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Kundika Upanishad devanagari कुण्डिका veda Sama Veda verses One chapter with 34 verses philosophy Vedanta The Kundika Upanishad (कुण्डिका उपनिषत्, IAST: Kuṇḍikā Upaniṣad), also known as Kundikopanishad, is an ancient text and a minor Upanishad of Hinduism. It is one of the 19 Sannyasa Upanishads, and is one of the 16 Upanishads attached to the Sama Veda. The text is titled Kundika in surviving Telugu language versions, and notably large parts of it are identical to the Laghu-Sannyasa Upanishad versions found in some parts of India....

Judith Tyberg !Judith_Tyberg_Founder_of_EWCC Judith Tyberg (1902–1980) was an American yogi (“Jyotipriya”) and a renowned Sanskrit scholar and orientalist. Author of The Language of the Gods and two other texts on Sanskrit, she was the founder and guiding spirit of the East-West Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California, a major pioneering door through which now-celebrated Indian yogis and spiritual teachers of many Eastern and mystical traditions were first introduced to America and the West....

Chattampi Swamikal name Chattampi Swamikal birth_date August 25, 1853 birth_place Kollur, Trivandrum death_date May 5, 1924 death_place Panmana, Kollam resting_place Samadhistanam at Panmana guru Pettayil Raman Pillai Asan, Ayyavu Swamikal, Subba Jadapadikal disciples Neelakanta Therthapada, Theerthapada Parmahamsa philosophy Advaita literary_works Advaita Chinthapaddhathi, Vedadikara Nirupanam, Pracheena Malayalam etc. honors Sree Vidyadhiraja Parama Bhattaraka nationality Indian free_label Quote free_text The whole universe is one mind. Between mind and mind there is no vacuum....

Jataveda Jataveda (जातवेद, ) is a Vedic Sanskrit term for a particular form/epithet of Agni, the Vedic god of fire. In a tradition originating in the late Vedic period, but already alluded to in the RigVeda, Agni has three forms: a celestial form (fire of the sun and the stars), an aerial form (lightning and the life-force of vegetation called the ‘Child/Embryo of the Waters’), and a terrestrial form (e.g., the altar fire at worship)....

Bādarāyaṇa Badarayana (IAST Bādarāyaṇa; Devanāgari बादरायण) was an Indian philosopher and sage who was the reputed author of Brahma Sutras, the source text for the Hindu philosophical school of Vedānta. Estimates of his lifetime vary very widely from around fifth century BCE to third or fourth century CE. His work Brahma Sutras is variously dated from 500 BCE to 450 CE. The Brahma Sutras of Bādarāyana, also called the Vedanta Sutra, was compiled in its present form around 400–450 CE, but “the great part of the Sutra must have been in existence much earlier than that”....

Chandrahas In the Hindu epic Ramayana, the Chandrahasa is an indestructible sword that Shiva gifts Ravana. Ravana lifting Mount Kailash The Uttara Kanda of the Hindu epic Ramayana records that the ten-headed, twenty-armed mighty King Ravana defeated and looted Alaka – the city of his step-brother and god of wealth Kubera, situated near Mount Kailash. After the victory, Ravana was returning to Lanka in the Pushpaka Vimana (the flying chariot that his father in law made for him), when he spotted a beautiful place....

Asraya Āśraya (Sanskrit: आश्रय) variously means – base, source, assistance, shelter, protection, refuge, dependence, having recourse to or depending on. In terms of Hindu philosophy, the living entity or Jiva is āśraya, and Brahman or the Supreme Being, the Godhead, is viśaya, the supreme objective, the goal of life Bhagavata Purana (VII.x.6). But, this word - āśraya conveying the primary meaning – ‘refuge’, immediately relates with the deity which is worshipped rather than with the abstract Brahman, the substratum of all that exists....

Pravrajika Vrajaprana name Pravrajika Vrajaprana birth_date 1952 (age 71) birth_place California, U.S. known_for Writer on Vedanta, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna, Christopher Isherwood. occupation Pravrajika (or sannyasini) at Vedanta Society of Southern California, Writer Pravrajika Vrajaprana is a sannyasini or pravrajika (female swami) at the Vedanta Society of Southern California, affiliated with the Ramakrishna Order. She resides at Sarada Convent in Santa Barbara, CA. and a writer on Vedanta, the history and growth of the Vedanta Societies...

Jnana Palam !Hapus_Mango Jnana palam (ஞானப்பழம்), also rendered Gnana Palam, is the name of a divine fruit in Hindu mythology. It is associated with the myth of Murugan and Ganesha participating in a contest, and the former’s sacred abode of Palani. Presented by the sage Narada to Shiva, the jnana palam is regarded to have possessed the elixir of wisdom. In some iterations, the jnana palam is described to be a golden mango....

