purana

Edit: Hinduism is neither doctrine based nor centralised so every single purana and upnishad isn't authentic.

Rao himself is of the opinion that an Indian can never write a novel; he can only write a purana.

Yeah, going by the Smriti and Purana scriptures (which no one really follows), we're all polluted in America.

What is the attraction in what is clearly a character in an epic/purana?

A while back I started reading the Bhagavata Purana and boy does it have some good stories.

It has existed since ancient times as a spiritual practice, and is mentioned in the 7th-10th century Bhagavata Purana and by the Ancient Greek geographer Strabo.

True aliens are found in the Srimad Purana friends.

Links: Skanda Purana on the punishments for actions from the previous births - special emphasis on what happens to people who killed or mistreated Brahmins in their previous births..

I ask ChatGPT to teach me all about Hinduism, the siva purana, ancient indian customs, etc., and it is an incredible tutor.

In Hinduism, the Garuda Purana details this as not the physical mind, but the detached soul can see the body as it floats above it and watches its relatives weep.

Its clear from ancient texts and stories like the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Bhagavata Purana that the Aryans were a nomadic, tribal cow-herding people who didn't tend to live in fixed structures.

- Krishna Basudev by Bani Basu (Bengali), life of God Krishna in form of a novel in crisp prose, written maintaining authenticity of core books like Bhagavat Purana and Harivansha.

The Bhagavad Gita, Bhagavat Purana, and many Christian treatise' describe the realization of soul as, "eternal, separated from activity, a silent witness..." Food for thought!

The Bhagavata Purana describes that they found the race of men had become "dwindled in stature, reduced in vigour, and enfeebled in intellect."The daughter and father found Balarama and proposed the marriage which was accepted.

Outside of the classic sutra texts mentioned above, there is only the "Kapilopadesha" from the Bhagavatha Purana and "Kapila-Gita" from the Mahabharatha which seem to espouse proper Samkhya philosophy.

The core message of Bhagvata-Gita and Bhagvata-Purana, two of the most revered scriptures is the "Everything is the Lord, there is nothing besides the Lord" Bhagvada-Gita Chapter 7 Verse 19, bahūnāṁ janmanām ante jñānavān māṁ prapadyate vāsudevaḥ sarvam iti sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ "Vasudevah sarvam iti", everything is the Lord there is nothing besides the Lord.

The quote is according to the Kurma Purana.

In Indian Purana-s, stories exemplify recursion: story A has story B, which has story C, and so on, then backtrack.