Encyclopedia of Hinduism

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341 J:AF Radha Radha is a popular female figure in Hindu mythol- ogy and literature. She is usually presented as the primary con ...

the Goddesses of India (Berkeley: Religious Studies Series and Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1982); Donna Marie Wulff, “Radha, Con ...

nanda Radha, Hatha Yoga: The Hidden Language: Sym- bols, Secrets and Metaphor (Spokane, Wash.: Timeless Books, 1995); ———, Kunda ...

spirituality, but not bound by inherited social conventions destructive of freedom and justice. As others did, he criticized Ind ...

tion’s headquarters to Agra, directly across from Soami Bagh. The two communities have remained separate, each maintaining a lar ...

charges and opened an ASHRAM on the 65,000- acre Big Muddy Ranch near Antelope, Oregon, in the United States, which he named Raj ...

of Lord VISHNU. Rama’s full story is told in the RAMAYANA epic. In that famous epic, the gods ask Vishnu to incarnate in the wor ...

During his exile Rama’s wife, Sita, is abducted by the demon king Ravana and taken to the island of Lanka. Making friends with a ...

While performing his New Thought editorial job, Atkinson became interested in Hinduism. He met a pupil of the late Yogi Ramachar ...

upon her husband as her GURU, or spiritual teacher. He did not found a movement or establish an organization, although he was th ...

in the state of Tamil Nadu. He was the son of Shundaram Ayyar, a scribe and country lawyer. The family was religious, giving rit ...

performs worship before an image of Rama and makes a fire offering for Rama in a small specially created shrine; the celebration ...

the Punjab, to a family of Gosain BRAHMINS, distant descendants of the famous author of the RAMAYANA, Gosain TULSIDAS. When he w ...

has three other sons: Bharata, Lakshmana, and Shatrughna. While Dasharatha is joyfully preparing to retire from the world and le ...

such notable and beloved vernacular Ramayanas are the Krittivas Ramayana in Bengali, the Tulsidas Ramcaritmanas in Old Hindi, th ...

Further reading: Sri Ram Chandra, Complete Works of Ram Chandra, Vol. 1 (Pacific Grove, Calif.: Sri Ram Chandra Mission, 1989); ...

founder of Brandeis University. Richard grew up on the New Hampshire estate of his father. A student of psychology, Alpert recei ...

Karoli tried to inculcate in others the path of love and service. Upon returning to the United States, Ram Dass wrote his most f ...

Further reading: Richard Alpert, Timothy Leary, and Ralph Metzner, The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based upon the Tibetan B ...