We all have seen priests, Brahmins, or boys wearing a white thread during the Upanayana ceremony in Hinduism, which is called ...

Why whisper a mantra that everyone already knows This is not a rhetorical question. It is a gateway into one of the most profound, misunderstood, and yet widely practised spiritual traditions of the ...

When Ananth Udupa was 7 and growing up in Phoenix, he underwent a Hindu rite of passage for boys of higher castes called an Upanayana. The ceremony, which goes back millennia, in some ways ...