So i saw that her name was not mentioned in any of the scriptures and texts written while lord krishna was on the earth. her latest mentions came around 3000 years after the mahabharat. I also saw a mention of her in narada panchratra when parvati maa asks lord shiva about radha rani and lord shiva is angered by it because her name was supposed to be confidential and it was told to him by lord vishnu. but this text was also weitten about 3500 years after mahabharat. i dont understand why we worship lorn krishna with radha when her name was not even mentioned in the scriptures while he lived on the earth. Some people say the stories of radha krishna were passed down orally hence no mention of her name but if she was such an important part of his life why was she never mentioned? I wanted to belive she was real so badly but everything ks proof that she is just an imagination. A name imagined to personify love and bhakti towards lord krishna. I also read a mention of a gopi who worshipped krishna better and the other gopis were jealous. this is the earliest mention that could be radha and people say it is but how do we believe it when her name did not show up?

I also think its kind of disrespectful that we worship radha krishna more than his actual wives. Lord krishna and rukmini devi have such a devine bond. They share such love and respect for each other yet all we hear most of the time is about radha and krishna and their incomplete love story.

Satyabhama devi and lord krishna also had a devine dynamic. She was a warrior and Krishna had so much respect for her. I feel like his wives should never be forgotten and overshadowed by radha rani. Although i have utmost respect for all of them it feels wrong to only talk about radha krishna in my opinion.

I would appreciate corrections and knowledge about this from anyone who knows

When my sister was a child, my grandmother would tell bedtime stories about the gods every night to put her to sleep like every Indian Hindu ever to live. But when I was younger, nobody told me any stories now I barely know my religion and I feel like I missed out on such an integral part of growth as a Hindu. I want someone to be my grandma, in the sense that I wanna know all the stories about Hinduism and who each of the gods are. I feel so fake not knowing any of this information and I’m clueless every time I go to the temple. I don’t know how to pray, I don’t even know who the god is most of the time, all I know is that I believe in my religion and I want to become more educated in it.

My experience with god as a child has been less than positive. The first time my mother introduced me to god and told me they will grant any wish I make, I wished for a popsicle, being the 4 year old I was. And when it didn’t magically appear, I immediately questioned their existence. But that was when I couldn’t comprehend much. A lot of bad things happened to me growing up. I had a really abusive sister, and a horrible relationship with friends. I remember when I was 8 I used to pray for my sister to like me every time I went to the temple. The more I prayed and the less anything changed, I started to hate god along the way. I took out all my negative feelings on them. Moreover, I am a nice and empathetic person, but recently I’ve noticed that I judge everyone around me and say horrible things about them in my head for just because I’m slightly pissed. I feel like a horrible person every time, but I can’t control it. Sometimes I think god is against me because every time I think about something positively, like “wow it’s been so long since blah blah, I’m finally happy now” and guess what happens two days later. I also had an atheist phase growing up because I decided that was better than hating god. I also believed in the “if god exists, ghosts exist” thing and since I was young and was scared shitless of ghosts, I just believed in neither because it was convenient. Now I have renewed my faith, I feel like I don’t deserve the love of god and accept everything bad that happens to me because I feel like that is what I deserve

Hi! I am not a Hindu personally, but I was researching names for characters and I love the name “Kali,” but I am aware she is a goddess in Hinduism (according to Google, anyways). As such, I was wondering if it would be disrespectful to name a character Kali, or if it would be okay? The novel isn’t connected to Hinduism and isn’t at all intended to mock (or even be related to) Hinduism. All opinions are welcome!

Textbook history seems to glorify the Nizam to an extraordinary extent. Yet when you look beyond exam-oriented textbooks—into biographies, historians’ writings, articles, documentaries, and detailed accounts meant for genuine understanding—the picture is starkly different. Again and again, the same reality emerges: ordinary people living under the Nizam’s rule endured immense suffering, oppression, and fear. For many of them, life was not a period of grandeur or prosperity, but an experience that felt nothing short of hell.

Genuine question:

Why does it sometimes seem that Hindu religious places and Hindu communities are repeatedly affected by tragedies such as the Kedarnath disaster and recent floods in Nepal? Is there any explanation for this in Hindu scriptures or in the concept of Kalyug?

I wake up at 6 AM and wash my hair every day before offering Surya Arghya. But I'm planning to grow my hair long, and daily hair washing is becoming difficult.

Is head/hair washing actually required, or is a normal bath enough before offering Surya Arghya?

Would appreciate guidance based on Hindu tradition or scriptures.

No matter how lost I feel.

No matter how worthless I feel.

No matter how scared I feel.

This space feels like my mom's lap. This space right here feels like my dad's shoulder.

This space feels safe. Feels peaceful.

How blessed am I! How grateful am I!

Om namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya 🙏🏼

I check panchang pretty regularly for muhurat timings, festival dates, etc., and every app I've tried (and there are like 20+ on the Play Store) feels basically the same, cluttered text, walls of ads, and most only really do the North Indian calendar properly even when you switch region.

Curious what everyone else here actually uses, is there one that's genuinely good, or does everyone just put up with it because there's nothing better?

I've been tinkering with building a cleaner version, proper location-based muhurat timing, way less ad clutter, actual support for regional calendars (Tamil/Telugu/Bengali/Gujarati) instead of just translated labels on the same North Indian data. If this is a real pain point for you too and not just me, drop a comment or DM — genuinely want to know what you'd want in one before I build it.

