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Therefore, it also means invisible, remote, hidden or mysterious. The Aitareya Brahmana VII.30 gives its meaning as "mysterious" and "mystery" – " tan nayogrohan santan nyogrodhan ity achakshate parokshena, paroksha-priya iva hi deva " (The nyogodha is called nyogrodha after the mysterious (etymology) for the gods like mystery.) [ 2 ]
Tanmatras (Sanskrit: तन्मात्र = tanmātra) are rudimentary, undifferentiated, subtle elements from which gross elements are produced. [1] There are five sense perceptions – hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell – and there are five tanmatras corresponding to those five sense perceptions and the five sense-organs.
Parashurama's celestial weapon. It is a mysterious weapon in Hindu mythology. No one knows about this weapon except for Parashurama and Karna. Karna uses this astra to counter the Indrastra in the Mahabharata. [27] Nagastra: Nagas: Celestial weapon associated with the Naga race.
For example, the Carvaka school of the Śramaṇa tradition holds that only one (perception) is a reliable source of knowledge, [8] Buddhism holds two (perception, inference) are valid means, [9] [10] Jainism holds three (perception, inference and testimony), [10] while Mimamsa and Advaita Vedanta schools of Hinduism hold that all six pramanas ...
In early Vedic usage, the term implies, states Mahony, "the wondrous and mysterious power to turn an idea into a physical reality". [17] [19] Franklin Southworth states the word's origin is uncertain, and other possible roots of māyā include may-meaning mystify, confuse, intoxicate, delude, as well as māy-which means "disappear, be lost". [20]
Vidya (Sanskrit: विद्या, IAST: vidyā) figures prominently in all texts pertaining to Indian philosophy – meaning science, learning, knowledge, and scholarship. Most importantly, it refers to valid knowledge, which cannot be contradicted, and true knowledge, which is the intuitively -gained knowledge of the self .
Diagram by the French esotericist Paul Sédir to explain clairvoyance [1]. Clairvoyance (/ k l ɛər ˈ v ɔɪ. ə n s /; from French clair 'clear' and voyance 'vision') is the claimed ability to acquire information that would be considered impossible to get through scientifically proven sensations, thus classified as extrasensory perception, or "sixth sense".
Its figurative meaning is to be initiated into the "mystery revelation". The meaning derives from the initiatory rites of the pagan mysteries. [web 4] Also appearing in the New Testament is the related noun μυστήριον (mustérion or mystḗrion), the root word of the English term "mystery". The term means "anything hidden", a mystery or ...