Month: July 2015

Gupt Navaratri

Posted by Annu Kalra | Jul 21, 2015 | Faith, Hinduism, Wellbeing | 0

From the 17th of July 2015 begin the Ashadha Navratri, also known as Gupt Navratri and also as the Gayatri Navaratri. These are not the days when you will find special thali meals for those observing the fast at fast food chains. Neither are these days for delighting in dance and revelry in the guise of Garbha. Nor does it culminate in ostentatious gifting, and feasting and gambling in the name of Dusserah and Diwali. The Gupt navaratras are followed by serious saadhaks, who believe that all of life, the cosmos itself is Shakti. She who is considered the...

Interpreting Navaratras

Posted by Annu Kalra | Jul 16, 2015 | Faith, Hinduism, Wellbeing | 0

Sitting around Babaji, though unable to decipher the reason why, we were all feeling light and happy. In the contrasting setting of modern women clad in jeans and this starkly dressed Kapali Baba, the discussion of relevance of fasting in modern times ensued. While none of us had any issue with the benefits of fasting for health and medical reasons, we did observe that from the religious point of view all fasts were for the males in society. Why is that women are only expected to fast for men Babaji, one of us protested? It is either Karva chauth...