Learing beyond text books

Spanning over 7,000 years—from the Bronze Age dockyards of Lothal (~2400 BCE) to the advanced stitched ships of Cholas and Beypore, this article uncovers India’s lost maritime genius. Indian maritime and ship-building technology, which was suppressed by colonial acts of the British, is now experiencing a revival with the 2025 introduction of stitched shipbuilding through…

Did you know this was solved by a 9th century sanskrit poet by the name Rudratha and this is explained in his works called Kavalyankara?

As far as Hindus are concerned, temple is NOT JUST a place of worship.  It has more purposes.  Before I answer this specific question, let me describe a typical temple and darshan of the main deity. The deity is generally decorated with a lot of colorful flowers, with oil lamps on the side giving it…

Purpose of visiting Ganapathi is to help improve our brain power.  In America and Japan, they call our thoppukaranam as Super Brain Yoga. See this 15 year old American video to understand more.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSwhpF9iJSs In our gurukul days, Gurus used to make kids do this. It was never a punishment, but ways to increase the…

Mouse is a very interesting rodent that can hide anywhere, come out from anywhere, at the most unpredictable time, multiplies easily and can create havoc.  Problems in lives are like that.  Mouse is symbolic of those problems in life, which can come from anywhere, anytime in the most unexpected manners.  And when that happens, the…

The Ganapathi sankalpa in our mythology is that he is the “vigneswara” – the one who helps us overcomes all problems in life.  Now, how can we overcome our problems? Primarily leveraging our intelligence & brain.  Here is the backview of the brain – you can see how closely it resembles the human brain.

Plan to start by talking about Sanskrit. Move to talk about Sutras, Then Shiva Sutras. From the Shivasutras, came the vedas and upanishads and Puranas