Every year, people of all ages, races, and creeds journey from around the world to reach Arsha Vidya Gurukulam, a secluded forest ashram in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. There, they spend ...

(RNS) — They were two of the religion’s most impactful and unique gurus in its evolution into an American way of life. (RNS) — More than 50 years after his death, John Coltrane is rightfully ...

The five schools of philosophy that preceded Shankara’s systemic exposition of Vedantic metaphysics were the Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Sankhya, Yoga, and Purva Mimamsha. All these were essentially guided by ...

For centuries in India, yoga has been a practice rooted in the Hindu faith. Today, it is a massively popular fitness tradition in the United States, part of a wellness lifestyle for some 15 million ...

Many popular self-help books by Western authors draw heavily from Hindu philosophy. Concepts like the Law of Attraction in 'The Secret' and the idea of interconnectedness echo ancient Hindu scriptures ...

Both Plato and the Katha Upanishad picture the soul as a chariot. Source: Wikicommons/O Redon/Public domain Coming to Indian philosophy after having written three books on Greek philosophy, I have ...