Guru Mantra: Its Significance "Today is Guru Purnima. What its significance? Gurur-Brahma Gurur-Vishnu Gurur-Devo Maheshwara Guru Saakshaat Param Brahma Tasmui Shri Guruve Namah. The Trinity of Brahma‚ Vishnu and Maheshwara are within us. That is why I often say you are not one‚ but three. This is the meaning of the three words Bhur‚ Bhuvah‚ Svaha in the Gayatri Mantra. Bhur means Bhu-loka (earth). The earth is made up of matter. Therefore human body‚ which is also made up of matter
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many gods and goddesses in the Hindu Culture‚ but they mainly believe in the one universal god who is known as Brahma. Yet‚ there are many other important figures in their religion such as the widely worshipped deity‚ Ganesh. He is the son of Lord Shiva and Parvati. Ganesh is also known as Ganapti and Vinayaka‚ and devotion to Ganesh is also extended to Jains‚ Buddhists‚ and beyond India. He is known to have an elephant head‚ which makes him easy to identify. Ganesh’s birth story is a well-recognized
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Temples of Hampi Virupaksha Temple Virupaksha Temple is located in Hampi 350 km from Bangalore‚ in the state of Karnataka in southern India. It is part of the Group of Monuments at Hampi‚ designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Virupaksha is a form of Shiva and has other temples dedicated to him‚ notably at the Group of Monuments at Pattadakal‚ another World Heritage Site. Hampi sits on the banks of the Tungabhadra River in the ruins of the ancient city of Vijayanagar‚ capital of the Vijayanagara empire
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Islamic and Hindu Kingdoms • In 451 C.E‚ white Huns from central Asia invaded India and disrupted the gupta administration • Turkish people known as the Mughals extended their authority and their empire to much of the subcontinent. The quest for centralized imperial rule • In northern India‚ politics became chaotic and nomadic Turkish speaking peoples from central Asia took advantage of that unsettled state of affairs to cross the Kyler pass and force their way into India • Nomadic people
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chaplain’s daughter. It is very famous picnic spot for the visitors. The winter season is the best time to visit this place. AdiChunchanagiri Mandya‚ Karnataka This place Sri Adichunchanagiri is said to be one of the best and most divine places of Lord Shiva. We can observe two familiar and natural cave temples on the Chunchanagiri hill which is devoted to Siddeshvara and Someshvara respectively. It serves for both the purpose to visit‚ i.e. to have a view of thehistorical site and to enjoy the summer
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1. The lowest level of India’s society‚ considered “untouchables” were called _______ Pariahs‚ “harijans”‚ “Untouchables”‚ “Outcastes”‚ Dalit‚ “Children of God” 2. The priests in Hinduism belong to what caste? Brahmins 3. What is “Dharma”? “Path of Life”‚ religious teachings of Hinduism – (“eternal order‚ religion & law of the universe)‚ Also – the teachings of Buddha in Buddhism. 4. Which of the religions or philosophies does not worship clergy or gods? Confucianism‚ Buddhism
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“We’ve moved from wisdom to knowledge‚ and now we’re moving from knowledge to information‚ and that information is so partial – that we’re creating incomplete human beings.” This quote from Vandana Shiva focuses on the epistemological pyramid which separates knowledge into different organizational functions. Of the three mentioned above (wisdom‚ knowledge‚ and information)‚ information is the most basic interpretation of data and does not require critical thinking from which ideas and theories can
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priests were born from the mouth of the cosmic man‚ the nobles from his arm‚ the general populace from his thighs and the servants from his feet. 5. Trimurti‚ meaning‚ "having three forms"‚ is applied to the three main Hindu gods; Brahma‚ Vishnu and Shiva. Three major gods represent all aspects of the Supreme Being. Nothing in the universe is created‚ preserved or destroyed without the mutual agreement and approval of the three aspects of the Supreme Being for the production and reprodudction of all
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Gangotri village and spend your remaining holiday in one of the budget hotels or state run guest house in the village itself. Madhyamaheshwar‚ Uttarakhand Home to the famous ‘Madhyamaheshwar Temple’‚ 4th of the ‘Panch Kedar Group of Temples’ where Lord Shiva is worshipped in the form of belly navel‚ the village of Madhyamaheshwar captivates your souls with its unparalleled scenic beauty. Views of ‘Chaukhamba’‚ ‘Kedar’ and ‘Neelkantha’ peaks of Garhwal Himalayas from this scenic village makes you spellbound
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The term sati has wide ranges of definition depending on what language is spoken; in Hindu it means a village Mother goddess (satimata) who self-sacrificed her self on her husband’s funeral‚ the incarnation of goddess Parvati (wife of Shiva) and sati also means a virtuous woman‚ a woman bonded to her husband who will go where ever her husband goes and death is no exception. In the eyes of westerners‚ sati (spelled suttee) is a suicidal act where widows are burnt along with the corpse of her husband
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