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List of 108 Upanishadas
From the Rigveda
001 Aitareya Upanishad
002 Aksha-Malika Upanishad - about rosary beads
003 Atma-Bodha Upanishad
004 Bahvricha Upanishad
005 Kaushitaki-Brahmana...
The saintly devotees of Shiva are known as Nayanmar (Nayanar). There are 63 of them. The activities of these devotees differ, but the one thing in common is their intense love for the Lord. They...
This wiki site Veda is dedicated to understanding Sanatana Dharma (eternal way of life), prominently known as Hinduism, the oldest living religion on earth. It covers information related to Hindu...
Many concepts about individuals, societies, religion, nation, social justice, rights, freedom, perception of good and evil, politics, ideologies, science, nature and the world can be traced back to...
Absolute: Lower case "absolute", real, not dependent on anything else, not relative. Upper case "Absolute", Ultimate Reality, the unmanifest, unchanging and transcendent Parabrahm — utterly...
The Hindus have begun to protest that Western scholars for "distorting their religion and perpetuate negative stereotypes". Historically, such stereotypes were promulgated during the British Raj by...
This book has been compiled from Swamiji’s inspiring early morning meditation talks given in the Samadhi Hall of Holy Master Swami Sivanandaji’s sacred Samadhi Shrine in Sivananda Ashram,...
acara (Sanskrit: ācāra, "by activities, behavior") — event; item in a programme.
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ācāra or achara (Sanskrit: "conduct, mode of action, behavior; good conduct") — also, custom, tradition; rule of conduct, precept.
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ācārya, acariya, or acharya (Sanskrit: आचार्य, "going toward; approaching") from a, "towards" + the verbal root car, "to proceed, practice, conduct oneself" and thus literally...
As the founder of " Vaisheshik Darshan "- one of six principal philosophies of India - Acharya Kanad was a genius in philosophy. He is believed to have been born in Prabhas Kshetra near Dwarika in...
FATHER OF YOGA
The Science of Yoga is one of several unique contributions of India to the world. It seeks to discover and realize the ultimate Reality through yogic practices. Acharya Patanjali,...
A genius who has been glowingly recognized in the annals of medical science. Born to sage Vishwamitra, Acharya Sudhrut details the first ever surgery procedures in "Sushrut Samhita," a unique...
The True History and the Religion of India is a concise encyclopedia of authentic Hinduism that reveals the true theme of our scriptures and describes the history of India and the religion of India...
adharma (Sanskrit: ) — the opposite of dharma that denotes unrighteousness; disorder; evil; immorality; impiety, non-performance of duty; what is not right or natural; or not in accordance to...
The Doctrine of Spiritual Competence
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adhikara (Sanskrit: ) literally means "authority and ownership." — being spiritually competent for spiritual study; the ability or authorization to do; rule; jurisdiction; privilege, ownership;...
adhyatma (Sanskrit: "Spiritual; Self") — the inner, spiritual Self or Spirit. See: atman.
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adhyatma prasara (Sanskrit: "evolution of the Self") — the Self's evolution is a progressive unfoldment, growth and maturing toward its inherent, divine destiny, which is complete merger with...
adhyatma vikasa (Sanskrit: "Spiritual unfoldment" — he blossoming of inner or higher (adhi), atma (the Self) qualities as a result of religious striving, sadhana. Vikasa means, "becoming visible,...
ādi or aadi (Sanskrit: आदि) — the original, the first, in the beginning; supreme, or primordial.
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Ādi Śaṅkara (Devanāgarī: आदि शङ्कर) also known as Śaṅkara Bhagavatpādācārya ("the teacher at the feet of God"), and Ādi Śaṅkarācārya ("the first Shankaracharya in...
advaita (Sanskrit: "non dual; not twofold") — non-duality or monism. The philosophical doctrine that Ultimate Reality consists of a one principal substance. Opposite of dvaita, "dualism". Advaita...
The prominent gurus of advaita, starts from Narayana through Sankara and his disciples, upto the Acaryas of today. It is typical of advaita that the first guru is called nArAyaNa (vishNu) in the...
Advaita Siddhanta (Sanskrit: "non-dual perfect conclusions") — Saivite philosophy codified in the agama which has at its core the advaita (non-dual) identity of God, soul and world. This...
Advaita Vedānta, (Sanskrit: अद्वैत वेदान्त) is the dominant sub-school of the Vedānta (literally, end or the goal of the Vedas). The other major sub-schools of Vedānta...
After many births the wise seek refuge in me, seeing me everywhere and in everything. Such great souls are very rare.
Bhagavad Gita 7:19
Agada tantra or Toxicology branch of ayurveda described about various methods of cleaning the poisons out of the body as well as recommends antidotes for particular poisons. It deals with a wide...
agama (Sanskrit: āgama, "doctrine, Vedic literatures") — religion.
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Agama (Sanskrit: आगम, "that which has come down") i.e., that which has been handed down to the people of the present from the past — are an enormous collection of Sanskrit scriptures which,...
agama karma (Sanskrit: "coming, arriving," and vartamana, "living, set in motion.") Is the actions that we are planning for the future. Actions that will or will not be achieved depending on the...
Agastya (Sanskrit) One of 18 celebrated Saiva siddhas (adepts), and accepted as the first grammarian of Tamil language. He is said to have migrated from North India to the South. His name appears...
agni (Sanskrit: "fire") — 1) One of the five elements, panchabhuta. 2) Agnideva, God of the element fire, invoked through Vedic ritual known as yagna, agnikaraka, homa and havana. The Agnideva is...
agnikaraka (Sanskrit: "fire ritual") — the Agamic term for yagna.
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Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.
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This small book of the Life Spiritual answers questions such as to what the real purpose of life is, what the meaning of true Yoga is, what the spirit of true renunciation is, and how to start with...
Aham Brahmasmi (Sanskrit: "I am Brahman") — is one of the great Vedic Dicta or Mahavakya. Famous phrase often repeated in the Upanishads. In this ecstatic statement of enlightenment, "I" does not...
ahańkāra or ahamkara (Sanskrit: अहंकार) from aham (ego, I) + kara (maker, doer) from the verbal root kri (to do) — is the sense of “I-am-ness” the individual Ego, which feels...
ahimsã (Sanskrit: अहिंसा, "non-harming") is derived from the root hims, "to strike". Himsã is injury or harm. A-himsã is the opposite of this, non harming. ahimsã means abstaining...
Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri)
Hinduism is the largest pluralistic religion in the world. It teaches that there are many paths, many sages, and many holy books and that no religion can claim...
Translated by Swami Gambhirananda
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Om ! May my speech be based on (i.e. accord with) the mind;
May my mind be based on speech.
O Self-effulgent One, reveal...
akasha or akash, aakaashá, ākāśa, (Sanskrit: आकाश) — meaning space or sky and is the basis and essence of all things in the material world; the smallest material element created from...
A king asked a sage to explain the Truth. In response the sage asked the king how he would convey the taste of a mango to someone who had never eaten anything sweet. No matter how hard the king...
"All About Hinduism" is intended to meet the needs of those who want to be introduced to the various facets of the crystal that is Hinduism.
read online: All About Hinduism
This universe comes forth from Brahman and will return to Brahman. Verily, all is Brahman.
A person is what his deep desire is. It is our deepest desire in this life that shapes the life to come....
All sorrow comes from fear. From nothing else. When you know this, You become free of it, And desire melts away. You become happy And still.
Ashtavakra Gita 11:5
alpa (Sanskrit: alpa, "for a slight reason; negligible") — negligent.
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The Azhwars came from diverse caste groups and lived between 5th and 9th Century in southern India. Being great devotees of Lord Vishnu, especially Ranghanatha, they composed beautiful devotional...
The man who is pure of heart Is bound to fulfil himself In whatever way he is taught. A worldly man seeks all his life, But is still bewildered. Detached from the senses, You are free. Attached,...
It is hard to find A man who has desire For what he has not tasted, Or who tastes the world And is untouched. Here in the world Some crave pleasure, Some seek freedom But it is hard to find A man...
Amber Palace built in 16th century by Maharaja Man Singh, it sprawls on the hillside. The Amber Fort, set among rugged hills, is a fascinating Hindu architecture. It was the ancient citadel of the...
The Amritabindu Upanishad
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1. The mind may be said to be of two kinds,
Pure and inpure; Driven by the senses
It becomes inpure; but with senses
Under control, the mind becomes pure.
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Anahata Chakra, Lit. “the centre (lotus) of unstruck sound”; — the fourth of the seven primary Chakras; it is associated with Vayu, the “air” element; physically related to the heart...
anandamaya kosha (bliss-apparent-sheath), literally the bliss sheath is associated with the karana-sharira or causal body. This is the stage in which atma (the Self) experiences the eternal bliss,...
The Aryan Invasion Theory
An Aryan invader from America
by V Sundaram, Tuesday, 07 July, 2009 , 03:18 PM
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Professor Dr.Michael Witzel, a racist scholar wedded to the cause of...
anātmā (Sanskrit: "non-Self, not the real Self") — different from the atman (Self).
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Ancient City Found, Irradiated from Atomic Blast
Source: World Island Review, January 1992
Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous. A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan,...
ANCIENT CITY FOUND, IRRADIATED FROM ATOMIC BLAST
Source: World Island Review, January 1992
Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous.
A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan,...
Radiation still so intense, the area is highly dangerous. A heavy layer of radioactive ash in Rajasthan, India, covers a three-square mile area, ten miles west of Jodhpur. Scientists are...
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Ancient cities in India does possess its share of similarities and dissimilarities with the present Indian city scenario, and the more one dives into its depth, the more enamoured one becomes. The...
The art of Navigation was born in the river Sindhu 6000 years ago. The very word Navigation is derived from the Sanskrit word 'Navgatih'. The word navy is also derived from Sanskrit 'Nou'.
Vimana
India, according to Dr.V. Raghavan, retired head of the Sanskrit department of India's prestigious University of Madras, was alone in playing host to extraterrestrials in...
The Indian heritage is respected and held in high esteem throughout the world. One of the major features of this rich heritage includes the ancient religious monuments. Especially, the Hindu...
aneka (Sanskrit: aneka, "many, various; in many ways") — multifarious; varied; all sorts of.
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anekaragam from Sanskrit root aneka (many) + rāgam (color) — variety show.
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anekawarna from Sanskrit root aneka (many) + varṇa (color) — multi-coloured.
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anggota (Sanskrit root ańga, "body" + jaḥ, "born" or ańga-jaḥ, "born from the body") — limb, member.
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angkara (Sanskrit aham, "I" + kara, "by His hand" or ahankara, "the mundane egotistic principle") — insolence, cruel.
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angkasa (Sanskrit: ākāśa, "the sky") — space (beyond earth's atmosphere).
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angkasawan (Sanskrit: ākāśa "the sky" + vān, "having, possessing") — astronaut.
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angsa (Sanskrit: haṃsa , "swan") — goose.
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aniaya (Sanskrit: anyāya, "sinful activities, grievous offense") — maltreatment; abuse; injustice; tyranny.
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A comprehensive study of the mechanics of yoga from its subjective, objective and transcendental aspects. A complete guidebook almost incomparable in its nature.
read online: An Introduction to the...
Part 1 of 2: A video by the Dharma Raksha Samiti, Bangalore, presented here with their permission, to broaden awareness of the problem of conversion of Hindus to Christianity by coercion and other...
annamaya kosha (food-apparent-sheath) is translated as food sheath, corresponds roughly to the sthula-sharira (coarse body, physical body). This is the sheath of the physical self, named from the...
antahkarana (Sanskrit: "inner conscience" or "the manifest mind") — the mental faculty of the sukshma-sharira (astral body), comprising intellect, instinct and ego. It consists of 1. manas (the...
Antarloka (Sanskrit, "Inner or in-between world."). The astral plane. See: loka.
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anugerah (Sanskrit: anugraha, "to bestow blessings; compassion") — award; honour; grace.
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Aranyakas (Aaranyakas). Religious or philosophical texts closely connected with the brahmins, either composed in the forest or studied there. They deal with inner significances and internal...
by Dr. David Frawley
American Institute of Vedic Studies
Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri), Director
Preface
Over the last few years , I have written a number of articles and essays on...
Your Journey with me into the world of lesser known facts
This booklet shows the agony of a scholar who wants to present the truth before the public about the mess created in case of Shri Raam...
Video on Life and Teachings of Swami Vivekananda
arishadvarga — the six passions of mind or enemies of desire, kama (lust), krodha (anger), lobha (greed), moha (delusion), mada (pride) and matsarya (jealousy), the negative characteristics which...
arishadvargas (six inner enemies - desire, anger, greed, infatuation, pride and jealousy) are responsible for one's misconduct and suffering. If one behaves in the same way as animals, in what way...
artha (Sanskrit: अर्थ, "worldly wealth; material facility; the pursuit of wealth and social status") — refers to the idea of material prosperity, not to be understood solely as material...
Artha Panchaka — The Five Requirements. There are the five categories of spiritual knowledge which one needs to study, reflect upon, realize and practice in order to progress spiritually. These...
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ā́rya (Sanskrit: "noble") — the root of the word means "noble." . The ancient name of India found in many Hindu scriptures is 'Aryavarat', meaning the abode of noble...
Āryabhaṭa or Aryabhatt (Devanāgarī: आर्यभट) (476 – 550 CE) is the first of the great mathematician-astronomers of the classical age of Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy....
Aryan Invasion: Fictitious Fabrication
Aryan Invasion Dupe
by Padman Govindarajan
In the history book currently in use in the Indian schools, the beginning of the Vedic civilisation coincides...
By Dr. N.S. Rajaram
There is a great deal of confusion over the origins of the Aryan invasion theory and even the word Arya. It explains also the use and misuse of the word.
Aryans: race or...
One of the most controversial ideas about Hindu history is the Aryan Invasion Theory. This theory, originally devised by F. Max Muller in 1848, traces the history of Hinduism to the invasion of...
The sage Patanjali states in the Yoga Sutra that an asana should be understood, practiced and experienced with firmness, steadiness and endurance in the body, goodwill in the head and awareness and...
Opposite of sat, non-being, impermanent, false, evil, unreal, sometimes used to refer to matter or to the body.
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Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will. Aspirants abstain from sense pleasures, but they still crave for them. These cravings all disappear when they see...
ashram (Sanskrit: , "a place that removes the fatigue of worldliness") — a place of retreat where seekers engage in spiritual practices and study the philosophy of yoga. An ashram is a sanctuary...
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Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga
Ashtanga yoga started around 5000 years BC, and was began by Patanjali Yoga Sutra. So what is ashtanga yoga? It is the eight limbs or eight fold path formulated by...
asmara (Sanskrit: smara, "of lust") — love.
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asrama (Sanskrit: āśrama, "hermitage") — hostel.
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atau (Sanskrit: athavā, "or; either") — or.
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atma-anubhavam — Self-Realization which is the result of the practice of abstract meditation on the Formless Absolute (Brahman). This spiritual practice which is taught in Advaita Vedanta and in...
atman (Sanskrit: आत्मन् — "the True Self") — one's True Self, "generally translated into English as Self", beyond identification with the phenomenal reality of worldly existence....
Atma Tattva — Principle of the Self; the truth or the essential nature of the Self.
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The Atma Upanishad
Translation I
Translated by Dr. A. G. Krishna Warrier
Published by The Theosophical Publishing House, Chennai
Om ! O Devas, may we hear with our ears what is auspicious;
May we...
California School Text Book Controversy
Attack on Hindu groups by Harvard Professor Witzel
by Dr. Seshachalam Dutta, July 23, 2009
Hindu parents in California found that the textbooks used in...
aum, also om (Devanagari: ॐ) is the most sacred syllable in Hindu Dharma, first coming to light in the Vedic Tradition. The character is a composite of three different letters of the Sanskrit...
Aurangzeb's Letter: Aurangzeb writing to his father Shahjahan within years of completion as to extensive repairs required to the Taj.
If Mumtaz is taken to have died around 1631 as is...
Autobiography of a Yogi is at once a delightful account of an exceptional life and a profound introduction to the ancient science of Yoga and its tradition of meditation. Clearly explaining the...
avasthas. The most comprehensive study of the Science of Consciousness. It expounds the various levels of consciousness, states of consciousness, the nature of consciousness at each level, the...
avatara (Sanskrit: avataranam means "the decent of Supreme Being on earth for the ascent of man"), means ‘descent’, and usually implies a deliberate descent of the Divine into the mortal realms...
avidya (Sanskrit) Spiritual "ignorance." Wrongful understanding of the nature of reality. Mistaking the impermanent for the everlasting. The state of ignorance which needs to be dispelled at the...
Those who dwell on and long for sense-pleasure Are born in a world of separateness. But let them realize they are the Self And all separateness will fall away.
