Seeing groups of kavadiyas out on the roads in Asadh brings back the tirtha yatra undertaken in the eight century by Padmapada, one of Adi Sankara’s four chief disciples. The story goes that Padmapada ...
Shravan, the rain month in July-August, partly overlaps with ‘Ramayana month’ in Kerala, when the epic is retold in homes and temples. This practice was apparently undertaken as a monsoon cure for ...
The Lord comes in person to grace the disciple when the penance and longing in him is complete. This is seen in the life of one of Adi Sankara’s disciple by name Sananda who later came to be known as ...
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