Encyclopedia of Hinduism

sent what he called the Anoopam Mission to the United States. Its success was due to the dedi- cation of a young man named Jash ...

Potter, Presuppositions of India’s Philosophies (Engle- wood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1963). ap (also jala) See ELEMENTS, FI ...

and play a role in the puranas. Late tradition says that apsaras either were born from BRAHMA’s fancy or are the daughters of th ...

Ardhanarishvara Ardhanarishvara, “The Lord Who is Half Woman,” is a form of SHIVA whose left half is the GODDESS PARVATI or SHAK ...

on penalty of exile. Arjuna broke this agreement and was sent away from the other brothers for 12 years. During his exile Arjuna ...

branches in different states of India and publishes many books on various topics in Vedanta, includ- ing a Bhagavad Gita Home St ...

The Art of Living Foundation was officially established in Bangalore, India, in 1982 as a non- profit educational and humanitari ...

Arya See ARYAN. Aryaman Aryaman (friend or companion) is a Vedic divin- ity listed among the ADITYAS. When invoked he is usually ...

vows of a SANNYASI in the Saraswati Dandi Order of Yogis. As Dayananda Saraswati, his name given at initiation, he wandered all ...

Ashish, Sri Madhava (1920–1997) Vaishnavite guru Sri Madhava Ashish was the successor to Sri Krishna PREM as head of the Uttar B ...

ashram The Sanskrit ashrama was a place for ascetics to perform austerities (practices of renouncing bodily and psychological co ...

khya (Yoga) (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1975); Mircea Eliade, Yoga, Immortality and Freedom. Translated from the French by Will ...

Further readings: J. A. B. van Buitenen, “The Large Atman,” History of Religions 4 (1964): 103–114, reprinted in L. Rocher, ed., ...

(Nirguna Brahman). Moving to Bengal in 1906 he plunged into revolutionary political activity, help- ing to found the journal Ban ...

Sri Aurobindo acknowledged at his death in 1950 that he had not yet achieved the “descent of the Supramental” and indicated that ...

living of other nations so that they may know and respect equally the true spirit of all the countries on the earth.” Naturally, ...

domestic servants. The first immigrants from India arrived in New South Wales in 1830 on a trade ship from the Bay of Bengal to ...

Further reading: G. S. Ghurye with L. N. Chapekar, Indian Sadhus (Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1964); Dolf Hartuiker, Sadhus: Indi ...

Further reading: Hans T. Bakker, Ayodhya (Groningen, Netherlands: Egbert Forsten, 1986); Ramchandra Gan- dhi, Sita’s Kitchen (Ne ...

Sasta (Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1966); N. T. Nair, The Worship of Lord Ayyappan (Singapore: Print- world Services, 1995); ...