Mundaka Upanishad
Ayodhyā (Hindi: अयोध्या) is an ancient city of India, the old capital of Awadh, in the current Faizabad district of Uttar Pradesh. Ayodhya is the birth place of Hindu God Shri Ram,...
Events as they happened on 6th December 1992. Never seen before footages.
History of the Ram Janmabhoomi Movement.
Ayurveda is a Sanskrit term, made up of the words "ayus" and "veda." "Ayus" means life and "Veda" means knowledge or science. The term "ayurveda" thus means 'the knowledge of life' or 'the science...
baca (Sanskrit: vācā, "words; with a voice") — read.
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Documentary evidence from Mogul records showing clearly how the Taj was acquired from Raja Mansingh
The Badshahnama, written by the emperor's own paid chronicler, Mullah Abdul Hamid...
bahagia (Sanskrit: bhāgya, "of the good fortune;") — blissful; lucky; blessed.
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bahasa (Sanskrit: bhāṣā, "language") — language.
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bahaya (Sanskrit: bhaya, "fear, danger") — danger.
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These are the basic tenets or the pillars upon which the entire superstructure of what is called Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma) is built — like a huge multi-storied skyscraper.
Dharma
Is the...
I pervade the entire universe in my unmanifested form. All creatures find their existence in me, but I am not limited by them. Behold my divine mystery! These creatures do not really dwell in me,...
Behold the man who shields his family from all suffering.
Has not his body become a willing vessel for affliction.
Without good men to hold it up, the family house will fall when misfortune...
The Srimad Bhagavad Gītā (Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, "Song of God") is a Sanskrit text from the chapter Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata epic, comprising 700 verses. The Bhagavad Gita...
by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The Bhagavad-gita is universally renowned as the jewel of India's spiritual wisdom. Spoken by Lord Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead to His intimate...
by Shri Swami Sivananda
Publication: Divine Life Society
Lord Krishna's Immortal Song. Sanskrit transliteration and English translation of the Song. Each chapter is preceded by a short...
by Shri Swami Sivananda
Publication: Divine Life Society
An abridged edition of the Gita which contains its quintessence for the use of students, doctors, advocates and busy people.
read online:...
The Mahabharata has all the essential ingredients necessary to evolve and protect humanity and that within it the Bhagavad-Gita is the epitome of the Mahabharata just as ghee is the essence of milk...
bhagavān, bhagwan or bhagawan (Sanskrit: "possessing fortune, blessed, prosperous;") from the noun bhaga, "fortune, wealth" — indicate the Supreme Being or Absolute Truth, but with specific...
bhagavat anubhavam — God-Realisation which is the development of knowledge of, experience of, surrender to, and consequent service to the Supreme Being. It is a development of pure love and...
Bhāgavata Purana or also known as Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, or simply Bhāgavatam (Sanskrit: "Ancient Book of the Lord") — is the most celebrated text of a variety of Hindu sacred literature in...
The Story of God and His Devotees
The Bhagavatha is a dialogue between a person under the sentence of death and a great saint, who prepared him to meet it. We are all under a sentence of death; our...
Devotional singing, called bhajan or kirtan, is an important part of worship in many denominations.
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bhajana (Sanskrit) Spiritual song. Individual or group singing of devotional songs, hymns and chants. See: kirtana.
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bhakta (Sanskrit: "devotee;") — a disciple practicing bhakti yoga, Devotee of God.
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bhakti (Sanskrit: भक्ति, "devotion"), devotional Love of God; single-minded devotion to one's Iswara, or personal deity. Noted to be of nine types: (1) Shravanam - Listening to spiritual...
Bhakti Yoga or Bhakti Marga (Devanāgarī: भक्ति योग) — denotes the spiritual practice of fostering bhakti (loving devotion) to a personal form of God that involves devotion,...
bhārata (Sanskrit: भारत ) : Ancient name of India.
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Bharatanatyam is amongst the oldest of the classical dance forms of India, with a history that goes back more than two thousand years. Integrating elements of music, theater, poetry, sculpture, and...
Bhāratavarṣa or Bharatavarsham (Sanskrit: "Indian subcontinent") — a peninsular landmass of the Asian continent occupying the Indian Plate and extending into the Indian Ocean, bordered on the...
(Sanskrit: भाषा ) : Language
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Bhaskara II or Bhaskaracharya was an Indian mathematician and astronomer who extended Brahmagupta's work on number systems.
Born in the obscure village of Vijjadit (Jalgaon) in Maharastra,...
Bhaumika Manvantara or Bhaumika Pralaya (Sanskrit: ";") from bhumi (earth, land) from the verbal root bhu (to become, grow) — the terrestrial manvantara, or manvantara of earth. The terrestrial...
Bhuloka (Sanskrit: "Earth world.") The physical plane. See: loka.
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(Sanskrit: भूमि ) : Earth
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This branch of ayurveda specifically deals with the diseases of mind or psychic conditions, which can be caused by super natural forces. Different experts have explained the word bhuta differently....
Bhuvarloka (Sanskrit, "Plane of atmosphere.") The second of the seven upper worlds, realm of svadhishtana chakra, consisting of the two astral regions closest to the physical plane: pitriloka,...
by Abhijit Bagal
The purpose of this essay is to highlight the growing dissatisfaction on the part of the Indian American Hindu Diaspora with the way Hinduism, Hindus, and India have been depicted...
Birth ceases when all attachments are severed;
Otherwise, one beholds unceasingly the transitoriness of life.
Attach yourself to Him who is free from all attachments.
Bind yourself to that bond in...
Do you know that India is the birthplace of many great intellectual inventions including the number system, algebra, trigonometry, calculus?
The Invention of the Fundamentals of Maths
The Numbers 1...
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Paramahansa Yogananda came to the West to bring the science of Kriya Yoga and a new interpretation of the great scriptures of East and West. However, his mission was not only for those disciples...
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The seven great sages and the four ancient ancestors were born from my mind and received my power. From them came all the creatures of the world. Whoever understands my power and the mystery of my...
Borobudur
Borobudur is a ninth century Buddhist Mahayana monument in Central Java, Indonesia. The monument comprises six square platforms topped by three circular platforms, and is...
Brahma is the God of Creation and He is attributed to the creation of the brahmãnd (entire universe) and the life forms within it. Brahma is the first member of the Trimurthi, Vishnu being the...
Brahmagupta was the foremost Indian mathematician of his time. He made advances in astronomy and most importantly in number systems including algorithms for square roots and the solution of...
See satyaloka.
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In the Brahma Sampradaya, which is the 'sampradaya' of Sri Sripad Madhwacarya, up until Madhwa, I have included in the flow of devotees the lineage accepted by the general Brahma Sampradaya, but...
Brahman (Sanskrit: ब्रह्म, "the Supreme Being; the Absolute Reality; Godhead"), from the verb brh, "to grow", and connotes "immensity" — is the impersonal and immanent, infinite cause...
brahmana — a member of the traditional priestly class. The brahmana was the first of the four varnas in the social system called varnasrama dharma. Literally the word means “in relation to...
Brahman creates the game of life by breaking Himself into parts that undergo transformation and extinction. Yet while he takes on all the roles required by the game, He also always remains free of...
An adept, a special teacher and a preserver of yoga who has perfect control over senses and mind and is devoid of aharnkara (ego); one who has attained a far higher level that a...
The Brahma Sutra defines the thread of Life Force (Prana) by which all of the universal objects are bound together. The Brahma sūtras, also known as Vedānta Sūtras, constitute the Nyāya...
Brahmavidya or Paravidya (metaphysics metaknowledge or higher knowledge) is the vehicle for attaining Moksha in the path known as Jnana Yoga and Yoga sastra (the means to attain the same) is the...
buddhi (Sanskrit: "intellect; the faculty of discrimination") from the root budh (to be awake; to understand; to know) — the determinative faculty of the mind that makes decisions; sometimes...
March 2009 update: New excavations by the Centre for Global Archaeology Research at Universiti Sains Malaysia have unearthed evidence for an iron-smelting facility in the Bujang Valley, dating to...
bumi (Sanskrit: bhūmi "earth, land") — earth; land.
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bumiputera (Sanskrit: bhūmi "earth" + putra, "son") — son of the soil, native.
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Part 1 of 2: Hinduism Today created a presentation explaining the controversy of the presentation of Hinduism in California sixth-grade textbooks and the foiled editing process that took place in...
Candi Prambanan is the grandest temple in Java apart from Borobudur. Located on the Prambanan plain, this sprawling temple complex sits majestically in an open area about twenty kilometers south of...
That which cannot be seen by the eyes, but by which the eyes see—know that to be Brahman.
Kena Upanishad
chakra (Sanskrit: “wheel”;) — the psycho-energetic centers of the subtle body known as the pranamaya kosha; in yoga there are considered to be twelve major chakras, six higher, and six lower....
Chakras are energy centres which govern the subtle, psychosomatic aspects of our inner being. This Sanskrit term means wheel or disk, and when the chakras are awakened, they turn in a clockwise...
Humans have fourteen great nerve centers in the physical body, in the astral body and in the body of the soul. These centers are called chakras in Sanskrit, which means "wheel." These spinning...
Çhandas Vedanga (Sanskrit: "meter") — auxiliary Vedic texts on the metrical rules of poetic writing. Çhanda is among four linguistic skills taught for mastery of the Vedas and the rites of...
The west is fond of proclaiming Hippocrates (460 – 377 BC) as the father of medicine, but way before him in 500 BC Maharishi Charaka wrote the famous Charaka Samhita or Physicians’ Handbook....
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chatuh sashti kala or 64 kala (Sanskrit: "sixty-four arts.") — a classical curriculum of sacred sciences, studies, arts and skills of cultured living listed in various Hindu...
chitta (Sanskrit: "memory"; derived from the root chit, "to be conscious"). Chitta is the Subconscious mind. It is the mind-stuff. It is the store-house of memory. Samskaras or impressions of...
The British rule in India crystallised two residues — Christianism and Macaulayism.
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The Eight Fundamentals of Christianism in India
The Weakening of Malicious and...
Face behind the Mask
The book Christianity in a different Light is the need of the hour to remove cultivated ignorance of the Hindus, especially the English speaking elite. It helps in seeing the...
Cultural Genocide of Hindus by Christian missionaries in India
by B R Haran
Source: Conversion as motive, 28 Aug 2009, VijayVaani Publishers.
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Planting a Church near an ancient Temple and focus on Brahmins
Saffron attired...
cita-cita (Sanskrit: citta, "within the mind; of the heart;") — ambition.
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citarasa (Sanskrit: citta, "within the mind; of the heart;" + rasa, "taste") — taste; flavour.
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Historical Background
Conquest by Education
The Destruction of the Indian System of Education
The Downward Filtration Method
British Distortion of Bharatvarsh...
Sanatana Dharma (Hinduism) in its primal form is to be found in the Isha, Kena, Katha, Prashna, Mundaka, Mandukya, Taittiriya, Aitaryeya, Chandogya, Brihadaranyaka, and Svetashvatara Upanishads....
Atma Jyoti Ashram Publication
by Swami Nirmalananda Giri
read online: Commentary on the Isha Upanishad -- by Swami Nirmalananda Giri
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Atma Jyoti Ashram Publication
by Swami Nirmalananda Giri
Read Online: Commentary on the Upanishads, by Swami Nirmalananda Giri
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Being an ancient religion, Hinduism now is plagued with many wrong and false ideas about it. These probably arose over time because people did not always adhere to the proper sources of...
One who has attained complete discrimination between the subtlest level of mind and the Self has no higher knowledge to acquire.
This is dharma megha samadhi—the state of the Unclouded...
The Bhagavad-Gita is the most systematic statement of spiritual evolution of endowing value to mankind. It is one of the most clear and comprehensive summaries of perennial philosophy ever...
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Dharma and Religion
Our failure to be conscious of this difference has resulted in the creation of several crucial problems that we, as humans, have faced in this century and continue to face...
Stories, Sayings, and Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda
by Swami Kriyananda
Publication: Crystal Clarity Publishers, ISBN:1-56589-202-X
This is an unparalleled firsthand account of Paramhansa...
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India is renowned for its rich Cultural Heritage. Various Artforms like Music, Dance, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture & other Allied Arts have thrived in this country for Centuries now &...
The mention of the word dance conjures up images of Nataraja (Lord of dance) as the Indian God Shiva is portrayed. Apart from Shiva even Ganesha and Srikrishna are associated with dance and music....
Book One of The Master Course Trilogy. A richly illustrated sourcebook of Indian spirituality in question-and-answer form, exploring how to know the Divine, honor all creation and see God...
darśanas or darshanas (Sanskrit: "views") from the term darshan, "sight" — is divided into six āstika ("orthodox") schools of thought in Hindu philosophy which based the Vedas such as Mimamsa,...
darshan, darśan or darśana (Sanskrit: दर्शन, "a sight of; in the sense of an instance of seeing or beholding") from a root dṛś, "to see" — vision, apparition, or glimpse — is...
According to the theory of evolution, life began with the first cell, which itself emerged by chance or by some hypothetical natural laws of "self-organization." Again as a result of chance and...
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Sriman Narayana out of compassion and to save HIS bhakthas from asuras or demons have incarnated in this material world time and again.HIS avathara leelas are plenty and beyond our...
daya (Sanskrit: "compassion") — is not mere display of kindness or sympathy to someone in distress. It calls for complete identification with the suffering experienced by another and relieving...
by Kapil Kapoor
Keynote address delivered on February 18, 2001 at the National Seminar on Decolonizing English Education,
Department of English, North Gujarat University, Patan (Gujarat,...
Brahma
Brahma is the creative aspect of the Trinity, the first god to have been separated from Iswara. Know more about Brahma, his significance in Hindu pantheon and his numerous...
Aryan Invasion Theory
Demise of Aryan Invasion Theory
by Dr. Seshachalam Dutta, July 23, 2009
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What, really, is the Aryan Invasion Theory?
Major Flaws in the Aryan...
deva (Sanskrit: "Lord; God") derived from the root div, "to shine or become bright". A deva is therefore a “shining one.” The word is used to refer to God, or any exalted personality. The...
Devaloka (Sanskrit: "Plane of radiant beings.") — a synonym of maharloka, the higher astral plane, realm of anahata chakra. See: loka.
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Devatas (Devanagari: देवता) are a kind of smaller more focused Devas, the equivalent of guardian spirits or guardian angels. They are generally thought of as female. There are many kinds...
devî (Sanskrit: "Goddess"). The word is used to refer to Goddess or any exalted personality. The male version is deva.
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dewa (Sanskrit: deva , "God") — God.
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dewi (Sanskrit: devi, "Goddess") — female Deity or Goddess.
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Dhama — Self-control; restraining the sense organs which run after sense objects seeking pleasure. This is an important discipline for an aspirant practising yoga.
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dharana (Sanskrit: "immovable concentration of the mind; that which gives stability") from the root Dhar, which means to “bind together”, “to make stable” — the willful act of...
Dharma (Sanskrit: "way of righteousness." From dhri, "to sustain; carry, hold.") refers to the underlying order in nature and human life and behavior considered to be in accord with that order. The...
There is a fundamental difference between Religion and Dharma. Our failure to be conscious of this difference has resulted in the creation of several crucial problems that we, as humans, have faced...
What we see today is, the concept of secularism in interpreted differently by different groups to serve their own purpose. What is more tragic is, many ideological groups are using it as a tool to...
dharmarajya, rajdharma or also called Rama Rajya is the Ideal State or Nation based on the principles of dhrama — the State constituted according to the principles of Indian polity, where the...
Dharma Shastra or Dharmaśāstra (Sanskrit: धर्मशास्त्र, "Religious law book.") — a term referring to all or any of numerous codes of Hindu civil and social law composed by...
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Stream of Righteousness
This little book contains the articles written by Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba in the series "Dharma Vahini" for the "Sanathana Sarathi," the monthly journal published from...
Dharmo Rakshathi Rakshithah" - Dharma, the spirit, protects those who practices righteousness. Dharma (Righteousness) means certain obligations and duties, and regulations over actions, words and...
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Dholavira - A Futuristic Metropolis of the past
A film on Dholavira, Gujarat which bags the Best National Film Award for Creative Contributions in Marketing Tourism Products.
Dhyana, the seventh limb of Ashtanga Yoga, means worship, or profound and abstract religious meditation. It is perfect contemplation. It involves concentration upon a point of focus with the...
Practice of Meditation
This book is the translation into English of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba's Invaluable Advice to all Sadhakas, which was first published in the "Sanathana Sarathi" as a...
What is the innate characteristic of a human being? According to Shiva Purana, human beings seek and yearn for happiness placed beyond that originated in the satisfaction of the senses. The...
The wise who knows the Self as bodiless within the bodies, as unchanging among changing things, as great and omnipresent, does never grieve. That self cannot be gained by the Veda, nor by...
