rishikanya debahuti

  News on the number of suicides and self-inflicted injuries, consumption of drugs by so-called role models in the recent past has made most of us realize that possession of a plastic smile and a beautifully toned body are not the sources of happiness. What on the other hand man is seeking is pleasure, but not happiness.  Happiness is    सच्चिदानन्द   a Sanskrit word for which there is no verbatim meaning in English vocabulary. Thus trainers of Indian origin as well as the other origins often confuse and get confused in explaining their audiences and their followers by preaching happiness and pleasure as synonyms. Wealth may give rise to anything but pleasure and satisfaction. Had that been the case, we should not be hearing celebrities acting on movies and public platforms with different roles on the silver screen end their character and lives under the influences of narcotics, drugs, and chemicals. We know happiness comes from within. So, it is important to un...

  The Hindu temple is a representation of the cosmos and the mystery of time. Temples were not mere places of worship but much much more than that. Anna daana is still a major objective of Hindu temples. Tirupati feeds over 100,000 devotees each day free. The per-day cost is Rs. 3 million. ISKCON feeds about 2 million people the free everyday world over in 60 different countries. Akshaya Patra feeds about 1.8 million children every day The Padmanabhaswamy temple is considered the wealthiest Hindu temple in the world with a wealth of 20 billion dollars. What made the temples so rich? The general belief is that temples are rich because the Rajas were handing over large amounts of money to these temples, but have been seed money, but one of the reasons these temples have a lot of gold was in fact, they functioned as banks and we have copper plates and a lot of the copper plate remains of a contract between the guilds. So there were merchant guilds, there were artisan guilds and th...