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Autobiography of a Yogi name Autobiography of a Yogi author Paramahansa Yogananda country India and the United States language Hindi, English subject Autobiography, memoir genre Non-fiction publisher The Philosophical Library release_date 1946 media_type Print (Hardback) Autobiography of a Yogi is an autobiography of Paramahansa Yogananda (5 January 1893 – 7 March 1952) first published in 1946. Paramahansa Yogananda was born as Mukunda Lal Ghosh in Gorakhpur, India, into a Bengali Hindu family....

Govardhan Hill !Govardhan hill, Govardhan Govardhan Hill (गोवर्धन पर्वत; ; Pronunciation: [ɡoʋəɾdʱən]), also called Mount Govardhana and Giriraj, is a sacred Hindu site in the Mathura district of Uttar Pradesh, India on an 8 km long hill located in the area of Govardhan and Radha Kund, which is about 21 km from Vrindavan. It is the sacred centre of Braj and is identified as a natural form of Krishna, the Govardhana Shila....

List of characters in Ramayana !2016 Singapur, Rochor, Świątynia Sri Krishnan (21).jpg?width=300) Ramayana is one of the two major Sanskrit ancient epics (Itihasas) of Hindu literature. It was composed by sage Valmiki. This is a list of important characters that appear in the epic. Agastya Agastya was a son of sage Pulastya and brother of sage Vishrava. He was an uncle of Ravana. Agastya and his wife Lopamudra met Rama, Sita, and Lakshmana during their exile and gave them a divine bow and arrow....

Dewa people of Sri Lanka According to the Mahavamsa and Ramayana they lived among the Naga, Yakkha and Raskha. They ousted their arch enemies the Raskha from Sri Lanka, with the help of Lord Vishnu. They were then subsequently conquered by King Ravana of the Raskha. After the Yakkhas had left to live in the mountains and remote dense forests, they met Gautama Buddha who converted them to Buddhism. According to the Mahavansa, Gautama Buddha meet the Dewa at Mahiyangana....

Padma (Vishnu) type Hindu affiliation Vaishnavism script पद्म script_name Devanagari texts Vishnu Purana Padma (पद्म) is one of the four attributes borne by Vishnu in his iconography. It is associated with Vishnu’s abode upon water, as well as his role in creation and birth. Mythology In the Vishnu Purana, in the beginning of time, Brahma is described to have been created within a lotus blooming from the navel of Vishnu. The padma is hence prominent in the Vaishnava narrative of cosmogony, where Brahma is instructed by Vishnu to start generating the universe and the rest of creation....

Anupalabdhi Anupalabdhi (Sanskrit: अनुपलब्धि) means ’non-recognition’, ’non-perception’. This word refers to the Pramana of Non-perception which consists in the presentative knowledge of negative facts. Hinduism Anupalabdhi or abhāvapramāṇa is the Pramana of Non-perception admitted by Kumārila for the perception of non-existence of a thing. He holds that the non-existence of a thing cannot be perceived by the senses for there is nothing with which the senses could come into contact in order to perceive the non-existence....

Manidvipa Manidvipa (मणिद्वीप; ) is the celestial abode of Adi Shakti, the supreme goddess, according to the Shaktism tradition in Hinduism. It is an island situated in the middle of an ocean called the Sudha Samudra (the ocean of nectar). In the Devi Bhagavata Purana, Manidvipa is portrayed as the Sarvaloka, the highest world, superior to Goloka, the realm of Krishna, Vaikuntha, the realm of Vishnu and Lakshmi, Kailasa, the realm of Shiva and Parvati, and Brahmaloka, the realm of Brahma and Saraswati....

Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni Some loanwords in the variant of the Hurrian language spoken in the Mitanni kingdom, during the 2nd millennium BCE, are identifiable as originating in an Indo-Aryan language; these are considered to constitute an Indo-Aryan superstrate in Mitanni (or in Mitanni Hurrian). The words in question are theonyms, proper names and technical terminology related to horses (hippological). It is generally believed that a militarily powerful, nomadic Indo-Aryan elite, known as the Maryannu, settled in Mitanni, and came to politically dominate the indigenous population, while also adopting the Hurrian language....

