Dharma & Culture'The Authentic Introduction of Shri Sutaji' Author: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak 'Vedadyacharya' Chief Priest - Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Shilabujan, Ayodhya Guide: Sarveshreshwar Jayaditya panchang (traditional almanac), Jaipur The chief priest who had Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi perform the shilanyas (laying of the foundation stone) of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya.
23 October 2026 · 1 min read
Dharma & Culture'Introduction to Maharshi Valmiki' Author: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak 'Vedadyacharya' Principal: Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Shila Pujan, Ayodhya Guide: Shrisarveshwar Jayaditya Panchang (traditional almanac), Jaipur The chief priest who had Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi perform the groundbreaking ceremony (shilanyas) for the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya
23 October 2026 · 1 min read
Dharma & Culture'Gavarchanaprayogah' Author: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak 'Vedadyacharya' Chief Priest: Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Shilapujan, Ayodhya Advisor: Shrisarveshvara Jayaditya Panchang (traditional almanac), Jaipur The chief priest who had Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi perform the shilanyas (laying of the foundation stone) for the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya, Acharya Shri Ga
23 October 2026 · 2 min read
Dharma & Culture'Gavo Jaganmatarah' (Cows are the mothers of the universe) Author: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak 'Vedadyacharya', Principal - Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Shilab Pujan, Ayodhya. Guide: Sarveshvara Jayaditya Panchang (traditional almanac), Jaipur. The chief priest Acharya Shri Gan
23 October 2026 · 2 min read
Dharma & CultureShri Surabhi Stotravali
Author: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak ‘Vedadyacharya’
Chief Acharya — Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Shila Pujan, Ayodhya; Shri Vrindavan Dham
Guide: Shri Sarveshwar Jayaditya Panchang (traditional almanac), Jaipur
The chief priest officiating the foundation stone laying of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
23 October 2026 · 1 min read
Dharma & Culture'Shri Surabhi Yaga Paddhati'
Author: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak ‘Vedadyacharya’
Chief Acharya — Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Shila Pujan (foundation stone consecration), Ayodhya
Guide: Shri Sarveshwar Jayaditya Panchangam (traditional almanac), Jaipur
Chief Priest Acharya Sh... conducting the shilanyas (foundation stone laying) of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
23 October 2026 · 1 min read
Jyotish॥ नमः प्रकृत्यै ॥ (Salutations to Prakriti)
Author: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak ‘Vedadyacharya’
Mukhya Acharya — Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Shila Pujan, Ayodhya
Advisor: Shri Sarveshwar Jayaditya Panchang (traditional almanac), Jaipur
Chief priest Acharya Shri conducting the shilanyas (foundation stone-laying) of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir in Ayodhya with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi
23 October 2026 · 13 min read
JyotishAuthor: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak ‘Vedadyacharya’ (teacher of the foremost Vedas) (Chief Acharya [preceptor] of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Shila Pujan [consecration of the foundation stone], Ayodhya)
Chief Priest Acharya Shri Gangadhar Pathak conducting the Shilanyas (laying of the foundation stone) of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple in Ayodhya by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
साङ्गोपाङ्गाय वेदाय ज्योतिषां ज्योतिषे नमः । सूर्याय सूर्यसि...
(Salutations to the Veda with all its limbs and sub-limbs, and to the light of all lights [Jyotisha]. Salutations to the Sun, to the Surya...)
23 October 2026 · 6 min read
Dharma & CultureWhen Shri Ram, along with Sitaji and Lakshmanji, came to take permission to go to the forest from Dashrathji and Maharishi Vashistha, the cruel Kaikeyi immediately brought valkal vastra (garments made of bark) for all three of them. Shri Ram and Lakshmanji donned the cheera vastra (garments of torn cloth/bark), but when Sitaji began to wear those garments, all the women started weeping and [appealed] to Shri Ram
23 October 2026 · 2 min read
Dharma & CultureWhen Bhagwan Shri Ram was leaving for the forest, all the people of the city began to follow him. Among those people were three types of Brahmanas: some were elders by age (vayovridha), some were elders by knowledge (jnanavridha), and others were elders by austerity (tapovridha). Among the elders by age, some were so old that their heads shook upon their necks. Those Brahmanas were calling out from afar— O swift one!
23 October 2026 · 3 min read
Sanskrit & ShastraVery few people are aware that while Akbar had mandirs (temples) demolished in his kingdom, he did not permit the construction of mandirs. Even Sant Tulsidasji was not granted permission to build a Hanuman mandir. When Tulsidasji constructed a Hanuman mandir within the precincts of the palace in Varanasi, Akbar issued orders for its demolition as well—
23 October 2026 · 14 min read
Dharma & CultureBefore invading India, Babur had come to India in the guise of a Sufi (Islamic mystic) kalandar (wandering dervish). Disguised as a kalandar, he also met the Sultan of Delhi, Sikandar Lodi. He also went to Ayodhya, where two fakirs (ascetics) (Sufis) extracted a promise from him that if he demolished the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple and built a mosque there, he would receive the fakirs' bles...
