'Piety is the key to spiritual insight'

Ten volumes of an encyclopaedia on Saivism are being released by on May 12, 10 a.m., at Sir Pitti Tyagaraja Hall, G.N. Chetty Road, T. Nagar. The mammoth work is a document on the illustrious journey of Saivism in the past 5,000 years. The emergence ...

King Tirumalai Naicker shifted the venue of the Chithirai festival from Thenur to Madurai aiming to reconcile the Saivites and the Vaishnavites. But the Chithirai festival involves not just Hindus but also Muslims. After the ritual dip in the ...

Thiruthuvathurai is a holy town for Saivites. Devotional poets Appar and Gnanasambandar, two of the four Saivite minstrels, have sung the town's praise. During the Mughal period, it became known as Lalgudi; and the one whose name became synonymous ...

The Saivite saints Gnanasambandar, Tirunavukkarasar, Sundaramurthy and Manikkavachagar have exemplified the bhakti bhava, but each has approached God in a distinct manner. This illust...

70-year-old, Rajapaksa Mudiyansalage Premadasa of the aborigine Vedda culture, and the chief folk priest (Kapuraala) of the Siva temple at Valli Kukai cave in Chella Kathirkaamam, was hacked to death by unknown assailants in the jungle area near the ...

Right now Asia is hotting up as an emerging Bermuda triangle of tensions, conflicts, and big power rivalry. America is pushing Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam to get tough with China on territorial claims. At the same time India, Australia, Japan ...

As many as fifteen enlightened Vedic scholars made their way there and chanted the Veda parayanam for universal well-being, under the watchful guidance of Sri Gururama Ghanapadigal an eminent Vedic scholar. | EPS A Sampurna Yajurveda Samhitha ...

Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced several measures for the Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR & CE) Department, which included consecration of 1,006 temples, allocation of Rs 5.3 crore for renovating 1,006 temples in ...

A joke used to do the rounds of the Madras Bar in the early 1900s, about an observation of Advocate General Corbett. Having a dig at some British judges, who came to India without knowledge of Hindu law, Corbett said that one of them had asked him, ...