Śiva Mahā Purāṇa

There are a number of holy places to visit and offer prayers at Somanath during the SMP classes. Here is a list to help you plan your visit. 1. Somanāth Jyotirliṅga Darshan – 6:00 AM…

In order to represent points in space, we first choose a fixed point ओ or ‘O’ (like the origin, ॐ OM). Interesting that this sound ओ (O) is in Sagittarius the natural 9th house indicating…

Overview The purāṇa recommends a daily reading of two muhurta[1], but concedes that shorter durations like one muhurta or even half muhurta also gives great benefits. People who cannot be regular are advised to choose…

The direction in which we sleep plays a vital role in automatically charging the body for the next day. Sleep is the natural means to rest and rejuvenate. It heals the mind and the body….

Little do we realise that sometimes what feels like a punishment can be a blessing in disguise. This is a study of solitary confinement. Solitary confinement in legal terms is a special form of imprisonment…

It refers to self-consciousness and is something like awakening. It causes the rise of individual identity which did not exist in the sleeping state. Ahaṁkāra is that which leads to the making of self and…

Mahātattva, Hiraṇyagarbha – Buddhi It refers to the supreme intelligence as the power of understanding and unbounded reason. Compare this to the buddhi of individual beings with limited understanding and bounded cultured reasoning. It is…

There are five tattva jointly called the pañca tattva where pañca means five and tattva means principle or element. Tattva refers to the truth or reality associated with any state of a being. In philosophy…

भैरव उवाच। bhairava uvāca | Śrī Bhairava speaks – क्ष एव परमो देवो बुद्धरूपी जनार्द्दनः। उग्रतारा – महामन्त्रं पञ्चार्णं परिजप्य च॥ १-३॥ kṣa eva paramo devo buddharūpī janārddanaḥ | ugratārā – mahāmantraṁ pañcārṇaṁ parijapya ca…

Fasting Procedure You are required to observe a fast on the day of Mahā Śivarātri. The very detailed procedure is quite difficult to follow, for ordinary people and what is being advised is a simplified…