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The meaning of spirituality has developed and expanded over time, and various meanings can be found alongside each other. [1] [2] [3] [note 1] Traditionally, spirituality referred to a religious process of re-formation which "aims to recover the original shape of man", [note 2] oriented at "the image of God" [4] [5] as exemplified by the founders and sacred texts of the religions of the world.
Dancer's headpiece in the form of Panjurli (boar face deity), LACMA 18th century CE. Tulu is written in a non-Latin script ( Kannada or Tulu ). Tulu text used in this article is transliterated into the Latin script according to the ISO 15919 standard. Būta Kōlā, [ note 1] also referred to as Daiva Kōlā or Daiva Nēmā, is a shamanistic ...
Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks or boxes, misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Om (or Aum) ( listen ⓘ; Sanskrit: ॐ, ओम्, romanized : Oṃ, Auṃ, ISO 15919: Ōṁ) is a symbol representing a sacred sound, syllable, mantra, and an invocation in Hinduism. [ 1][ 2] Its written ...
Mankuthimmana Kagga. Mankuthimmana Kagga, written by Dr. D. V. Gundappa and published in 1943, is one of the best known of the major literary works in Kannada. It is widely regarded as a masterpiece of Kannada literature and is referred to as the Bhagavad Gita in Kannada. [ 1] The title of the work can be translated as "Dull Thimma's Rigmarole ...
Moksha ( Sanskrit: मोक्ष, mokṣa ), also called vimoksha, vimukti, and mukti, [ 1] is a term in Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism for various forms of emancipation, liberation, nirvana, or release. [ 2] In its soteriological and eschatological senses, it refers to freedom from saṃsāra, the cycle of death and rebirth. [ 3]
Guru ( / ˈɡuːruː / Sanskrit: गुरु; IAST: guru; Pali: garu) is a Sanskrit term for a " mentor, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field. [ 1] In pan- Indian traditions, a guru is more than a teacher: traditionally, the guru is a reverential figure to the disciple (or shisya in Sanskrit, literally seeker [of knowledge ...
Sādhanā ( Sanskrit: साधना; Tibetan: སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་, THL: druptap; Chinese: 修行; pinyin: xiūxíng) is an ego -transcending spiritual practice. [ 1] It includes a variety of disciplines in Hindu, [ 2] Buddhist [ 3] and Jain [ 4] traditions that are followed in order to achieve various spiritual or ritual objectives.
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) [1] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indic language like Sanskrit) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.