Bharathiya Rishi Parampara: ( 10/04/2013. )

Chinmaya International Foundation (CIF) : Smt. Rekha Sharma, Chairperson of National Commission for Women India, was given a tour of the Adi Sankara Nilayam today, post her talk for the Chinmaya Vishwa Vidyapeeth students.  Smt. Rekhaji visited the sacred room where Sri Adi Sankaracharya was born and offered her prayers to the great Master.   Exploring each room in the house Smt. Rekhaji expressed her interest and admiration of the beautiful ancient architecture and mentioned that she would definitely love to visit and stay at CIF sometime in the future.  ====================================================================== Sunday, March 12, 2023. 06:00.  Gautama Maharishi ======================================================================= Gautama Maharishi  is mentioned in the Yajurveda, Ramayana, and Ganesa Purana and is known for cursing his wife Ahalya. Another important story related to Gautama is about the creation of river Godavari, which is als...

======================================================================== Sunday, January 29, 2023. 06:00. Bharadvaja Maharishi ========================================================================= 1.Personal information : Parents Brihaspati (father) Siblings Kacha, Revati, Kesari Spouse Susheela Children Garga, Drona and Ilavida --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.Introduction : Bharadvaja was one of the revered Vedic sages (maharishi) in Ancient India. He was a renowned scholar, economist, grammarian and physician. He is one of the Saptarishis (seven great sages or Maharishies. His contributions to ancient Indian literature, specifically the Rigveda, provide significant insight into ancient Indian society. He and his family of students were the authors of the sixth book of the Rigveda. In the epic Mahabharata, Bharadwaja was the father of the teacher (guru) Dronacharya, the instructor...

 ======================================================================= ========================================================================= Tuesday, December , 2022. 05:00 Ancient  Rishis: Samskriti Bharthiya Samskaram: ========================================================================= Some five years ago there was a small news item in a national paper. At that time Jairam Ramesh was the minister of state for environment and forests and he had stated, ”India is losing at least 2000 patents every year on traditional formulations as the knowledge on these has never been documented.” I wondered whether the politicians, administrators and academics actually knew where their ancient tradition is documented and what it contains. There is a big gap between the English speaking academics and the Vedic pandits. The former tend to think that they are superior and represent India’s intelligentsia. However there is great, often untapped knowledge in the other camp of Sanskri...

====================================================================== ===================================================================== Thursday, November 03, 2022. 06:30. Indian culture has evolved over the ages by India’s ancient Rishis, who at the banks of its holy rivers had ‘discovered’ the Vedic literature – the very foundation of Indian civilization. The term ‘Rishi’ originally denoted the composers and singers of Vedic hymns. However, the Rishi is also a ‘sage’ to whom the Gods revealed the Vedas (knowledge of the eternal truths about the Creator, His creation and means to preserve it). ========================================================================= ======================================================================== The 2 most popular sages of India are: Valmiki The famous poet-author of the epic Ramayana. One of his ashrama was at present-day Bithoor near Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh state, where Luva and Kusha were born to Sita. Vyasa Maharishi Veda Vyasa is th...

======================================================================= ======================================================================= Thursday, August 11, 2022. 11:20. Arundhati : ========================================================================= Introduction : Arundhati is the wife of Sage Vasishtha, again one of the Saptarishis. Though a Rishi patni (wife of a Rishi), she is also given the status of a sage and a yogini of high caliber. In fact, many consider her to be at par with the Saptarishis themselves. She is identified with the morning star and also with the star Alcor, which forms a double star with Mizar, which is commonly identified as Rishi Vasishtha. Vedic and Puranic literature extol her as the epitome of purity, chastity, wifely devotion and conjugal bliss. Post-Puranic texts and poems in Sanskrit and Hindi describe her as "chaste and revered", inspiring, worthy of imitation and with a character that cannot be flawed. In Hinduism, one can find ...

========================================================================= ======================================================================== Monday, July 11, 2022. 11: 00. ===================================================================== 1, Introduction : Brahmarshi Vishvamitra  is one of the most venerated rishis or sages of ancient India. According to Hindu tradition, he is stated to have written most of the Mandala 3 of the Rigveda, including the Gayatri Mantra. The Puranas mention that only 24 rishis since antiquity have understood the whole meaning of —and thus wielded the whole power of — the Gayatri Mantra. Vishvamitra is supposed to have been the first, and Yajnavalkya the last. Before renouncing his kingdom and royal status, Brahmarishi Vishvamitra was a king, and thus he retained the title of Rajarshi, or 'royal sage'. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.Textual backg...

======================================================================== ========================================================================= Tuesday, June 07, 2022. 06:00. Agastya Maharishi : ======================================================================= 1. Introduction : Agastya  was a revered Iancient Rishi of Bharatham. In the Indian tradition, he is a noted recluse and an influential scholar in diverse languages of the Indian subcontinent. He and his wife Lopamudra are the celebrated authors of hymns 1.165 to 1.191 in the Sanskrit text Rigveda and other Vedic literature. Agastya is the father of siddha medicines. Agastya appears in numerous itihasas and Puranas including the major Ramayana and Mahabharata. He is one of the seven most revered rishis (the Saptarishi) in the Vedic texts, and is revered as one of the Tamil Siddhar in the Shaivism tradition, who invented an early grammar of the Old Tamil language, Agattiyam, playing a pioneering role in the developmen...