Category: Rites & Rituals

Article by Dr. Paresh Saxena What is ShrAddha? Ancestral worship (पितृ पूजा/pitR pUjA) in the Sanatana Vedic Dharma is often referred to as ShrAddha (श्राद्ध in Devanagari/ zrAddha in Harvard-Kyoto), translated in English as something ‘being truthfully done.’ The word…

Vedas have mantras, loosely translated as sacred utterances. The Vedic sages assigned the status of divinity to a sacred sound whom they called वाक् (vAk). They described the process of vocalization of sound as वैखरी (vaikharI); and the mental process…