This is one of the oldest Hindu festivals occurring in the month of Kartik, which commemorates the return of Rama to Ayodhya after an exile of 14 years. It also marks the beginning of the New Year...
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From the invention of the decimal system in mathematics to the noble philosophy of ahimsã, Hindus have contributed their share in all fields of knowledge and learning. Over...
From the invention of the decimal system in mathematics to the noble philosophy of ahimsã, Hindus have contributed their share in all fields of knowledge and learning. Over five thousand years...
From the invention of the decimal system in mathematics to the noble philosophy of ahimsã, Hindus have contributed their share in all fields of knowledge and learning. Over five thousand years...
The origin of the Indian theatre or rather folk theatre and dramatics can be traced to religious ritualism of the Vedic Aryans. This folk theatre of the misty past was mixed with dance, ritualism,...
As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all...
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duḥkha or dukkha (Sanskrit: दुःख; literally means "bad-space"; "suffering"). A “bad” space is a closed and confined space which does not permit growth, learning, expansion of being...
dukacita (Sanskrit: duhkha "in distress; of unhappiness;" + citta, "within the mind; of consciousness") — feeling sorry; sad.
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dvaita (Sanskrit: द्बैत, Kannada: ದ್ವೈತ) also known as Tattvavada and Bheda-vada — a school of Vedanta (the most widespread Hindu philosophy) founded by Madhvacharya, stresses...
dwapara yuga or dvapara yuga (Sanskrit: द्वापर युग, ";") — is the third out of four yugas, or ages. This yuga comes after treta-yuga and is followed by kali-yuga. The living and...
Dwaraka or Dvārakā (Sanskrit: "a gate or a gateway"; also known as Dvāravatī, "the many-gated city") is the capital of the Yadavas who ruled the Anarta Kingdom. The city was situated on the...
dwi- (Sanskrit: dvi-, "two") — two.
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dwibahasa (Sanskrit: bhāṣā, "language" + dvi, "two") — bilingual.
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Sushruta is regarded as the father of surgery and the earliest known work relating to human surgery is Shushruta Samhitã. Sushruta as early as 600 BC used cheek skin to perform plastic surgery to...
These Easy Steps to Yoga are laid out with a special view to enable the novice to ascend without much difficulty the heights of spiritual attainment.
by Shri Swami Sivananda
Publication: Divine...
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by Michel Danino
This paper was presented at a seminar on “Decolonization and its Cultural Problems” organized by N. V. Krishna Warrior Smaraka Trust at Tripunithura (Kerala) on 9-10 October...
Hindu Vaishnavas observe Ekadashi (alternatively called 'Gyaars') by fasting on that day.
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“Eka” means one and “dasha” means ten, therefore, eka + dasha= eleven. Eleven refers to...
Root of English words from Sanskrit illustrated using root-words and words in their purer forms. There will be no need to demonstrate every inflected form of a word.
Note: In Sanskrit and classical...
This book was chosen for being sent to every new member of the Divine Life Society on enrolment. It is, as it were, the 'Beginner's Guide to Divine Life'.
by Shri Swami Sivananda
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This is a film about the ethnic cleansing of Hindu Pandits from the Kashmir Valley by Muslims. Since the onset of the Islamic separatist movement in 1990, 500,000 families have been internally...
On this ever-revolving wheel of being, the individual self goes round and round, through life after life, believing itself to be a separate creature, until it sees its identity with the Lord of...
He who shirks action does not attain freedom; no one can gain perfection by abstaining from work. Indeed, there is no one who rests for even an instant; every creature is driven to action by his...
Michael Cremo 2009 Coast TO Coast AM
Author and researcher Michael Cremo talked about the evidence contradicting the Darwinian theory of human evolution, footprints that date back millions of...
Were all other monuments swept away from the face of Hindustan, were all its inhabitants destroyed, and its name forgotten, the existence of the Sanskrit language would prove that it once contained...
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What is Hinduism?
Who is a Hindu?
What Is Sanatana Dharma ?
What is the meaning of the word "Hindu" ?
Who is the founder of Hindu dharma or Hinduism ?
What are the...
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Maha Shivaratri (Shiva Ratri)
Celebrated on the new moon night in the month of Phalguna, this Hindu festival is dedicated to Lord Shiva.
Rama Navami
This nine-day Hindu festival, celebrated in...
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Four-fold Menace - A Nexus of Enveloping Evil
In an era of 'Publishing abundance' unfortunately ushered in by our perverted democracy and technological explosion, looking for needles in...
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Ganesh Chaturthi is the festival day when Ganesha, the son of Shiva and Parvati, first appeared for all his devotees. The day is also known as Vinayaka Chaturthi and it is observed in the month of...
Ganita (Sanskrit: for mathematics; is derived from the root ‘gana’, which means to count or to enumerate.)
Mathematics in Ancient India
Mathematics in India has been cultivated in connection...
garbhadhana or "samskaras of birth" (Sanskrit: "Womb-placing.") from the rite of conception to the blessings of the new-born child. Rite of conception, where physical union is consecrated with the...
The Gâyatrî Mantra is the most revered mantra in Hinduism. It consists of the prefix om bhur bhuvah svah, a formula frequently appearing in the Yajurveda, and the verse 3.62.10 of the Rig Veda....
Why Bhagawaan Shri Krishn delivered the message of BhagavadGita at the Battlefield of KuruKshetr?
This work is based on religious text of ShrimadBhagavadGita. And yet, you may find Shri Maanoj...
This text of the Gita is arranged according to the meter of the original Sanskrit text so it can be sung–as it is done every morning in our ashram and in most of the ashrams of India.
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Sivananda’s translation is very evidently based on the Swarupananda translation, as in so many instances the wording is identical. (Actually, our version of the Gita arranged for singing is also...
The divine Gospel
This precious book is not a commentary or summary of the Geetha that was taught on the field of Kurukshetra. We need not learn any new language or read any old text to imbibe the...
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Know God and all fetters will fall away. No longer identifying yourself With the body, go beyond birth and death. All your desires will be fulfilled in him Who is One without a second. Know him to...
There are three kinds of devotees: superior, mediocre, and inferior. The inferior devotee says, ‘God is out there.’ According to him God is different from His creation. The mediocre devotee...
If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. When the divine vision is...
God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’ God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am...
Gosvāmī Tulsīdās (1532-1623; Devanāgarī: तुलसीदास, may be written as Tulasī Dāsa depending on if the name is transcribed to indicate Sanskrit pronunciation instead of Hindi)...
Goswami Tulsidas (1532 1623) was born to Hulsi and Atmaram Shukla Dube in Rajpur, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1532. He was a Sarayuparina Brahmin by birth and an incarnation of Sage Valmiki, the...
A term applied to a clan, a group of families, or a lineage - exogamous and patrilineal - whose members trace their descent to a common ancestor.
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ARYABHATT (476 CE)
MASTER ASTRONOMER AND MATHEMATICIAN
Born in 476 CE in Kusumpur (Bihar), Aryabhatt's intellectual brilliance remapped the boundaries of mathematics and astronomy. In 499 CE, at...
Grihya Shastras or Grihya Sutras (Sanskrit: "Household maxims or codes") — an important division of classical smriti literature, designating rules and customs for domestic life, including rites...
guna (Sanskrit: "cord; quality; positive attributes; virtues, or characteristic;") — is translated as phase or mode and of three kinds: sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna. The qualities of...
guru (Sanskrit: गुरु) from gu (darkness), and ru (light) — is a person who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom and authority in a certain area, and uses it to guide others....
A two-part video about the guru lineage of Kauai's Hindu Monastery, called the Kailasa Parampara of the Nandinatha Sampradaya. Introduces the lineage's founder, Maharishi Nandinatha, his disciple,...
Gurur Brahmaa Gurur Vishnu
Gurur Devo Maheshwarah
Guru Saakshaata Parabrahma
Tasmai Shri Guruve Namah
Meaning of the Mantra
The Guru is Brahma (The God of Creation)
The Guru is Vishnu (The God of...
guru parampara (Sanskrit: from guru teacher + parampara a row or uninterrupted series or succession) or "from one teacher to another") means a line of spiritual gurus in authentic succession of...
The day, also known as Vyasa Purnima is observed by devotees who offer pujas (worship) to their beloved Gurus. . The festival is usually celebrated as an occasion for initiation of new disciples by...
It is celebrated largely in North India to commemorate the birth of the monkey god, Hanuman, during Chaitra. It marks a symbolic acceptance of the human race's peaceful co-existence with nature and...
The Harivaṃśa (Sanskrit: हरिवंश "the lineage of Hari, or Vishnu") is an important work of Sanskrit literature, containing 16,375 verses. Generally regarded as a part of the...
Hatha Yoga, the discipline of the force exercised by asanas, the physiological activity and pranayama, the breath control.
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Michael Cremo in Coast TO Coast AM
Author and researcher Michael Cremo returned to discuss 'forbidden archeology,' ancient Sanskrit knowledge, and cosmic hierarchy. He shared evidence that humans...
Author and researcher Michael Cremo discussed the evidence for "extreme human antiquity." Texts in ancient Sanskrit described previous civilizations that had high technology and he said he's found...
The Arabs borrowed so much from India in the field of mathematics that even the subject of mathematics in Arabic came to known as Hindsa which means 'from India' and a mathematician or engineer in...
A Hindu is an adherent of Sanatana Dharma which is known today as Hinduism or Hindu Dharma, that represents a set of religious, spiritual, philosophical, scientific and cultural systems that...
The Hindu calendar is based on lunar months corresponding to the phases of the moon. In one year there are twelve months of 29.5 days, accounting for a total of 354 days.The shortfall means that...
Hindu Cosmology upholds the idea that creation is timeless, having no beginning in time. Each creation is preceded by dissolution and each dissolution is followed by creation. The whole cosmos...
Hinduism or Hindū Dharma (Sanskrit: हिन्दू धर्म, is often referred by its practitioners as Sanātana Dharma, सनातन धर्म; Vaidika Dharma, वैदिक...
The need for a new Indic School of Thought
By David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri)
Publication: American Institute of Vedic Studies
In Hinduism and the Clash of Civilizations, Vamadeva calls for the...
Hinduism (Sanskrit: Hindū Dharma — हिन्दू धर्म, also known as Sanātana Dharma, सनातन धर्म and Vaidika Dharma, वैदिक धर्म) is a religion...
Hinduism has proven much more open than any other religion to new ideas, scientific thought, and social experimentation. Many concepts like reincarnation, meditation, yoga and others have found...
by Gurudeva, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Kadavul Hindu Temple in Hawaii
October 15, 1979
The following is a spiritual discourse given by Gurudeva, Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, at the Kadavul Hindu Temple...
'Hindu Kush' means Hindu slaughter. The Indian name for Hindu Kush mountain range was 'Paariyaatra Parvat'. Until 1000 A.D. the area of Hindu Kush was a full part of Hindu cradle. The name...
By Shree Vinekar
This article was inspired by the dialogue between two great minds of the 20th century. Albert Einstein approached Sigmund Freud to provide a psychoanalytic model for understanding...
The United Front of Hostile Forces
by Sita Ram Goel
Publication: Voice of India, New Delhi
Hindu society is the only significant society in the world today which presents a continuity of cultural...
Volume 1 — A Preliminary Survey
by Arun Shourie, Harsh Narain, Jay Dubashi, Ram Swarup, Sita Ram Goel
Publication: Voice of India, New Delhi
The movement for the restoration of the...
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The History of Bharat (Indian Subcontinent) can be traced in fragments as far back as 700,000 years ago. The Indus Valley civilization, one of the oldest in the world, dates back at least 10,000...
Hindutva (Devanagari: हिन्दुत्व, "Hinduness"), is derived from the two terms 'Hindū + tattva", which literally mean "of Hindu Principles" or "Hinduness". Hindutva denotes to the...
HinduWisdom.info
Are you interested in Hinduism? Do you want to get more information about it? This is the website you need. On Hinduwisdom.info you will be able to find out more the history, the...
Hiranyagarbha Yoga, the discipline of Hiranyagarbha or the Golden Germ, who is considered the original founder of the Yoga tradition.
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by N.S. RAJARAM
Indology grew out of attempts to interpret Indian sources from European perspective. Its legacy is archaeology without literature for the Harappans and a literature without...
History of Bharat
India's history essentially includes all of the Indian subcontinent, including the more recent nations of Pakistan founded in 1947 after the partition of India, and Bangladesh...
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Genealogical list of Kings from 3067 BC to 86 BC
Hastinapura dynasty
Kosala dynasty
Brahadrada dynasty
Pradyota dynasty
Sisunaga dynasty
Nanda dynasty
Brahadrada...
British Education in India
As has been noted by numerous scholars of British rule in India, the physical presence of the British in India was not significant. Yet, for almost two centuries, the...
Ganita (Mathematics) has been considered a very important subject since ancient times. We find very elaborate proof of this in Veda (which were compiled around 6000 BC). The concept of division,...
In all early civilizations, the first expression of mathematical understanding appears in the form of counting systems. Numbers in very early societies were typically represented by groups of...
This colorful festival of the Hindus, celebrated on the full moon day in the month of Phalguna, heralds the advent of spring.
Overview
Also known as the Festival of Colors, Holi traditionally takes...
Ram Navami
Lord Rama, the seventh incarnation of Vishnu, was born on navami, the ninth lunar day [see last paragraph, page 37, for an explanation of the lunar day] of the bright half of Meena, or...
homa, or Deva-yajna, is the making of offerings to Fire. which is the carrier thereof to the Deva. A kunda (firepit) is prepared and fire when brought from the house of a Brahmana is consecrated...
(A Guide for Seekers and Born Hindus)
Published by Himalayan Academy.
A history-making manual, interreligious study and names list, with stories by Westerners who entered Hinduism and Hindus who...
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If we try to characterize the politico-socio-cultural spirit of last one and half century in one word, the most appropriate term will be 'rights'. 'Right' has become the most...
Whenever there is decline of righteousness and predominance of unrighteousness, I embody Myself. For the protection of the good and for the destruction of evil-doers and for the re-establishment of...
Dialogues of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Nisargadatta Maharaj's most well known book. Translated by Maurice Frydman. This is the first book recommended to be read. Contains conversations between...
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There are a number of terms that are applied to Hinduism in the Press, not only in the West but in India itself, which foster a negative image of it. Hindus are...
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The supramental spiritual and social journeys of great sages, dreamers and rebels to connect India to her sacred roots and eternal values.
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The Lord does not partake in the good and evil deeds of any person; judgment is clouded when wisdom is obscured by ignorance. But ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self within.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 2:5
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Whenever virtue declines and unrighteousness rises, I manifest Myself as an embodied being. To protect the Saints and Sages, to destroy the evil-doers and to establish Dharma (righteousness), I am...
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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
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From Persia to the Chinese Sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to the islands of Java and Borneo, from Oceania to Africa, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales and her civilization. She has...
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Today Secularism is the fashion in India. It is the “in” brand. It is the brand to give oneself, lest one be called “communal”. Many Hindus...
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The Cholas initially occupied present Tanjore and Trincnopoly districts with of South India and, up to the eight century A.D. the Chola kingdom was very small. However, the Cholas rose to...
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India's Self Denial
by Francois Gautier
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India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.
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Devout Hindus meet a satguru and in seeing him, draw the darshan vibration from him, absorbing it into themselves. When we say someone is holy or saintly we are feeling the radiations of that...
A masterful presentation of the essence of the philosophy, psychology and practice of yoga in a way that is especially helpful for the beginner on the path.
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Peace be to earth and to airy spaces!
Peace be to heaven, peace be to the waters,
peace to the plants and peace to the trees!
May all the Gods grant to me peace!
By this invocation of peace may be...
îsa (Sanskrit: "lord, master, or controller") — one of the words used for God as the supreme controller. The word is also used to refer to any being or personality who is in...
The Isha Upanishad (Ishopanishad)
"If all the Upanishads and all the other Scriptures happened all of a sudden to be reduced to ashes, and if only the first verse in the Ishopanishad were left in...
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"The Inner Ruler"
All this is full. All that is full.
From fullness, fullness comes.
When fullness is taken from fullness,
Fullness still remains.
O M shanti shanti...
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"The Lord - Transcendent Without, Immanent Within"
"None hath attained to thy sovereignty and power, None to thine undaunted spirit,—none."
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The Doctrine of The Chosen Deity
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Ishvarapranidhana or Ishvara Pranidhana represents surrender to the divinity within the individual. Ishvarapranidhana is to live an ethical lifestyle of non-harming, honesty, charity, purity,...
Islamism stands for the residue of the Muslim invasion of India spread over several centuries. Its basic tenets are ultimately derived from the teachings of Islam which has so far succeeded in...
The Aryan Invasion Theory
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We all understand how the 19th century construction of the Orient by the West satisfied its needs of self-definition in...
