Religious Experiences in America

I recently came across a thought provoking post on the Sanatana Dharma Foundation’s yahoogroup. The writer Sivaraman Hariharan Iyer laments the fact that even the most well-trained and spiritually educated Hindu priests find it hard to find suitable girls for marriage. It actually struck a chord when I read his passionate and moving monologue on […]

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One of the peoples who invaded and plundered our country are the Portuguese. Like every other race of people who invaded India, these people also tried to convert Hindus into Christianity by various means; rewards, coercion, threats, violent attacks, and other means. The Portuguese established their rule in Goa and constantly persecuted Hindus in a […]

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The Dallas Morning News publishes a religion column every week. One of the sections in this column is Religious Dictionary in which the author Tyra Damm explores the religious/ spiritual meaning of religious words in an alphabetical order. Of course the explanations tend to lean towards Christianity and those which are related to other religions […]

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One of the core ideas of Hindu philosophy or spirituality is the concept of consciousness. What is Consciousness? And how does this concsiousness make us different from animals or other living beings in this world? This is ability that gives us the ability to think, deliberate and decide on the course of our actions. The […]

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One of the common questions that Atheists ask believers is “How would you prove the existence of God?” and if one were to answer that god exists in every human being, animal, plant etc it wouldn’t sound convincing. I never had any convincing answer to give to such atheists and frankly I myself had few […]

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