Encyclopedia of Hinduism

& Hudson, 2004); Guide to the Ajanta Paintings (New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1999–2003); Swati Mitra, ed., Fr ...

KUNDALINI YOGA systems. It is located between the eyebrows. The realization of ajna chakra yields undifferentiated cosmic awaren ...

Time passed; eventually the king in his impa- tience to be with his beautiful wife used up his three exceptions by interfering w ...

They lived between the seventh and 10th centu- ries. Their devotional songs, written in the Tamil language, were collected in th ...

gold; at the same time a Shiva lingam made of ice had appeared in the famous cave. The principal pilgrimage to this shrine is du ...

maintained their correspondence by mail until his death. She then began to study with SWAMI RAMA (1900–72) and to travel in Indi ...

SELF-REALIZATION FELLOWSHIP (SRF), who felt the need for independent development and wanted to publish their own version of the ...

“Give solace to suffering humanity.” Her mission has matured into a dynamic global congregation. She runs an orphanage near her ...

guide for the Sikh faith, which no longer recog- nizes any human gurus. Further reading: J. S. Grewal, From Guru Nanak to Mahara ...

of Bliss in the Upanisads (Madras: Christian Literature Society for the Christian Institute for the Study of Reli- gion and Soci ...

of Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Paramananda. At her death in 1995, Dr. Susan Schrager (1942– ), known as the Reverend Mother Sudha ...

Sarkar tried to conceptualize and mobilize new ways of education. He advocated a form of education that encourages simultaneous ...

her brother-in-law died, she went to live with her husband; there she met a young man who was impressed by her quiet way of bein ...

Mother of Bliss (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Richard Lannoy, Anandamayi: Her Life and Wisdom (Rockport, Mass.: Eleme ...

In the 1990s, Ananda went through a sig- nificant court struggle with SRF concerning copyrights and trademarks related to Yogana ...

suggested that human beings were an expression of the Supreme Consciousness. If this concept were accepted, he believed, humanit ...

Available online. URL: http://www.hinduism-today.com/ archives/1986/08/1986-08-06.shtml. Accessed August 15, 2005; Emily Matulay ...

riage rites, is recited at all Vaishnavite weddings in South India. Further reading: S. M. S. Chari, Philosophy and Theistic Mys ...

Further reading: Padmanabh S. Jaini, The Jaina Path of Purification (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1990); Her- mann Jacobi, trans. ...

aim? Simply to inspire people and give them the most complete freedom to live their own life. No glamour, no fame, no institutio ...