Hindu Gods and Godesses

Telugu Magazines - FREE Telugu Books - Swathi Magazine

2008-06-28T11:07:00.001-07:00

Swathi (Swati) Telugu Weekly - Free access to Telugu Magazines and Telugu Books - Here we collect various links from the web sites that provide great online content in Telugu. We focus on Free Online Telugu Magazines, Free Online Telugu Books, Free Telugu Novels etc. Shown below are greak links that provide FREE access to Telugu Magazines.

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Telugu Magazines - FREE Online Telugu Magazines and Books

2008-06-28T11:03:00.001-07:00

Free access to Telugu Magazines and Telugu Books - Here we collect various links from the web sites that provide great online content in Telugu. We focus on Free Online Telugu Magazines, Free Online Telugu Books, Free Online Telugu Novels etc. Shown below are some greak links that provide FREE access to Telugu Magazines and Telugu Books.

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Telugu Magazines - FREE Telugu Magazines and Books

2008-06-28T11:00:00.001-07:00

Amma Bhagavan Web Site

2008-06-27T10:09:00.001-07:00

Amma Bhagavan - Speeches of Amma Bhagavan, Videos of Amma Bhagvan, Kalki Bhagavan, Oneness University, Oneness Deeksha, Oneness Temple, Moola Mantra, Kalki Bhagavan, Golden Ball of Divine Grace, Chakra Dhyana Meditation, Amma, Bhagavan, Kalki, Deeksha, Moola Mantra, Oneness Movement, Oneness University, Golden Age Foundation, Kalki Bhagavan..

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Exclusive Wiki about India - Indian Movies, Bollywood ...

2008-06-01T04:19:00.001-07:00

Exclusive Wiki about India - A wiki focussed exclusivly on India - Everyone can edit and create pages - Everything about India - Covering Indian History, Geography, Arts and Culture, Politics, Sports, Government, Movies, Military, Biographies of Great Indians, Economy, Bollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood etc.

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Exclusive Wiki about India and Indian History

2008-06-01T04:17:00.001-07:00

Exclusive Wiki about India - BharatWiki

2008-06-01T04:15:00.001-07:00

Exclusive Wiki about India - BharatWiki

2008-06-01T04:13:00.001-07:00

Story of Lord Krishna - Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhagavata Purana

2008-05-22T06:03:00.005-07:00

Bhagavata Purana is a celebrated hindu purana composed by Veda Vyasa. Srimad Bhagavatam relates the story of the Lord Krishna and His Incarnations since the earliest records of the vedic history. It is verily the Krishna-Bible of the Hindu-universe. Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhagavata Purana, Story of Sri Krishna, Story of the Fortunate One.

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Srimad Bhagavata Purana - The Stories of Lord Krishna

2008-05-22T06:03:00.003-07:00

Srimad Bhagavatam - Bhagavata Purana, Stories of Sri Krishna

2008-05-22T06:03:00.001-07:00

Srimad Bhagavatam - Bhagavata Purana, Story of Sri Krishna

2008-05-22T06:02:00.001-07:00

Amrita Nada Upanishad

2008-03-01T05:37:00.001-08:00

Amritanada Upanishad is a minor hindu upanishad belonging to the Krishna-Yajur-Veda. Upanishads are the foundation texts of hindu philosophy. In this Amrita Nada Upanishad, the techniques of Yoga, Dhyana and Nada (parnava) are expounded.

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Aruni Upanishad - one of 108 hindu minor upanishads

2008-03-01T05:36:00.003-08:00

The Aruni Upanishad belongs Sama Veda. This is a dialog between Aruni (son of Aruna) and the creator God Brahma. Aruna’s son went to the sphere of Brahma, the Creator, and reaching there said, “Lord, in what way can I relinquish work altogether ?”

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That Thou Art (Tat Tvam Asi) - Mahavakyas from Upanishads

2008-03-01T05:36:00.001-08:00

That Thou Art (tat tvam asi) is a grand pronouncement (mahavakya) that occurs in Chandogya Upanishad. This is great dictum on which Sankaracharya wrote an extensive commentary in the his 'Vakya Vritti'. This great dictum expounds the unity of individual and Universal and denies the existance of a separate individuality apart from Brahman.

