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By Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati What is the meaning and significance of yajna in our spiritual lives? What is the relevance of anything in life? Anything
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By Swami Niranjanananda Saraswati What is the meaning and significance of yajna in our spiritual lives? What is the relevance of anything in life? Anything

By Swami Satyananda Saraswati I have had a glimpse of the new millennium. Yoga will go backstage and bhakti will take its place. Bhakti means

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The rarest Ekadashi of the entire Hindu calendar is three days away. The Padma Purana preserves a conversation between Bhagavan Krishna and Yudhishthira about a single Ekadashi the great Rishis spend lifetimes waiting for — Padmini. The Vrat Katha of Queen Padmini of Mahishmati, the lotus teaching, and why May 27, 2026 is the morning Vaishnavas across Bharata are preparing for.

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Sanskriti comes from the Sanskrit root “kr” which means to do or to make prefix “sam” is applied before it to convey a sense of embellishment. It means actions done for the holistic refinement and perfection all the potentialities within a human being.
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