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Aghor Yoga Aghor Yoga (also referred to as Aghor) is a spiritual tradition that originated in Northern India around the 11th Century C.E. The word Aghor literally means “that which is not difficult or terrible”; according to its adherents, Aghor is a simple and natural state of consciousness, in which there is no experience of fear, hatred, disgust or discrimination. Accordingly, believers contend that any time that humans experience a state of discrimination, we limit our wholeness and fall prey to disruptive emotions such as anger, fear, jealousy, greed, and lust....

Jai Shri Krishna !Krishna playing bansuri, flute Jai Shri Krishna (or Jai Shree Krishna) is a Sanskrit expression, translating to “Victory to Krishna”, a major deity in Hinduism. The salutation is believed to have hailed from the Vaishnavites. The expression is said to greet another person wishing them success, and has also been used as a greeting accompanied with the anjali mudra or bowed head, specially while greeting one’s elders....

Pakshadhara Mishra name Pakshadhara Mishra native_name पक्षाधर मिश्र birth_name जयदेव birth_place Mithila alma_mater Ancient Mithila University occupation Philosopher Professor school_tradition Nyaya School of Indian Philosophy institutions Ancient Mithila University, Pakshadhara Mithila School main_interests Nyaya Shastra notable_students Vasudeva Sarvabhauma, Raghunatha Siromani family Maithil Brahmin region Mithila region Pakshadhara Mishra or Pakṣadhara Miśra ( Sanskrit: पक्षाधर मिश्रा ) was an Indian Philosopher and a scholar of Nyaya Shastra. He was the head professor of Nyaya Shastra in the Ancient Mithila University during 15th century CE....

Three Yogas Karma Yoga or the Path of Action (Karma-mārga) Bhakti Yoga or the Path of Devotion (Bhakti-mārga) to Ishvar (God) Jnana Yoga or the Path of Knowledge (Jñāna-mārga) The Three Yogas or Trimārga are three soteriological paths mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita for the liberation of human spirit. They are: A “fourth yoga” is sometimes added: 1. Raja Yoga or the Path of Meditation (dhyāna-mārga), making “Four Yogas”, also known as the " Four paths to realization"...

Anandamayi Ma name Sri Anandamayi Ma religion Hinduism birth_date April 30, 1896 birth_place Kheora, Brahmanbaria District, Bengal Presidency, British Raj (present-day Bangladesh) birth_name Nirmala Sundari death_date August 27, 1982 death_place Kishenpur, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India order Self-realization (Enlightenment)) philosophy Tantra · Bhakti yoga spouse Ramani Mohan Chakrabarti Anandamayi Ma (née Nirmala Sundari; 30 April 1896 – 27 August 1982) was an Indian saint and yoga guru, described by Sivananda Saraswati (of the Divine Life Society) as “la fleur la plus parfaite que le sol de l’Inde ait produite” [the most perfect flower the Indian soil has produced]....

Kamban Kazhagam Kamban Kazhagam (Kamban Academy) is a Tamil organization which was founded to promote Ramayana of Tamil poet Kambar). The organisation was formed by Tamil politician Saw Ganesan at Karaikudi in 1939. Kamban Kazhagam Chennai was fortified by R.M.Veerappan and Justice M M Ismail. Background and history Kambar was a 12th-century Tamil poet who wrote Kamba Ramayanam, the life of Rama of Ayodhya. Kamba Ramayana differed on several aspects from the original version of Ramayana written by Sanskrit poet Valmiki....

Mookambika name Mookambika affiliation Saraswati, Lakshmi, Parvati type Hindu festivals Navaratri Mookambika (मूकाम्बिका, Kannada: ಶ್ರೀ ಮೂಕಾಂಬಿಕಾ) is a Hindu goddess, an aspect of Adi Parashakti, the supreme goddess of Hinduism. She is regarded to be the form of shakti, the divine feminine energy, that represents creativity and ingenuity. Since she is a form of Adi Parashakti, her adherents regard her to be a form of Saraswati, Lakshmi, as well as Parvati....

