Tag: Hinduism

  • Lord Ganesha Synonymous With Beginning of Any Work

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    On the boldsky blog, Sanchita Chowdhury explains why Lord Ganesha is worshiped before beginning any task: According to the yogic perspective, anything we do has to fall under one of the two categories: material or spiritual. It is believed that Lord Ganesha rules the ‘muladhara chakra’ of our body. ‘Muladhara’ is the interface between the material…

  • Janmashtami Holds Special Place Among All Hindu Festivals

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    Sanchita Chowdhur posts about the special place Janmashtami holds among all Hindu festivals: Janmashtami or the birthday of Lord Krishna has a huge spiritual significance in Hinduism. As the legend goes, Lord Krishna was born in the darkness of night, inside a cell of a jail where His parents were locked up by his cruel…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    Krishna Awakes Krishna awake, for the day has dawned: large, deep and lotus-like, your eyes are as in the love-shaped lake a pair of swans even a million Kamadevas cannot vie with the bewitching beauty of your face; the sun rises in the east, a crimson ball the night is going and the moonlight pales…

  • Iranian Mystic Baba Tahir

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    Baba Tahir (ca. 1000-1060 AD) of Hamadan (Hemedan, Ekbatan in Median era) is one of the very first poets in the East to write rubaiyats. Little is known of the circumstances of Baba Tahir’s birth and death. Baba Tahir’s rusticity and mastery of both Kurdish (Lekí dialect), Persian (and Arabic) have rendered his works unusually…

  • Hindu Gods to Help You Get a Good Job

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    From Boldsky Limitless Living, posted by Anwesha: Some underlying principles of Hinduism help you to know which Hindu god for jobs is best suited to your purpose. Here are some of your best options. Ganesha Lord Ganesha is supposed to be the lord of new beginnings. He is the ‘vighanashak’ or the destroyer obstacles. He…

  • Morya Morya (Deva Tuzya Dari Aalo)-Ajay Atul

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    Morya Gosavi was a 14th century saint of the Ganapatya sect. He was a great devotee of Ganesha. Although he is known by many other attributes, Ganesha’s elephant head makes him particularly easy to identify. Ganesha is widely revered as the Remover of Obstacles and more generally as the Lord of Beginnings and the Lord of Obstacles, patron of arts…