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On the battlefield of Kurukshetra, Lord Krishna resolves the moral crisis of the warrior prince Arjuna by revealing his awe-inspiring, infinite cosmic form that encapsulates all of…

… queen Satyabhama, his mount Garuda, and his cosmic weapon Sudarshana Chakra.

The supreme preserver and protector within the Hindu Trinity (Trimurti). Within Vaishnavism, he is the Supreme Absolute Reality (Para Brahman), who descends to Earth in various inc…

The supreme warrior form of the Mahadevi, manifested from the combined fiery anger of the gods to defeat the buffalo demon Mahishasura. She embodies invincible Shakti, the force th…

The eighth avatar of Vishnu and the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. As the charioteer of Arjuna on Kurukshetra, he revealed the Vishwarupa — the infinite cosmic form that contains al…

The words Dharma, Sanātana and Hindu — where they come from, what they actually mean, and how the four great sampradāyas (Vaiṣṇavism, Śaivism, Śāktism, Smārtism) scale the same spi…

The full-moon day of Āṣāḍha honours the lineage of teachers who dispel darkness. From Veda Vyāsa the Ādi Guru of recorded knowledge, through the Mundaka and Kaṭha Upaniṣads, to Śiv…

An epic cosmic event where the celestial Devas and the demonic Asuras form a temporary alliance to churn the primeval Ocean of Milk, extracting the nectar of immortality (Amrita) a…

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…