India
There are quite a few Hindus in Norway who will be celebrating Raksha bandhan or Rakhi (which is also a girl's name) today, but I'm guessing that very few of you know everything about why and how. PS: I sure didn't know everything until I started unraveling myself! Pictures are borrowed from the internet. There are many holidays in … Continue Raksha bandhan
There are several forms of meditation, one type that I grew up with is called mantra meditation in the West, i.e. you repeat the same text over and over again either a certain number of times or a certain number of minutes/hours. All mantras in Hinduism start with AUM, you may have heard that in yoga training? It is said to … Continue Mantra meditation