Namaste Par­tic­i­pants of the Himalayan Yatra share their expe­ri­ence in this edi­tion of Parni­ka. Read the Kand­har Anub­huti,...

Sha­ranaa­gati is the state of com­plete sub­mis­sion to one’s Guru or Ish­tade­va­ta. Sha­ranaa­gati leads to tremen­dous out­comes and...

Sha­ranaa­gati is the state of com­plete sub­mis­sion to one’s Guru or Ish­tade­va­ta. Sha­ranaa­gati leads to tremen­dous out­comes and...

Sev­er­al but not all states in India have laws pro­hibit­ing the slaugh­ter of cows. 20 out of 29 states in India cur­rent­ly have...

In this issue of Parni­ka we touch upon impor­tant aspects of Indi­an cul­ture and tra­di­tion includ­ing its knowl­edge tra­di­tions and...

The sto­ry of Bhi­ma bring­ing the Saugand­hi­ka flow­ers for Drau­pa­di and his encounter with Hanu­man is very famous. Numer­ous...

Sha­ranaa­gati is the state of com­plete sub­mis­sion to one’s Guru or Ish­tade­va­ta. Sha­ranaa­gati leads to tremen­dous out­comes and...

Karna Parva Kar­na par­va is the 8th Par­va in the Mahab­hara­ta. Kar­na is appoint­ed as the third com­man­der-in-chief of the Kau­ra­va...

Where is the world to begin with? (Laughs) So, that is a rel­a­tivis­tic frame­work. Enlight­en­ment means the world dis­ap­pears. There...

Kumbh: An Opportunity (Shri Adi­narayanan) Over­com­ing our own men­tal con­di­tion­ings has become the most sig­nif­i­cant chal­lenge...

Sha­ranaa­gati is the state of com­plete sub­mis­sion to one’s Guru or Ish­tade­va­ta. Sha­ranaa­gati leads to tremen­dous out­comes and...

The vandalism incident While on a vis­it to Hampi (Kar­nata­ka) in Jan­u­ary this year, four youths from Mad­hya Pradesh and Bihar...

Those who have read a typ­i­cal abridged ver­sion of the Mahab­hara­ta under­stand that it talks about the con­flict between two...

In this issue of Parni­ka, we write about our vis­it to the Kumbh Mela, a glimpse into the life of Sad­hus at the Kumbh and var­i­ous...

Sha­ranaa­gati is the state of com­plete sub­mis­sion to one’s Guru or Ish­tade­va­ta. Sha­ranaa­gati leads to tremen­dous out­comes and...

Tena­cious effort over gen­er­a­tions * Hoysala archi­tec­ture is the build­ing style devel­oped under the rule of the Hoysala Empire...

We are what we accu­mu­late: at the lev­el of body and mind When we say Sat­sang­ha, sang­ha means basi­cal­ly we are pick­ing things up...

There was a Chola emper­or by name Muchukun­da chakravar­ti. Why was his name Muchukun­da chakravar­ti? Because his face was like a...