Dictionary: Rama

Rama type Hindu name Rama devanagari राम member_of Dashavatara god_of The Ideal Man · Embodiment of Dharma affiliation Seventh avatar of Vishnu, , Brahman (Vaishnavism), , Deva parents Dasharatha (father), , Kaushalya (mother), , Kaikeyi (step-mother), , Sumitra (step-mother) spouse Sita abode Ayodhya · Saket weapon Bow and arrows texts Ramayana, , Versions of Ramayana siblings Lakshmana (half-brother), , Bharata (half-brother), , Shatrughna (half-brother) festivals Rama Navami · Vivaha Panchami · Deepavali · Dusshera birth_place Ayodhya, Kosala (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India) children Lava (son), , Kusha (son) dynasty Raghuvamsha)-Suryavamsha predecessor Dasharatha Bharata) gender Male successor Lava) mantra Jai Shri Ram Hare Rama) name Dashavatara Sequence predecessor Parashurama successor Krishna Rama (राम ) is a major deity in Hinduism....

February 15, 2023 · 29 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Achintya Bheda Abheda

Achintya Bheda Abheda !Gauranga Achintya-Bheda-Abheda (अचिन्त्यभेदाभेद, in IAST) is a school of Vedanta representing the philosophy of inconceivable one-ness and difference. In Sanskrit achintya means ‘inconceivable’, bheda translates as ‘difference’, and abheda translates as ’non-difference’. The Gaudiya Vaishnava religious tradition employs the term in relation to the relationship of creation and creator (Krishna, Svayam Bhagavan), between God and his energies. It is believed that this philosophy was taught by the movement’s theological founder Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1534) and differentiates the Gaudiya tradition from the other Vaishnava Sampradayas....

February 15, 2023 · 4 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Jaganmata

Jaganmata !Shri Lakshmi Lustrated by Elephants (Gaja-Lakshmi) LACMA M.74.40.1 (1 of 5)LACMA_M.74.40.1(1_of_5).jpg?width=300) !Tanjore Paintings - Big temple 01|||Tanjore painting of Lakshmi Jaganmata (जगन्माता), also rendered as Lokamata, is primarily an epithet of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi, the supreme goddess of Vaishnavism. It is also used in Hindu literature to address other goddesses, such as Parvati and Durga. Atharva Veda A hymn from the Atharva Veda dedicated to Lakshmi prays for a portion of the Jaganmata to reside upon one’s tongue....

February 15, 2023 · 1 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Maggi Lidchi-Grassi

Maggi Lidchi-Grassi Marguerite (Maggi) Lidchi-Grassi (born 1930 in Paris) is a writer and spiritual teacher. Life and writings During World War II, she lived in South Africa, but later returned to Paris, where she encountered a cousin who had survived Auschwitz. An attempt to understand why things went wrong led her, at the age of seventeen, to discover the works of Sri Aurobindo. In 1959, married and once again living in Africa, she decided to leave her husband and family and, after some attempts to dissuade her, went to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Puducherry, India, where she still lives....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Ram Janmabhoomi

Ram Janmabhoomi name Ram Janmabhoomi alternate_name Birth place of lord Ram coordinates 26.7956°N, 82.1943°W location Ayodhya region Uttar Pradesh ownership Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Ram Janmabhoomi (literally, “Rama’s birthplace”) is the site that is hypothesized to be the birthplace of Rama, believed to be the seventh avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu. The Ramayana states that the location of Rama’s birthplace is on the banks of the Sarayu river))) in a city called “Ayodhya”....

February 15, 2023 · 13 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Sanskrit Collegiate School

Sanskrit Collegiate School name Sanskrit Collegiate School motto Sanskrit: तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय motto_translation From the darkness of ignorance lead me to the light of knowledge streetaddress 1,Bankim Chatterjee Street region College Street city Kolkata state West Bengal county India postcode 700 073 country India schooltype School fundingtype Government language Bengali, English, Sanskrit established 1824 authority Government of West Bengal headmaster Debabrata Mukherjee grades I to XII gender Boys’ only lower_age 6 years upper_age 19 years students 600 (approx) affiliations WBBSE, WBCHSE colours White and Olive Green alumni Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, Haraprasad Shastri, Shibnath Shastri, Surendranath Dasgupta, Krishna Kanta Handique, Bimal Krishna Matilal, Abanindranath Tagore, J....

February 15, 2023 · 5 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Kshurika Upanishad

Kshurika Upanishad name Kshurika devanagari क्षुरिका sanskrit_transliteration Kṣurikā meaning Mind as a Razor type Yoga veda Krishna Yajurveda or Atharvaveda chapters 1 verses 25 The Kshurika Upanishad (Sanskrit: क्षुरिका उपनिषत्, IAST: Kṣurikā Upaniṣad) is an ancient Sanskrit text and one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. It is one of twenty Yoga Upanishads in the four Vedas. Its manuscripts are either attached to the Atharvaveda, or to the Krishna Yajurveda....

