Results for "Third Eye"

One of the principal deities of Hinduism and the Supreme Being in Shaivism. He represents the destructive, regenerative, and transformative aspects of the cosmos, balancing absolut…

Pradakṣiṇā, temple bells, kīrtana, touching an elder's feet, tilaka, and offering water to the Sun each carry real, textually grounded meaning — reverence, purification, remembranc…

… the nervous system," or that tilaka proves some biomedical third-eye mechanism. The yogic reading and the biomedical one are not the same kind of statement, and only one of them i …

How a religious requirement to build fire-altars of exactly the right shape and area produced the Śulbasūtras — the world's oldest surviving geometry manuals, including the earlies…

The spectacular manifestation of Goddess Durga from the combined fiery anger of the gods to defeat the shape-shifting buffalo demon Mahishasura, who held a boon of near-invincibili…

A good emperor, a thirsty afternoon, a meditating sage who does not answer, and a dead snake placed on his shoulders in a moment of irritation. The curse that follows gives Parīkṣi…

Insulted by his stepmother and denied his father's lap, five-year-old Dhruva walks into the forest to find God Himself — and through six months of unshakable penance wins not only …