It is an eternal question. The Self—that is I—was never born. The Self is the Brahman which we refer to as I in everyday parlance. So I was never born. I will never die. Then, I see that I am existing ...

The Upanishads are part of Vedanta or the last part of the Vedas, the oldest scriptures of Hinduism created between 1500–1000 BCE. The Upanishads contain revealed truth (Sruti) about Brahman (God), ...

In the Chandogya Upanishad (c. 7th century BCE), Indra, king of the Vedic gods, and his nemesis, Virochana, king of the asuras (anti-gods), go to the temple of the creator god, Prajapati, to learn the ...

aSri Adi Sankaracharya says in the crest jewel of distinguishing between the Self and not Self -Vivekachoodamani - that the result of past actions is alive only when there is identification with the ...

Reincarnation is the belief that makes Hinduism different from most other religions. Each living thing possesses an individual spirit ( atman) which is part of an über-spirit ( brahman), the universal ...

The Brahma Sutras are namely the nature of the Supreme Brahman or the Highest Self, of the individual soul and the universe and their inter-relations and gives hints on meditation on Brahman. They are ...

In a time defined by anxiety, burnout, and constant change, Priya Arora—author, survivor, spiritual seeker, and a devoted student of Vedanta—presents her latest book, Life Is a Battlefield: Insights ...

Both Plato and the Katha Upanishad picture the soul as a chariot. Source: Wikicommons/O Redon/Public domain Coming to Indian philosophy after having written three books on Greek philosophy, I have ...

Sarat Chandra Chatterjee’s cult classic Devdas first took its celluloid form in 1935 in Bengali. Ever since, there have been as many as 16 movie versions of the novel in various Indian languages.