February 15, 2023 · 3 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Abirami Antati

Abirami Antati !Abirami_Ma Abirami Antati (அபிராமி அந்தாதி) is a Tamil collection of poems sung on goddess Abirami, a deity venerated in Thirukkadaiyur Amirtaghatesvarar Sivan Temple, situated in Tamil Nadu, India. This poetry was composed by Abirami Bhattar (His birth name was Subramanyam) who lived during the 18th century CE, a contemporary to Serfoji I of Tanjore. Etymology Antati (அந்தாதி, Antāti) is a classification of Tamil poetry in which last word of a previous verse comes as the first word of next verse....

February 15, 2023 · 3 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Maharaja Chhatrasal Museum

Maharaja Chhatrasal Museum name Maharaja Chhatrasal Museum map_type India Madhya Pradesh#India coordinates 25.00798°N, 79.47971°W location Dhubela, Chhatarpur District, Madhya Pradesh, India !Open air Gallery, Maharaja Chhatrasal Museum Dhubela|||Open air Gallery, Maharaja Chhatrasal Museum, Dhubela Maharaja Chhatrasal Museum is a museum located in an old palace at Dhubela, on the Chhatarpur-Jhansi highway, in Chhatarpur District, Madhya Pradesh, India. This museum was established in September, 1955 in a palace built by Chhatrasal for his residence....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Rigveda

Rigveda religion Hinduism image_size 280px language Vedic Sanskrit period c. 1500–1000 BCE chapters 10 mandalas verses 10,552 mantras !Rigveda MS2097|||pitch-accent is marked by underscores and vertical overscores in red. The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद ’, from ‘ “praise” and “knowledge”) is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas). It is one of the four sacred canonical Hindu texts (śruti) known as the Vedas. Only one Shakha of the many survive today, namely the Śakalya Shakha....

February 15, 2023 · 39 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Pindi (Hindu iconography)

Pindi (Hindu iconography) !Vaishno devi Pindi are decked stones or tree stumps viewed in Hinduism as abstract manifestations of the mother goddess Shakti. Most of the 20th-century goddess temples in Himachal Pradesh, India, enshrine a pindi. See also Lingam

February 15, 2023 · 1 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Moksha

Moksha title Moksha en Emancipation, liberation, release sa मोक्ष sa-latn mokṣa bn মোক্ষ bn-latn mokkho as মোক্ষ as-latn mokkho gu મોક્ષ gu-latn mōkṣa hi मोक्ष hi-latn moksh ma मोक्ष ma-latn moksh jv ꦩꦺꦴꦏ꧀ꦱ jv-latn moksa kn ಮೋಕ್ಷ kn-latn mōkṣa ml മോക്ഷം ml-latn mōkṣaṁ ne मोक्ष moksha Moksha ne-latn moksh pa ਮੋਕਸ਼ pa-latn mōkaśa or ମୋକ୍ଷ or-latn mokṣa ta வீடுபேறு ta-latn vīdupēru te మోక్షము te-latn mokshamu mr मोक्ष mr-latn moksh sinhalese මෝක්ෂ !...

February 15, 2023 · 25 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Vedic metre

Vedic metre Vedic metre refers to the poetic metre) in the Vedic literature. The study of Vedic metre, along with post-Vedic metre, is part of Chandas, one of the six Vedanga disciplines. Overview Metre Syllable structure No. of verses Examples Gāyatrī 8 8 8 2447 Rigveda 7.1.1-30, 8.2.14 Uṣṇih 8 8 12 341 Rigveda 1.8.23-26 Anuṣṭubh 8 8 8 8 855 Rigveda 8.69.7-16, 10.136.7 Bṛhatī 8 8 12 8 181 Rigveda 5....

February 15, 2023 · 4 min · TheAum

Dictionary: Self-Realization Fellowship Encinitas Retreat, Hermitage, and Meditation Gardens

Self-Realization Fellowship Encinitas Retreat, Hermitage, and Meditation Gardens name Self-Realization Fellowship Encinitas Retreat, Hermitage, and Meditation Gardens image_caption A 2007 view of Swami’s beach in Encinitas, shows the red-roofed hermitage building on the top of the bluff, where Paramahansa Yogananda wrote the Autobiography of a Yogi. location 215 W K St, Encinitas, California 92024 U.S. coordinates 33.0358°N, -117.294°W operator Self-Realization Fellowship type Meditation gardens and retreat with temple and bookstore nearby website encinitastemple....

February 15, 2023 · 2 min · TheAum

Dictionary: The Ten Principal Upanishads

The Ten Principal Upanishads name The Ten Principal Upanishads author W. B. Yeats, , Shri Purohit Swami language English published 1938 The Ten Principal Upanishads is a version of the Upanishads translated by Irish poet W. B. Yeats and the Indian-born mendicant-teacher Shri Purohit Swami. The translation process occurred between the two authors throughout the 1930s and the book was published in 1938; it is one of the final works of W....

February 15, 2023 · 3 min · TheAum