Hindu religion and culture is a collection of many traditions and good practices. It abounds with a variety of festivals, rituals, conventions and sacred days. Even though the practices related to individual festivals and rituals may differ, the central theme…
Akshaya tritiya is very auspicious day. It is practice in madhwa community to apply sandal wood paste to Sri Guru Raghavendra swami brindavana and Lord Sri Narasimha. This grand decoration is a cynosure to eyes . The sandal wood paste…
Akshaya Tritiya is the perfect day to make new beginnings so that they produce imperishable results, to practise the art of giving to ensure infinite returns, and to maximize the divine blessings in your life by performing only auspicious actions.…
Akshaya Tritiya also referred as Akha Teej, is considered as the most auspicious days of all by Hindus in India. The pious day of Akshaya Tritiya falls on the third day (Tithi) of bright phase of moon (Shukla Paksha) in…
Parashurama is considered as sixth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Many believe that he was born on akshaya tritiya. He killed king Kartavirya to protect the Holy Kamadhenu. He took an oath to kill all kshatriyas who tortured common men and…
Mahavishnu Shaligram
If a Shaligram Shila is having a rich glazing black color and a vanamala naturally embedded along with a clear vadana that is comprising of 4 chakras within that are facing each other then it is called as Laxmi Narayana…
The Anantha chaturdashi-vrata (Bhadrapada shukla Chaturdashi) is widely observed in India. It is also called ‘Ananthapadmanabha-vrata’. Lord Vishnu appeared on this day as Padmanabha lying on the couch of Anantha Sesha (the thousand-hooded serpent). Anantha vrata is observed with the…
An AnanthaPadmanaabha shaligram can be identified as a shaligram comprising of 5 to 7 vadanas along with 14 chakras followed by the main lanchanas such as shankha, chakra, gada, padma –as clearly embedded on it. It may be in any…
Introduction Divya shaligram is a sincere effort introduced, to share the very little known knowledge regarding shaligrams and the holy sayings of shastras as Vedas and Upanishads as much as possible . For beginners shaligram is so called in the…