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Question What verse of Bhagavat Gita, according to scholars explicitly favour Advaitic interpretation? Answer There are several verses that are clearly Advaitic in nature. As a kindled fire reduces all fuel to ashes, so, Arjuna! does the fire of knowledge reduce all works to ashes. Gita 4.37 Nothing exists here as purifying as knowledge. Perfected in Yoga, in course of time, one wins it in one's own self. Gita 4.38...

Question Meaning of “becoming Pure” by reciting a slokha Answer There are a bunch of questions here. What does the work Pure signify does it signify "free from Karma" or "free from Papa" or "free from Maya" The shloka means that reciting the mantra would free the mind from the impurities of sin and make it pure. Mind causes both bondage and liberation. It is the view of wise men that the mind is the cause of both the bondage and liberation of embodied beings....

Question How many avatars of Adi Shakti are mentioned in Skanda Purana? Answer Devi Incarnated as Lalitoma Vishalakshi during Chakshusha Manvantara. 4-8.In the Cākṣuṣa Manvantara, O goddess, when the excessively powerful Daityas proceeded towards the southern quarter on being slain by Viṣṇu, they fought for more than a hundred years in a great battle there with Viṣṇu. O goddess of Devas, they fought with wonderful missiles of various kinds. Knowing that they could not be killed easily, the lotus-eyed Viṣṇu remembered Bhairavī Śakti, the Mahāmāyā of great lustre....

Question Is Shiva ji human? When and to whom was Shiva ji was born? Answer Let's start from Puranas, and trace its roots back to Itihasas, back to Upanishad and Core Vedas, and see the level of consistency. PURANA: Srimad Bhagavatam 4.6.42-44 Brahma said: I know you to be the Lord of the universe. You are the same undifferentiated Brahman which is the cause of both the Sakti (prakrti or the divine energy) and Siva (the purusa) who are both the womb and the seed of the world....