Īśvara, Ishvara or Eashwara (Sanskrit: "the Supreme Ruler; the Personal God") — is Brahman associated with Maya but has it under His control unlike the jiva who is Maya's slave. He has a lovely...
Itihāsas is the epic poetry written in the Indian subcontinent. Written in Sanskrit, Kannada, Tamil and Hindi, it includes some of the oldest epic poetry ever created and some works form the basis...
I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old...
Janaloka: (Sanskrit, "Plane of creativity, or of liberated mortals.") The third highest of the seven upper worlds, realm of vishuddha chakra. See: loka.
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Janmapatrika. Birth Chart. An astrological map of the sky drawn for a person's moment and place of birth. Also known as rashi chakra or zodiac wheel, it is the basis for interpreting the traits of...
jaya (Sanskrit: jaya, "of victory; all glories") — victorious, uccessful.
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jiva (Sanskrit: "the embodied atman") Individual Self.
Types of Jivas
There are three categories of jivas:-
nitya suri — These are the members of the Divine Ministering Assembly which, although...
A person who is liberated (enlightened) while living.
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jivanmukti — the state of being liberated (enlightened) while alive.
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jñåna (Sanskrit: ) derived from the root jñå, "to know, to learn, to experience". In the context of Bhagavad Gita and the Upanishads, jñåna is generally used in the sense of spiritual...
Jnanakanda: The part of the Vedas that teaches philosophical wisdom.
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The Stream of Eternal Wisdom
This is not just another book on the Nature of Jiva and the technique by which the Jiva discovers its Reality. Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, the Avathar of the Age,...
Jnâna Yoga is the Yoga which makes use of the rational power, through the intellect, to cleave through illusion, cleave through the illusion of appearances and which takes you to the Reality which...
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One Religion Built Humanity - Others Destroyed it
Other religions that destroyed humanity
Oh, God ~ better, NO God!
Do you notice that tiny seed, which turned into a gigantic tree, and now...
jyotisha (Sanskrit: "The science of the lights or stars") from jyoti, "light." — Hindu astrology, the knowledge and practice of analyzing events and circumstances, delineating character and...
Jyotisha Vedanga (Sanskrit: "Veda-limb of celestial science or astronomy-astrology") — ancient texts giving knowledge of astronomy and astrology, for understanding the cosmos and determining...
Kaala Vyavahara — Hindu metrics of time measurement.
Old Indian measures are still in use today, primarily for religious purposes in Hinduism and Jainism. They also are employed in the teachings...
Kadaram (the ancient Kedah Kingdom), or Kataha Nagara or also called Bhujanga (Bujang Valley) was one of the important ancient Hindu Kingdoms of South Asia. Kadaram was situated in region of...
kala (Sanskrit: kāla, "time") — length or period of time.
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kâla or kaala (Sanskrit: "Time"), is the word for Time as the source of all things. The absolute undivided time or duration, and of manifested or divided time: the former as causal or noumenal,...
kālachakra (Sanskrit: "cycles of time;") from kāla (Time) + chakra (wheel) — refers to cycles of time. The Sanskrit word for time is kāla which has been derived from kalana or motion and it...
kali yuga (Sanskrit: कलियुग, "age of Kali"; "age of vice") — is one of the four stages of development that the world goes through as part of the cycle of Yugas, the others being...
kalpa (Sanskrit: "period of time; or a cycle of time.") from a verb-root klrip (to be in order) — a sequence of one thousand mahayugas is called a kalpa which is one day in the life of Brahma....
Kalpa Vedanga or also known as the Kalpa Sutras (Sanskrit: "Procedural or ceremonial Veda-limb") — a body of three groups of auxiliary Vedic texts: 1) the Shrauta Sutras and Shulba Sutras, on...
kāma or kām, (Sanskrit: काम, "self-indulgence; sensual gratification; pleasure; lust") — the passionate desire for all sensual and material pleasures such as for riches, property, honor,...
kāmadeva (Sanskrit: कामदेव) is the deity of love. His other names include Ragavrinta ("stalk of sassion"), Ananga ("incorporeal"), Kandarpa ("inflamer even of a God"). Kamadeva, is son...
kāma rupa (Skr: , "desire-form") is a "form" or subtle body created of mental and physical desires and thoughts, a form that survives the death of the body.
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Kama Sutra (Sanskrit) "Aphorisms on pleasure." A fifth-century text by Vatsyayana on erotics. The Kama Shutra and other Kama Shastras are sometimes classed as an...
A karana is half of a tithi. To be precise, a karana is the time required for the angular distance between the sun and the moon to increase in steps of 6° starting from 0°. (Compare with the...
karana chitta (Sanskrit) "Causal mind." The intuitive-superconscious mind of the soul. It corresponds to the anandamaya kosha, bliss sheath, also called karana sharira, causal...
Karana Sharira or Kaarana Sareeram (the vehicle of the consciousness). The intuitive superconscious mind of the atman (Inner Self). Causal body which carries the impressions and tendencies in seed...
kárma or kárman (Sanskrit: कर्म, "act, action, performance") — is the "action" or "deed" which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called saṃsāra). It...
Karmakanda (Sanskrit) That part of the Sruti or Vedic writings which relates to ceremonial acts and sacrificial rites.
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karma yoga (Sanskrit: "Union through action.") The path of selfless service. See: yoga.
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The Katha Upanishad (Kathopanishad)
The Path to Knowledge of the REAL
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Katha Upanishad Translation by Eknath Easwaran
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The Katha Upanishad (Kathopanishad) - Complete
Death as the Teacher
Eknath Easwaran Translation
PART I
[1]
1. Once, long ago, Vajasravasa gave away his possessions to gain religious merit.
2. He...
This branch of kaumarabhritya deals comprehensively about prenatal, postnatal baby care and gynecology. With the view to achieve its ultimate aim of creating a healthy and disease free society...
The word 'kaya' (body) not only refers to the gross body of a person but to the subtle body as well. This natural alternative medicine recognizes that the body of a person is the product of the...
keluarga (Sanskrit: kula "family; of the family" + varga, "member") — family.
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Kena Upanishad (Kenopanishad)
Kena Upanishad by Vidyavachaspati
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The Kena Upanishad
Translated by Vidyavachaspati V. Panoli
Om ! May my limbs, speech, vital air, eyes, ears, strength,
And all the senses be fully developed.
All that is revealed by the Upanishads...
Eknath Easwaran Translation
("Who Moves the World?")
[I]
1. The student inquires:
"Who makes my mind think?
Who fills my body with vitality?
Who causes my tongue to speak? Who is that
Invisible one...
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"By Whom or by What?"
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1. By whom commissioned falls the (arrow of the) mind shot to its mark? By whom yoked moves the first life-breath forward on its paths?...
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("By Whom Sent Forth, By Whom Impelled?")
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1. By whom sent forth, [by whom] impelled soars forth the mind? By whom enjoined does the breath go forth, the first?
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The Kingdoms
The boundaries of the kingdoms
The kingdoms mentioned below existed when territorial boundaries were less important, due to the limited human population and sparse human settlements....
klesha (Sanskrit: "knot of the heart; impurities of the heart") hindrance, to spiritual evolution / progress — which hinder spiritual growth and higher...
The Self cannot be pierced by weapons or burned by fire; water cannot wet it, nor can the wind dry it. The Self cannot be pierced or burned, made wet or dry. It is everlasting and infinite,...
Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 3:54
The Sun Temple at Konarak.
Konark is also known as Konaditya. The name Konark is derived form the words Kona - Corner and Arka - Sun; it is situated on the north eastern corner of Puri or...
kosha (Sanskrit: "Sheath; vessel, container; layer.") — five sheaths through which the Self functions simultaneously in the various planes or levels of existence. There are five or six classical...
Krishna (कृष्ण in Devanagari, kṛṣṇa in IAST, pronounced [ˈkr̩ʂɳə] in classical Sanskrit) is a deity worshiped across many traditions of Hinduism.
Krishna is often described as...
Krishna Janmashtami, also known as Gokulashtami, Shri Krishna Jayanti, or sometimes just Janmasthami is a festival celebrating the appearance of Lord Krishna, the eighth avatara (incarnation) of...
see: satya-yuga.
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kriyamana karma (Sanskrit: "Being made.") The karma being created and added to sanchita in this life by one's thoughts, words and actions, or in the inner worlds between lives. What we are...
Kriyâ Yoga, the exercise of rituals as mentioned in the Yoga Sûtra of Patanjali; the combined practice of tapas, asceticism, svâdhyâya, study and îshvara-pranidhâna, the worship of the...
krodha or krodh (Sanskrit: , "wrath, anger or rage") — One of the arishadvarga (six passions of mind) or enemies of desire, the others being kama (lust), lobha (greed), moha (delusion), mada...
ksatriya — a member of the traditional military or warrior class. The ksatriya was the second varna in the system of varnasrama dharma.
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Kshama (Sanskrit: "patience; forbearance and pardon") — restraining intolerance with people and impatience with circumstances. Implies remaining serene, patient and observing self-restraint under...
The four Kumaras (Sanaka, Sanandana, Sanatana and Sanat kumara) —the four Manasputras created by Lord Brahma. When Brahma decided to commence the sequence of creation, he first of all created...
Kumbh Mela (Devanagari: कुम्भ मेला) is a mass Hindu pilgrimage. It occurs four times every twelve years and rotates among four locations: Allahabad (Prayag) at the confluence of...
Kundalini (Sanskrit: "a coiled female serpent") from kundala, "coil of a rope" meaning either coiled up or coiling like a snake — is the divine cosmic energy. It is a term in yoga, referring to a...
Kundalinî Yoga concentrates on psychic centers or chakras in the body in order to generate a spiritual power, which is known as kundalini energy.
Kundalini is the potential form of prana or life...
Lakshmi Puja is performed to propitiate Goddess Lakshmi and to thank her for the bestowal of her blessings on the humans.
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The most detailed description of the early Malay kingdom of Langkasuka is found in the Liang-shu, a Chinese history written in the early seventh century. Referred to as Lang-ya-hsiu, Langkasuka’s...
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Under my watchful eye the laws of nature take their course. Thus is the world set in motion; thus the animate and inanimate are created.
Bhagavad Gita 9:10
Learn perfectly all that you learn, and thereafter keep your conduct worthy of that learning.
Tirukkural 40: 391
An illustrated, clairvoyant revelation of man's untold journey to Earth from the Pleiades millions of years ago, and the struggles faced through the eras as souls matured into their ultimate...
One's character gets transformed into good or bad depending upon his/her company. Noble company bestows noble feelings and bad company gives rise to evil traits. Your speech and conduct are based...
Liberation is giving up of the unreal. Let us suppose you want a cup of fruit juice. Unless you throw away the water already in the cup, you cannot pour the juice in the cup. Similarly, unless you...
Life has the nobler goal of self-illumination, of lighting the lamp of love inside oneself and sharing that lamp with all around us. Kama (desire) and Krodha (anger) are the enemies that will not...
Bhubaneshwar the capital of Orissa is a city of temples, several of which are important from an architectural standpoint. The Lingaraj temple - the largest of these is about a thousand years old....
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Book Two of The Master Course Trilogy. 365 daily lessons based on ancient Vedic laws, disclosing how to approach family, money, relationships, technology, food, worship, yoga and karma to live a...
lobha (Sanskrit: "covetousness; cupidity; avarice; greed; craving; possessiveness;") from the verbal root lubh (to desire greatly) — stands for impatience, eager desire for or longing after. It...
loka, (Sanskrit: "world"; "realm"; "abode"; "dimension"; or "plane of existence") from loc, "to shine, be bright, visible." — the universe or any particular division of it. A dimension of...
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Did Krishna exist?
Most certainly, says Dr Manish Pandit, a nuclear medicine physician who teaches in the...
by Shri Swami Sivananda
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The life, the Lilas and teachings of Lord Krishna depicted in a lucid and inspiring style by a realised saint. A condensed version for the...
Lord Shiva is my refuge: he who grants Freedom from the cycle of birth and death.
Lord Shiva is my refuge: he who gave The sacred scriptures at the dawn of time.
Lord Shiva is my refuge: he who is...
by Shri Swami Sivananda
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This is a most valuable and instructive book for the aspirants, particularly for the devotees of Lord Siva. It contains fifteen chapters. It...
An illustrated resource on Dharma's Benevolent Deity, Remover of Obstacles, Patron of Art and Science, honored as first among the celestials.
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Macaulayism — This term derives from Thomas Babington Macaulay, a Law Member of the Governor General's Council in the 1830s in the British government in India at Calcutta.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay's “minute on education” arguing for the use of English in India dated the 2nd February 1835.
As it seems to be the opinion of some of the gentlemen who compose the...
mada (Sanskrit: "pride, being maddened, of the intoxication of pride;") — regarded as one of the arishadvarga (six passions of mind) or enemies of desire, the others being kama (lust), krodha...
Madhvacharya (Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ ಮಧ್ವಾಚಾರ್ಯರು) — South Indian Vaishnava saint (11971278) who expounded a purely dualistic Vedanta in which there is an essential and...
maha (Sanskrit: mahà, "great") — great.
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The Mahābhārata (Devanagari: महाभारत), Sanskrit mahā (great) + Bhratam (of the Bharatas, descendants of the ancient Indian king Bharata.) It is one of the two major Sanskrit epics...
mahadewa (Sanskrit: mahà, "great" + deva, "God; Lord") — Supreme God.
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mahadewi (Sanskrit: mahà, "great" + devi, "Goddess") — Supreme Goddess.
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mahaguru (Sanskrit: mahà, "great" + guru, "teacher") — great teacher; professor.
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Mahapuranas are deemed to be the upper corpus of Puranas.
Traditionally there are 18 Maha-puranas. Each Maha-purana lists eighteen canonical puranas, but the contents of each list vary reflecting...
maharaja (Sanskrit: mahà, "great" + ràja, "king" or mahàràja, "great king") — king.
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maharajalela (Sanskrit: mahàràja, "king" + līlā, "playful; of the pastimes" — to rampage.
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maharani (Sanskrit: mahà, "great" + ràni, "queen" or mahàràni, "great queen") — empress; queen.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (born January 12, 1917), the founder of the Transcendental Meditation program, has inspired numerous schools, colleges, universities, health-care facilities, Peace Palaces,...
It is believed that Maharishi Patanjali was the avatar of Adi Shesha - the Infinite Cosmic Serpent upon whom Lord Vishnu rests. He is considered to be the compiler of the Yoga Sutras, along with...
Maharishi Valmiki claims the distinction of being the author of the holy epic Ramayana. He is also believed to be the author of Yoga Vasistha, a text that elaborates on a range of philosophical...
maharloka: (Sanskrit: "Plane of greatness.") from mahas, "greatness, might, power, glory." Also called the Devaloka, this fourth highest of the seven upper worlds is the mental plane, realm of...
Literally, the “Great Night of Shiva” is celebrated every year on the new moon night in the month of Phalguna, this Hindu festival is dedicated to Lord Shiva.
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mahasiswa (Sanskrit: mahà "great" + śiśu, "children; a boy") — (male) student.
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mahasiswi (Sanskrit: mahà "great" + śiśu, "children; a boy") — (female) student.
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Mahāvākyas (Sanskrit: "Grand Pronouncement; Great Sayings") — more specifically it refers to four Upanishadic quotations which affirm the reality of atman (the Self): (1) Tat Tvam Asi, "That...
mahayuga (Sanskrit: "great age;") from maha (great) + yuga (age, period of time) — the 1000th part of a kalpa or Day of Brahma. The scriptures divide the endless passage of time into a cycle of...
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religion
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manas (Sanskrit: मनस्) from the root man, "to think" or "mind" — the lower mind, which is bound to the senses and yields vijnana (information) rather than jnana (wisdom) or vidya...
The Mandukya Upanishad
Translated by Vidyavachaspati V. Panoli
Om ! O gods, may we hear with our ears what is auspicious;
May we see with our eyes what is auspicious;
May we, while offering our...
manomaya kosha (mind-stuff-apparent-sheath) is the mental and emotional sheath which also is included in the sukshma sharira (subtle body). Manomaya means composed of manas or mind. The manas...
mantra (Sanskrit; Devanāgarī: मन्त्र) or mantram, consists of the root man- "to think" (also in manas "mind") and the suffix -tra meaning, "tool or protection" — hence a literal...
manvantara or manuvantara (Sanskrit: "patriarchate of one Manu;") from manu (progenitor of mankind) + antara (within or between), hence the compound paraphrased means "within a manu," or "between...
Only the man without desire, sees without seeing, speaks without speaking, knows without knowing.
