Encyclopedia of Hinduism

Finding the Joy within You: Personal Counsel for God- Centered Living (Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellow- ship, 2002); ———, G ...

island. Since that time, the migration of Indians to the island has steadily increased. Indians of all faiths now constitute abo ...

Further reading: Somdath Bhuckory, Profile of the Hindu Community (Port Louis, Mauritius, n.p. 1972); Marina Carter, Voices from ...

Further reading: Guru Chetanshakti, Guru Pushpanjali (Calcutta: Yogashakti Mission Trust, 1977); Ma Yoga Shakti, Prayers and Poe ...

In other yogic traditions, those practicing dhy- ana focus on a MANTRA (recited word or phrase); a YANTRA, or sacred diagram; or ...

from mythology, beautifully painted in bright colors. Points of interest include the arched area of the eight SHAKTIS; the golde ...

Meher Baba (1894–1969) God-Realized master said to be avatar of the age Meher Baba considered himself to be an AVATA R, a being ...

Self, which is God. He was acknowledged by his followers to be the avatar of the age. In 1959, when he was 65 years old, Meher B ...

accepted him in a leadership role, might succumb to empty ritualism, devoid of spirituality. A genu- ine guru, according to this ...

Mimamsa Mimamsa (inquiry) is one of the six traditional orthodox schools of Indian philosophy. The Mimamsa SUTRAS of Jaimini (c. ...

The kings of Madurai have retained their connection with Shiva, seeing themselves as rul- ing in his line. However, in the templ ...

medicine at Banares Hindu University. In 1955, he left India to study medicine in the United States and served as a resident in ...

moksha In a literal sense, moksha is the desire to be released from birth and rebirth, but the term has come to mean the release ...

mind. She did not, however, join Sri Aurobindo at that time, but went with her husband to Japan. After leaving Japan and spendin ...

also served as an indictment against Indian society and Hinduism in general. Mayo claimed that Hindu customs were dan- gerous no ...

mudra See PANCHA MAKARA. mudra Mudra is a technical term used in both YOGA and Indian dance. In yoga the mudras are particular h ...

“the most auspicious of all auspicious days”, it was the day that Bhagawan Nityananda, by then living in Ganeshpuri, gave him sh ...

muladhara chakra In the muladhara (basic foundation) CHAKRA at the base of the spine rests the coiled KUNDALINI serpent, who awa ...

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299 J:AF Nachiketas In the BRAHMANAS, the explanatory portions of the ancient VEDAS, nachiketas was a special kind of fire. The ...