The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism (2 Vol Set)

passage warning that the treatment of women was a marker of the family’s honor, and that a household in which the women were bad ...

need not accept its literal reality for it to be religiously meaningful. The subtle body is visualized as a set of six psychic c ...

The lotus petals on each chakra contain a letter of the Sanskrit alphabet, thus encompassing all sacred sounds. Some models of t ...

of the sun with his divine tools, remov- ing enough of his radiance that Sanjna can bear to be with him. He then fash- ions the ...

based on a series of physical exercises that are also believed to affect the subtle body. In the alchemical tradition, the gov- ...

(janampatrika). The sun presides over Sunday, a dayof the weekthat is not strongly marked as either auspicious or inauspicious. ...

Sun Temple The most famous temple to the sunis at Konarakin Orissastate, right on the shore of the Bay of Bengal. The temple was ...

joining (yoga) of the spirit (surat) with the Divine Sound (shabd). The Divine Sound emanates from the Supreme Being and is alwa ...

Mark Juergensmeyer (trans.), Songs of the Saints of India, 1988. Sureshvara Philosopher in the Advaita Vedanta school, and one o ...

further information see John Stratton Hawley, Krishna:The Butter Thief, 1983, and Surdas: Poet,Singer,Saint1984; see also John S ...

Suryapraksha (“effulgence of the sun”) Name given to the banner that is the symbolic emblem of the Mahanirvani Akhara, a particu ...

sushumna is closed where it intersects the chakras, which blocks the flow of energy from moving smoothly through it. When the ch ...

idea, selflessly performing one’s social duty, for the good of the world rather than through selfish desire, was also a path to ...

Svaprakasha (“self-revealing”) In Indian philosophy, the notion that certain things such as knowledge are self-revealing and do ...

reference to any of the other pramanas, the means by which human beings can gain true and accurate knowledge. The issue about wh ...

primary stress at the shakha level is on forming personal relationships with other members, as a way to develop loy- alty to the ...

information see Raymond Brady Williams, A New Face of Hinduism, 1984. SYDA (Siddha YogaDham America) Religious organization foun ...

T Tad Ekam (“That One”) Epithet used in Rg Veda hymn 10.129, the so-called Creation Hymn, to designate the first living being on ...

importance of regional cultural patterns. One way that the Tamils retain their culture is by preserving their traditional calend ...

Talikota City in the Bijapur district of the state of Karnataka, which in 1565 was the site of a battle between the Vijayanagar ...