Ashtavakra Gita 18:90
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The Vedas say "Matru Devo Bhava," Revere your Mother as God. You must revere your mother, who has brought you up with love, care and sacrifice. However famous one may be, if he/she does not revere...
matsarya or matsara (Sanskrit: "envy or jealousy;") — regarded as one of the arishadvarga (six passions of mind) or enemies of desire, the others being kama (lust), krodha (anger), lobha (greed),...
mãyã (Sanskrit: माया, "consisting of; made of") from roots ma, "to measure, to limit, give form" and ya, generally translated as an indicative article meaning "that" — is the principal...
Though you speak unkind words to a man's face, do not speak words behind his back heedless of consequent harm.
Though every word is full of kindly virtue, a man's mean back-biting will betray his...
He whom the world troubles not, and who troubles not the world, who is free from the emotions of joy, wrath, and fear, is dear to Me. The man who is guileless, pure, upright, unconcerned, free from...
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Book Three of The Master Course Trilogy. 365 enlightenment lessons from a mystical master, revealing the depths of raja yoga, the...
(Sanskrit: मेरु ) : An ancient mountain and mythical centre of the universe on which was situated the city of Brahma. Becoming jealous of Meru, the Vindya began to grow very high...
Why should those who rejoice when Destiny brings good moan when that same Destiny decrees misfortune?
What is there that is mightier than Destiny?
For it is there ahead of us even in the plans we...
Mīmāṃsā (Sanskrit: "investigation") is the name of an astika ("orthodox") school of Hindu philosophy whose primary enquiry is into the nature of dharma based on close hermeneutics of the...
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by David Frawley
Secularism is based upon a separation of church and state, removing religious control over the government. It arose to counter the influence of the church on politics and the...
moha (the delusion caused by false evaluation). The delusion that some people are nearer to one than others and the desire to please them more than others, leading to exertions for earning and...
moksha (Sanskrit: मोक्ष mokṣa, "liberation") or mukti (Sanskrit: मुक्ति, "release") is liberation from samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth or reincarnation and all of...
The game had its origin in India and was called Moksha Patam or Parama Padam or Mokshapat. It was used to teach Hindu Dharma and Hindu values to children. The British renamed it as Snakes and...
by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha,...
mukti or mukhti (Sanskrit: "liberation") is deliverance from the samsara (cycle of birth and death). The condition of freedom from ignorance (avidyâ) and the binding effect of karma. Liberation...
mumukshuthwam (Sanskrit: "yearning for liberation.") — the longing for moksha or Liberation. This longing cannot arise from either riches or from the scholarship that may be won at great expense...
Mumukshutva stands for a burning desire to realize the Self within, which is the Self within us all.
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The Mundaka Upanishad (Mundakopanishad)
Two Modes of Knowing
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Eknath Easwaran Translation
PART I
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1. From infinite Godhead came forth Brahma,
First among gods, from whom sprang the cosmos.
Brahma gave the vision of the Godhead,
The true source of wisdom...
One who is constantly engaged in the experiments of probing the mysteries of nature is known as muni. Muni means “manansheel tapasvi” i.e., the one who is constantly engaged in understanding...
Since Vedic times, Indians had been required to correctly recite, the Vedas. The correctness in recitation was very important as the Vedas were, in those days, transmitted through memory (Smriti)...
Nada-Bindu Upanishad
Translated by K. Narayanasvami Aiyar
Om ! May my speech be based on (i.e. accord with) the mind;
May my mind be based on speech.
O Self-effulgent One, reveal Thyself to me.
May...
He was an extraordinary wizard of science born in the nondescript village of Baluka in Madhya Pradesh . His dedicated research for twelve years produced maiden discoveries and inventions in the...
Naimittika Manvantara or Naimittika Pralaya (Sanskrit: ";") from naimittika (occasional, unusual, due to external cause), from nimitti (occasional dissolution or manifestation). Refers to pralayas...
nakshatra: (Sanskrit) "Star cluster." Central to astrological determinations, the nakshatras are 27 star-clusters, constellations, which lie along the ecliptic, or path of the sun. An individual's...
The Nalanda University once housed 9 million books. It was the centre of education for scholars from all over Asia. Many Greek, Persian and Chinese students studied here. The university was burnt...
namakarana or "samskaras of childhood" (Sanskrit: "Name-giving") from naming to education — formal entry into one or another sect of Hinduism, performed 11 to 41 days after birth. The name is...
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Namaste is made of two words, namas and te. Namas comes from the verbal root nam which means to bow and so namas is a bow or salutation. “Te” means, to you. And so namaste literally means,...
The Manu Smriti says that the ambitious satriyas of Bharatvarsha went abroad to the neighboring countries to establish their new kingdoms and, as they were cut off from the mainstream of the...
Namaste or Namaskara is the traditional Indian form of salutation. It is used while greeting friends and acquaintances as also while paying obeisance to God. As a word it finds its place in the...
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An eBook presenting the 365 Nandinatha Sutras of Living with Siva which guide the lay congregation and monastic order of Saiva Siddhanta Church. Each sutra proclaims...
naraka (Sanskrit: "abode of darkness", literally "pertaining to man.") — an unhappy, mentally and emotionally congested, distressful area of consciousness in the lower worlds. Naraka is a state...
(Sanskrit: नारायण ) : Nārāyaṇa is an important Sanskrit name for Vishnu. The name is also associated with Brahma and Krishna. He is also identified with, or as the son of, the...
Graha (from Sanskrit ग्रह gráha — seizing, laying hold of, holding) is a 'cosmic influencer' on the living beings of mother Bhumadevi (earth). In Hindu Astrology, the Navagraha...
This nine-day festival of the Hindus is celebrated in almost all parts of India in the month of Ashvina, and is marked by fasting and praying to different aspects of Devi.
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negara (Sanskrit: nagara, "the cities") — country.
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Concealing the record of Islam
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Negationism usually means the denial of the Nazi genocide of the Jews and Gypsies in World War 2. Less well-known is...
Negative feelings, such as violence, are damaging to life, whether we act upon them ourselves, or cause or condone them in others.
They are born of greed, anger, or delusion, and may be slight,...
'without form', referring to Brahman as Unmanifest.
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nirdaya — one without compassion.
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Nirukta Vedanga (Sanskrit: "etymology Veda-limb.") — auxiliary Vedic texts which discuss the origin and development of words; among the four linguistic skills taught for mastery of the Vedas and...
The Nyāya Sūtras is an ancient Indian text on of philosophy composed by Akṣapāda Gautama (also Gotama; c. 2nd century BC)
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The sutras contain five chapters, each with two sections. The...
Did you know that Sanskrit is the world’s oldest systematic language?
The word sanskrita, meaning "refined" or "purified," is the antonym of prakrita, meaning "natural," or "vulgar." It is made...
Did you know that the Hindu musical system of ragas codified in the Sama Veda is the oldest living music in the world?
The slokas (hymns) of the Vedas are codified in meters and are recited with...
Do you know the original name of Hinduism is Sanatan Dharm which is oldest living spiritual tradition?
‘Sanatan’ means eternal and ‘Dharm’ means those actions, thoughts and practices that...
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A complete, in-depth book on the practice of Om Yoga Meditation, the most ancient and authentic method of meditation in Hinduism by Swami...
by Robert C. Priddy
India's past is so ancient and has been so influential in the rise of civilisation and religion, at least for almost everyone in the Old World, that most people can claim it...
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The oral tradition of Vedic chanting has been declared an intangible heritage of humanity by UNESCO. In a meeting of jury members on November 7, 2003, at Paris, Mr. Koichiro Matsuura,...
Do you know the art of Navigation & Navigating was born in the river Sindh 6000 over years ago?
The very word 'navigation' is derived from the Sanskrit word navgatih. The word 'navy' is also...
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Veda
The Vedic tradition of knowledge, based on the extensive Vedic literature, is the oldest tradition of knowledge in the world.
Hinduism at a Glance
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The very first works of visual art created in the Indian sub-continent were primitive cave or rock paintings. Many are assumed to exist, but the largest number of discoveries are in Central India,...
Pancadashânga Yoga, the training of the 15 limbs:
i) yama, moral discipline
(ii) niyama, restraint
(iii) tyâga, renunciation
(iv) mauna, silence
(v) desha, right place
(vi) kâla, right...
panchakosa (Sanskrit: पञ्च कोश; "five sheaths") from root pancha, "five" + kosha, "body" — is the “five bodies,” or discernible “aspects” of man, arranged successively from...
panchamahābhūtas (Sanskrit: ) from pancha (five) + maha (great) + bhuta (element), means "five great elements", which are prthivi (earth), apa (water), agni (fire), vayu (air or wind), and akasha...
panchamahayajna — five great daily yagna (sacrifices) that are to be performed by every householder. They are: (1) Brahma Yajna, called also Veda Yajna, "homage to Brahman or the Vedas or the...
The name for the Hindu calendar is a panchanga. In Sanskrit the word panchanga is made of two parts: pancha and anga. Pancha means five and anga means a part. The panchanga is, therefore, something...
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påpa (Sanskrit: "is what brings one down") — sometimes translated as sin or evil.
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Parabrahm or Parambrahmam (Sanskrit: "Beyond Brahma") — the Supreme Infinite Brahma, the "Absolute" - the attributeless, the secondless reality. The impersonal and nameless universal...
paramahamsa (Paramahansa, Paramhansa) the liberated man, [literally "the supreme hamsa"; a spiritual personality of the highest order].
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The Paramahamsa Upanishad
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1. Narada (Lord of Events) inquired of the Lord of Love:
"What is the state of the illumined man?"
The Lord replied: "Hard to reach is the state
Of the...
Paramahansa Yogananda was born Mukunda Lal Ghosh on January 5, 1893, in Gorakhpur, India, into a devout and well-to-do Bengali family. From his earliest years, it was evident to those around him...
paramarthika (Sanskrit: ) from parama highest + arthika true substance of a thing, real — relating to a high or spiritual object or to supreme truth; real, essential verity; in Vedanta...
paramātmā or paramātmān (Sanskrit: परमात्मा, "supreme atma;") from roots param, "supreme or highest", and ātman, "individual spirit or Self" — is the supreme ātman situated...
Paramatman
(Sanskrit) The "primordial self" or the "self beyond," the permanent SELF, the Brahman or universal spirit-soul. A compound term meaning the highest or universal atman. Parama,...
Paramparā (Sanskrit: परम्परा) denotes a succession of teachers and disciples in traditional Indian culture. It is also known as guru-shishya paramparā, succession from guru to...
patala (Sanskrit: "Fallen or sinful region.") The seventh chakra below the muladhara, centered in the soles of the feet. Corresponds to the seventh and lowest astral netherworld beneath the earth's...
The supreme Self, adored in the scriptures, can be realized through the path of yoga.
Subtler than the banyan seed, subtler than the tiniest grain, even subtler than the hundred-thousandth part of...
Paurusha Manvantara or Paurusha Pralaya (Sanskrit: ";") from paurusha (human), from purusha (man) — the manvantara, or period of activity, of man. The death, or the life, of a human...
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American Philosopher William James Durant (1885–1981) was a prolific American popularizer in the fields of history, religion and philosophy. He is best known for the 11-volume The...
There is no greater dignity than that of the man who declares, "I will never cease in laboring to advance my family."
Perseverance and sound understanding—these two are what exalt a man's...
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Pitriloka (Sanskrit: "World of ancestors.") — the upper region of bhuvarloka. See: loka.
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The Supreme Reality stands revealed in the consciousness of those who have conquered themselves. They live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame.
Bhagavad Gita 6:7
How to spiritualize ones activities. The doctrine of Karma and Reincarnation is also covered.
read online: Practice of Karma Yoga
prajñā or pragna (Sanskrit: "wisdom;") — true or transcendental wisdom based on insight, discriminating knowledge, or intuitive apprehension.
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Prakritika Manvantara or Prakritika Pralaya (Sanskrit: "from prakriti or nature;") — universal manvantara. The dissolution and manifestation of prakriti or nature; also called the elemental...
prakṛti or prakriti (Sanskrit: प्रकृ्ति, ";") — material nature. According to the Bhagavad Gita, the basic nature of intelligence by which the Universe exists and functions. It...
pralaya (Sanskrit: ";") — A period of obscuration or repose - planetary, cosmic or universal - the opposite of manvantara.
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The Prambanan Temple is reputed as the biggest and most beautiful Hindu Temple in Indonesia, and is a group of Hindu temples locally known as Roro Jonggrang.
Candi Prambanan,...
prana (Sanskrit: प्राण, "life force, or vital energy, particularly, the breath") from the root pran, "to breathe." — the vital breath, which sustains life in a physical body; the primal...
pranamaya kosha (air-apparent-sheath) — sheath of vital energy also known as the pranic body. It consists of five vital principles and five subtle organs of action. It is endowed with the power...
pranava — the cosmic sound AUM; from the roots pra, "pre", and nava, "new"; Lit. “that which existed before anything (that is new)”, or “that which existed before existence itself”. The...
prânâyâma (Sanskrit: प्राणायाम, "lengthening of the prana or breath") from prāna, "life force, or vital energy, particularly, the breath", and āyāma, "to suspend or...
prarabdha karma (Sanskrit: "Actions begun; set in motion.") That portion of sanchita karma that is bearing fruit and shaping the events and conditions of the current life, including the nature of...
pratibhasika (Sanskrit: ), from prati-bhas to look like from the verbal root bhas to appear — appearing as the similitude of something, hence illusory. In Vedanta philosophy, one of the three...
This is dependent origination, also known as conditioned arising, interdependent arising, conditional nexus, causal nexus…. It refers to the idea that, as long as we remain ignorant, clinging,...
prema (Sanskrit: "real, spontaneous, divine love"), the result of sraddhâ and bhâva.
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The Stream of Divine Love
The very first series of articles that Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba wrote for the Sanathana Sarathi was "Prema Vahini". These discourses are collected in this book, as...
Pretaloka (Sanskrit: "World of the departed.") — the realm of the earth-bound souls. This lower region of bhuvarloka is an astral duplicate of the physical world. See:...
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Goals of Human Life — four efforts which man must make in order to fulfill his individual existence: (i) artha (wealth), (ii) kama (love), (iii) dharma (duty), and (iv) moksha...
You must be ever engaged in the process of purifying the mind and clarifying the intellect. You have to free yourself from all prejudices and misunderstandings. You must speak softly and sweetly...
Part 1 of 2: Presentation given by Sannyasin Arumugaswami, Managing Editor of Hinduism Today, at World's Religions After September 11: A Global Congress, held Sep 15, 2006, in Montreal, Canada, as...
Twisted Definition of Secularism
Everything against Hindus seems to be justified in India, a country dominated by 82 percent Hindus. There are no such things as Hindu rights, safety of Hindu...
pūjā (worship). "Respect, homage, worship." The offering of food, flowers, incense, and other items to a deity. Often the food will be distributed and consumed afterword and is thought to impart...
punya (Sanskrit: "is what elevates") is the opposite to papa — is virtue or moral merit. Papa and punya generally go together as negative and positive “credits.” One reaps the reward of these...
Purana (Sanskrit: पुराण purāṇa, meaning "belonging to ancient or olden times") is the name of an ancient Indian genre (or a group of related genres) of Hindu literature (as distinct...
purusa (Sanskrit: "man, male"). In sankhya philosophy purusa denotes the Supreme Male Principle in the universe. Its counterpart is prakrti.
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purusharthas (Sanskrit: "objectives of man") purusha means human being and artha means object or objective. Purusharthas means objectives of man. According to Hindu way of life, a man should strive...
purushartha svarupam — The Purpose of Life. The earthly plane is known as karma bhumi or the realm of action. According to the Vedic cosmology in addition to this world there are other realms...
purusottama (Sanskrit: "Godly man") — comprised of two words: purusa + uttama literally meaning “highest man” — means God.
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putera (Sanskrit: putra, "son") — prince.
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puteri (Sanskrit: putri, "the worthy daughter") — princess.
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Where are we now? From Surya Siddhanta:
- First half of Brahma's life has gone (432,000,000,000 years).
- We are now in the 1st Kalpa of the second half of the Brahma's life
- 6 Patriarchas from...
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raga, craving; attraction and attachment to experiences and objects of the material world; exterior attachments; passion; desire, emotions/feelings; one of the panchakleshas (five “hindrances”...
rajas (Sanskrit: "passion, activity, restlessness, aggressiveness;"). rajasic — adjective form of rajas, passionate, emotional. Associated with color red. See guna.
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Raja Yoga (Sanskrit) Royal union; more generally, the balance of all the faculties — physical, mental, moral, and spiritual. Raja yoga is a true system of developing psychic, intellectual, and...
rajo guna quality of passion, activity restlessness, aggressiveness — the second of the three gunas of matter. Sometimes translated as passion, the phase of rajas is characterized by action,...
Rama (IAST: rāma, Devanāgarī: राम, Thai: Phra Ram, Lao: Phra Lam) or Ramachandra was a king of Ayodhya in ancient India. In Hinduism, he is considered to be an avatar of Vishnu and a...