Yogoda Satsanga Society of India name Yogoda Satsanga Society of India size 250px formation 1917 type Spiritual organization status Foundation) purpose Educational, Philanthropic, Religious studies, Spirituality headquarters Dakshineswar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India region_served Worldwide leader_title President leader_name Brother Chidananda affiliations Self-Realization Fellowship location 200 Centers website http://www.yssofindia.org/ !Paramahansa Yogananda 1977 stamp of India|||A 1977 stamp of India !Yogoda Satsanga Society of India Headquarters, Dakshinewar, India|||YSSI Headquarters, Dakshineswar, India !Temple at Yogoda Satsanga Sakha Math, Dwarahat, India|||Temple at Yogoda Satsanga Sakha Math, Dwarahat, India...

Varanasi Cantonment Assembly constituency name Varanasi Cantonment mla Saurabh Srivastava party Bharatiya Janata Party year 2022 state Uttar Pradesh district Varanasi reservation None electors 4,32,293 (2019) Varanasi Cantonment is a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly covering the city of Varanasi Cantonment in the Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Varanasi Cantonment is one of five assembly constituencies in the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. Since 2008, this assembly constituency is numbered 390 amongst 403 constituencies....

Ksirodakasayi Vishnu !Brahma is coming out from Maha Vishnu in Ocean of Milk Kṣirodaksayi Vishnu क्षीरोदक्शायीविष्णु is a form of the Hindu god Vishnu. As the Paramatma (Ultimate Soul), he is described to “enter every atom and the heart of all beings as a witness, and gives remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness”. In Gauḍīya Vaishnavism, a school of Vaishṇavism, the Sātvata-tantra describes three different forms, or aspects, of Vishnu as Mahavishnu also known as Karnodakshayi Vishnu (The form from whose breath the multiverse is born and from whose inhalation,whole multiverse of matter is drawn and engulfed), Garbhodakśayī-Viṣṇu and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Vishnu (Each universe has Garbhodakśayī-Viṣṇu as its base and Kṣīrodakaśāyī-Viṣṇu in every matter particles as a copied version) Kṣīrodakaśāyī-Viṣṇu resides in the heart of every living creature as a four hand expansion similar to that of Mahāviṣṇu....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 9 - Chapter 1 - Verse 53-55 Sanskrit: प्रवरश्रुतमुख्यांश्च साक्षाद् धर्मो वसूनिव । वसुदेवस्तु देवक्यामष्ट पुत्रानजीजनत् ॥ ५३ ॥ कीर्तिमन्तं सुषेणं च भद्रसेनमुदारधी: । ऋजुं सम्मर्दनं भद्रं सङ्कर्षणमहीश्वरम् ॥ ५४ ॥ अष्टमस्तु तयोरासीत् स्वयमेव हरि: किल । सुभद्रा च महाभागा तव राजन् पितामही ॥ ५५ ॥ ITRANS: pravara-śruta-mukhyāṁś casākṣād dharmo vasūn ivavasudevas tu devakyāmaṣṭa putrān ajījanat Translation: The eight sons born of Sahadevā such as Pravara and Śruta, were exact incarnations of the eight Vasus in the heavenly planets....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 9 - Chapter 1 - Verse 12-13 Sanskrit: देवापि: शान्तनुस्तस्य बाह्लीक इति चात्मजा: ।पितृराज्यं परित्यज्य देवापिस्तु वनं गत: ॥ १२ ॥अभवच्छान्तनू राजा प्राङ्‌महाभिषसंज्ञित: ।यं यं कराभ्यां स्पृशति जीर्णं यौवनमेति स: ॥ १३ ॥ ITRANS: devāpiḥ śāntanus tasyabāhlīka iti cātmajāḥpitṛ-rājyaṁ parityajyadevāpis tu vanaṁ gataḥ Translation: The sons of Pratīpa were Devāpi, Śāntanu and Bāhlīka. Devāpi left the kingdom of his father and went to the forest, and therefore Śāntanu became the king....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 9 - Chapter 1 - Verse 14-15 Sanskrit: शान्तिमाप्नोति चैवाग्र्यां कर्मणा तेन शान्तनु: ।समा द्वादश तद्राज्ये न ववर्ष यदा विभु: ॥ १४ ॥शान्तनुर्ब्राह्मणैरुक्त: परिवेत्तायमग्रभुक् ।राज्यं देह्यग्रजायाशु पुरराष्ट्रविवृद्धये ॥ १५ ॥ ITRANS: śāntim āpnoti caivāgryāṁkarmaṇā tena śāntanuḥsamā dvādaśa tad-rājyena vavarṣa yadā vibhuḥ Translation: Because the King was able to make everyone happy for sense gratification, primarily by the touch of his hand, his name was Śāntanu. Once, when there was no rainfall in the kingdom for twelve years and the King consulted his learned brahminical advisors, they said, “You are faulty for enjoying the property of your elder brother....