Articles
Sevā Bhāva – An Attitude of Service
Pūjya Śrī Swami Dayananda Saraswati established AIM for Seva in 2000. The idea for starting this movement came from a conversation with an elderly woman in Anaikkati, a village in southern India. She appealed to Swamiji to help educate rural children as they did...
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Mahālakṣmī-aṣṭakam
Swamini Brahmaprakashananda
In the Mahālakṣmī- aṣṭakam, the Goddess Mahālakṣmī is visual- ized as the ādi-śakti or māyā-śakti, who is the cause of this universe. She...
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minutes
The Vedāntic Import of Śrī Lalitāsahasranāma
Swami Tattvavidananda Saraswati(Acknowledgement: Dr. Sri V. Swaminathan)
Śrī Lalitā-sahasra-nāma-stotram is recited by many people; not only in India, but everywhere in the world wherever there...
4
minutes
Tantroktaṁ Devī-sūktam
Prayer means recog- nizing the presence of Īśvara. The ability to pray comes from the basic person, the devotee, who has ei- ther belief...
11
minutes
Medhā Sūktam
Abridged from the book Vaidika Sukka Mañjarī by Swami Tattvavidananda
Overview of the sūktas
Sūkta means su ukta or suṣṭhu ukta, very well said. There is...
23
minutes
Saptaślokī Durgā
Seven Verses in Praise of DurgāSwami Viditatmananda SaraswatiSaptaślokī Durgā is a hymn of seven verses selected from the sacred text known as Durgā-saptaśatī or...
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Sarasvatī-vandanā
(Praise of Goddess Sarasvatī) Swami Dayananda Saraswati
yā kundendutuṣārahāradhavalā yā śubhravastrāvṛtāyā vīṇāvaradaṇḍamaṇḍitakarā yā śvetapadmāsanāyā brahmācyutaśaṅkaraprabhṛtibhirdevaiḥ sadā vanditāsā māṁ pātu sarasvatī bhagavatī niḥśeṣajāḍyāpahā - (Sarasvatī-stotram, vs.1)
She...
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