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Thus we have learnt about the gathering of tulsi leaves which imparts spiritual benefits. We often see that while offering naivedya (food offering) to a deity it is offered with the help of two leaves of tulsi. One of them is kept on the naivedya ..

Diwali, the festival of lights, is a five day long celebrations. The fifth or the last day of diwali is Bhaiya Dooj, popularly know as Bhai Dooj. The reason why this festival is known as bhai dooj is that it falls on the second day after the new..

# The third day of Diwali : Diwali Lakshmi Pujan

Padwa : The day following the Amavasya i..

In Orissa and Bengal, Lakshmi images include a white owl. In local belief, white owls have come to be associated with auspiciousness and good luck because of their association with the goddess. Who is this owl? Scriptures do not clarify.

So..

# The Second Day of Diwali > Choti Diwali / Narak Chaturdasi...

The third day of Diwali festival is the..

# The First Day of Diwali : Dhanteras

The day before Diwali is celebrated as Chhoti Diwali / Narak Cha..

Dhanteras marks the first day of five-days-long Diwali Festival. Dhanteras Festival, also known as Dhantrayodashi or Dhanwantari Triodasi, falls on the auspicious thirteenth lunar day of Krishna..

Editor’s Note:  In the divine trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva, Vishnu is commonly called the Preserver  while Shiva is  the Destroyer. Alternatively Vishnu is the householder, worshipped with sprigs of tulsi, a household p..

If there were no rules, would we be corrupt? Do rules make us corrupt? After all, only when there are rules can rules be broken or bent. Only when there are rules, do we have need for regulators and courts and auditors to keep watch over society. ..

In the Ramayana, Hanuman, the monkey-god, is known as the greatest devotee of Ram. It was he who had located Ram’s wife, Sita, in Lanka, after she had been abducted by the Rakshasa-king, Ravan.

The story goes that, after the discovery..

As you walk through the streets of Bali, an island in Indonesia, you cannot miss the temples in every street, in every house, in every shop, and the thousands of tiny baskets of palm leaf containing flower and food (including sometimes a biscuit a..

Krishna had a friend called Uddhava, a cousin just like Arjuna, the Pandava. While Arjuna was the son of Kunti, Vasudeva’s sister, Uddhava was the son of Devabhaga, Vasudeva’s brother. Born and raised in Mathura, Uddhava was a great in..