Hinduism Explained
Understand the core concepts, philosophy, and way of life that define Sanatan Dharma — from Brahman and Atman to Karma and Moksha.
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Chiranjivi: The Eight Immortals of Hinduism and Why Each One Lives Forever
One Sanskrit verse names seven beings who live through the entire age of the world, and tradition adds an eighth. Their immortality is not one thing. For some it is a gift, for some a trust, for some a duty, and for one man it is a sentence.
Sanatan Dharma Meaning: Why Hinduism Calls Itself the Eternal Religion
Sanatana means eternal. Dharma, from the root dhri, means that which upholds. The tradition the world calls Hinduism names itself with a definition, and the definition is a claim no founded religion can make.
The Hindu Concept of Time: How Time Began and the Yuga Cycle
Brahma is not the first thing that exists. He is the first thing that begins. Everything else in this cosmology follows from making time a created object rather than the room the universe sits in.
How the Universe Was Created According to Hinduism
The account runs from a state where existence and non-existence both fail to apply, through the first stirring, to a creator born on a lotus who cannot find his own root. Then the Rigveda asks whether anyone knows.
The Day the Gods Could Not Burn a Blade of Grass
In the Kena Upanishad the fire god is set a blade of grass and cannot burn it. Read alongside the Taittiriya scale of bliss, the fourteen Indras of a kalpa and the mortal Nahusha who once held the seat, the scene turns into a precise claim about what kind of thing a deva is.