Nimbarka Sampradaya group Nimbarka image_caption Shankha-Chakra-Urdhvapundra of the Nimbarka Sampradaya founder Nimbarkacharya regions India & Nepal languages Sanskrit, Hindi, Brajbhasha The Nimbarka Sampradaya (IAST: Nimbārka Sampradāya, Sanskrit निम्बार्क सम्प्रदाय), also known as the Hamsa Sampradāya, and Sanakādi Sampradāya (सनकादि सम्प्रदाय), is one of the four Vaishnavism Sampradāyas. It was founded by Nimbarka, a Telugu Brahmin yogi and philosopher. It propounds the Vaishnava Bhedabheda theology of Dvaitadvaita (dvaita-advaita) or dualistic non-dualism. Dvaitadvaita states that humans are both different and non-different from Isvara, God or Supreme Being....

Ancient Indian rhetoric Overview India’s rhetoric could be said to be a link between the West and East. Similar to Greek sophists, some Indian rhetors in the seventh century BCE held public debates on religion to the public’s amusement. The Vedic verses, composed over three thousand years ago, use similes, similar to ancient Greek poetry. The ancient Indian epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, include many speeches and debates that are examples of rhetoric....

Shvetashvatara Upanishad !Shvetashvatara Upanishad verse 1.1, Sanskrit, Devanagari script The Shvetashvatara Upanishad (श्वेताश्वतरोपनिषद् or श्वेताश्वतरोपनिषत् or श्वेताश्वतर उपनिषद्, IAST: ’ or ‘) is an ancient Sanskrit text embedded in the Yajurveda. It is listed as number 14 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads. The Upanishad contains 113 mantras or verses in six chapters. The Upanishad is one of the 33 Upanishads from Taittiriyas, and associated with the Shvetashvatara tradition within Karakas sakha of the Yajurveda....

Jagran !Jagrata Jāgran (जागरण) or jāgrata or jaag is a Hindu ritual, mainly prevalent in North India, consisting of all-night vigil, songs and dance in honour of a deity and puja). Often, jagran is performed in honour of various Hindu goddesses (Devi), Shiva as well as various folk deities like Khandoba and Devnarayan. Devotees worship the deity throughout night by singing bhajans, reciting aarti and listening to legends of the deity....

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad name Brihadaranyaka sanskrit_transliteration Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad composition_date pre-Buddhist,, ~9th to 6th century BCE authors Yajnavalkya type Mukhya Upanishads veda Shukla Yajurveda brahmana part of Shatapatha Brahmana aranyaka Brihad Aranyaka chapters Six philosophy Ātman), Brahman commentary Adi Shankara, Madhvacharya verse “Aham Brahmasmi” The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद्, ) is one of the Principal Upanishads and one of the first Upanishadic scriptures of Hinduism. A key scripture to various schools of Hinduism, the Brihadaranyaka Upanisad is tenth in the Muktikā or “canon of 108 Upanishads”....

Supermind (integral yoga) Supermind, in Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy of integral yoga, is the dynamic manifestation of the Absolute, and the intermediary between Spirit and the manifest world, which enables the transformation of common being into Divine being. Description Supermind is a plane between the “upper hemisphere” of pure being-consciousness and the “lower hemisphere” of life in the universe (mind, life, and matter). This plane enables the Real Ideas of the Supreme to manifest as forms of that force in creation....

Mundaka Upanishad !Mundaka Upanisad verses 3.2.8 to 3.2.10, Atharvaveda, Sanskrit language, Devanagari script The Mundaka Upanishad (मुण्डक-उपनिषद्, ) is an ancient Sanskrit Vedic text, embedded inside Atharva Veda. It is a Mukhya (primary) Upanishad, and is listed as number 5 in the Muktika canon of 108 Upanishads of Hinduism. It is among the most widely translated Upanishads. It is presented as a dialogue between great sacrificer Saunaka and sage Angiras. It is a poetic verse style Upanishad, with 64 verses, written in the form of mantras....