The Hanuman Mantra – Any work to be done immediately which gets delayed

असाध्य साधक स्वामिन
असाध्य तव किंवद
राम दूत कृपा सिंधो
मत्कार्यं साध्यप्रभो ||

The Mahabharata

In the Mahabharata, a Hindu epic text, the Pandava (also Pandawa) are the five acknowledged sons of Pandu, by his two wives Kunti and Madri. Their names are Yudhisthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva. All five brothers were married to the same woman, Draupadi. (Each brother also had multiple other wives.) Together, the brothers fought…

The Brahma Temple – 2000 years old

Jagatpita Brahma Mandir is a Hindu temple situated at Pushkar in the Indian state of Rajasthan, close to the sacred Pushkar Lake to which its legend has an indelible link. The temple is one of very few existing temples dedicated to the Hindu creator-god Brahma in India and remains the most prominent among them. Although…

The Kamakhya temple – Story of the great sacrifice

The Kamakhya temple is situated atop the Nilanchal hills, eight hundred meters above sea level and overlooking the mighty Brahmaputra river. It is about eight kilometers west from the heart of the city of Guwahati in Assam. Sati (Dakshayini) was the daughter of King Daksha and wife of Lord Shiva. When Daksha had organized a…

Dev Pashakot – Deity of rain

In India there is a state called Himachal Pradesh, The state covered with snow and the holy Land with lots of temples,Among One is the temple of Dev Pashakot, the local deity of rain whereas the other is old temple which have been the witness to majority of couples of valley getting tied in marital…

Jayanti Devi temple

Jayanti Devi temple was built some 550 years back in reverence to the wishes of the daughter of the ruler of Kangra, in Himachal Pradesh who was married to one of the sons of the ruler of Hathnaur located in the north of Chandigarh. The princess was an ardent devotee of Jayanti Devi, the goddess…

The Chintpurni temple

This is the old temple of Maa Bhagwati Chinnamasta Devi in Himachal Pradesh, India. According to one of the sacred books of Sanatan Dharm, Shri Markandeye Puran, after killing of all the Asuras and upon victory in the big war, Maa Bhagwati’s 2 ‘sahyoginis’, Jaya and Vijaya who had killed the various Asuras and drank…

Baba Balak Nath – A Hindu deity

Baba Balak Nath ji is a Hindu deity worshipped in the northern Indian states of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. The baba balak nath ji shrine is known as Deotsidh. It is situtated in Distt Hamirpur in Himachal Pradesh. The temple has a natural cave carved in the hills which is abode of Babaji. A idol…