April, 1996

ONGOING MIRACLE! I have been reading Hinduism Today for the past five years with utmost relish and avidity. I run […]

After "Adi Shankara," "Madhvacharya," "Ramanuja" and "Bhagavad Gita," 83-year-old G.V. Iyer, veteran of "Indian spiritual cinema" and one of India's

United Nations statistics estimate that in 1995 the Indian sexual ratio was 106.9 males per 100 women–having slowly increased from

Over 50 lakh (5 million) pilgrims purified themselves in the icy cold river waters of the sangamin Allahabad from 2:00am

When he sees the atman dwelling in all beings and all beings within the atman, he departs to the supreme

During my childhood at temples, I recall priests reciting in Sanskrit the names of exotic flowers and leaves that they

Gods and gurus figure prominently in this quarter's book selection. The ever-popular elephant-headed Ganesha stars in three, Lord Siva and

"East is East and West is West,"and finally the Twain have met."–Pudd'nhead Wilson's Lost Cousin Thrice Removed "In religion, all

SACRED TEXTS: SAVE THE TOMES YOU CAN ADOPT A BOOK AND SAVE an ancient work of knowledge from oblivion for

Our previous article [February] discussed medical science's concern over the developing resistance of bacteria to known antibacterial drugs. This month