma Bhāvanā - Viveka Chūḍāmaṇi - Contemplation on Brahman ‘Brahma Tat Tvam Asi Bhāvayātmani’ - New!
3. Chariot Analogy from Katha Upanishad – Sanskrit – Hindi – English
4. Evolution of 24 tattva-s of Sānkhya as per Patanjali Yoga Sūtras 2.19 and Sānkhya Kārikā 3 - New!
5. Is assuming this world as illusion or unreal enough? Does it not contradict day-2-day experience?
6. Three Gunas and Beyond - Uddhava Gita, Bhagavat Purana
7. Wishing You a Joyous and Happy Deepavali and Prosperous New Year - 2018
8. tAraka mantra, OM and meaning of mantra 'OM namo nArAyaNAya' in tArA-sAra upanishad
9. yoga vAsisTha in arjunopAkhyAna explains who should meditate on viShNu as AtmasvarUpa and caturbhuja viShNu
10. श्रीदक्षिणामूर्ति स्तोत्रम् Dakshinamurthy Stotram - Sanskrit - Gujarati

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