Videos: Gyaan Deepak Kirtan Mandali Divali Celebrations 2010

Churn The Ocean Within for Divali

Light and Lakshmi assume central focus at Divali celebrations worldwide as the prayer “Tamaso Maa Jyotir Gamaya” rents the air together with our pleas to the divine Mother, “Lead me from darkness to light, O Maa.” This inner craving for light, though much more espoused at Divali, is the perennial search ...

Divali Essays

My Most Memorable Divali Vinai Tewari, Swaha Divya Ashram Divali once more had arrived. Our village most popular in the island for festival of Lights promised to live up to its name. Preparations exceeded the years before, bamboo arches lined the streets for miles on which the lighted deeyas lay ...

Jaago, wake up musaafir!

Trinidad and Tobago celebrated forty-eight years of independence at the end of August. For almost half-century, we have managed our own economy, society and resources, both natural and human. Yet, most elders will tell you that life long ago was much sweeter. A man could take his family for an ...

Lord Ganesh drinks milk – is there a deeper meaning?

The recent marked increase in oblations to Lord Ganesh has attracted quite a variety of opinions world-wide by both believers and non-believers of the Hindu faith. This has been sparked by a worldwide phenomenon whereby murtis of the Lord have been apparently drinking the milk offered by his devotees. Many ...

Sustaining The Pitris Daily

Mankind is charged with five (5) daily Yagnas (obligations), of which the sustenance of Pitris is of utmost importance. The 15-day observance of Pitra Paksha, affords everyone the opportunity to participate in ritual offerings and oblations in the name of Pitris which is one of the key ways to pay ...

Shalini Juteram – The Little Dancing Queen

Shalini Juteram, a Form Four student of SWAHA Hindu College, first started dancing when she was five (5) years old, with the Sharda School of Dance and also, the UWI Dance Theatre. Today, Shalini has accomplished, in the art of Dance, what would have taken another person, a lifetime to ...