MICHAEL FISCHMAN recounts the time he experienced a lightness of being and became Shankara on the auspicious night of Maha Shivaratri I began to fall in love with India and with the colourful rituals ...

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The Kancheepuram Sankara Math is renovating an old temple at Mahendra Mangalam near Tiruchi in south Tamil Nadu Situated on the banks of the Cauvery the temple with idols of presiding deity Chandramou ...

Trees bear fruit only to be eaten by others fields grow grains that are consumed by the world Cow gives milk but doesn39t drink it herself Clouds send rain only to quench the parched earth In such giv ...