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Historical Vedic religion !Late Vedic Culture (1100-500 BCE).png?width=300) The historical Vedic religion (also known as Vedicism, Vedism or ancient Hinduism and subsequently Brahmanism or Brahminism) constituted the religious ideas and practices among some of the Indo-Aryan peoples of the northwest Indian subcontinent (Punjab and the western Ganges plain) during the Vedic period (1500–500 BCE). These ideas and practices are found in the Vedic texts, and some Vedic rituals are still practiced today....

Iccha-shakti Icchā śákti (or Iccha shakti) is a Sanskrit term translating to free will, desire, creative urge. Icca sakti is the power of desire, will, longing, wishing. When iccha sakti merges with kriya sakti, the power of action, manifestation, creation, they together generate jnana sakti, the power of knowledge and wisdom. Iccha sakti is the natural human impulse to create. Kriya sakti is the ability to act, manifest, and create. Jnana sakti is enlightenment)....

Idam Idam (Tamil) (Sanskrit: इदम् or अयम् or इयम्) is a Tamil/Sanskrit word which denotes location or position or place. In grammar it is used at the beginning or middle of a sentence as a nominative or attributive pronoun, combined with or without ya, adds emphasis to other nouns, propositions etc.; and means - this, here or yonder, present or seen nearby, fit for, or without reference to noun refers to एतद् (’that’) or to what precedes....

Ikshana इक्षतिकर्मव्यपदेशात् सः| (Brahma Sutra) I.iii.13 “From the mention as the object of the act of seeing, it follows that the supreme Self is meant.” Ikshana (Sanskrit: īkṣaṇa) is a noun which means sight, care and superintendence but also refers to eye, sight, look, seeing, viewing, aspect, caring for, looking after, regarding. In the Mahabharata, Brahma is said to have become the Ikshana (eye), in the form of this mobile and immobile universe, of all entities that took birth; in the phrase Vrishbhekshana, Virishbha implies the Vedas and ikshana, the eye....

Inchegeri Sampradaya !Navnath1 !RM8|||Shri Samartha Sadguru Ramachandrarao Maharaj Kupakaddi !Shri Smarth Sadguru Muppin Kadsiddheshwar Maharaj|||Kadsiddheshwar Maharaj The Inchagiri Sampradaya, also known as Nimbargi Sampradaya, is a lineage of Hindu Navnath and Lingayat teachers from Maharashtra which was started by Bhausaheb Maharaj. It is inspired by Sant Mat teachers as Namdev, Raidas and Kabir. The Inchagiri Sampradaya has become well known throughout the western world due to the popularity of Nisargadatta Maharaj....

Indigenous Aryanism Indigenous Aryanism, also known as the Indigenous Aryans theory (IAT) and the Out of India theory (OIT), is the conviction that the Aryans are indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, and that the Indo-European languages radiated out from a homeland in India into their present locations. It is a “religio-nationalistic” view on Indian history, and propagated as an alternative to the established migration model, which considers the Pontic–Caspian steppe to be the area of origin of the Indo-European languages....

Indra Sen Indra Sen (13 May 1903 – 14 March 1994) was a devotee of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother, psychologist, author, and educator, and the founder of Integral psychology as an academic discipline. Sen was born in the Jhelum District of Punjab (now part of Pakistan) in a Punjabi Hindu family from Punjab, but grew up in Delhi when his family moved there. From a young age he was interested in the spiritual quest....

Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality name Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality author Ayon Maharaj language English genre philosophy publisher Oxford University Press pub_date 2018 (US/UK), 2019 (India) isbn 9780190868239 oclc 1079877496 Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna & Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion is a book by Ayon Maharaj on Sri Ramakrishna and the philosophy of religion. The book was published in the US and UK in 2018 in hardcover. An Indian hardcover edition was published in 2019....

Integral yoga name Integral yoga color green founding_guru Sri Aurobindo, The Mother founding_year 1926 Integral yoga, sometimes also called supramental yoga, is the yoga-based philosophy and practice of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother (Mirra Alfassa). Central to Integral yoga is the idea that Spirit) manifests itself in a process of involution), meanwhile forgetting its origins. The reverse process of evolution is driven toward a complete manifestation of spirit. According to Sri Aurobindo, the current status of human evolution is an intermediate stage in the evolution of being, which is on its way to the unfolding of the spirit, and the self-revelation of divinity in all things....

Intermediate zone In Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy, the Intermediate zone refers to a dangerous and misleading transitional spiritual state between the ordinary consciousness and true spiritual realisation. Similar notions can be found in mystical literature, such as “the astral plane” and “the hall of illusion.” The Theosophist W. Q. Judge used the similar notion of “astral intoxication”. Original use The Intermediate Zone is first described in a letter to a disciple in the early 1930s....

International Association of Sanskrit Studies The International Association of Sanskrit Studies (IASS) is an organisation whose primary purpose is to arrange the World Sanskrit Conference, which is usually held once every three years. Membership is open to all. The association was formed as a result of the 1972 International Sanskrit Conference that was sponsored by India’s central government with collaboration from UNESCO. Indologica Taurinensia is the journal of the IASS.

Isha Upanishad name Isha devanagari ईश sanskrit_transliteration īśā composition_date 1st millennium BC type Mukhya Upanishad veda Shukla Yajurveda verses 17 or 18 commentary Adi Shankara, Madhvacharya The Isha Upanishad (Devanagari: ईशोपनिषद् IAST ) is one of the shortest Upanishads, embedded as the final chapter (adhyāya) of the Shukla Yajurveda. It is a Mukhya (primary, principal) Upanishad, and is known in two recensions, called Kanva (VSK) and Madhyandina (VSM). The Upanishad is a brief poem, consisting of 17 or 18 verses, depending on the recension....

Ishvaratva Ishvaratva in Sanskrit language is an abstract noun meaning ‘godhood’, it also means divinity. Purushottama (the Lord) conceals and also manifests the qualities at His will, He conceals his qualities like Ananda) (‘bliss’) and Ishvaratva (‘Lordship’) in the Jivas (‘Individual Souls’) and also conceals His quality of Consciousness in this material world. The Chidabhasa which constitutes Ishvaratva is almost an exact likeness of true consciousness on account of its being associated with Prakrti in equilibrium and consequently unperturbed by the gunas in action....

Jabala Upanishad devanagari जाबाल meaning Named after Vedic school composition_date before 300 CE, likely BCE veda Shukla Yajurveda verses Six chapters with 14 verses philosophy Vedanta The Jabala Upanishad (जाबाल उपनिषत्, IAST: Jābāla Upaniṣad), also called Jabalopanisad, is a minor Upanishad of Hinduism. The Sanskrit text is one of the 20 Sannyasa Upanishads, and is attached to the Shukla Yajurveda. The Jabala Upanishad is an ancient text, composed before 300 CE and likely around the 3rd century BCE....

Jabali Upanishad name Jabali devanagari जबालि sanskrit_transliteration jābāli meaning A Vedic sage type Shaiva veda Samaveda chapters 1 philosophy Shaivism The Jabali Upanishad (जबालि उपनिषत्), also called Jabalyupanishad (IAST: ), is a Sanskrit text and one of the minor Upanishads of Hinduism. It is attached to the Samaveda, and classified as is one of the Shaiva Upanishads. It is a short Upanishad, and structured as a discourse between sage Jabali to sage Pippalada, and is notable for presenting the Pashupata theology....