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Surya Upanishad devanagari सूर्य sanskrit_transliteration Sūrya meaning The Sun God, the Supreme Light type Samanya veda Atharvaveda The Surya Upanishad (सूर्य उपनिषत्), or Suryopanishad, is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism, written in Sanskrit language. It is among the 31 Upanishads associated with the Atharvaveda, and one of the Samanya Upanishads. In this Upanishad, Atharvangiras to whom the Atharvaveda is attributed, extols the virtues of Surya, the Sun god, calling him the ultimate truth and reality Brahman....

Krishnaism Krishnaism (IAST: Kṛṣṇaism) is a large group of independent Hindu traditions—sampradayas related to Vaishnavism—that center on the devotion to Krishna as Svayam Bhagavan, Ishvara, Para Brahman, the source of all reality, who is not an avatar of Vishnu. This is its difference from such Vaishnavite groupings as Sri Vaishnavism, Sadh Vaishnavism, Ramaism, Radhaism, Sitaism etc. There is also a personal Krishnaism, that is devotion to Krishna outside of any tradition and community, as in the case of the saint-poet Meera Bai....

Swami Vivekananda name Vivekananda honorific prefix Swami birth_date January 12, 1863 birth_place Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India, (present-day Kolkata, West Bengal, India) birth_name Narendranath Datta death_date July 4, 1902 death_place Belur Math, Bengal Presidency, British India, (present-day West Bengal, India) alma_mater University of Calcutta (BA) guru Ramakrishna disciples Ashokananda · Virajananda · Paramananda · Alasinga Perumal · Abhayananda · Sister Nivedita · Swami Sadananda citizenship British subject religion Hinduism philosophy Neo-Vedanta , Rāja yoga founder Ramakrishna Mission (1897), , Ramakrishna Math literary_works Raja Yoga, , Karma Yoga, , Bhakti Yoga, , Jnana Yoga, , My Master, , Lectures from Colombo to Almora era Modern philosophy, * 19th-century philosophy region Eastern philosophy, * Indian philosophy native_name স্বামী বিবেকানন্দ influences Tagore, , Ramakrishna, , Sen, , Spencer Swami Vivekananda (12 January 1863 – 4 July 1902), born Narendranath Datta, was an Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna....

Kundalini yoga !Oriental_MS_Indic_beta_511_Wellcome_L0029118 Kundalini yoga derives from kundalini, defined in tantra as energy that lies within the body, frequently at the navel or the base of the spine. In normative tantric systems, kundalini is considered to be dormant until it is activated (as by the practice of yoga) and channeled upward through the central channel in a process of spiritual perfection. Other schools, such as Kashmir Shaivism, teach that there are multiple kundalini energies in different parts of the body which are active and do not require awakening....

Dwarkadhish Kankroli name Dwarkadhish Temple, Kankroli country India state Rajasthan district Rajsamand location Kankroli deity Dwarkadhish (form of Krishna) festivals Janmashtami, Holi, Diwalietc. architecture Rajputana year_completed 1676 creator Maharana of Mewar, Goswami GirdharJi website http://www.shrinathjihelpline.com/dwarkadhish-temple-rajsamand-nathdwara.html !Dwarkadhish Temple Gate Kankroli.pdf|||Dwarkadhish Temple Gate, Kankroli Dwarkadhish Ji is a Hindu Temple, situated on the southern bank of the Rajsamand lake in Kankroli. The temple commands a very fine view of the lake. This temple is temple is dedicated to Dwarkadhish Ji, one of the seven swaroops of Pushtimarg of Vallabhacharya....

Shuddhadvaita !Shri mahaprabhuji Shuddadvaita (Sanskrit: “pure non-dualism”) is the “purely non-dual” philosophy propounded by Vallabhacharya (1479-1531 CE), the founding philosopher and guru of the (“tradition of Vallabh”) or (“The path of grace”), a Hindu Vaishnava tradition focused on the worship of Krishna. Vallabhacharya’s pure form (nondualist) philosophy is different from Advaita. The Shrinathji temple at Nathdwara, and compositions of eight poets, including Surdas, are central to the worship by the followers of the sect....

Kalagni Rudra Upanishad name kālāgnirudra devanagari कालाग्निरुद्र sanskrit_transliteration Kālāgni Rudrā meaning Shiva (composite of Agni and Rudra) type Shaiva veda Krishna Yajurveda chapters 2 The Kalagni Rudra Upanishad (कालाग्निरुद्र - उपनिषत्), is one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism, written in the Sanskrit language. It is attached to the Krishna Yajurveda. It is one of 14 Shaiva Upanishads. The Upanishad is a discourse by Kalagni Rudra (Shiva) to sage Sanatkumara on the Tripundra, the Shaiva sectarian tilaka consisting of three horizontal lines of sacred ash on the forehead....

