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Ananta is also the name of the serpent who overheard Lord Shiva teaching goddess Parvati the secrets of yoga. When Lord Shiva learned of Ananta’s eavesdropping, he ordered Ananta to share that learning with the entire human race. Therefore, Ananta assumed human form as Sage Patanjali and taught the Eight Limbs of Yoga for the well-being of ...
Ananta or King Ananta, also known as Anantadeva, was a king of Kashmir who reigned for 40 years from 1028 to 1068 CE. He belonged to the Lohara dynasty . Ananta (Sanskrit: अनन्त ) is the Sanskrit term for that which is infinite due to unending element.
In the Bhagavad Gita, in the middle of the battlefield Kurukshetra, Krishna, explaining his omnipresence, says: "Of Nāgas, I am Ananta" indicating the importance of Shesha. Gaudiya Vaishnavism states that Shesha incarnated as Nityananda , a friend and associate of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu , who is described as an incarnation of Krishna .
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Achyutananda Dasa was the most prolific writer of the Panchasakha [1] and wrote numerous books, many of which could be loosely translated as the Book of Prophecies. He is known as the Mahapurusa (a Great Person) for his vast knowledge on many subjects such as spirituality, Yoga, rituals, Yantra, Tantra, Ayurveda , and other various shastras.
Then four years passed. Two old men Gauranga and Nityananda set out in a boat with a baby boy Ananta and his mother. Gauranga soliloquizes that Anantara Ma jumped from the robber's boat into the river while she was still on her stomach and climbed onto a bank and accidentally came to Bhavanipur under the shelter of these two old men.
Anubandha chatushtaya (Sanskrit: अनुबन्ध चतुष्टय) literally means four connections, and therefore, it is four-fold in nature and content viz, – a) adhikāri ('the qualified student') who has developed ekāgrata ('single pointed mind'), chitta shuddhi ('purity of the mind') and vikshepa ('freedom from restlessness and impurity') or adhikāra (aptitude); b) vishaya ...
This Earth of Mankind is the first book in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's epic quartet called Buru Quartet, first published by Hasta Mitra in 1980.The story is set at the end of the Dutch colonial rule and was written while Pramoedya was imprisoned on the political island prison of Buru in eastern Indonesia.