HINDU Terminal...!

Seventh Horse of the Sun Suraj ka saatvaan ghoda.. Still remember this title from an obscure movie I had watched on Doordarshan as a kid. The movie went on to become a classic by Shyam Benegal and the phrase has always stayed in some corner of my mind.. What could it have meant, the '7th Horse of the Sun'?? For that matter, why  have seven horses in the first place? In Hindu mythology,  Surya  travels through the sky on a seven-horse, twelve-spoked chariot, driven by  Arun  (the brother of Garud), with its arrival heralded by  Usha,  the goddess of Dawn .  As the Sun begins its journey in the Northern Hemisphere ( Uttarayan ) again, lets try to decode the mysteries of Surya and his chariot in the current post.   Surya on his chariot A lot of people might think that this motion of the Sun mentioned in the scriptures refers to the apparent movement of Sun from East to West, but that's not the case  - Vedic texts clearly mention that the Sun revolves NOT ar

Creation by Brahma Ganpati Bappa Morya! With Mumbai eagerly awaiting the arrival of its favorite God, there really couldn't be a better time to write about the Beginning of Creation while waiting for the Lord of Auspicious Beginnings to arrive at our Homes :o) There has always been an argument in the Scientific world - Whether an Intelligence created this World or, the World led to the creation of Intelligence. Sounds like a Chicken & Egg situation there! However in Hindu Cosmology, the process of creation is more purposeful than a random explosion in nothingness. In the current post, I'm gonna share the  Creation Phenomenon  as per Hindu Scriptures and will take you through the Theological as well as Evolutionary details hidden in them. Swami Vivekananda , one of the most intellectual proponents of Hinduism says - Indian philosophy goes beyond both Intelligence as well as Matter and describes a Purush, or Self, of whom Intelligence is but the borrowed light.