Ramakian (Ramayana in India) is the tale of the God Vishnu who incarnated as Rama to punish the Yaksa Totsagan. This is the story of Phra Ram and his Consort Sita (Naang Siidaa). Ramakian is one of...
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(the Ramayana of Goswami Tulasidas)
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rasatala (Sanskrit: "Subterranean region.") — the fifth chakra below the muladhara, centered in the ankles. Corresponds to the fifth astral netherworld beneath the earth's surface, called rijisha...
All therapies in ayurveda aim to provide good all round health, so that people can engage in achieving the real goal of life—self-realization. The rasayana therapy increases the life force (ojas)...
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by Sankrant Sanu
Source: The Conversion War and Religious Freedom
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1. How the native traditions consider religion
2. What religion is
3. A question of choice?
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Part 1 of 3: Presentation analyzing religions, specifically Hinduism, and their presence in the media, as well as cogent suggestions of what Hindus can do to improve their community's relationship...
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Articles and stories on contemporary events, issues, events, inspiration, news and periodicals relating to Hindus and India.
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An abundance of both contemporary and ancient books...
by Hari P. Chandra
“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened, told by people who weren't there.”
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Both of...
By Francois Gautier
Copyright 1996 Francois Gautier
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1. THE TAINTED GLASS: A LOOK AT WESTERN CIVILIZATION TO UNDERSTAND...
by Francois Gautier
Revised Edition for Bahri & Sons: 2002
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TO MY MOTHER, ANDREE GAUTIER, WHO WANTED SO MUCH FOR ME.
N.B. This book does not pretend to be a historical treaty,...
CHAPTER 1: The sipirit of colombus survives
A civilisation is like the human soul: it has a childhood, where it struggles to learn; an adolescence where it discovers - sometimes painfully - the...
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The first leaders of pre-independent India took some disastrous decisions, and the worst of them was to allow the division of their own country on religious lines. And...
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The Rigveda Samhita is the oldest significant extant Indian text. It is a collection of 1,028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10,600 verses in all, organized into ten mandalas (Sanskrit: books). The hymns...
rishi (Sanskrit: "seer; one who sees") — is a word that simply means a sage or a divine seer in general. the great sages of ancient India who, in deep states of meditation (communion with the...
Agasthya is one of the greates names in the Hindu Pantheon. He finds an important place among the Rishis, munis, and The Siddhars. He is also reputed to be the founder of the Tamil language which...
For the last 40 years of his life in Pondicherry Shri Aurobindo worked tirelessly for the realization of his vision of a divine life upon earth. He revealed his new message for humanity and its...
ritukala or "samskaras of adulthood" (Sanskrit: "Fit or proper season.") from coming-of-age to marriage. Time of menses. A home blessing marking the coming of age for girls. — keshanta: Marking a...
OM, AUM
The most sacred single syllable in the entire literature of Hinduism is OM. This word is constantly on the lips of devout Hindus from the cradle to the grave. It stands for Brahman,...
sadhaka (Sanskrit: "spiritual aspirants").
There are also three levels of sadhakas (spiritual aspirants):
Those who simply follow the teaching authority (guru), faithfully and...
sâdhana or sādhanam (Sanskrit: साधनम्, "the means of attainment") is a term for "a means of accomplishing something" or more specifically "spiritual effort or practice" leading to...
Sadhana Chatushtaya - the "four means of salvation".
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Jnana Yoga of Brahma Vidya or the science of the Self is not...
A clear analysis of the levels of gradation from finitude to infinitude, combined with valuable techniques to guide the spiritual seeker towards Universality.
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Shri Veda Vyasa (वेद व्यास)
The name of Veda Vyasa is one of the most celebrated names among the great sages of India. He is the author of Mahabharata and the puranas. He is...
Sahasrara Chakra is the abode of Lord Siva. This corresponds to Satya Loka. This is situated at the crown of the head. When Kundalini is united with Lord Siva at the Sahasrara Chakra, the Yogi...
Saiva The spiritual tradition followed by those who worship Shiva as Supreme God. Oldest of the four sects of Hindu Dharma. The earliest historical evidence of Saiva is from the 8,000-year-old...
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The Agamas are an enormous collection of Sanskrit scriptures which, along with the Vedas, are revered as shruti, revealed scripture. They are the primary source and...
Forty-nine lessons on the power of celibacy for youth. Brahmacharya is the traditional virtue of celibacy, remaining chaste until marriage, for a specified period of time, or for life. It also...
samadhi (Sanskrit: "standing within one's Self; sameness; contemplation; union, wholeness; completion, accomplishment.") which represents "super consciousness"; "complete absorption into the...
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samhita (Sanskrit: "Collection.") 1) Any methodically arranged collection of texts or verses. 2) The hymn collection of each of the four Vedas. 3) A common alternate term for Vaishnava...
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Sâmkhya Yoga, the discipline of insight, a reference of which is found in the Mahâbhârata.
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Samkirtan is singing the Glory of God. It is the process of singing that originates in the heart… not from the lips or the tongue. It is the expression of the joyous thrill that wells up from the...
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sampradaya (Sanskrit: "Tradition," "transmission;") derives from the verb samprada, meaning "gift, grant, bestowing or conferring; handing down by tradition; bequeathing." Sampradaya is thus a...
saṃsāra (Sanskrit: संसार; "flow") — refers to the phenomenal world. Transmigratory existence, fraught with impermanence, change and cycle of reincarnation or rebirth. The cycle of...
samsari (Sanskrit: "One in samsara; wanderer.") — the atman (Self) during transmigration, immersed in or attached to mundane existence, hence not striving for moksha (liberation). A samsari is...
samskara (Sanskrit: "patterned or conditioned behaviors; subconscious tendencies; worldly life; impression.") — 1. The imprints left on the subconscious mind by experience (from this or previous...
saṃskṛtam (संस्कृतम्) or for short sanskrit or saṃskṛtā vāk (संस्कृता वाक्) is an ancient sacred language of bharatavarsha that is the language...
The Ten Fetters (Samyojana) bind us to samsara.
1. Belief in a separate personality or individuality (drishti)
2. Doubt that has no desire for satisfaction (vichikitsa)
3. Uncritical attachment to...
Sanatana Dharma is is the original name of what is now popularly called Hinduism or Hindu Dharma. The terms Hindu and Hinduism are said to be a more recent development, while the more accurate term...
Dharma is the law that maintains the cosmic order as well as the individual and social order. Dharma is of four kinds: rita (universal dharma), ashram dharma (human dharma), varana dharma (social...
Other religions are preponderatingly religions of faith and profession, but the Sanatan Dharma is life itself; it is a thing that has not so much to be believed as lived.
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sanchita karma (Sanskrit: "Accumulated action.") — the accumulated consequence of an individual's actions in this and past lives. See: karma.
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sånkhya (Sanskrit: "calculating, enumeration, analysis, categorization). Modern science can be said to be a form of sånkhya because it attempts to analyze and categorize matter into its...
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The mentality of mankind and the language of mankind created each other. If we like to assume the rise of language as a given fact, then it is not...
The word sanskrita, meaning "refined" or "purified," is the antonym of prakrita, meaning "natural," or "vulgar." It is made up of the primordial sounds, and is developed systematically to include...
Sanskrit is considered to be the oldest language in human history. Sanskrit is the progenitor and inspiration for virtually every language spoken in India. Sanskrit has a tradition going back at...
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Contenment. The second of the yogic niyamas listed by sage Patanjali.
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(Sanskrit: सन्यासिन) One who has renounced the world and its concerns.
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All forms of material pleasure and happiness and all material goals have seven defects known as Sapta-dosha these are:-
1. alpa - their end results are trivial
2. asthira - they are transient and...
Saptânga-Yoga, the discipline of the seven limbs sapta-anga or sapta-Sâdhana (i) shasta-karma, good deeds or the six purifying practices (ii) âsana, posture (iii) mudrâ, seal (iv) pratyâhâra,...
saptarshis (Sanskrit: सप्तर्षि; saptarṣi; "seven sages") from sapta, "seven" + rishi, "sage" — are the seven rishis or the 'prajapatis', the mind born sons of Brahma who are...
sastra (Sanskrit: "sacred text; teaching.") is used to denote education/knowledge in a general sense. The word is generally used as a suffix in the context of technical or specialized knowledge in...
sastra (Sanskrit: "Sacred text; teaching.") is used to denote education/knowledge in a general sense. The word is generally used as a suffix in the context of technical or specialized knowledge in...
saccidānanda, satchidananda, or sat-cit-ānanda (Sanskrit: सच्चिदानंद, "existence, consciousness, and bliss") is a compound of three words, sat (सत्), "Ultimate Being",...
For over five decades Subramuniyaswami, affectionately known as Gurudeva, taught Hinduism to Hindus and seekers from all faiths. In the line of successorship, he was the 162nd Jagadacharya of the...
Satsang is the practice of gathering for study or discussion of scripture and religious topics, or chanting of hymns. This practice is sometimes called...
satsanga or satsang (Sanskrit: "association with the real;") from roots sat, "existence absolute, which is Brahman" and sanga, "company or union" — the practice of being in the presence of the...
sattva or sathwa (Sanskrit: "purity, calmness, serenity, joy, strength, goodness;"). sattvic — adjective form of sattva; serene, pure, good, balanced. Associated with color white. See...
sattva guna, quality of purity, calmness, serenity, joy, strength, goodness — the first of the three gunas of matter. Sometimes translated as goodness, the phase of sattva is characterized by...
The states of sattva, rajas, and tamas come from me, but I am not in them. These three gunas deceive the world: people fail to look beyond them to me, supreme and imperishable. The three gunas make...
satya or satyam (Sanskrit: "unchangeable; that which has no distortion; that which is beyond distinctions of time, space, and person; that which pervades the universe in all its constancy") from...
Satyaloka (Sanskrit: "Plane of reality, truth.") also called brahmaloka; the realm of sahasrara chakra, it is the highest of the seven upper worlds. See: loka.
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satya yuga or sat yuga, also called krta yuga and krita yuga (Sanskrit: सत्य युग, "age of Truth and Purity") — is the yuga (age or era) of sat (Truth), when mankind is governed by...
Saurya Manvantara or Saurya Pralaya (Sanskrit: ";") from surya (sun) + pralaya (dissolution) — manvantara manifestation. The dissolution, or manifestation, of the solar system; frequently termed...
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Now that India has been free for a number of decades from British rule, researchers, historians, and archeologists can all begin to take a new look at the...
There are many schools of Saivism, six of which are Saiva Shiddhanta, Pashupata Saiva, Kashmir Saiva, Vira Saiva, Siddha Siddhanta and Siva Advaita. They are based firmly on the Vedas and Saiva...
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The six darsanas or ways of seeing things, usually called the six systems or six different schools of thought. The six schools of philosophy are the six instruments of true...
vedanga
There are texts which form part of vedic literature to explain the linguistic meanigs of Veda- they are called Vedangas. They are six in number — Siksha (rules to govern the language...
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A vast number of statements and materials presented in the ancient Vedic literatures can be shown to agree with modern scientific findings and they also reveal a highly developed scientific content...
Scriptures
The overview of Hindu Scriptures.
Vedas
The Vedas are the oldest extant Hindu texts. The ideas expressed in the Vedas were traditionally handed down orally from father to son and...
Secularism, is the view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs or public education. Secularism is a form of governance that is not affiliated with any particular...
Indra and Virochana went away satisfied. But Prajapati said to himself: "They have seen the Self, but they have not recognized the Self. They mistake the Self to be the body. Those who think the...
Self with capital 'S' means the same as atman, jiva, or jivatman. The Self is characterized by consciousness. The Self is naturally immortal, having no beginning and no end to its being. It is...
Self Realization — the understanding of one's basic Reality.
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The word seva comes from the Sanskrit root, sev, meaning to "attend" or "to go towards." Seva is generally understood to be "service" and mostly is used in the context of religious service as in...
Seva Disha video is an attempt by Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to showcase the nearly 70,000 service projects being done by the swayamsevaks alone.
Shadanga-Yoga, the discipline of the six limbs shasta-anga, as stated in the Maitrâyanîya-Upanishad (i) prânâyâma, breath control (ii) pratyâhâra, sensory inhibition (iii) dhyâna,...
shad darshana (Sanskrit: "Six views or insights; six philosophies.") Among the hundreds of Hindu darshanas known through history are six classical philosophical systems: Nyaya, Vaisheshika,...
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Shakta (Sanskrit: "doctrine of power.") The spiritual tradition followed by those who worship the Supreme as the Divine Mother — Shakti or Devi — in Her many forms, both gentle and fierce....
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This branch of ayurveda deals in details with the etiology, diagnosis, prognosis, prevention and treatment of diseases of head, ear, nose, eye and throat. The name of this branch was called...
Contrary to the modern concepts surgery was pioneered by ayurveda in ancient India. It is a significant branch of ayurveda. The name of the sage-physician Susruta is synonymous with surgery. From...
shanti or śāntiḥ (Sanskrit: शान्ति, "serenity, inner peace").
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sharira (body). There are three sharira, the sthula-sharira (gross body), sukshma-sharira (subtle body), and the karana-sharira (causal body). The karana sharira is called the body of the seed of...
Physical suffering manifests in six forms known as the shat-kleshas:-
1. The process of birth
2. Transformation and change
3. Sickness and physical infirmity
4. Hunger and thirst.
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shauca or shaucha (Sanskrit: "Purity.") — avoiding impurity in body, mind and speech.
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Shiva or Śiva (Sanskrit: शिव, lit. "Auspicious one") is one of the principal deities or a form of Ishvara (God) representing one of the three primary aspects of the Divine — Brahma,...
Shrauta Shastra or śrauta sūtra (Sanskrit: "texts on the revelation") 1) Refers to scriptures or teachings that are in agreement with the Vedas. 2) A specific group of texts of the Kalpa Vedanga,...
Shri Adi Sankaracharya (788-820) (meaning 'the first Shankara' in his lineage), reverentially called Bhagavatpada Acharya (the teacher at the feet of Lord) was the most famous Advaita philosopher,...
Babaji is the guru of Lahiri Mahasaya. His powerful, sublime influence wafts over an unknowing world without fanfare — secret and sacred, like the reclusive master himself.
It is believed that...
Bharadwaja rishi , a sage of the Vedic period - is renowed for his thirst for knowledge - a great seer who attained extraordinary scholarship and power of meditation. An enlightened man who used...
Shri Brahmarshi Vishwamitra is considered to be one of the most revered rishis (sages) of the ancient India.
As per the Puranas, there have been only 24 Rishis in India who have the Gayatri...
Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared in the 15th century and inaugurated a powerful spiritual movement known as sankirtana [the congregational chanting of the holy name of Krishna] enabling the...
He is the saint who installed the idol of Sri Krishna at Udupi in Karnataka. The Philosophy he preached was previously known as ‘ Tattawavada’. Now it is known as ‘Dwaita’. He lived seven...
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is the creator of Transcendental Meditation and founder of the Transcendental Meditation Movement. Maharishi was a disciple of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, who Maharishi...
Her Holiness Mata Amritananda Mayi's first name was Sudhamani. She was born in a fisherman's family in the tiny coastal village of Parayakadavu, near Vallikkavu, of Quilon (Kollam) district in...
Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi was born to a Christian family on 21 March 1923. As a newborn also, Mataji emanated such beauty and radiance, that her parents named her Nirmala. Since her parents were...
Shri Narada Muni is a holy personage and celestial musician, always facilitating the good of the world; engaged in aiding the pious in times of challenge and in hastening the retribution of...
Shri Paramahamsa Nithyananda, was born in South India and embarked upon his spiritual journey at a young age, enduring years of rigorous penance. Through intense meditation practices and in depth...
Shri Paramahansa Yogananda came to the West to bring the science of Kriya Yoga and a new interpretation of the great scriptures of East and West. However, his mission was not only for those...
The 20th century saw the emergence of several such outstanding personalities, perhaps the most remarkable of whom was Shri Ramakrishna Paramhansa. Born in a poor family and virtually illiterate,...
Shri Ramana Maharshi (1879 –1950) was probably the most famous Indian sage of the twentieth century. He was renowned for his saintly life, for the fullness of his self-realization, and for the...
Ramanuja (Tamil: ராமானுஜர், Rāmānujar; traditionally 1017–1137), also known as Ramanujacharya, was a theologian, philosopher, and scriptural exegete. He is seen by Śrī...
Chief exponent of the Vishishtadvaita school of Vedanta and a great social reformer. He established the Yatiraja Math and the Cheluvanarayanaswami temple at Melkote in Karnataka, and also...
Sathya Sai Baba is a highly revered spiritual leader and world teacher, whose life and message are inspiring millions of people throughout the world to turn God-ward and to lead more purposeful...
