The Ashrama

Religions do not arise in vacuum; there is no big-bang, no “non-being” from which being arises as far as religious traditions are concerned...

Image via Wikipedia "In the name of God, the Gracious, the merciful" – not without this recitation may the faithful beg...

Many days of painful austerities did Gautama Siddhārtha endure, but Realisation eluded him. Many days of self mortification and starvatio...

(First Posted on bloopdiary on 09/05/2003) Classes of Worship Modes and methods of Hindu worship can be classified into two distinct categor...

(Reposted with some changes from the original entry on bloopdiary posted on 10/06/2003) What is dialogue? Simply put, a dialogue is a conver...

Introduction Soteriology (the science of salvation) in any religious tradition starts with a spiritual problem, a ‘Fall’ as it were, to whic...

Introduction The word ‘Karma’ has for some time now become part of the vocabulary of the West. But the general understanding of the concept ...