Mantra On Net : Welcome to our Gallery I

An underlying theological assumption in texts celebrating the Mahadevi is that the ultimate reality in the universe is a powerful, creative, active, transcendent female being. The Lalita-sahasranama gives many names of the Mahadevi, and several of her epithets express this assumption- She is called, for example, the root of the world (Jagatikanda, name 325), she…

Vira ‘Vira’ means ‘Brotherhood’, and on this album it represents a sort of fraternity between two outstanding soloists, the flute player Rakesh Chaurasia and the inimitable tabla player Talvin Singh. Both musicians have in the past, taken their respective instruments into uncharted territory, so it was only natural that they should play for a duet…

Krishna is the great lover of Indian mythology. Yet the details of the women he had wooed, won and wed are surprisingly limited and perhaps should be confined to his conquest of Rukmini. Here is the unalloyed romantic tale of none but the brave deserving the fair. Krishna here is the romantic hero par excellence…

Long, long ago in the beautiful land of Kosala on the banks of the river Sarayu, was situated the magnificent town of Ayodhya, ruled by the wise and just king called Dasaratha. He belonged to the solar dynasty in the lineage of lkshvaku, who was the son of Vaivasvatha Manu, the first of all created…

The wit and wisdom of Birbal had endeared him not only to Akbar, but also to a vast majority of the subjects of the Mughal empire. He had the rare distinction of achieving immense popularity during his lifetime, next only to that of Akbar. He was a good administrator, a good soldier and perhaps what…

OM. May my limbs, speech, breath, eye, ear, strength and all senses grow strong. Everything is the brahman of the Upanisads. May I not reject brahman. May brahman not reject me. May there be no rejecting. May there be no rejecting of me. May all the dharmas which are in the Upanisads be in me,…