Pooja - That which is born out of fullness

Sri Sri performing Puja

The ancient sages brought sacredness in every celebration, so that you don't lose the focus in the hustle-bustle of the activity. Observing rituals and religious practices (called Puja) is simply showing  one's gratitude to the Divine. This brings depth to the celebration.

These practices, along with promoting spiritual values and harmony in the family and society, have a scientific foundation as well. Unfortunately today people do not have access to this understanding and the value systems and traditions are lost as a result.

The Sun God

Sun - The centre of solar system

The fact that the sun is the centre of solar system was also known to us from ancient times.This was much before the discovery of this fact by the Europeans. The Bharatiya culture has always been knowledge-centred.

Science, Spirituality and India

Science and spirituality both moved together in this land.

Science says 'What is this?' while Spirituality deals with 'Who am I?', knowing who am I. The subjective knowledge about one's self is spirituality and the objective knowledge and objective analysis is science. They are not contradictory, they complement each other.They are the two sides of the same coin.

PI in India

The value of pi is being used in India from ancient times. It gives us an insight about how evolved our past was.

There is a shloka, a hymn to Lord Krishna or Shiva, which gives the value of pi upto 31 decimal places. 

Its amazing that our forefathers used an encryption technique to easily remember it. What is more astonishing is that they needed pi upto 31 places!

Science and spirituality both moved together in this land.

Wear a Bindi – Adore yourself

Why wear a Bindi?

1) It’s a sign of your Indianness
It’s a mark/symbol which differentiates you from

Medieval India - Quotable Quotes

Marco Polo


He was one of the earliest European travellers to India in medieval times. He came to India after travelling much of Asia. He visited only the Malabar region of India and describes it as

“the most prosperous of all, in the world he had seen”.
His description of India was as follows:
“Millions of precious gems
Millions of gold coins
Millions of miles of fertile country
Millions of amazing people”

All this is mentioned in his bestseller book of 1300s, “Travels of Marco Polo” by Rusticiano.

Bharat, Hindustan and India

Do you know?

India’s official name is Bharat and this is accorded equal primacy as the word India in the Constitution. In fact the First Clause of the Constitution begins with the words: India, that is Bharat,….

In Sanskrit, ‘Bha’ means Light and Knowledge while ‘rata’ means “Devoted”. Bharat means "devoted to light/knowledge". The name "Bharat" is symbolic in nature revealing the quest of knowledge and the spiritual/scientific prosperity of this country.