Unity and Pluralism in Dharmic Traditions
Column by Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) Editor’s note: This column is extracted from one of the two keynote talks delivered by Dr. David Frawley (Pandit Vamadeva Shastri) at the close of the International Conference on Dharma-Dhamma, Bhopal, India, Sept. 23, 2012. The conference was attended by several hundred scholars from the world More...
Fallacy of Interfaith Dialogues
There is a fundamental flaw in the very concept of ‘inter-faith’. The problem lies in the world ‘faith’ for defining religious and spiritual traditions. Western monotheistic religions, particularly Christianity More...
Hinduism: Religion of the Sacred Environment
Hinduism & Environment The Hindu approach to ecology requires that we first understand how Hindu Dharma views the world of nature, which is very different than that of the predominant western religions. Western More...
Yoga & Buddhism
By David Frawley Yoga and Buddhism are sister traditions which evolved in the same spiritual culture of ancient India. They use many of the same terms and follow many of the same principles and practices. For this More...
Linguistics and Civilization
By David Frawley The proposed Aryan Invasion or Migration into India that most history books present as a fact so far has not yet yielded any solid evidence to support it. There is no archaeological, genetic, More...
Vedic Origins of the Europeans: The Children of Danu
Many ancient European peoples, particularly the Celts and Germans, regarded themselves as children of Danu, with Danu meaning the Mother Goddess, who was also, like Sarasvati in the Rig Veda, a river Goddess. The More...
Separating Global Warming from Global Pollution
By David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri) The pollution of our natural environment, the decline of the quality of our air, water and soils, the destruction of numerous ecosystems and consequent loss of species is an obvious More...
Yoga: From Patanjali Back to Hiranyagarbha
By David Frawley Many people today look to Patanjali, the compiler of the Yoga Sutras, as the father or founder of the greater system of Yoga. While Patanjali’s work is very important and worthy of profound examination, More...
The Sacred Activism
By David Frawley There are many movements going on today that aim to change or improve the world in this time of global crisis. Almost everyone is encouraging us to become an activist in one form or another, for More...
Marma Points and the Practice of Yoga
By David Frawley The main aspect of Yoga practice that actively considers the use of marmas is the practice of Pratyahara, which is the fifth branch of Yoga. Pratyahara mediates between the outer factors of Yoga, More...
