During our 5 days visit to Himachal Pradesh, we were blessed by Darshan of Siddh Shakti Peeth temples: Naina Devi, Jwalaji, Chintpurni Mata & Baglamukhi Mata and on the last day we were at Manikaran Sahib Gurudwara and other temples like this Tapasthali of Nania Mata and Raghunath Mandir. Also we were happy to see Kasol and whole Parvati Valley & Parvati river. Jai Mata Di 🙏

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Durga Puja is Bengal's biggest festival, celebrating Goddess Durga's victory over evil. For five days, cities glow with artistic pandals, dazzling idols, and joyful crowds. The air fills with dhak beats, incense, and devotion. It's a homecoming, a reunion, and a celebration of culture, faith, and togetherness for every Bengali.

Hi guys, this is my first time posting on this sub. I am currently in a moral dilemma.

I wanted to know what our religion says about wishing evil/bad for someone who wronged you.

The other person (in my life) committed an unforgivable sin, and inflicted so much trauma and hurt on me and I've suffered for nearly a decade mentally and physically, somehow surviving, while that person is living an amazing life, now married and all.

Now I cannot help but wish bad for that person. Am I wrong in doing so ? Are there any sources which can guide me through this ethical conundrum ?

I really don't want to wish evil upon someone, I feel like a pos, but my mind can't help but do it. I'd really appreciate some guidance on this. Thanks.

Always Excited to Worship Maa Durga on Navaratri Days.

We cannot discount karma or run away from it. It is as required as worshiping deities or doing jap, tap and vrat for them.

One cannot simply think that chanting mantras or names of deities will be enough to bring change in their lives. It will help, in the form of purifying one's intent and rousing the spark of will. But it cannot replace action taken to change one's life.

Karma is a profound concept and it's explained best in The Bhagavad Gita by Shri Krishna.

Gita emphasises on doing one's karma without any attachment to its fruit or getting swayed away by lobha, moha, fear or tendency for inaction.

One should act by keeping the action mentally free from any tethers of lobha, moha, fear or lethargy and dedicate that action to the deity one is worshiping.

A person only has control over one's actions and not on it's results.

But if the intent is pure and the action is unfettered by any deficiencies mentioned above, then it will lead to the path of liberation or moksha.

Doing puja and bhakti is required. But not at the cost of them replacing action. Action is required at every step of life, even to breathe or to worship.

That's why action takes the center stage in Gita.

Hence, act.

Don't just depend on mantra jaap, puja, bhakti, tap or vrat to change your life.

Take charge and responsibility of your own life and do conscious action willingly, which is beneficial for both yourself and others.

Such action will lead to God.

And God too would be pleased and only help if one's action is seen as being pure and consistent.

For Those Seeking Progeny And those who wish to have a child but are experiencing difficulty conceiving, you may keep this picture of Swamy in your home, offer rice payasam as naivedyam, and recite the Śrī Putraprāpty Aṣṭakam of Narasimha with devotion and faith.

One has to build an affinity to swami in the Vatsalya bhava. This form of Narasimha is a very unique and extremely rare form of Swami. No where does this Bala Swaroopa come in the actual purana. This form are exclusive to tantra and Swami reveals this swaroopa to rishis.

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Hello everyone,
I really loved this rendition of Hanuman Chalisa. It’s from the AI firm, Cheeranjivi Hanuman The Eternal, but I can’t find the exact song anywhere…can you guys please help with finding the song?

This is what I know…
Acceptance is when we are comfortable with whatever happens in life and not resist.
Surrender and faith is when you give your worries, fear, desires to the feet of god.
Now for example if I am completely clueless and pessimistic about job search but give my best in preparing for interviews and drafting a good cv including my past job experience. Then is it wrong to believe god will show me the best job (am feeling really hopeless that’s why I want to think positive by placing my faith) since anything can happen basis karma. Thinking about karma makes me loose hope that good will happen.

My sister lit the lamp today morning and then after sometime got her period.. she lives alone and no one else is there with her. How can she turn off the lamp and close the pooja door?

