Hinduism’s Contemporary Catechism
A richly illustrated sourcebook of Indian spirituality in question-and-answer form, exploring how to know the Divine, honor all creation and see God everywhere, in everyone. Read by Ansh Rajput
Author By Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Lessons
Who Am I? Where Did I Come From?
Where Am I Going? What Is My Path?
What Is Meant by ‘Dancing with Siva’?
How Can We Learn to Dance with Siva?
What is the Ultimate Goal of Earthly Life?
What Are Hinduism’s Principal Sects?
What Is the Deeply Mystical Saiva Sect?
What Is the Magic and Power of Saktism?
What Is the Devotional Vaishnava Sect?
What Is the Universalist Smarta Sect?
What Is the Nature of Saivite Theology?
How Do Saivites Regard Other Faiths?
How Does Saivism Stay Contemporary?
What Is the Nature of Life for Saivites?
What Is the Symbolism of Siva’s Dance?
What Is the Nature of Our God Siva?
What Is God Siva’s Unmanifest Reality?
What Is God Siva’s Pure Consciousness?
What Is the Nature of the Primal Soul?
What Are God Siva’s Traditional Forms?
Do Other Gods Exist Apart from Siva?
What Is the Nature of Lord Ganesha?
What Is Lord Ganesha’s Special Duty?
What Is the Nature of Lord Karttikeya?
What Does Lord Karttikeya’s Vel Signify?
What Is Our Individual Soul Nature?
How Is Our Soul Different from Siva?
How Is Our Soul Different from Siva?
How Is Our Soul Identical with Siva?
Why Are We Not Omniscient Like Siva?
How Do Hindus Understand Moksha?
How Do Hindus Understand Karma?
Is There Good Karma and Bad Karma?
What Is the Process of Reincarnation?
How Should We View Death and Dying?
How Does One Best Prepare for Death?
What Are the Four Stages on the Path?
What Is the Nature of the Charya Pada?
What Is the Nature of the Kriya Pada?
What Is the Nature of the Yoga Pada?
What Is the Nature of the Jnana Pada?
Where Did This Universe Come from?
What Is the Nature of the Physical Plane?
What Is the Nature of the Subtle Plane?
What Is the Nature of the Causal Plane?
Does the Universe Ever End? Is It Real?
Are Souls and World Essentially Good?
Why Do Some Souls Act in Evil Ways?
What Is the Source of Good and Evil?
How Can a Benevolent God Permit Evil?
Should One Avoid Worldly Involvement?
Why Is There Suffering in the World?
What Is Sin? How Can We Atone for It?
Does Hell Really Exist? Is There a Satan?
What Is the Consequence of Sinful Acts?
Does God Ever Punish Wrongdoers?
What Is Dharma? What Are Its Forms?
What Is Signified by Universal Dharma?
What Is the Nature of Social Dharma?
What Is the Nature of Human Dharma?
What Is the Nature of Personal Dharma?
What Is the Meaning of Good Conduct?
What Are Good Conduct’s Four Keys?
From Whom Is Good Conduct Learned?
What Are the Ten Classical Restraints?
What Are the Ten Classical Observances?
What Is the Great Virtue Called Ahimsa?
What Is the Inner Source of Noninjury?
What Is the Inner Source of Violence?
Is Vegetarianism Integral to Noninjury?
How Can Peace on Earth Be Achieved?
What Is the Central Purpose of Marriage?
What Are the Duties of the Husband?
What Are Special Duties of the Wife?
What Is the Hindu View of Sexuality?
What Is the Relation of Sex to Marriage?
What Is the Basis for a Happy Marriage?
Must We Marry Within Our Religion?
How Are Hindu Marriages Arranged?
What Is the Hindu Family Structure?
How Are Marital Problems Reconciled?
What Is the Fulfillment of a Marriage?
What Are the Main Duties of Parents?
How Strictly Must Children Be Guided?
Should All Youths Be Urged to Marry?
How Is Family Harmony Maintained?
How Do We Overcome Life’s Obstacles?
What Are the Hindu ‘s Daily Yoga Practices?
How Are Ayurveda and Jyotisha Used?
How Do Hindus Regard Art and Culture?
What Is the Hindu Outlook on Giving?
What Are Hinduism’s Rites of Passage?
What Are the Sacraments of Childhood?
What Are the Sacraments of Adulthood?
What Are the Sacraments of Adulthood?
What Are the Child-bearing Sacraments?
Are There Rites for the Wisdom Years?
What Are the Festival Days of Saivism?
What Are the Primary Festivals to Siva?
What Are the Major Ganesha Festivals?
What Are the Main Karttikeya Festivals?
What Are Other Important Festivals?
What Is the Nature of the Siva Temple?
How Are Temples Founded and Built?
When Should One Attend the Temple?
How Does One Attend a Siva Temple?
What Occurs Within the Siva Temple?
What Is the Inner Importance of Puja?
What Is the Special Rite Called Archana?
What Is the Nature of Image Worship?
Who Are the Priests of Siva Temples?
What Does the Pujari Do During Puja?
Is Temple Worship Only for Beginners?
How Do Devotees Prepare for Worship?
How Do Our Prayers Reach the Gods?
Do Saivites Worship Only in Temples?
What Is the Home Shrine’s Significance?
What Is the Hindu Monastic Tradition?
What Are the Goals of Renunciate Life?
What Is the Sannyasin’s Kundalini Path?
What Is the Sannyasin’s Initiation Rite?
What Are the Holy Orders of Sannyasa?
Who Are Hinduism’s Spiritual Leaders?
What Is a Saint, a Sage and a Satguru?
Are There Other Terms for Holy Ones?
What Is the Nature of Guru Protocol?
What Is the Satguru’s Special Function?
What Are Hindu Revealed Scriptures?
What Is the Nature of the Veda Texts?
How Are the Vedas Significant Today?
What Is the Nature of the Holy Agamas?
How Are the Agamas Significant Today?
Do Smriti and Sacred Literature Differ?
What Texts Amplify Vedas and Agamas?
Does Hinduism Have Epics and Myths?
Are there Other Types of Sacred Texts?
What Is the Source of This Catechism?
What Is the Holy Nama Sivaya Mantra?
How Is Nama Sivaya Properly Chanted?
Is Initiation Necessary to Perform Japa?
What Is Saivism’s Affirmation of Faith?
How Is the Affirmation of Faith Used?
What Are the Many Hindu Philosophies?
How Do Monism and Dualism Differ?
Are Monism and Dualism Reconcilable?
What Is the View of Monistic Theism?
Is Monistic Theism Found in the Vedas?
What Are Saiva Siddhanta’s Two Schools?
What Are the Two Views on Creation?
What Are the Views on God and Soul?
What Are the Differing Views on Evil?
What Are the Views on Mahapralaya?
What Is Hinduism’s Natha Sampradaya?
What Is the Lofty Kailasa Parampara?
Who Were the Early Kailasa Preceptors?
Who Were Kadaitswami and Chellappan?
Who Are the Most Recent Kailasa Gurus?