Saiva sages who wove the threads that tied India into a common idiom and religion of Saivism
Showcasing some of the earliest sculpture of the great Natha yogi Matsyendranatha.
Old temples reveal the rich tapestry of religious life in medieval Maharashtra.
A vast yogic sculptural treasure lay forgotten in hundreds of early temples across India. Here are a few important ones.
The text teaches a technique called śāmbhavi mudra, to achieve a state of no-mind.
Journey of a medieval Shaiva centre from Pashupata-Kalamukhas to that of Virashaiva-Lingayats.
With the collapse of the Gupta Empire, Saivism became the dominant religion of India.
The metaphysics of yoga is purely Vedantic but the methods of reaching the goal are different in Vedanta and yoga.
The Hatha-yoga corpus of texts unequivocally proclaims that the goal of yoga is the union of atman with paramatman. Academics tend to de-emphasize this aspect.
Why should you love yourself the most? Yajnavalkya and Buddha have different answers.
The logic school of Hindu philosophy, Nyaya, flourished for 2000 years before dying out during the late Mughal and early British rule.
In the eternal playground of Krishna, bhakti is a drama and every emotion of a devotee is a rasa.
Sage Dattatreya divides yoga into mantrayoga, layayoga, hathayoga and rajayoga. Hathayoga is further divided into the yoga of munis and siddhas.
Amritasiddhi makes pioneering advancement in our understanding of the origins of Hatha Yoga.
Who is Shiva? Can he exist without Shakti? But who is Shakti if not Shiva?
Kashi and its famous Vishvanatha Temple was destroyed multiple times and yet every time it rose up from the ashes.
Nilakantha Dikshita, a prolific 17th century poet, wrote a delightful poem cataloguing the fallen characters of the Kali age.
JUB makes important breakthroughs in our understanding of Om, prana, meditation and rebirth.
Mantras in Hinduism are associated with the primal uncreated sound called the Vac, the creatrix of the universe.
A devotee who knows the symbolism and philosophy behind the iconography would be better equipped to meditate on his chosen form.
There were more than seventy different kind of professions during the Vedic period!
Due to the sponsorship of Sena kings, Bengal witnessed a massive revival of Hindu culture, art and literature during the 12th century.
