Guru Nanak's Gurpurb this year is on November 6th and is approaching within the next week. Anyone have any exciting plans or planing to visit the Gurdwara?
"Guru Nanak Gurpurab also known as Guru Nanak's Prakash Utsav and Guru Nanak Jayanti, celebrates the birth of the first Sikh Guru, Guru...
What is the common Hindu thought on tattoos? I was thinking of getting a scripture or Om tattooed on my arm or chest, does anyone here have any Hindu related tattoos they'd like to share?
Today, April 8th, 2014, we celebrate the birth date of Lord Ram. May Shri Ram bless and protect all of you on this special day as we celebrate and pray to Lord Ram for protection and blessings. Jai Shri RAM!
Just wondering, do any of you wear holy thread (known as mauli in north Indian temples). I've seen typically that the north Indians wear the red thread and south Indians usually wear the black thread. What is the difference? Someone(north Indian) told me that black is not a good colour for...
Just wanted to wish you all a Happy Shri Ganesh Jayanti and may the Lord bless you and and remove all the obstacles in your path. May Shri Ganesh protect all of us and guide us to success. For those who are unaware, today is considered Ganeshji's birthday. Ganesh Jayanti - Wikipedia, the free...
Namaste, I was wondering if anyone has ever had to clean their murti's from dust or spider webs. I have had my murti's for almost 8 months now and I noticed today while doing aarti that there is spider webs directly on the murtis and I was wondering if I should clean it and how so? It made it...
Hey, for all the people here who speak Hindi, make a thread where we can post music :P
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edit: just realized probably not many people here speak Hindi so I doubt this thread will run
Namaste,
I wasn't sure if there was a thread on here regarding this so I decided to make one where us photos can post beautiful photos of deities and even if you feel like it putting a photo of your home shrine! I'll start it off :) Description is under the photo.
"Rama with Sita...
Namaste
I'm sure in all of our lifetimes we have done something wrong that has resulted in bad and/or negative karma and after doing such an action a feeling of regret or remorse is felt. I am in the situation right now for reasons I'm embarrassed to say but I just wish to know how us...
Namaste, I have seen people wearing this necklace and I've asked two people privately but even they were unsure. I was wondering if anyone knows what kind of necklace this is.
http://www.ethnicadornment.com/producto/rajasthan-silver-old-pendant-amulet-necklace-india/
or...
Namaste, an incident just occurred and I really need to know what I should do and what is the typical procedure for such thing if it ever occurs. I eat meat from time to time and today I ate meat and by MISTAKE (I even ran through what I ate today in my head and I said to myself that I didn't...
Namaste, quick question;
When I visit the temple for daily aarti, it begins by singing jai ambe gauri, then ai jagdish hare. After these two are finshed there is another prayer that is said that lasts between 2-4 minutes and then we all bow down to the Gods and mata ji. I was wondering what...
Namaste, I have been praying for over a year now and have been doing Hanuman aarti/prayers every Tuesday and Ganeshji prayers every Thursday. I was just wondering what kind of rituals/prayers you guys do on a weekly basis? Pooja?Aarti? On top of that I also pray with the mala
Namaste,
I was just wondering if someone could give me a list of websites that ship to Canada for decent prices regarding items such as malas and prayer items.
Hi, I was just wondering what type of mala I should purchase to worship hanuman,shiva, and krishna. I'm assuming a different type for each? I have been using a normal dark brown/red mala for ganesh ji mantras. Thanks