Shri Sathya Sai Baba (born Sathyanarayana Raju on November 23, 1926, or later than 1927 — with the family name of "Ratnakara") is a guru from southern India, religious leader, orator and...
Shirdi Sai Baba (c 1838 - 1918) holds a unique place in the rich tradition of saints in India. Baba, an embodiment of self-realization and perfection, did not come solely to preach but to awaken...
Shri Shri Ravi Shankar (born : May 13, 1956) is an Indian spiritual master (Guru). He is often referred to by the self-chosen double-honorific "Sri Sri". He is considered a spiritual leader by his...
Vallabhacharya (Sanskrit: ) "Beloved." Vaishnava saint (ca 1475-1530) whose panentheistic Shuddha Advaita (pure nondualism) philosophy became the essential teaching of the nonascetic Vaishnava sect...
Vasishta was a great ascetic. He was the preceptor of great men like Sri Rama and Harischandra. He had conquered anger and desire. He was a great saint who humbled insolent men. As a preceptor he...
Vishnu (Devanagari: विष्णु), (honorific: Bhagavan Vishnu), is the Supreme God in Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one...
The Mahabharata remains a marvel in the literature of the world. Veda Vyasa was the sage who gave the world this Storehouse of realism, wisdom and compassion. And he was the guide to whom seven...
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Shulba Shastra — practical manuals giving the measurements and procedures for constructing the sites of Vedic yajna rites. A division of the Kalpa Vedanga (Veda limb on rituals), these sutras...
siddha (Tamil: சித்தா, "one who is accomplished") — refers to perfected masters who according to Hindus have transcended the ahańkāra (ego or I-maker), have subdued their minds to...
Siddha medicine is an ancient system of medicine which has been practiced in South India. Siddha medicine was developed by the siddhars - the perfected mystical saints of ancient times. It is...
siddhi or siddhiḥ (Sanskrit:सिद्धि; "perfection", "accomplishment", "attainment", or "success") — extraordinary powers of the atma (Self), developed through consistent meditation...
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Sivaloka (Sanskrit: "Realm of Siva.") See: loka.
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Apart from the biographies of the Sixty-three nayanar Saints, this book contains an authoritative article on the Saiva Siddhanta Philosophy, the life of Saint Manicckavasagar, selections from the...
Skandhas or aggregates are the parts of the self. Sometimes they are called the aggregates of attachment, which bring about suffering. Just like a car is nothing more than the sum of its parts, so...
A hymn or verse of praise, a stanza or verse in general, a stanza in anustubh metre (the most common metre used in Sanskrit consisting for 4 lines of 8 syllables), fame.
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smriti: (Sanskrit) "That which is remembered; the tradition."
What is remembered; unwritten teachings handed down by word of mouth, distinguished from srutis or teachings handed down in traditional...
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Temples in India were regarded as sacred places or vital links that can connect finite man to infinite God. The temples are built on the principles of vastushastra. The vastushastras...
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Soul Winning Mission is a Christian organization based out of Kerala, India. Its goal is to spread the gospel to the South Indian community.
Games like, Chess, Snakes and Ladders, Playing Cards, Polo, the martial arts of Judo and Karate had originated in India and it was from here that these games were transmitted to foreign countries,...
śraddhā or shraddha (Sanskrit: "faith") — anything or any act that is performed with all sincerity and faith.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was born in 1896 in Calcutta, India. He first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922....
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by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the transcendental science not only for knowing the ultimate source of everything but also for knowing our relation with Him and our...
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The cosmos follows one cycle within a framework of cycles. It may have been created and reach an end, but it represents only one turn in the perpetual "wheel of time", which revolves infinitely...
Śruti (Devanagari श्रुति, "what is heard") is a canon of Hindu sacred texts. They do not date to a particular period, but rather stretch across the entire history of Hinduism,...
sthula sharira is the physical body (sthula, coarse or bulky), the vehicle of all the other principles during life and the means by which man is able to function on earth. The physical body, sthula...
Stop all your attachments to false values. In an ever-changing world there is nothing worthwhile for us to desire or weep for. Joys and sorrows are bound to come in human life; they are just two...
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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.
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Indian Culture for Teenagers
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For teenagers, especially those who are growing up in a foreign culture, to flow with the stream is easy, but to...
sudra — member of the traditional working class. The sudra was the fourth varna in the system of varnasrama dharma.
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The subtle world, or Antarloka, spanning the spectrum of consciousness from the vishuddha chakra in the throat to the patala chakra in the soles of the feet. The astral plane includes: 1) the...
sukshma sharira (Sanskrit: sukshma, "subtle, unmanifest, dormant") — is the energy body, the subtle body, the light body of form consists of manas (mind), buddhi (intelligence) and ahankara...
The Supreme Infinite Brahman. See: Parabrahm.
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To commit no wrong, even against one's enemies, is said to be supreme wisdom.
Only the forgetful plot another's ruin; others remember that virtue itself devises a plotter's downfall.
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sūtra (Sanskrit: सूत्र, "a rope or thread that holds things together") metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or large a collection of such aphorisms in the form...
(Sanskrit: सूत्र ) Literally `thread`. Sutras as threads or aphorisms are concise statements and a technical format in which spiritual teachings have been laid out, for purposes of...
If you've ever departed from the new Bangkok airport - Suvarnabhumi Airport, you will be greeted by an impressive statue the moment you clear immigration.
The churning of the ocean of...
svadhyaya (Sanskrit: "Self-reflection; scriptural study"). See: yama-niyama.
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Svarloka (Sanskrit: "Celestial or bright plane."). The third of the seven upper worlds, the midastral region (equated in some texts with Svarga), realm of manipura chakra. See:...
sva-svarupam — The Nature of Self. The basic tenet of all schools of Vedanta is that every living entity consists of two components; (a) the insentient (non-thinking) material (physical)...
Swami Chinmayananda is counted amongst the most notable spiritual leaders in India. He was considered as an authority on the ancient Indian scriptures, especially the sacred Bhagwad Gita and the...
The founder of Arya Samaj (the Society of Nobles), Swami Dayanand Saraswati was one of the greatest religious leaders ever born in India. He was responsible, to some an extent, in bringing back...
Swami Sivananda Saraswati (Sep 8, 1887—Jul 14, 1963), was an Indian spiritual leader and a well known proponent of Yoga and Vedanta. He is one of the greatest Yoga masters of the 20th century,...
Swami Vivekananda (Sanskrit: स्वामी विवेकानन्द, Svāmi Vivekānanda) (January 12, 1863–July 4, 1902), whose pre-monastic name was Narendranath Dutta (Narendranath...
Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was the foremost disciple of Shri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and a world spokesperson for Vedanta. His lectures, writings, letters, and poems are published as The...
Avasthas
The most comprehensive study of the Science of Consciousness. It expounds the various levels of consciousness, states of consciousness, the nature of consciousness at each level, the...
Taj Mahal (From Sanskrit: Tejo Mahalay, "The Great Abode of Tej"), Teja (Jats'1 name of Shiva is Tejaji) + Mahalay (mansion) is a Temple Palace of Lord Shiva located in Agra, India. The Taj Mahal...
Hidden rooms, chambers, and Foundations in the Taj Mahal that existed have been hidden and defaced then covered up away from the public gaze.
A secret storey below hiding in excess of 1089...
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Bharat Speaks, Vol. II, Issue II, 2009
There are many legends about the Taj Mahal. But one sentence is common in all of them. "For the construction, 20,000 men worked for 22...
"Timemeasure." In Indian music, the organization of time into meter andrhythmic pulse with sometimes complex subdivisions. Tala issimilar to "time signature" in Western notation except thattala...
tamas or thamas (Sanskrit: "dullness, ignorance, delusion, inactivity, passivity, inertia, sloth;"). tamasic — adjective form of tamas; dull, ignorant, passive. Associated with color black. See...
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tamo guna quality of dullness, ignorance, delusion, inactivity, inertia, sloth — the third of the three gunas of matter. Sometimes translated as darkness, the phase of tamas is characterized by...
"Exuberant dance." Any vigorous dance sequence performed by a male dancer. There are many forms of tandava. Its prototype is Siva's dance of bliss, ananda tandava. The much softer feminine dance is...
A synonym for the `Agamic` teachings, spiritual teachings revealing meditation, ritual procedures, the history of the world, stories of deities and the many ways of worship, in the form of a...
Started during Vedic age, Tantras consists of cosmology, erotic exercises etc. Tantra is very important and very vast. Sanskrit word Tantras means to expand. Tantrism researched into Astronomy,...
Tantra Yoga, the practice of the Tantras based on the serpent power in the body, the kundalinî.
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Taparloka or Tapoloka (Sanskrit: "Plane of austerity.") The second highest of the seven upper worlds, realm of ajna chakra. See: loka.
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tapas (Sanskrit: "Warmth, heat,") — hence psychic energy, spiritual fervor or ardor. 1) Purificatory spiritual disciplines, severe austerity, penance and sacrifice. The endurance of pain,...
tapasvin (Sanskrit: ) One who performs tapas or is in the state of tapas. See: tapas.
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Târaka Yoga, the yoga based on the phenomena of light; the discipline of târaka, the deliverer.
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tattva (Sanskrit: "Truth, Reality or True Essence") from tad, that which is strictly speaking, there is only One Reality. That Reality is Brahman (the Supreme Being and Highest Truth), the Para...
Tat Tvam Asi (Sanskrit: तत् त्वम् असि or तत्त्वमसि, "Thou art that," "That thou art," or "You are that") — is one of the Mahāvākyas (Grand...
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Changeless, underlying the world of change,
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Dwarkadhish Temple
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One who teaches by example.
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Postures used to stimulate flow of life-force through the body and to aid meditation.
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Thaipusam (Tamil: தைப்பூசம்) is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the Tamil community on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai (Jan/Feb). It is also referred to as...
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The Aryan Invasion Theory
The Aryan Invasion: Fact or Fallacy?
by Rekha I Nambiar, August 25, 2002
The greater issues involved in this apparently obscure debate are quite significant. If...
The Aryan Invasion Theory
The Aryan Invasion Theory and Hindu Politics
by Dr. David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri)
A recent Western academic paper argues that the Aryan invasion theory is wrong and...
A clear analysis of the levels of gradation from finitude to infinitude, combined with valuable techniques to guide the spiritual seeker towards Universality.
read online: The Attainment of the...
The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results; all his selfish desires have been consumed in the fire of knowledge. The wise, ever satisfied,...
Atma Jyoti Ashram Publication
This translation was printed in the early part of the twentieth century. Although Swarupananda was active in its preparation, it is really the work of Sister Nivedita...
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The east-facing temple wall at Angkor Wat portrays the Hindu creation story known as the "Churning of the Sea of Milk." These panels are best seen around the time of sunrise. Former University of...
Strike at the root of a tree; it would bleed but still live. Strike at the trunk; it would bleed but still live. Strike again at the top; it would bleed but still live. The Self as life supports...
There are fourteen great nerve centers in the physical body, in the astral body and in the body of the soul. These centers are called chakras in Sanskrit, which means "wheel." These spinning...
Contributor's (Virendra Verma) Note: The conversion from Vikram Samvat to A.D. is mine. I could be wrong there.
The kingdom of Indraprastha was ruled by Indians for 124 generations for a period of...
The Vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no...
The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.
Shri Aurobindo
The Ramayana helped to mold concepts of state and kingship in Malaysia. The epic probably reached Malaysia by way of Javanese traders who brought their shadow play, Wayang Kulit. Many changes...
European travelers to the Indian subcontinent and colonial scholars did everything to encourage the idea that India was a stagnant country and its people largely immobile, but this view betrayed...
The largest civilization in the ancient world developed in the Indus Valley of India over 5,000 years ago. The Indus and Sarasvati river valleys of Bharatvarsha (present India and Pakistan) were...
HINDU influence in the Malay Peninsula was initially limited more or less rigidly to the upper class of old Malay society - the ROYALTY. Malay royalty was essentially Hindu royalty descended,...
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex order and...
Srivijaya (200s-1400) was an ancient Hindu-Buddhist Kingdom on the island of Sumatra which influenced much of the Malay Archipelago. Records of its beginning are scarce while estimations range from...
The Lord is the supreme poet, the first cause, the sovereign ruler, subtler than the tiniest particle, the support of all, inconceivable, bright as the sun, beyond darkness. Remembering him in this...
The Lord of Love holds in his hand the world, composed of the changing and the changeless, the manifest and the unmanifest.
The separate self, not yet aware of the Lord, goes after pleasure, only...
The mantra AUM stands for the supreme state Of Turiya, without parts, beyond birth and death, symbol of everlasting joy.
Those who know AUM as the Self become the Self; Truly they become the...
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by Dr. David Frawley
The Post-Colonial World
Our view of human history colors the perception of who we are in a fundamental way. It creates the infrastructure of ideas according to which we...
Following is the article written by David Frawley in "The India Times" David Frawley, a well-known Vedic scholar, runs the American Institute of Vedic Studies in santa Fe, New Mexico. He is also a...
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During the Eurocolonial period, Indian history and civilization were distorted to fit European perceptions. A new school of thought is needed that will see Asian history and tradition with Asian...
Did you know that the oldest book in the library of humans is the Rigveda?
The existence of the Vedas go beyond recorded history and are said to be passed down from the Gods to the great seers of...
Did you know that by 7500 B.C. Bharat (India) already had advanced townships with villages of mud-brick houses?
bharatavarsha (the Indian Subcontinent) is home to the oldest civilization in...
Series of lectures given by the author highlighting the most essential aspects of Yoga Sadhana and bringing Yoga Darsana (Patanjali's Yoga Sutras) to new life as a vibrant, living guide to...
Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice (of religious ritual). Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results (of one's actions), because...
"The Sage of Kanchi" is a biographical documentary in English on the life of Sri Chandrashekarendra Saraswathi, the 68th Shankaracharya of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam. It takes you on a spiritual...
The sages call it Akshara, the Imperishable. It is neither big nor small, neither long nor short, neither hot nor cold, neither bright nor dark, neither air nor space. It is without attachment,...
Pranayama is an important limb in the Yoga of meditation. It is equally necessary for all in their daily life, for good health, success and prosperity in every walk of life. How it is so, is...
The impressions of past action, stored deep in the mind, are the seeds of desire. They ripen into action in seen and unseen ways—if not in this life, then in a future one.
The Yoga Sutras of...
The powerful devotional hymns of Saint Tayumanavar, 1,447 verses composed 300 years ago, are still alive in the hearts of millions. It is hard to find a clearer vision of Lord Siva, at once...
Srivijaya is an ancient kingdom on the island of Sumatra. Known to be existed around 1400, it was found by Dapunta Hyang Çri Yacanaca. Buddhism was then spread, and records describe the Srivijayan...
This 2-volume series consists of 110 chapters. It is a monumental tome covering in detail every aspect of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Really a masterpiece of in depth analysis.
read online: The Study...
by P. N. Oak
Probably there is no one who has been duped at least once in a life time. But can the whole world can be duped? This may seem impossible. But in the matter of indian and world history...
I Ching or Yi Jing (Yijing, Yiqing, I-Tsing or YiChing) (635-713) was a Tang Dynasty Buddhist monk, originally named Zhang Wen Ming.
I-Ching also known as Yi Jing was a Tang Dynasty...
The Vedic Tradition
The Vedic tradition of knowledge, based on the extensive Vedic literature, is the oldest tradition of knowledge in the world. Though it has been long preserved in India,...
Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery, Arjuna. The wise do not look for happiness in them. But those who overcome the impulses of lust...
The wise man knows the Self, and he plays the game of life.
But the fool lives in the world like a beast of burden.
Ashtavakra Gita 4:1
A discursive analysis on the techniques of meditation and a comprehensive study on the science of meditation based on the Bhagavadgita and Patanjali's yoga system. A basis for all further thinking...
The technique of the practice of the yoga system of Patanjali, which goes into details of the psychological reprecussions and involvements during the attempt to concentrate the mind with a single...
Prof. Dean Brown points out that most European languages can be traced back to a root language that is also related to Sanskrit - the sacred language of the ancient Vedic religions of India. Many...
Thirumoolar is one of the 18 Siddhars. His main work is Thirumandhiram, that describes various aspects, from Science, Medicine, Human aspects of Life, The Divine - especially Lord Shiva and many...
The tilaka (or tilak) is a mark worn on the forehead and other parts of the body for spiritual reasons.
To denote marriage and auspiciousness, married women today commonly wear on the forehead a...
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Thirukkural (Tamil: திருக்குறள் also known as the Kural) is a classic of couplets or Kurals (1330 rhyming Tamil couplets) or aphorisms. Tirukkural is the great poetic work by...
Complete Text of Tirukkural
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Complete Text of Tirukkural
Part I: Virtue
Introduction
The Praise of God
The Excellence of Rain
The Greatness of Ascetics
Assertion of...