Hamsa Upanishad name Hamsa devanagari हंस meaning Swan composition_date 2nd millennium common era type Yoga veda Shukla Yajurveda chapters 11 philosophy Tantra, Shaktism, Yoga The Hamsa Upanishad (हंसोपनिषद्) is a Sanskrit text and a minor Upanishad of Hinduism. It is classified as one of the twenty Yoga Upanishads, and attached to the Shukla Yajurveda. The text or parts of the text is a relatively late origin, probably from the 2nd-millennium of the common era, but written before early 17th-century, because Dara Shikoh included it in the Persian translation of the Upanishads as Oupanekhat, spelling it as Hensnad (Hamsa-nada)....

Sanskritism Sanskritism is a term used to indicate words that are coined out of Sanskrit for modern usage in India, in Sri Lanka and elsewhere or for neologisms. These terms are similar in nature to taxon terms coined from Latin and Greek. References Influence of Sanskritisms in Sinhala

Shakta Upanishads Shakta Upanishads are a group of minor Upanishads of Hinduism related to the Shaktism theology of a Goddess (Devi) as the Supreme Being. There are 8 Shakta Upanishads in the Muktika anthology of 108 Upanishads. They, along with other minor Upanishads, are generally classified separate from the thirteen major Principal Upanishads considered to be from the ancient Vedic tradition. The Shakta Upanishads also contrast from other groups of minor Upanishads, such as the Samanya Upanishads which are of a generic nature, the Sannyasa Upanishads which focus on the Hindu renunciation and monastic practice, the Yoga Upanishads related to Yoga, the Shaiva Upanishads which highlight aspects of Shaivism, and the Vaishnava Upanishads which highlight Vaishnavism....

Mokshopaya !Birch bark manuscript of the Utpattiprakaraṇa Moksopaya-S14 The Mokṣopāya or Mokṣopāyaśāstra is a Sanskrit philosophical text on salvation for non-ascetics (mokṣa-upāya: ‘means to liberation’), written on the Pradyumna hill in Śrīnagar in the 10th century AD. It has the form of a public sermon and claims human authorship and contains about 30,000 śloka’s (making it longer than the Rāmāyaṇa). The main part of the text forms a dialogue between Vasiṣṭha and Rāma, interchanged with numerous short stories and anecdotes to illustrate the content....

Hareshwar Nath Mandir name Hareshwar Nath Mandir native_name हरेश्वर नाथ मंदिर native_name_lang Maithili deity Shiva religious_affiliation Hinduism tradition Maithil Hinduism festivals Mahashivratri, Sombari, Narak Niwaran Chaturdashi location Dwalakh, Madhepur, Madhubani district Madhubani state Bihar country India established 1858 AD - 1868 AD founded_by Darbhanga Maharaj Shree Lakshmeshwar Singh Bahadur governing_body Department of Culture, Government of Bihar functional_status Protected Monument of Bihar Hareshwar Nath Mahadev Mandir ( हरेश्वर नाथ महादेव मंदिर ) is an ancient Hindu Lord Shiva temple in the Mithila region) of Bihar at Dwalakh village of Madhubani district....

Sāmānādhikaraṇya The Sanskrit term, Sāmānādhikaraṇyam (Sanskrit:सामानाधिकरण्यम्), generally refers to – ‘identical denotation’, ‘common substratum’ or ‘unity of substratum’. Background In Sanskrit grammar, Sāmānādhikaraṇyam, means appositional or syntactic relationship with agreement in gender, number, etc. Its Tibetan equivalent is gźi mthun ñid. In Hindu philosophy, it is defined as a common reference of two words in an expression each by itself applying to a different object. According to Bhartṛhari, there are two sorts of sāmānādhikaraṇya: one between meanings and the other between words; the former is characterized by the fact that one and the same substance is understood as having different aspects and the latter by the fact that one and the same substance is referred to by different words....

Tarka-Sangraha Tarka-Sangraha is a treatise in Sanskrit giving a foundational exposition of the ancient Indian system of logic and reasoning. The work is authored by Annambhatta and the author himself has given a detailed commentary, called Tarka-Sangraha Deepika, for the text. Annambhatta composed the text as well as the commentary in the second half of 17th century CE. The text of Tarka-sangraha is a small book with about 15 pages only and it was composed to help boys and girls learn easily the basic principles of Nyaya....

Bhāskara (Bhedabheda Vedanta) Bhāskara (8t-9th v. CE) was an Indian philosopher and proponent of the Bhedabheda school of Vedanta philosophy. He wrote commentaries on the Brahma Sutras, and contested Shankara’s doctrine of māyā). External links The Bhāskara School of Philosophy, by Surendranath Dasgupta From: A History of Indian Philosophy Volume 3 Andrew J. Nicholson, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Bhedabheda Vedanta