HINDUISM 108 WITH GANESH

While the other Goddesses in the "Big Six"** receive regular individual worship, we often only see Parvatiji as an accompaniment to Bholenath, if She is even depicted. That is going to change now, in a big way. When we talk about power, do you know whom in the Big Six has the most power? Parvatiji's Sanskrit name is "Shakti", quite literally 'Power', and She is glorified as the energy and engine behind everything that exists and is in motion. You do the math... Below are some protocols for what we will see in our beloved Devi's temple. Initially I had wanted to do a full-service temple, but I now realize that the language and pronunciation barriers will be impracticable to surmount for busy American professionals and students, the target demographic, and so we will switch gears to double down on our core competencies and what we can offer devotees with authority. Services will be either simple one-to-few-word beej mantras and otherwise entirely in En...

                                                                   The Upanishads, along with the Vedas and the Puranas, are the second of the three central texts of Hinduism, written around 600 BC. The version referenced here is the popular translation by Swami Prabhavananda (Signet 1948). They represent a unique approach to spiritual achievement. Where the Vedas promote specific mantras and rituals, and the Puranas relate the educational legends of our various deities, the Upanishads are a primarily philosophical text focused exclusively on the attainment of the One Higher Intelligence. Renounce the world, meditate on your Third Eye, think of nothing else but God, and repeat the mantra ‘OM’ until you reach a state of Eternal Bliss. This is the core of what is in the Upanishads, repeated over and over, in different...

                                                                               

                                                                                  Link to Companion Podcast The Puranas:  Select Quotes and Commentary from " Mahagatha" by Satyarth Nayak This is a book which samples various stories from the Puranas, principle Hindu texts about the lives and times of our various deities. Through these stories we are given guidance on how best to live life and produce spiritual achievement. Overall, I highly recommend it as a reader’s digest of the main Hindu epic stories outside of the Ramayan and Mahabharat, which of course are their own epics. It is not the complete set of Puranas, just a selection of 100 key stories as the title suggests. Given that our sacred number is 108, I am surprised that Satyarthji, th...