Spirituality

The Great Misunderstanding: Unweaving the Word 'Tantra' Tantra remains one of the most profoundly misunderstood spiritual traditions on Earth. The 'Tantra' You Think You Know When most people today speak of "Tantra," they are, in fact, referring to "Neo-Tantra." This is a modern, 20th-century offshoot of the traditional practice. Its primary focus is on healing psychological wounds, improving intimacy, and achieving personal growth. While many of these Neo-Tantric teachings

Life these days can feel noisy and complicated, can’t it? We get pulled in a hundred directions, trying to patch together who we are from bits and pieces. In the middle of all this, Advaita Vedanta calls us back—right to the heart of what’s real. It’s not just philosophy or another spiritual path. Advaita is about experiencing something deeper for yourself. It’s that shift from thinking you’re separate to realizing, in a flash, that everything—seeker, seeking, what’s sought—i

Maa Mahishkhagi of Shantipur – The Fierce Mother of Faith and Fire In the long and storied history of Shantipur’s Kali Puja, one name gleams with a fierce, ancient radiance — Maa Mahishkhagi. Centuries ago, this town on the banks of the Ganga echoed with the sound of conch shells, drums, and ritual chants as devotees gathered to worship the Goddess in her most primal form. In those early times, buffalo sacrifices were an integral part of the worship — a symbolic offering of h

There are moments in mythology where divinity frightens us before it frees us. Kali is that moment—raw, untamed, and infinite. She is not the gentle mother you paint on temple walls; she is the puja’s midnight fire, the silence that follows destruction, and the timeless whisper that says, “To become whole, you must first burn away the false.” Born from the wrath of Durga in the Devi Mahatmya, Kali emerged in a battlefield drenched in the blood of arrogance and ignorance. The

Durga Puja 2025: When the Divine Feels Like Home in Kolkata There are times when Kolkata shakes off its everyday worries and just breathes. It's like the whole city turns into one big, happy heart. It starts with a soft, warm breeze that rustles through the shiuli trees and whispers along the Ganga. You can smell autumn coming, and it smells like hope and home. That's when everyone in Bengal knows: Ma Aschhe – Mom's coming home! In 2025, Kolkata's getting ready to celebrate D

Kali Puja is more than a festival—it's a powerful invocation of the divine feminine in her fiercest, most protective form. Rooted in the mythology of Bengal, Kali Puja celebrates Maa Kali as the fearless mother who dispels darkness and ignorance. Her image, adorned with a garland of skulls and a fierce gaze, represents the destruction of ego and the renewal of cosmic balance. As devotees light lamps and chant prayers on the amavasya (new moon night), they seek her blessings f

While Krishna's early life was filled with divine playfulness and eternal love which is well known, his position in the epic Mahabharata was equally profound and significant. It was during this time that his heavenly nature and wisdom are most visible. Krishna's involvement in the Mahabharata begins well before the epic war. He was essential in averting a great fight between the Kauravas and Pandavas. He used diplomacy and counsel to avoid the impending battle, but when peace

The Saptarishi are Bhagawan Brahma's seven mind-born offspring, and each plays a distinct duty during a manuantara, which lasts 306,720,000 Earth Years. Throughout this time, they function as Brahma Ji's representatives. After each manuantara, when the universe is destroyed, the Saptarishis merge with Brahman, and new Saptarishis are chosen to revitalize the Earth and share their divine wisdom. To keep the Earth in balance, the first group of Saptarishis worked closely with t

About 1000 years, Atisha Dipankar Srijnan has been revered as an exceptional religious personality in Tibet and other Asian countries. However, the famous saint-philosopher of the 10th-11th centuries was forgotten for generations in his birthplace of Bangladesh and throughout the Indian subcontinent until the end of the nineteenth century. Dipankar Srijnan previous name was Chandragarbha, he was born into a royal family in 980 or 982 AD in the village Vajrayogini of Vikrampur

The Vaishnava spiritual movement was initiated in Bengal by none other than Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Whenever an incarnation comes in this world to save the society we get an indication and signs. Sri Chaitanya raised a movement that changed the perspective of then society but had been opposed as well on his thoughts. His parents Jagannath Mishra and Sachi Devi got some divine experience before his birth. His grandfather Pandit Nilambar Chakravarti, a renowned astrologer, pr

হিন্দু সনাতন ধর্মাবলম্বীদের কাছে পুরী ভীষনভাবে পবিত্র এবং পরিচিত একটি শহর। বঙ্গোপসাগরের তীরবর্তী এই শহর পশ্চিমবঙ্গের পাশ্ববর্তী রাজ্য উড়িষ্যার মধ্যে অবস্থিত । আর এই পুরীতে রয়েছে চারধামের অন্যতম জগন্নাথধাম। চার ধামের মধ্যে পুরীর এই জগন্নাথ মন্দির অবশ্যই অন্যতম। ঐতিহাসিক এই জগন্নাথ মন্দির ১০৭৮ সালে তৈরি হয়। পরবর্তী কালে বহুবার তা মেরামতি বা পুননির্মাণ এর মধ্যে দিয়ে তা আজকের জগন্নাথ মন্দিরর এর রূপ ধারণ করে। তাইতো পুরীর এখনকার জগন্নাথ দেবের মন্দিরটির সঙ্গে প্রথম তৈরি হওয়া মন্দি

To write the life and teachings of one of the greatest reformer of time, Srila Prabhupada who is the Acharya and Founder of the International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISCON) is difficult but I have tried to gather information about one of the most spiritual reformer of time, which gives an insight of the enlightenment he had in his lifetime. To understand his teachings and philosophy we have to look back at what Chaitanya Mahaprabhu said about 500 years ago.. He sai

The Bhagavad Gita is essentially the voice of God. It is the voice of Lord Krishna teaching the circle of life to Arjuna in the battlefield of Kurukhetra. It is a matter of realization for us that God has spoken about life and its doctrine of things which reflect in this universe in each step of our life. The truthfulness of those words are realized in our daily life. The Vaishnava philosophy has expressed a concept of man to God and vice verse in the form of Nara-Narayana. H

Sri Ramakrishna was born in Kamarpukur in 1836. Over the last century, this village in the Hooghly District has maintained the peaceful simplicity of rural Bengal. He was named Gadhadhar by his parents. He experienced spiritual ecstasy from his childhood through various events and he was a truly an incarnation of the Supreme Almighty. He was just seven years old when his father died. This incident greatly impacted him. He focused more on reading and hearing the holy stories r