Six Goswamis of Vrindavan The Six Goswamis of Vrindavan were a group of devotional teachers (gurus) from the Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism who lived in India during the 15th and 16th centuries. They are closely associated with the land of Vrindavan where they spent much time in service of the Bengali saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is considered as Krishna’s yuga-avatar by the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage, who highly regard them for their extreme renunciation of physical comforts and pleasures in the practice of Bhakti Yoga, and for their philosophical presentations of the teachings of their guru, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu....

Mandala 3 The third Mandala of the Rigveda has 62 hymns, mainly to Agni and Indra. It is one of the “family books” (mandalas 2-7), the oldest core of the Rigveda, which were composed in early Vedic period (1500 - 1000 BCE). Most hymns in this book are attributed to Vishvamitra The verse 3.62.10 gained great importance in Hinduism as the Gayatri Mantra. List of incipits The dedication as given by Griffith is in square brackets...

Shri Vidya !meru1 Shri Vidya (ISO: Śrī Vidyā; ; sometimes also spelled Sri Vidya or Shree Vidya) is a Hindu Tantric religious system devoted to the Goddess) as Lalitā Tripurasundarī (Beautiful Goddess of the Three worlds), Bhuvaneshvari, Maha Lakshmi, etc. A thousand names for this form of Devi are recited in the Lalita sahasranama, which includes Śrī Vidyā concepts. The sect accepts and aims to provide both material prosperity and self-realisation....

Dhanraj Giri !Kailash Ashram, Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh Dhanraj Giri (1811–1901) was the abbot of Kailash Ashram, an ashram, which he established in 1880 at Muni Ki Reti, Rishikesh. It was one of the first large ashrams to be established in Rishikesh, prior to which it was mostly as a place for individual seekers, or pilgrims to stop over on way to Char Dham temples pilgrimage. He was a famous monk in Northern India and was a scholar in Vedanta philosophy....

Tantra Tantra (तन्त्र) are the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed on the Indian subcontinent from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards. The term tantra, in the Indian traditions, also means any systematic broadly applicable “text, theory, system, method, instrument, technique or practice”. A key feature of these traditions is the use of mantras, and thus they are commonly referred to as Mantramārga (“Path of Mantra”) in Hinduism or Mantrayāna (“Mantra Vehicle”) and Guhyamantra (“Secret Mantra”) in Buddhism....

Nondualism In spirituality, nondualism, also called nonduality and nondual awareness, is a fuzzy concept originating in Indian philosophy and religion for which many definitions can be found, including: advaita, nondual awareness, the nonduality of seer and seen or nondifference of subject and object; advaya, the identity of conventional phenomena and ultimate reality, or the “nonduality of duality and nonduality”; and monism, the nonplurality of the world and “the interconnection of all things....

Lakshmi Narasimha type Hindu god_of God of Time Goddess of Prosperity venerated_in Vaishnavism abode Vaikuntha affiliation Sri Vaishnavism festivals Narasimha Jayanti Lakshmi Narasimha (लक्ष्मीनरसिंह) is an iconographical depiction of Narasimha, the fourth avatar of Vishnu, with his consort Lakshmi, the goddess of prosperity. It is one of the five iconographical forms of Narasimha, among Jvala Narasimha, Gandaberunda Narasimha, Ugra Narasimha, and Yoga Narasimha. Legend In an alternate iteration of the legend of Narasimha, after he slays Hiranyakashipu, his fury is still unabated....

Sri Aurobindo Circle Sri Aurobindo Circle is an annual periodical of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram that was originally published in Bombay, but later from the Pondicherry ashram. During 1947 instalments of Savitri) were published in it. As with other ashram journals it contained, besides the writings of Sri Aurobindo, essays and poems written by his disciples and devotees and by students of his thought. References A B Purani, Life of Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, pp....