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Lokaksema or Lokakshema is a Sanskrit word meaning "global well-being". Loka means "world", and Kshema means "welfare" in Sanskrit.. It is normally used in the context of various prayers and rituals performed in Hinduism.
Shastra has a similar meaning to English -logy, e.g. ecology, psychology, meaning scientific and basic knowledge on a particular subject. Examples in terms of modern neologisms include bhautikaśāstra 'physics', rasaśāstra 'chemistry', jīvaśāstra 'biology',
Advaita is often translated as "non-duality," but a more apt translation is "non-secondness." [ 3 ] Advaita has several meanings: Nonduality of subject and object [ 47 ] [ 48 ] [ web 2 ] As Gaudapada states, when a distinction is made between subject and object, people grasp to objects, which is samsara .
Kalagnanam is a Telugu language book by 16th-century Indian saint Potuluri Veerabrahmam about the prediction of the past, and present, future (upcoming).. The text precedes Veerabrahmam and has many other authors, who prophesied the future of their times.
Loka (Sanskrit: लोक, romanized: Loka, lit. 'Planet') is a concept in Hinduism and other Indian religions , that may be translated as a planet, the universe, a plane , or a realm of existence .
In Tibetan Buddhism, jñāna (Tibetan: ye shes) refers to pure awareness that is free of conceptual encumbrances, and is contrasted with vijñāna, which is a moment of 'divided knowing'.
Painting of Radha and Krishna. A description of Goloka can be found in the Brahma Samhita, verse 5.29: . I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the cows, yielding all desires, in abodes built with spiritual gems and surrounded by millions of purpose trees.
A more abridged and concise version of the Tantrāloka, also written by Abhinavagupta, is the Tantrasāra. Tantrāloka was written in the 10th century and gained greater worldwide prominence towards the end of the 19th century with the publishing and distribution of the Kashmiri Series of Texts and Studies and prominence of Swami Lakshmanjoo ...