This is my first time soaking barley to grow them. My sil told my husband that we soak in milk . I told him that we soak in water but he didn't listen. day 4 no show.

I am so scared. This time it was my duty to get this grow

Have been praying to bhagwan with personal motives and desires but he hasn't returned to my prayers. Feels bhagwan only loves Nishkam Bhakts not The Sakam Bhakts who come in need or want. Also losing faith due to it, questioning whether all my prayers, vrats and japa are worthless. Question existence of Bhagwan itself. All the praises in 1000 words mentioned for Bhagwan seems only for name sake cause nothing of those names has resonated with my experience.

Has anybody ever felt this way?

I don't know why there is an internal rivalry within my own mind over whether to remain a theist or become an atheist. The reason was never that I don't believe in God, but these so-called religious people make me feel like becoming an atheist as I can't comprehend their norms or limitations. I feel like the more I sit with religious people, the more I become an atheist. Especially when I talk about my religion, it's the most beautiful religion. But these so-called religious or spiritual leaders who have become caretakers of our religion are the only reason I feel like it's better to cross the line. They put restrictions on unnecessary things and make religious rules according to themselves. I can't let them decide what I do, how I do it, what to wear, eat, read, or think. They are the ones who made people abort this religion and become atheists by practicing caste or gender-based discrimination. I never faced that as I am from a so-called upper caste and a boy, but life teaches a lot of things. Trying to put myself in that position—imagining being either a lower-caste person or a girl—gives me a visceral reaction or chills. These leaders are two-faced; they act like they are against caste and gender discrimination, but their actions reflect the opposite. Their statements are patriarchal (deciding how to b a ideal female under dominnce of a male), misogynistic and casteist; for instance, they make statements deciding what girls can and cannot do, how late they can stay out, sometimes engage in moral policing over things they don't even know, and humble or criticize victims of r@pe. They give statements supporting the caste system, saying it can't be removed and that we should learn to live within it, follow that hierarchy, and advocate for it. They even marginalize daily tasks, such as when to get a haircut or when females can wash their hair, when to start new work, or putting restrictions on unnecessary things like trimming a mustache. I am even fed up with my parents and relatives over this. They follow them blindly; whether they are right or wrong, they accept and follow it even womens starts defending the patriarchy. There is always a debate that most of the time turns into a quarrel with my mother or sometimes someone else, like relatives; they try to bind me with those unnecessary limitations or obligations which I think are useless. The result of the debate is the same most of the time: "We are older than you, we have more experience, and you are just a misguided teenager of a bad generation," or "You only know how to argue, nothing else." They don't counter my points with logical arguments, just emotional manipulation or moral policing. Is it true faith, if religion is really what it says and aims to be - a path to inner peace, acceptance, and universal understanding, has been paved with superficial means. I feel like the caretakers of religion have done everything they could to strip it of its mystery and replace it with an equally old dogmatism, utilizing some rather unpleasant methods to force scripture compliance out of everyone under their power. Whenever I attempt to reach out to the divine, I feel like I have to shove it through the hypocrisy of those who would have us all worship what they command, not what, perhaps, is right for our souls.

It hurts to see people prioritize age-old prejudices and arbitrary rules over basic human dignity and logic. When culture or traditional norms becomes an excuse to justify inequality, moral policing, and prejudice, it needs to be changed or reformed. I belive god, I thank him, I ask for help from him, I cry in front of him but

I refuse to have my morality dictated by blind dogma. If being true to my own conscience and standing up against injustice makes me an atheist in their view, then maybe being an atheist is a whole lot more honest than living a lie to just fit in their perfect box. There are many things that life will teach them why should remain in boundaries setted by random people if god really want me to be bouned then why he had setted my free.

The life teaches me through experiences, religion(true one) guides me. God gives me hope but the irony is

The more I sit with religious people, the more I become an atheist.