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Introduction to Katha Upanishad

2008-03-01T05:34:00.003-08:00

As the story goes, Vajashrava, Nachiketa's father, decided to acquire fruits of sacrificial ritual -Viswajit Yajna in which the performer had to give away all his precious possessions. Cows were designated as valuable and special possessions in those very ancient days, and hence Vajashrava decided to donate all his cows to Brahmins.

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Shivanandalahari - Advaitic Hymn By Adi Shankaracharya

2008-03-01T05:34:00.001-08:00

Shivanandalahari (Sivanandalahari) is one of the greatest poetic prayer couched in an undercurrent of practical philosophy by Sri Adi Sankara Bhagawatpada. Unlike Soundrya Lahari, this stotra does not seem to have tantric implication. It is more simpler and enriched with several alankaras.

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Vishishtadvaita - A system of Hindu Philosophy

2008-03-01T05:33:00.007-08:00

Visishtadvaita is monism of the qualified whole, in which Brahman alone exists, but is characterised by multiplicity. It is a school of Vedanta philosophy which believes in all diversity subsuming to an underlying unity. Ramanuja, the main proponent of Visishtadvaita philosophy contends that the Prasthana Traya i.e. the Upanishads ...

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Advaita Vedanta - The hindu philosophy of Non-Dualism

2008-03-01T05:33:00.005-08:00

Are you God? Is every man God? A system of Hindu Philosophy called Advaita Vedanta says so - There is no world, there is no individual - All that there is, is only God. It's only through a wrong notion (dubbed 'Maya') one thinks of himself as individual and there by unknowingly gives up his divine essence. A deeper look into 'Advaita Vedanta' ..

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Hindu Philosophy - Various systems of philosophy in Hinduism

2008-03-01T05:33:00.003-08:00

Hindu philosophy is one of the main divisions of Indian philosophy and constitutes an integral part of Indian culture. The great diversity in thought and practice of Hinduism is nurtured by its liberal universalism. Hindu philosophy is traditionally seen through the prism of six different systems (darshanas in Sanskrit) - Samkhya, Yoga, Vedanta ..

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Advaita Vedanta Philosophy of Adi Shankaracharya

2008-03-01T05:33:00.001-08:00

Understand the quintessence of the Philosophy that proclaims that "All is One - One is All". There is no philosophy as bold as "Advaita Vedanta" in the globe, which says that "Individuality is a myth and is mearly a projection of Consciousness". It says the Supreme Consciousness is all there is and "That Thou Art".

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Shaivism - The worship of Lord Shiva

2008-02-03T08:20:00.000-08:00

Shaivism (also spelled Saivism) is a branch of Hinduism that worships Siva as the Supreme God (Brahman.) Followers of Śaivism are called Śaivas or Śaivites. There are approximately 220 million Śaivites in the world. Even non-Hindus practice worship of Shiva as He is worshipped by many Buddhists, Sinic peoples, Shintos, Indochinese and Indonesian peoples.

Śaivism is a form of nondual spiritual practice and philosophy originating in India. Śaivites believe that the entire creation is both an expression of conscious divinity and is non-different from that divinity which they call "Śiva". Because he is simultaneously the created and the creator, Śiva is both immanent and transcendent. This concept contrasts with many semitic religious traditions in which God is seen as fundamentally different from the creation and transcendent, or "higher" than the creation. As in all Hindu denominations, Śaivism acknowledges the existence of many other deities. These deities are expressions of the Supreme One. This type of spiritual view is called Monistic Theism: the cosmos is a "monad" or single consciousness that expresses itself dualistically, but is fundamentally one. This philosophy is known in Sanskrit as Advaita Ishvaravada.

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Shiva, the Hindu God who symbolizes Renunciation

2008-02-03T08:04:00.000-08:00

Shiva is a form of Ishvara or God in the later Vedic scriptures of Hinduism. Shiva is the supreme God in Shaivism, one of the major branches of Hinduism.

