Category: divinity

  • Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra for Lord Shiva

    The Maha Mrityunjaya Mantra is a prayer to Lord Shiva for healing, overcoming death. Om tryambakam yajamahe sugandhim pushtivardhanam, urvarukamiva bandhanaan mrityor mokshiye maamratat.

  • Kena Upanishad – Who moves this universe?

    That which makes the tongue speak, but cannot be spoken; That is the nature of the Self. It is not someone other than you. Those who say they know the Self really do not know it. The Self cannot be known by the intellect because it is beyond the duality of the knower and the…

  • On Creation and Destruction – Brahma and Shiva

    On the one hand, we have Brahma the creator – he, looking in all four directions, creating the three universes, with the five elements at his disposal. He is said to create all that exists. On the other hand, we have Shiva, the destroyer. He, of the long-matted hair through which the Ganga is said…