Encyclopedia of Hinduism

divine strength lifted up the mountain, Govard- hana, to use as an umbrella to protect the people and thus defeated Indra himsel ...

he bore responsibility for his family’s welfare. He did not attend university because he did not pass a major examination. In re ...

of poor health she propagated Swami Ramdas’s teachings and served the poor until her death on February 12, 1989. Further reading ...

his understanding of the order, the Theosophical Society, and his role in each. Over many months in 1922–23, Krishnamurti experi ...

Constance Jones, “Krishnamurti Foundations,” in J. Gordon Melton and Martin Baumann, eds., Religions of the World (Santa Barbara ...

ness and piety, Subbaraya learned to maintain his family’s religious tradition with earnestness. He became versed in SANSKRIT as ...

(Shivanandanagar: Divine Life Society, 1980); ———, The Realization of the Absolute (Rishikesh: Divine Life Society, 1972). Krish ...

Further reading: Cornelia Dimmitt and J. A. B. van Buitenen, Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas (Philad ...

(his role as a composer is one of the less known aspects of his career). The Ananda movement has also established a center in As ...

empowered him to give initiation to others. In 1959, he took formal monastic vows from the Shankaracharya of Puri and was given ...

Further reading: Andre O. Rathel and Annette B. White, Tantra Yoga: The Sexual Path of Inner Joy and Cosmic Fulfillment (Hollywo ...

to him in a vision and told the young Sushil to become a monk. At age seven, he left his family and village to live with a Jain ...

takes place when Ravana tries forcibly to wake Kumbhakarna to fight. They beat him and scrape him in every way; they have elepha ...

(moksha) and enlightenment (samadhi). He exper- imented with several types of yoga for 17 years before achieving enlightenment. ...

being. Kurukshetra has been an important pil- grimage site from ancient times (perhaps since the time of the Mahabharata). It is ...

255 J:AF Lahiri Mahasaya (1828–1895) kriya yoga teacher Sri Lahiri Baba, also called Yogiraj, was a mod- est but intensely pious ...

their marriage. As Kashimoni grew older, she became an advocate of the education of women at a time when it was unpopular. Her h ...

builder of houseboats in Srinagar who had similar aspirations for his son. Yet, in early childhood, the boy exhibited actions of ...

States. He made his only trip to the United States in 1991 just months before his death on Septem- ber 27, 1991. Further reading ...

and died, it is said, at an advanced age in Brijbi- hara, some miles southeast of Srinagar. Her verses in the old Kashmiri langu ...