Adi Sankara interprets the name Shiva meaning One who purifies everyone by the utterance of His name or the Pure One. That is, Shiva is unaffected by the three gunas (characteristics) of Prakriti (matter/nature) namely Satva, Rajas, and Tamas.

Shiva is one of the Trimurti (i.e "trinity"). In the Trimurti, Shiva is the destroyer, and Brahma is the creator and Vishnu is the preserver. Even though he represents destruction, Shiva is viewed as a positive force - The Destroyer of Evil or Ekambaranatha (Sanskrit एकम्बरनाथ), since creation follows destruction. However, according to Shaivism, Shiva is not merely a destroyer but performs five functions:

Creator
Preserver
Destroyer
Hiding the sins
Blessing

Other views contend that Shiva produces Vishnu who produces Brahma and thus creation began, within which the cycle of the Trimurti exists. Shiva also assumes many other roles, including the Lord of Ascetics (Mahadeva, or the Great God), the Lord of Boons (Rudra, or The Howler - rud-iti rudra), and also the Universal Divinity (Maheshvara, the Great Lord). Shaivites, the worshippers of Shiva consider as the Ultimate Reality (see Ishta-Deva for fuller discussion).

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The Story of Rama - Ramayana

2008-02-03T07:57:00.000-08:00

Ramayana, the story of Lord Rama, is an ancient Sanskrit epic attributed to the poet Valmiki and is an important part of the Hindu canon (smriti). The name Rāmāyana is a tatpurusha compound of Rāma and ayana "going, advancing", translating to "the travels of Rāma". The Rāmāyana consists of 24,000 verses in seven cantos (kāndas) and tells the story of a prince, Rama of Ayodhya, whose wife Sita is abducted by the demon (Rākshasa) king of Lanka, Rāvana. In its current form, the Valmiki Ramayana is dated variously from 500 BCE to 100 BCE, or about co-eval to early versions of the Mahabhārata. As with most traditional epics, since it has gone through a long process of interpolations and redactions, it is impossible to date it accurately. The Rāmāyana had an important influence on later Sanskrit poetry, primarily through its establishment of the Sloka meter. But, like its epic cousin Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyana is not just an ordinary story. It contains the teachings of ancient Hindu sages and presents them through allegory in narrative and the interspersion of the philosophical and the devotional. The characters of Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Bharata, Hanumān and Rāvana are all fundamental to the cultural consciousness of India.

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Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth

2008-01-21T19:49:00.000-08:00

In Hinduism, Lakshmi or Laxmi is the goddess of wealth, light, wisdom and fortune, as well as (secondarily) luck, beauty and fertility. Representations of Lakshmi (or Shri) are found in Jain and Buddhist monuments, in addition to Hindu temples.

In Puranic Hinduism Lakshmi is the Mother of the Universe and Vishnu's Shakti. Lakshmi is married to Vishnu, and also married his incarnations Rama (in her incarnation as Sita), Krishna (as Rukmini) and Venkateshwara (as Alamelu). Lakshmi has a son named Kama. Lakshmi may also be referred to as Narayani, which is the equivalent of "The wife of Vishnu".

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Hindu Deities - Hindu Gods and Goddesses

2008-01-09T21:09:00.000-08:00

Within Smarta Hinduism, a variety of forms of God are seen as aspects of the one impersonal divine ground, Brahman (not Brahma). Brahman is seen as the universal spirit. Brahman is the ultimate, both transcendent and immanent the absolute infinite existence, the sum total of all that ever is, was, or ever shall be.

Brahman is not a God in the traditional sense, as it is not imbued with any limiting characteristics, not even those of being and non-being, and this is reflected in the fact that in Sanskrit, the word Brahman is of neuter (as opposed to masculine or feminine) gender.

Vedanta is a branch of Hindu philosophy which gives this matter a greater focus. Yoga is the primary focus in many ways of a Hindu's religious activities, being somewhere between meditation, prayer and healthful exercise.

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Hindu God Ganesha (God of Hindus with elephant head)

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Hinduism - Gods and Godesses, Beliefs, Traditions, Rituals

2007-12-30T05:32:00.000-08:00

Hinduism - Gods and Godesses, Beliefs, Traditions, Rituals
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