For generations, many people have believed that only a son can perform the final rites of parents. This belief has been repeated so often that it feels like an unquestionable rule of tradition. But ...

Now, indeed, O king, this is the Brahma-knowledge, even the knowledge contained in all the Upanishads, as declared to us by the honorable Maitri. I will narrate it to you. Now, the Valakhilyas are ...

In many Hindu homes, the first prayer of the day is offered to a name that outsiders rarely recognize. It is not always a famous deity worshipped across temples and scriptures. Sometimes, it is a ...