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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....

1860 Boden Professor of Sanskrit election !Monier Monier-Williams The election in 1860 for the position of Boden Professor of Sanskrit at the University of Oxford was a competition between two candidates offering different approaches to Sanskrit scholarship. One was Monier Williams, an Oxford-educated Englishman who had spent 14 years teaching Sanskrit to those preparing to work in British India for the East India Company. The other, Max Müller, was a German-born lecturer at Oxford specialising in comparative philology, the science of language....

A Vedic Word Concordance A Vedic Word Concordance (Sanskrit: ) is a multi-volume concordance) of the corpus of Vedic Sanskrit texts. It has been under preparation from 1930 and was published in 1935–1965 under the guidance of Viśvabandhu Śāstrī (1897–1973), with an introduction in Sanskrit and English. It aims to be “a universal vocabulary register” of “Vedic works, with complete textual reference and critical commentary) bearing on phonology, accent, etymo-morphology, grammar, metre, text-criticism, and Ur-Aryan philology”....

Abhayananda Abhayananda (born 1842), born Marie Louise, was the first woman initiated into Vivekananda’s mission. She was also the first American female and a female Westerner to have become a swami monk. Louise was initiated by Vivekananda at Thousand Island Park in 1895. She was given the monastic name Abhayananda. She later disassociated herself from Vivekananda and preached philosophy, retaining the same name. Abhayananda claimed to be the only female swami in the entire world....

Abhimāna " The antahkarana (internal organ, the mind) has its seat in these, the eye and other organs of the body identifying itself with them with the sense of “I” by reflection of the ātman in it. " – Vivekachudamani (105) " The antahkarana (internal organ, the mind) has its seat in these, the eye and other organs of the body identifying itself with them with the sense of “I” by reflection of the ātman in it....

Ādeśa Ādesha or Ādeśa (Sanskrit: आदेश) means ‘an order’, ‘command’ or ‘advice’, ‘instruction’, ‘precept’, ‘rule’ Meaning The word, Ādesha appears to be a semantically polyvalent compound representing two homonymous compounds of different origin and formation; it was surmised that ādeśa- in the sense of “substitute” owes its origin to a combination of ā- and deśa-, whereas ādeśa- in the sense of “advice” belongs to the verb ā- diś- “to point out, to teach”; it is the combination of ā- meaning ’toward’, and diś meaning ’to show or direct’....

Adhikari-bheda Adhikari-bheda, the Sanskrit expression which is a combination of two words – “adhikari”, meaning the rightful or the qualified, and “bheda”, meaning distinction or difference, basically refers to the distinction between qualified persons or to the difference of the qualified aspirants capable of apprehending the same truth. The principle of Adhikari-bheda, universally accepted by the Hindus, is the foundation on which the teachings of the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras and the Bhagavad Gita which texts contain though not contradictory various doctrines meant for people at different stages of spiritual evolution, are based, in which principle the method of Arundhati-darsananyaya i....

Adhyatma Upanishad name Adhyatma devanagari अध्यात्म sanskrit_transliteration Adhyātma meaning spiritual type Samanya veda Shukla Yajurveda chapters 1 verses 71 Not to be confused with Hemachandra’s Jain text which is also known as Yogashastra Adhyatma Upanishad or Adhyatmopanishad is one of the 108 Upanishadic Hindu scriptures, written in Sanskrit. It is one of the 19 Upanishads under the Shukla Yajurveda or White Yajurveda. It is classified as a Samanya (non-sectarian) Upanishad. It is also known as Ṭurīyāṭīṭa Avaḍhūṭa Upanishaḍ....

Adhyavasāya Adhyavasāya (Sanskrit: अध्यवसाय ) generally means – ‘apprehension’, ‘clinging to’, ‘mental effort’ and also ‘perseverance’, ‘having decided’. Vedic interpretation " The purusha full of kama or desire is bound having adhyavasaya, sankalpa and abhimana as his lingas (characteristics) ; he who is Nārāyana Tīrtha, in his Sāmkhya-Candrikā, explains adhyavasāya as " a modified condition of the intellect (buddhi) the determination in such a form as – such an act is to be done by me “....

Ādityahṛdayam !Surya poster.jpg Ādityahṛudayam (आदित्यहृदयम्, ) is a Hindu devotional hymn dedicated to Āditya or Sūrya (the Sun God) found in the Yuddha Kānda (6.105) of Vālmīki’s Rāmāyana. It was recited by the sage Agastya to Rāma in the battlefield before fighting with the Rakshasa king Rāvaṇa. In it, Agastya teaches Rāma the procedure of worshiping Āditya ( for strength ) to defeat the enemy. Etymology Āditya (आदित्य, lit. “son of Aditi”) refers to the Sun....