Śiva Mahā Purāṇa

Ahaṁkāra is a stumbling block to spiritual growth and mokṣa. When the mighty Rāvaṇa, King of Lanka, tried to dislodge Śiva from Kailāśa to carry Him off, his hand was crushed under the weight of…

Śiva Mahāpurāṇa, besides the Mahātmya, is comprised of seven Saṁhitās or books. Each is aligned to one of the seven major chakra. The vidyeśvara samhita is the first book aligned to the mūlādhāra chakra in…

Definitions पिशाच (piśāca) refers to a class of beings having a yellowish appearance. The yellowish color is derived from the sign Scorpio which has a light-yellow or grey-yellow shade. Most scholars equate them to be…

All that interests people about spirituality is anything linked to their future – nobody is bothered about the past. Only when we point out that the future is only an outcome of every decision and…

There are four kinds of प्रलय (pralaya) mentioned in the Viṣṇu Purāṇa. Nitya (नित्य) pralaya which has to do with constant end of everything like the day ends when we sleep and starts when we…

The word पुराण (purāṇa) means anything belonging to very ancient times and is an antonym for नूतन (nūtana) which means new, recent. The problem in India is the definition of what really is ancient in…