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Kashmiri Navreh
On the morning of Navreh, the Kashmiri tradition calls for the ritual viewing (Darshan) of a plate (usually bronze or steel thali) filled with various items and paraphernalia for good omen.
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Herath: Shivaratri: The Kashmiri Festival
Herath for Kashmiri Pundits is an all encompassing major festival celebrating the individual, the family, and the Source of all, and to begin a dialogue within.
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Krishna Consciousness, Divine Love and the Mirror
The force of her eloquence and command of religious knowledge and experience was sprinkled in with deeper philosophical exhortation for self cleansing as the core theme for universal love as we see in Hinduism (Vedic thought).
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Letter to My Children
I invite you to listen to the melodiously sung lyrics by Vikram Hazra on Youtube, entitled, “Bhajan_ Achyutam Kesavam” “ kaun kehta hai bhagwan atae nahi”. The lyrics are in Hindi but the rendition is overpowering.
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My source of Dharma: Vasudaiva kutumbham
One tenet of my Dharma is coded in the words ?Vasudaiva kutumbham?-the universe is my family. This expression is in fact just an extension of the meaning expressed in the gesture of Namsaskaar explained in my previous letter. Thus Vasudev Kutambham explicitly describes the Hindu concept of our world and my place in it with the associated rights and responsibilities.
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Women's Dharma-Ancient and Modern
This famous Sanskrit verse remembers five women who appear in the two epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata. They are Ahalya, Draupadi Kunti Tara and Mandodari. The chanting of this shloka is supposed to stop people from sinful transgressions by just thinking about these names. These women are immortalized in myth and legend, and are held up as ideals.
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Letter to my Children: From a Hindu in the USA- Part2
We do not live in an ideal world. And as individuals with various and different capabilities do not always think clearly, plan and execute our plans successfully. We can not but think of the reward all the time and do not completely focus on the appropriate planning and implementation.
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Women's Dharma-Past and Present #2
A mother not only carries the child inside her, but also assumes the role of the first teacher. A child thus owes an immense amount of gratitude to the mother and in Hindu culture this is dubbed ?the debt to the mother?-the debt a child can never repay.
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Letter to my Children: From a Hindu in the USA
Understand the meaning of DWEL....... What does the acronym stand for?...... I consider you to be lucky to grow up in a home that takes pride in Vedic heritage.
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One Source of my Dharma
Thus you see on the one hand we have Dharma the Standard, and on the other our actions, the Karma that fall short of the Ideal. However, Namaskaar keeps reminding us of the promises to keep no matter the circumstances.
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