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
Dharma & CultureWhat I am about to write today may cause distress to some. Yet, I write this after deep deliberation: the construction of the Shri Ram temple through a court verdict or with the consent of Muslims will prove suicidal for Hindutva. A Hindu society already slumbering in the stupor of secularism, if the temple is built with the consent of Muslims...
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
Sanskrit & ShastraBelgian scholar Koenraad Elst wrote a book in 1992 titled *Negationism in India: Concealing the Record of Islam*. Its expanded edition appeared in 2014 and was republished in 2016. This book is primarily Sita Ram Goel's book *Hindu Temples: What Happened To Them* in
23 October 2026 · 6 min read
Dharma & CultureNowadays, concerning certain chaupais (four-line verse form) of Goswami Tulsidas Ji in the *Ramcharitmanas*, there continues to be widespread turmoil and recrimination—from earth to sky, from India to foreign lands, and from the illiterate to eminent intellectuals. The sole reason for this is the failure to comprehend the Indian shastra (sacred treatise) methodology, treating it instead through a novelistic, narrative, or journalistic approach...
23 October 2026 · 8 min read
Sanskrit & ShastraShri Ram resides in the very veins of this nation. He is permeated in every single atom. Ram is in every heart. Ram dwells in every breath. Ram is in every pore of the land of Bharat. Ramlala (infant Ram) plays in the courtyard of every home even today. Where all will you cast a veil? How long will you defer the hearing? Ram manifested in Treta (the second cosmic age). Ram is manifesting even today...
23 October 2026 · 7 min read
Dharma & CultureWhen Shri Ram was instructing Bharat in statecraft at Chitrakoot, He asked him whether the purohits (family priests) and brahmins in his kingdom were living in peace and happiness. Filled with curiosity, Bharat asked, “Elder brother! I can understand why you asked about the brahmins, but why did you ask about the purohits?” To this, Shri Ram...
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
Dharma & CultureIn Bharatiya culture, many ideal couples exist, but the pair considered the most ideal among them is that of Raghunandan Shri Ram and Janaknandini Sita Ji. This is regarded as the most ideal couple because the degree of excellence found in the loving relationship of husband and wife in this pair...
23 October 2026 · 6 min read
Politics & HistoryNumerous tales of the satsang (encounter) between Kabir and Tulsidas abound in popular lore, whatever the leftist scribblers may say. For instance, everyone has heard the story where Kabir asks a bharbhuj (grain-parcher) woman roasting grain, ‘O wife of my father, give me parched grain,’ and she chases him brandishing a piece of firewood; on the other hand, Tulsidas says...
23 October 2026 · 4 min read
Sanskrit & ShastraIt is asserted by some that no matter how wicked a woman may be, she must be respected, even if she is a prostitute. To substantiate this, they even advance arguments drawn from Hindu texts. One argument is that Hanuman Ji honoured Surasa and Trijata, who were rakshasis (demonesses), by addressing them as 'Mother'; then Bollywood act...
23 October 2026 · 6 min read
Dharma & CultureNowadays, Ravana is being glorified among Hindus with great cunning, and the falsehood is being spread that Ravana never touched a woman, that if he harboured lust, he also possessed restraint, and so forth—so that Ravana may be proven a man of character, and people may be led away from Shri Ram and drawn closer to the rakshasa (demon) Ravana.
23 October 2026 · 3 min read
Dharma & CultureThe Public Message of Maharasaleela
Author: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak 'Vedadyacharya'
Principal Priest: Shriram Janmabhoomi Shilapujan, Ayodhya
Shri Vrindavan Dham
Acharya Shri Gangadhar Pathak, the chief priest who had Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi perform the groundbreaking ceremony (shilanyas) for the Shriram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya, [author of] *Brahmadijayasamrudhdarpaka*
18 October 2026 · 10 min read
Dharma & CultureWill just any random Tom, Dick and Harry be made the sarvasarva (supreme authority) of VHP? Or the general secretary of the Ram Janmabhoomi Trust? Know today who Champat Rai ji is... Shri Champat Rai, the secretary of the Janmabhoomi Trust. During the Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975, a young professo
18 October 2026 · 4 min read
Dharma & Culture'Shri Vedavyasa Pujapaddhati' Author: Pandit Gangadhar Pathak 'Vedadyacharya', Principal - Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Shila Pujan, Ayodhya, Shri Vrindavan Dham. Chief Priest Acharya Shri Gangadhar Pathak, who had Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi perform the shilanyas (laying of the foundation stone) for the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya, performing the Shri Vedavyasa Pujap
18 October 2026 · 2 min read