October – December 2021

Shankara Stotra Makaranda Editorial Bhagavad Gita Chapter II Sloka 26-28 Pujyasri Swami Omkarananda Mahaswamigal attains maha samadhi Kamakshi – Various Forms Ullathu Naarpathu Gargi Vachaknavi and Yajnyavalkya Learning from the…

Saiva Siddanta Classes A ONE-YEAR diploma course in Saiva Siddhanta to be conducted by Sankara Arts & Science College, Kanchipuram was inaugurated on 4 July 2021 with Anugraha Bhashanam by…

Shankara Stotra Makarandam Volume 1. Lecture Notes on Select Stotras of Adi Shankara Bhagavatpada by Shri. P.R.Kannan; Published by GIRI Trading Agency Pvt. Ltd.; Price Rs.225. The origin of the…

QUESTION: The Lord has said in the Gita: ‘You are competent only to act but not to claim the results of your actions.’ This is very difficult to practise. Is…

Viswa Santi Maha Yagnas VISWA Santi Maha Yagnas are a novel initiative of Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham as an attempt to revive Vedic traditions in the distant corners of the…

ART and culture are the two inseparable aspects of human life. Art in its innumerable forms is the reflection of the creative ability of man and serves and preserves the…

Skandha 8  आ मावाmयिमदं िव9eं यि कि  ग यां जगत् । तेन य े न भु ीथा मा गृधः कmय िmव नम् ॥१.१०॥ All this universe – whatever moves on…

As instructed by Paramapujya Sri Sankaracharya Swamiji of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham.  अ  ुतान�  गोिव  नामो  ारणभेषजात्। न  �  सकला रोगाः स  ं स  ं वदा  हम्॥  By partaking of the…

Pujyasri Swami Omkarananda Mahaswamigal attained maha Samadhi on May 10 at 5.40 pm in Madurai. We offer our humble tributes at his lotus feet. Sri Swami Omkarananda is an outstanding…

Shankara Stotra Makarandam Volume 1. Lecture Notes on Select Stotras of Adi Shankara Bhagavatpada by Shri. P.R.Kannan; Published by GIRI Trading Agency Pvt. Ltd.; Price Rs.225. The origin of the…

THE great epic Mahabharata contains many gems. The most famous of these are the Bhagavad Gita and the Vishnu Sahasranama. Sanat-sujatiya is another of these, a work of wisdom for…

GARGI Vachaknavi, daughter of Rishi Vachaknu was an ancient Indian philosopher and one of the nine gems in the court of Mithila’s King Janaka. She was known as Gargi because…

RIGHT from his Virupaksha time and throughout his stay at Sri Ramanasramam, those who called on Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi were many. They came from different walks of life, in…

Swarna Kamakshi BRAHMA visited Kailasa and other Siva kshetras on earth and, not finding Ambika in all of them, he found through his divine vision that it was all Sri…

Sloka 26 BHAGAVAN Sri Krishna taught atma- anatma viveka: (discrimination between the eternal Pure Consciousness and modifying Maya) in the earlier slokas – I am not the body-mind complex but…

Adi Shankara, the greatest intellect the world has ever known, is hailed as the Avatara of Parameswara. His accomplishments in a short life span of 32 years defy understanding. He…