In regards to eating meat, is there are rule that states that meat eaten must first be sacrificed to a Deity and/or Ancestors before consuming? Or does it have to be consecrated first?

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Har Har Mahadev! 🕉️❤️

You've been here before. As a bug. As a bird. As a tree. As a dog. As a cat. Thousands of forms that couldn't even conceive of God. Now you're here, in this body, with this mind, with the ability to wonder, to question, to seek. That is not an accident. That is an opportunity you do not know will come again.

Yet, you've been told that you'll get another chance. That karma will carry you. That the universe will give you another life. Maybe it will. You don't know what form it will take. You don't know if you'll be human. You don't know if you'll have a mind that can wonder. You don't know if you'll find the teachings again.

So the question is: are you willing to bet on it? Are you willing to risk being a bug, a fish, a tree again, waiting a thousand lifetimes for another chance to turn toward God?

This is the urgency. Not fear. Not guilt. Just the truth: you don't know if you'll get another chance. If you do, you don't know when.

Think about how many lives it took to get here. You've been through the cycle over and over and over, millions of years, countless forms, endless repetition. Now you're here, in this rare human body, with this rare human mind, and the ability to actually do something about it.

What if you don't complete it in this life? What if this is just another step, but you don't take the step? What if you keep walking past the door, thinking you'll catch it next time?

I wish someone had told me this sooner. I wish someone had given me the map, laid out in order, clearly and simply, so I didn't have to fumble in the dark for years. I wish someone had said: "Here are the pieces. Here's how they fit together. If you do this, something will shift."

That's why I'm speaking now. You don't have to fumble. You don't have to guess. The path has been here for thousands of years. It's not new. It's not mine. It's universal. It's been broken into pieces, scattered across religions and teachings, waiting for someone to put them back together.

You already have the pieces. You're already chanting. You're already meditating. You're already seeking. You just haven't been told that they're meant to work together.

The four yogas are not separate paths. They are one engine. When you run them together, something shifts. The door opens. The cycle slows. You begin to turn, not just toward a better life, but toward the source of all life.

This is not about becoming a better person. This is not about being more peaceful or more calm. This is about finding Her. About being pulled out of this universe and placed at Her feet. About feeling Her bliss and knowing, not believing, but *knowing*, that She is real.

That possibility is not a fantasy. It's not a metaphor. It's a door that opens when you show it you're not coming back. That door has been waiting for you, not as a promise, but as a fact. The only question is whether you're willing to walk through it.

This path is not easy. It asks for your time, your attention, your willingness to turn away from everything you've been told is important. It asks you to sit for an hour when you'd rather do anything else. It asks you to face the parts of yourself you'd rather avoid. The cost of not walking it is far greater than the cost of walking it.

If you want to stop the cycle, if you want to stop being born again and again into the world of suffering and loss and distraction, then this is the path. Not as a theory. As a living, breathing, daily practice.

Chant OM for one hour every day. Listen to the teachings of consciousness. Offer every action to God. Let the love grow.

You won't notice anything in the first week. Maybe not in the first month. Maybe not even in the first year. If you stay with it, if you show that you're not going back, something will shift. Eventually, the door will open.

She is waiting. She has always been waiting.

You just have to show Her that you're serious. Not perfect. Just serious.

Now is the time. Not tomorrow. Not next year. Now.

You don't know if you'll get another chance. The world is not going to wait for you to decide.

I found this copy of The Bhagavad Gita: The Song Divine at a secondhand store a few days ago. It feels like a lucky find!
I'm interested in the mind, self-understanding, philosophy, and I'd love to hear from people who've read it. What stayed with you? Is there anything you'd recommend keeping in mind as a first time reader? Has anyone read this particular edition?

Thank you!

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Captured this huge shiva linga in the sky while on the way to Srisailam .

He is every where . The sub conscious MIND when surrendered to a higher power see only him.

Everything is dissolved 👇🏻

Ego

Greed

Wealth

The ' I ' thought

Selfishness

What remains is Just You and the Self Realization.

Har har mahadev . Om namah shivaya .