The sto­ry of Rishi Mandavya’s impale­ment and his curse of Yamad­har­mara­ja (because of which he is born as Vidu­ra on earth dur­ing...

Arjuna’s tapasya Arju­na, after learn­ing the sci­ence of Pra­teesm­rithi, leaves for the Himalayas. There, in Indrakela, a moun­tain,...

This is an ongo­ing series on the Sid­dhar Parambarai of India. Sid­dha refers to per­fect­ed mas­ters who have achieved a high degree of...

Few months ago, Adi ji and I hap­pened to vis­it some amaz­ing tem­ples in Than­javur. Some of these tem­ples were built by the Cholas...

Vali Vadham Rama too is eager to do so. He says to all of them,”Let us go.” And they move towards Kishkind­ha where Vali lives. Roar­ing...

Kishkindha Kanda — Sugriva tests Rama’s strength Hanuman meets Rama and Lakshmana Rama and Lak­sh­mana go to Rishya­mu­ka hill to seek...

The sig­nif­i­cance of a yatra Let us first under­stand the mean­ing of the word “yatra”. We all have heard of the word “mantra”. Mantra*...

The Pandavas are exiled We have seen that the Pan­davas, hav­ing been deceit­ful­ly defeat­ed in the game of dice by Shaku­ni and his...

This is an ongo­ing series on the Sid­dhar Param­abarai of India. Sid­dha refers to per­fect­ed mas­ters who have achieved a high degree...

Through the sto­ry of his own life, the qual­i­ties he embod­ied and the intu­itive rea­son­ing behind his deci­sions, Adi ji offers...

It is dif­fi­cult to describe Ard­hana­reeswara as any amount of descrip­tion would be lim­it­ed. If there is one word to describe all...

Q: I don’t know how to put his ques­tion. When we enter busi­ness, we feel we need to think about oth­ers, but we also feel like we need...

The Raja­suya Yaj­na comes to a com­ple­tion After the Raja­suya yaj­na and the elim­i­na­tion of King Sishu­pala by Sri Krish­na, and...

Sub­stan­tial pol­lu­tion has been caused by syn­thet­ic deter­gents to our ecosys­tem, main­ly our water bod­ies. They dam­age our...

(Extract­ed from talks at Vikasa, Rishikesh, Decem­ber 2016) The objec­tive real­i­ty of the world is the same for all of us. But how is...

Nature vs nur­ture : Is every­thing pre­des­tined for us? (Adi ji) So the ques­tion is a clas­sic question,”So what is our own nature,...

(Extract­ed from talks at Vikasa, Rishikesh, Decem­ber 2016) 2016’s Vikasa saw quite a few par­tic­i­pants who were aspir­ing lead­ers....