The sacred thread is held in the hand and chanting the Gayatri mantra ten times, is sprinkled with water charged with mantras. This endows it with the tej (absolute fire) element. The boy is then asked to wear it.

Hanuman has two forms namely Maruti as the servitor and Maruti as the courageous one. The servitor form is the one in which Hanuman stands in front of Rama with His hands folded in obeisance.

Nowadays since most people do not perform rites for the departed (shraddhas), etc. as in the olden days nor undertake spiritual practice, most suffer due to the subtle bodies of ancestors.

The ten main incarnations (dashavtar) of Lord Vishnu, their mission, characteristics and implied meaning are as follows.

Offering the sacred thread to deities means binding the expanse of the brilliance of deities in the rounds of the sacred thread and evoking It to function in duality.

चौदह वर्षका वनवास समाप्त कर जब श्रीरामप्रभु अयोध्या लौटे, तब प्रजाने दीपोत्सव मनाया । तबसे दीपावली उत्सव मनाया जाता है । दीपावली शब्द दीप आवली (पंक्ति, कतार) इस प्रकार बना है ।

Difference between right-sided trunk and left-sided trunk. Implied meaning of Modak.

The principle that makes available to an embo-died soul both gross and subtle (i.e. manifest and unmanifest) frequencies of higher or lower Gods and Deities in a shorter time is called Datta or Shri Dattatreya).

Mahotkat Vinayak, Gunesh, Ganesh, Dhumraketu are the incarnations of Lord Ganaprti. Also know about Ganapati and other deities.

In all the recorded cases of rebirth, it was found that there was a variable time lag between the death of the person and his next birth on Earth. So, where does the person go after his death till his rebirth on Earth? Is it a single place or are there a variety of places? If so, what are the factors that decide where a particular person will go to after death?