I have been asked this question way too many times by westerners and I have decided to write a FAQ (Frequently Asked Question) on it.

Q. There are too many gods in Hinduism. It is confusing, no?

Yes, there are too many gods. But, it is not confusing when you get used to it. In fact, you will be glad that it is not just Sri Krishna who is The god. It simply means you have so much choice to pick and choose. They all represent various energies that you connect to at various times. No one god is superior to the other. So, you can pick a few favorites. It’s all good.  (more…)

Sounds yogic, yes? I do like one of the comments for this video on Dixie Chicks.

You have to be emotionally dead not to be moved by their music.

Will the real Vyasa please stand up? Please stand up? I guess this will go unanswered. For Vyasa literally means collator and there were so many by the pen name of Vyasa. Veda Vyasa is the one that collated the Vedas and wrote Bhagavad Gita apart from other works.

I was thinking that Bhagavad Gita was written after Yoga Sutras solely because of the reason that Vyasa had written the first commentary on Yoga Sutras.  Many of the books that I was reading say that Bhagavad Gita was ahead of Yoga Sutras by three centuries. There are a few books that do say that Yoga Sutras was written ahead of Bhagavad Gita. (more…)

In India one will often hear the phrase, ‘when the time is right’. When the time is right, one will clear the exams, get in to the college that you always wanted to, find the right job, get married, have babies and so on. It is endless. For anything to materialize, the time must be right.

I had never paid any attention to this phrase and quite disliked it. But now I think there is some truth to that. I will explain myself. I had access to the book Bhagavad Gita right from the time I have been a child.  My mother had a copy, my grandmother, my neighbors and just about everyone had a copy. Except my school, as it was Catholic. (more…)