The Tirumantiram, literally "Holy incantation," is the Nandinatha Sampradaya's oldest Tamil scripture, written ca 200 bce by Rishi Tirumular. It is the earliest of the Tirumurai, and a vast...
Thirumandhiram, is a Tamil Hindu poetic work written in the tenth century BCE by Thirumoolar. It contains 3047 verses that deals with various aspects of ethics and praises of the Hindu God Shiva....
Tiruvalluvar (Tamil: திருவள்ளுவர்) [c. 1st century BCE] was a great sage and scholar hailing from Tamil Nadu. Born to a brahmin father and a mother who was the foster child...
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treta yuga or trétha yuga (Sanskrit: त्रेता युग, ";") — is the second out of four yugas, or ages of man following the satya-yuga of perfect morality and preceding the...
Ayurvedic treatments differ from the majority of conventional cures in its unique approach towards healing. The principle of treating the sick and not the sickness is central to all forms of...
triloka (Sanskrit: "three worlds"). The ‘triple world’ of saṃsāra or rebirth. The three worlds of existence, triloka, are the primary hierarchical divisions of the cosmos. 1) bhuloka: "Earth...
The Doctrine of Trivarga comprising of "DHARMA, ARTHA AND KAMA" is the sum and substance of the Bharatiya Philosophy of life, intended to strike a reasonable balance between the interests of the...
Vinayaka is the master of every kind of knowledge. Learning is related to the buddhi (intellect). It is not mere scholarship. Familiarity with books is not knowledge. One's entire life is a...
To trust a stranger without investigation invites troubles so endless that even descendants must endure them.
Without investigation, trust no one. Having investigated, entrust a man with matters...
Whencapitalized, ultimate knowing which is unchanging. Lower case(truth):correctness, according with fact, honesty, integrity;virtue.
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It is said that truthfulness alone constitutes the spiritual discipline of the Kaliyuga. If a man clings tenaciously to truth he ultimately realizes God. Without this regard for truth, one...
Truth is one; only It is called by different names. All people are seeking the same Truth; the variance is due to climate, temperament, and name. A lake has many ghats. From one ghat the Hindus...
Tsunami throws up India relics
by Soutik Biswas, Friday, 11 February, 2005, BBC News, Delhi
The deadly tsunami could have uncovered the remains of an ancient port city off the coast in southern...
by Swami Chidananda, The Divine Life Society.
Swami Chidananda writes, “Swami Sivananda gave us one aspect of His teachings in the form of the 20 Important Spiritual Instructions. These...
Abandonment, renunciation, the performance of actions without attachment to the results of action.
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upacara (Sanskrit: upacāra, "of offerings") — ceremony.
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The Upanishads are the end part of the Vedas which briefly expound the philosophic principles of the Vedas and are considered the essence of the Vedas. The philosophy of the Upanishads is sublime,...
Essence of Vedic Knowledge
This book which gives, in English, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba's articles (first published in Telugu in the Sanathana Sarathi) on the Ten Upanishads (invaluable...
Upa-puranas is the lower corpus of the puranas. The Upa-puranas are not clearly defined. Some Upa-puranas are: Sanat-kumara, Narasimha, Brihan-naradiya, Siva-rahasya, Durvasa, Kapila, Vamana,...
1. Ayurveda – Science of health and longevity
2. Dharnur Veda – Science of archery and war
3. Gandharva Veda – Science of Music
4. Artha Shastra – Science of governing by Kings
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upaya (Sanskrit: upāya, "the means; of processes") — means; ways; ability
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upaya svarupam — The Means to God-realization. The process by which one works towards a spiritual goal is known as yoga, which means to yoke or to join. It indicates the unification of the seeker...
Update on the Aryan Invasion Debate
By Koenraad Elst
Publication: Aditya Prakashan
Until the mid-19th century, no Indian had ever heard of the notion that his ancestors could be Aryan invaders...
utama (Sanskrit: uttama, "highly situated; topmost") — main; chief; special; most important.
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utara (Sanskrit: uttara, "upper, above") — north.
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utas (Sanskrit: uttara, "reply") — explain.
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vairāgya or vairaagya (Sanskrit: वैराग्य, "dispassion; detachment; or renunciation") — desire and ability to give up all transitory enjoyments. In particular renunciation from the...
Vaisheshika Sutra is by Kanada and it describes an atomic approach to matter.
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vaishnava or vaishnavam (Sanskrit: vaiṣṇava), which is the vriddhi form of Vishnu meaning "relating, belonging, or sacred to Vishnu" or "a worshiper or follower of...
vaisya — a member of the traditional mercantile or business community. The vaisya was the third varna in the system of varnasrama dharma.
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Ayurveda in this branch of science explains the art of producing healthy progeny for the creation of a better society. Hence, deals with various diseases like infertility and conditions relating to...
vanaprastha ashrama or "samskaras of later life". Age 48 marks the entrance into the elder advisor stage, celebrated in some communities by special ceremony. — sannyasa ashrama vrata: The advent...
EMINENT ASTROLOGER AND ASTRONOMERA
renowned astrologer and astronomer who was honored with a special decoration and status as one of the nine gems in the court of King Vikramaditya in Avanti...
varnashrama dharma or varna-ashrama dharma is the Vedic system of the Goals of life, Social divisions and Stages of life and one is encouraged to strive for a balance and harmony of all the four...
The traditional social system of four varnas and four asramas. The word varna literally means, “color” and it refers to four basic natures of mankind: brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra. The...
varnasrama — the traditional social system of four varnas and four asramas. The word varna literally means, “color” and it refers to four basic natures of mankind: brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya...
vasana (Sanskrit: "subconscious inclination; conditioning, tendencies, or self-limitations; predispositions and habits") from vas (living, remaining) — the subliminal inclinations and habit...
vāsara or vaasara, often abbreviated as vaara in Sanskrit-derived languages, refers to the days of the week.
Following are the Hindi and English analogues in parentheses
1. Ravi vāsara...
Vasishtha. Disciple of Maharishi Nandikeshvara (Nandinatha) (ca 250 bce) along with Patanjali and Vyaghrapada (as recorded in Panini's book of grammar). Also the name of several other famous sages,...
Vastu Shastra is an ancient science energy flow throughout the house/office/factory that allows inflow of fresh air and natural light that promotes health, wealth, peace and happiness.
The most...
vāstu śāstra, vastu shastra or vastu veda (Sanskrit: "science of construction; architecture") — is a traditional Hindu system of design based on directional alignments. It is primarily applied...
Veda (Sanskrit: "Knowledge.") from the root vid, meaning to know without limit — the scriptures that are the basis of Hindu belief and practice. The Vedas were "heard" or "seen" by sages from a...
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The Vedāṅga (Sanskrit: ""Veda-limb; member of the Veda") are six auxiliary disciplines for the understanding and tradition of the Vedas. The four Vedas form the body of the Veda Purusha or the...
Vedānta (Devanagari: वेदान्त) a compound of veda, "knowledge" and anta, "end, conclusion", translating to "the culmination of the Vedas" — is a school of philosophy within Hinduism...
The under-pinning of Indian philosophy shorn of abstruse jargon and written in simple, lucid style. A great book for beginners as well as a handy reference for one and all.
read online: Vedanta for...
The Vedas (Sanskrit: वेद) are a large corpus of texts originating in Ancient India. The Vedas are perhaps the oldest written text on our planet today. They date back to the beginning of...
There are two world traditions which have formed the cultural and ethical basis of the world as we know it. Both have an unbroken history going back thousands of years. Judaism with a 5000 year old...
The Vedas are Hinduism's primary and most authoritative revealed scriptures, dating back as far as 6,000 bce, known as shruti, that which is "heard." The Vedas, literally "wisdom," are the sagely...
The Kandhar city in Afghanistan is the current mispronunciation of the Sanskrit term “Gandhar” which was the capital of a flourishing ancient Hindu kingdom. Gandhari (wife of King Dhritarastra)...
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1. Vedic Mathematics, Vedic Mathematics
and the Spiritual Dimension by Swami B. B. Visnu
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In the Vedic Time System, kala (Time) is not a linear, single-directional movement, like an arrow speeding from past to future. The idea of Time itself was quite advanced in Hindu Heritage. The...
Vedic Tradition or also called Vedic Civilization/Culture/Heritage/Philosophy refers to the civilization, philosophy, culture, science and knowledge system that has its origin from the ancient...
Vibhuti is the holy ash obtained from sacred puja rites involving fire.
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vidya: (Sanskrit) "Knowledge, learning, science." The power of understanding gained through study and meditation. Contrasted with avidya, ignorance.
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Flow of Spiritual Education
Baba has clarified that the word Vidya used for this Vahini (Stream of Thought) means (Ya) that which (Vid) "illumines." It is this sense that is highlighted in...
Also known as Dussehra, Vijaya Dashami is the celebration of Rama’s victory over the asura Ravana. Vijaya means victory and dashami means tenth and so Vijaya Dashami is the victory on the 10th...
vijñåna or viññāṇa (Sanskrit: विज्ञान, "transcendental knowledge"; "realized spiritual understanding"; "pure knowledge") the prefix vi added to a noun tends to diminish or...
vijnanamaya kosha (wisdom-apparent-sheath) or the prajna (wisdom) sheath is part of sukshma-sharira (subtle body). Vijnanamaya means composed of vijnana, or intellect, the faculty which...
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I first remember reading about vimanas, i.e. highly advanced ancient Indian flying machines, in Chariots Of The Gods, the first international best-seller of the...
virodhi svarupam — The Obstacles to Spiritual Practice. The spiritual path is metaphorically described in the Upanishads as “the edge of a razor” (kshurasya dhara) because of all the dangers...
adhyayana
study of the Scriptures such as the Vedas, Upanishads, Mahabharata and Ramayana.
danam
This term has a twofold reference; one is the giving of charity to the needy as well as doing...
VishishtAdvaita Vedanta (IAST Viśishṭādvaita Vedanta;Sanskrit: विशिष्टाद्वैत)) is a sub-school of the Vedānta (literally, end or the goal of the Vedas, Sanskrit)...
Visnu-Purana (Sanskrit) One of the most celebrated of the 18 principal Puranas, conforming more than any other to the definition of pancha-lakshana (five distinguishing marks) assigned as being the...
viveka (Sanskrit: "discrimination") — act or ability to distinguish or perceive differences. The ability to distinguish between right and wrong, real and apparent, eternal and transient. The...
vivekacūḍāmaṇi, vivekachudamani or vivekachoodamani literally "The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom" is a famous work by Adi Shankara that expounds advaita vedanta philosophy. Having written...
Vyākaraṇa Vedanga or Vyākaraṇa Shastra (Sanskrit: "grammar") — auxiliary Vedic texts on Sanskrit grammar. Vyakarana is among four linguistic skills taught for mastery of the Vedas and the...
vyavaharika (Sanskrit: ), from vy-ava-hri, "to act or behave in affairs" from the verbal root hri, "to carry, receive, obtain, hold" — relating to business or practice, hence practical....
wacana (Sanskrit: vacana, "statement") — discussion.
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wangsa (Sanskrit: vaṃśa, "family; of the dynasty") — dynasty.
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warganegara (Sanskrit: varga "member" + nagara, "the cities") — citizen.
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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows...
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Swami Vivekananda
A South Indian sage, Tiruvalluvar, tells us of friends and foes, family, God, business, law, spies, love, hate, and all that's human in his classic masterpiece, the Tirukural. Also available in a...
Welcome to your new site! Please read this first!
This page is just a welcome-page and you really might want to change it using the "edit" button at the bottom of this page and delete this...
Interest of Europeans in Bharatavarsha and Its Ancient Literature
The battle of Plassey, fought in Samvat 1814, sealed the fate of India. Bengal came under the dominance of the British. In Samvat...
by David Frawley (Vamadeva Shastri)
The Spread of the Monoculture
Western civilization, in spite of claims to support diversity, is promoting a worldwide monoculture—the same basic values,...
The amazing inventions, extraordinary ideas and world's first and advanced civilization by Indians that are still useful today, such as plastic surgery, number system, wax, yogas, water clock,...
According to Wikipedia, the world largest wiki site:
A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit...
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Modern Adventures into a Profound Global Faith. A rare, inside look at the world's most venerable and vibrant religion, revealed in forty-six illustrated journeys...
When ignorance is destroyed, the Self is liberated from its identification with the world.
This liberation is Enlightenment.
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 2:25
When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.
Albert Einstein
If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India…. For more than...
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California School Text Book Controversy
Witzel’s debacle in California
by N.S. Rajaram, April 30, 2006
A few months ago, California education authorities accepted recommendations to make...
Pleasures conceived in the world of the senses have a beginning and an end and give birth to misery, Arjuna. The wise do not look for happiness in them. But those who overcome the impulses of lust...
Did you know that as early as 700 B.C., there existed a giant University at Takshashila, located in the northwest region of Bharat (India)?
The world's oldest recognized university
Taxila also...
The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The campus accommodated 10,500 students who came...
The World's first university was established in Takshila in 700 BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The campus accommodated 10,500 students who came...
Did you know that the Atharva Veda contains sections devoted to the science of medicine?
The atharvaveda gave birth to Ayur Veda, the traditional system of Hindu medicine and it was developed...
AUM ॐ
Known as the ‘pranava mantra,’ the source of all mantras.
Gāyatrī Mantra
The Gayatri Mantra is the universal prayer enshrined in the Vedas, the most ancient Scriptures of Man and...
yajña, yagna, or yagya (Sanksrit: यज्ञ, "worship, prayer, praise; offering, oblation, sacrifice; fire ceremony") comes from the root yaj, "to worship" — is an outer form of worship in...
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Yama Dharmaraja (Sanskrit: यम) is the Lord of Justice and is sometimes referred to as Dharmaraja in reference to his unswerving dedication to maintaining order and adherence to harmony....
The yogic `restraints` - from the Sanskrit verb root `yam` to hold or check. Sage Patanjali presents five ethical observances for yogis – ahimsa (non-harming), satya (truthfulness), asteya...
The yamas and niyamas have been preserved through the centuries as the foundation, the first and second stage, of the eight-staged practice of yoga: yama — niyama — asana — pranayama —...
Yantra Yoga, the power of focusing the mind upon yantra, geometric representations of the cosmos.
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Perseverance in (seeking to gain) the knowledge of the Supreme Spirit, and perception of the gain that comes from knowledge of the Truth: This is called knowledge — all that is contrary to this...
Yoga (Sanskrit: योग, "union of atman (individual Self) with paramåtma (Universal Self)") derived from the root yuj, "to join, to unite, to attach" — spiritual practices performed primarily...
An indepth study of the intricate involvements in the attempt to practice yoga. Includes aspects of philosophy, psychology sociology and the mystical features of yoga practice. This book has the...
You have the right to work, but never to the fruit of work. You should never engage in action for the sake of reward, nor should you long for inaction. Perform work in this world…as a man...
An easy and delightful introduction to the yoga of meditation. Highly clarifying and elucidatory, a favorite with everyone.
read online: Yoga, Meditation and Japa Sadhana
These are some must do exercises, which will change your life and will make you healthy and strtong.
The Sanskrit word yoga stems from the verbal root yuj meaning "to yoke" or "to unite." Thus, in a spiritual context, yoga stands for "training" or "unitive discipline." The Sanskrit literature...
Twenty Timeless Keys to Your Divine Destiny
by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
Publication: Himalayan Academy
A must-read for serious yoga practitioners, meditators and anyone deeply involved with...
The Yoga Sutras of acharya-patanjali is a foundational text of Yoga. It forms part of the corpus of sutra literature. In Indian philosophy, Yoga (also Raja Yoga to distinguish it from later...
Lecture of Dr. Pandya in IIM, India
This lecture (in Englsih) was given by Dr. Pranav Pandya in Indian Institute of Management(IIM), Ahemdavad on application of Rishi Patanjali's Yog Sutras (...
Right or wrong, joy and sorrow, these are of the mind only. They are not yours.
It is not really you who acts or enjoys. You are everywhere, forever free.
Ashtavakra Gita 1:6
Iron turns into rust if it seeks the company of soil. It glows, softens and takes on useful shapes, if it enjoys the company of fire. Dust can fly if it chooses the wind as its friend. It has to...
Because of your faith, I shall tell you the most profound of secrets: obtaining both jnana and vijnana, you will be free from all evil.
This royal knowledge, this royal secret, is the greatest...
yuga (Sanskrit: युग, "age or cycle; aeon; world era;") — an age of the world, of which there are four — satya-yuga or krita yuga (Golden Age), treta-yuga (Silver age), dwapara-yuga...
yuga dharma (Sanskrit: युगधर्म) an aspect of dharma that is valid for a yuga. In Satya-Yuga or the golden age there was a different set of Dharmas or laws; in Treta, they changed into...
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