Yoga and the Path to God Realization
Kirana Agama is one of the 28 Saiva Agamas. This excerpt is from verses 12 to 77 of the section […]
The Magazine
July/August/September, 2009
16 articles in this issue
Quotes & Quips
Quotes and Quips
Experience has taught me that silence is part of the spiritual discipline of a votary of truth. Proneness to exaggerate,…
Publisher's Editorials
Our Three Kinds of Temples
AUDIO ONLY: It would be hard to overestimate the power and importance of the temple in Hindu culture and spiritual [&hel…
Hindu Studies: Warring with Words
In the introduction to his book, Decolonizing the Hindu Mind, Belgian scholar Koenraad Elst argues that Western-based re…
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor 7-2009
I would like to send you our deepest appreciation for Hinduism Today, a magazine par excellence in all respects. Great […
Salvaging India’s Hand-Written Heritage
Hinduism is famed for preserving its key scriptures, the Vedas, for thousands of years entirely by rote memorization. Th…
Dimensions of Service
BY SWAMI YUKATMANANDA The upanishads teach us that we are not limited individuals consisting of a body and a mind, [&hel…
The Hindu Chaplain
BY SWAMI SARVAANANDA A chaplain is an ordained clergy or layperson who performs a religious ministry in a public institu…
Book Reviews
BY TARA KATIR This book by Dr. Hiro G. Badlani is not a scholarly treatise. Rather, it is a non-academic […]
Irish Embrace Hinduism’s Healing Heart
Emigrant Hindus are often changed by the countries they move to. But, as recounted in this story, imported Hindu culture…
Are Brains Wired for Enlightenment?
In 1996, Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, then 37, was immersed in a successful career at Harvard and a long history […]
Feature Stories
Feature Story: Siva’s Sanctuary in Tropical Hawaii
Untold centuries into the future, travelers will encounter a finely carved granite temple set like a gemstone on a Hawai…
Pleading for Accurate Portrayal
BY FAREN RAJKUMAR As a proud hindu American living in an ethnically diverse country, I enjoy explaining my great religio…
Digital Dharma
Educators in first world nations typically question the return on investment of adding more technology to schools. Studi…
Global Dharma
For over 50 years, s. sambandha sivacarya has worked ten hours a day to collect, preserve and translate the Saiva [&hell…
Insight: Approaching God – Elements of Worship & From Shrine to Temple
BY STEPHEN P. HUYLER I. ELEMENTS OF WORSHIP Like Ramachandran in the story below, many Hindus observe a weekly fast, [&h…