I hope an expert can answer this….

I always thought the proper pronunciations should be:

Dharm, not Dharma
Karm, not Karma
Yug, not Yuga

Ai tells me the added “a” at the end of each word is Sanskrit version. I am having difficulty believing this. I thought the “a” is added by Westerners who can’t pronounce Dharm, Karm, Prayanam etc.

Can someone please clarify for sure?

Hello everyone, I am a 20M, and I have never dated before, but I wanted to explore being in a relationship. However, for all the men who are into religious practice and control their senses from sex, how did you establish that in the beginning and during the duration of your relationship before you. In the Bhagavad Gita, it is said that committing unrestricted sex will capture you in the shackles of sex and continue to drain your soul on a very evil path. To give you some background info about me, I'm a very ambitious person and hard-working person who is trying to live his dream reality, and I've always stayed away from the idea of being in a relationship due to the strict dedication towards it, but I want to see if I can do it. I pray every day, read the Gita, and practice living with Bhagwan consciousness, and continuing to implement the Gita knowledge in my life, but these recent few weeks I have been very lustful and desiring sex, which I really hate.
How do you guys control your senses with Bhagwan consciousness and control your sexual tendencies in relationships?

SP: Shiva Purana
PP: Padma Purana
MS: Manusmriti(ignore this as most hindus don't follow this at all)
BU: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

"Amrit", suddenly came into my mind... Thinking more about it's existence, form, purpose... LET'S DISCUSS, SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON IT.

Everyone is appreciating ramayana and hailing lord rama as paramapurushan !! but why aren't they speaking about lord rama asking devi sita to test her purity to everyone ??How can someone ask his wife to do that just because people (in which half of them were following polygamy)

The answers I got was "he is king ,so follows the rule(people first,family next ) " but don't you think it's a bit akward ?I am sorry no hate ,

But asking a rape victim to prove you are a victim ? It's still happening today ,no wonder why because people were not questioning then and it follows today

If young people question this double minded ,they potray us as haters?

I'm very sad because I can't find the answer to these questions about everyday puja anywhere: 1. I still can't have a bell to ring during puja, what can I do to replace it? 2. How should I maintain an altar? I would put the plates on the table, but I saw that it was disrespectful to leave them empty. So the altar has to be clean, without dishes? Where do I put the dishes, does it have to be in a special place? 3. I put the kumkum on my forehead before starting the puja, and when can I take it off? 4. Is there any energetic cleaning I should do on the altar and items? if yes, how? When should it be done?

While reading the Bhagavad Gita, I came across this phrase I couldn't quite grasp; does anyone have an analysis of it?

"But remember, O Prince, that the rewards of these fleeting, finite, and perishable desires are likewise short-lived. Those who worship lesser gods—caricatures and imperfect shadows of the Divine—go to worlds of shadow ruled by those shadow-gods. But the wise, who are capable of knowing Me as I truly am—the One and the All—come to Me, to My world of Reality, where there are no shadows, where everything is real, even the flame that makes the shadow vanish."

Dear seekers, judge for yourself who is helping seekers and who is not

Shri Rajarshi Nandy is an Indian spiritual upāsaka (worshipper), mentor, author, and speaker widely known for his efforts to demystify and promote Hindu Tāntrika and Śākta traditions. He is the principal founding trustee of the Kamakhya Bhairava Upasaka Foundation (KBUF), an organisation dedicated to the preservation of Dharma and guiding spiritual seekers in devatā upāsanā (deity worship). He gained mainstream popularity across India through his insightful appearances on prominent digital platforms and podcasts, most notably The Ranveer Show (TRS). This post is about serious disrespect of this respected person.

They refer to Rajarshi Nandi (RN) Sir as PK meaning ParamKebab, see first slide. RA is Ranveer Allabadia and SG is SadhGuru

Genuine Kaali Sadhana is bounded by purity, testing and restraint and its fruit is fearlessness, clarity, and increased capacity to function and love.

Because Kaali, however fierce her form, is Siva’s own sakti and ultimately maternal, not parasitic. A Pisachini, by contrast, is specifically drawn to raw blood, feeds on destabilized emotion, and is documented across tantric sources as growing stronger with repeated contact producing exactly the symptom cluster present here: isolation from family, unbreakable fear-bound vows, escalating secretive demands, and desire relabeled as the entity’s own hunger so the practitioner loses the ability to distinguish “I want this” from “she wants this.”

Real Devi worship never needs to erase the line between your craving and Her will that collapse of boundaries is precisely how pisachini attachment is described taking hold, using kaali’s name as camouflage because it is the most feared, most easily weaponized form in the pantheon and grants absolute authority over a young sadhak who doesn’t yet have the sastric grounding to know the difference. What’s operating through that guru is dressed as Smasana-Kaali, but its diet, its behavior, and its effect on the disciple’s life all point to PISACHINI and no genuine DIKSA would ever ask you to feed something that only grows by taking more of you and more of your family away.

Asking to offer blood to sattvik deities defiles the space and send the deities into aghor mode where they go to sleep, then this free parasitic entity is free to feed on your family without obstables.

So before listening to any content creator, go educate yourself on how the divine functions v low entities, go read the rudhiradhyaya in kalika purana, yogini tantra, kularnava tantra, and Tara tantra find out for yourself.

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