Here, Tulsidas ji is speaking about how true bhakti is not easy to practice. Many speak about it but very few can practice it.
He
Offer the act, the urge and the feeling to the Divine Mother and pray that the readings and invocation reach Her.
I often encourage her to keep her worship simple and inwardly focused, but much of it seems mechanical and mixed with a fear that the
These activities become a play there just as the enactment of Rama Ravana yuddh or Durga Mahishasura yuddh when depicted in a dance form becomes
Can anyone who can judge the Avatar. Yes we can speak of his divine qualities, the qualities that he manifests in the conditioned human life,
Hanuman ji is a wonderful god who grants bhakti and shakti to those engaged in the sewa of The Lord. That has been my experience
Achilles didn’t exactly save the Greeks. He is no doubt the hero of the Trojan War as portrayed in the Iliad. Though the greatest of
It means that generally we should not speak about our spiritual experiences or show off our capacities. Instead we should place them quietly in the
Yes the Mahabhagawat Purana, a deeply mystical literature describes Draupadi as an incarnation of Kali. But that apart, the story of her birth from the
The description of the two paths through which humanity moves is described best (and in a most practical way) in the 16th Chapter of the
In all likelihood, Sri Aurobindo was present during the time of Sri Rama. He was there as Rishi Agastya who had handed over certain celestial
Yes. The Puranas do speak about the Devas losing at times to the Titans when they grow proud and haughty and think it is they
There are two versions. One version is that it is mentioned in the Mahabharata but not with the drama mentioned around it. That is to
It is charging the idol or image with the presence and power of the Deity turning it into a living image. It is just as
The sense of righteousness was more in Vibishan much more prevalent than compared to Bhismacharya and Guru Drona acharya. Is this what we conclude
Yes because what is generally understood (and rightly so) by Vigyana is the Divine Manifestation in the cosmos as it functions too. The Unmanifest that
The New Creation is the Creation upon earth. It is not a typal self-existent Reality but a building up of that Reality here, upon earth,
Vipra is someone who has a clear consciousness, he is a person who has received mental illumination. Such a person is to be revered even