Because he wanted to prepare the Pandavas; he wanted them to achieve victory rightly and uphold the principles of Dharma. If they had not been
Durga is very much an aspect of the Divine Mother just as the great Gods Shiva, Vishnu, Brahma and the rest. In fact seen from
Sri Krishna was way ahead of his times. He came to show how one can live normally and yet in freedom and delight. But mankind
The Western world today is sunk deep into scientific materialism and hence it regards only these things as true that can be seen, heard, touched,
Yudhishthira’s situation shows that even a man of virtues can make errors and mistakes. Great individuals can commit great errors. Yudhishthira made a significant mistake
Because the entire Kuru clan had to be destroyed. Draupadi was not only born to be an empress or a samragyi she was born with
There is a significant lesson to learn here. First of all dharma is not a set of arbitrary man made rules based on fixed human
The story of Radha and Krishna is a profound mystic tale of the love of the human soul and the Divine. Radha is the personification
The Kali who is traditionally worshipped in India depicted as nrimundamalini, is the projection of the Mahakali that Sri Aurobindo as well as Sri Ramakrishna
In India, there are two examples of such eternal love: Rama and Sita, and Radha and Krishna. Their love is considered immortal because it was…
No doubt what happened to Ahalya is unjust. Lord Rama in the Ramayana himself says so!! Then how does it becomes patriarchy when the male
Because he is supposed to embody all the 16 divine qualities. The other distinction is that a Purna Avatar is the full divine manifestation while
The modern mind evolved under the pressure of Reason. That is why it lost the Intuitive sense of the earlier ages of mankind. But this
The serpent in the neck of Shiva is the symbol of evolutionary force, the power that pushes us to come out of the ignorance and
That is the other side of the human evolutionary journey through the adventure of Time and Space that Sri Krishna points out when he speaks
But who said or where did you read that Pandavas did not go to swarg?
Perhaps you are referring to the last part where their
Sri Aurobindo has not explained it just as a code of conduct but much more. To quote from Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo writes.
Creation implies a dynamic process. That is Shakti. In the western world the term is nature. It is true that in itself Shakti explains everything.