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The Bhagavad Gita (/ ˈ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː /; [1] Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], romanized: bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's song'), [a] often referred to as the Gita (IAST: gītā), is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, [7] which forms part of the epic Mahabharata.
This is a list of religious people in Hinduism, including gurus, sants, monks, yogis and spiritual masters.. A guru is defined as a "teacher, spiritual guide, [or] godman," [1] by author David Smith.
The Puranas are a vast genre of Hindu texts that encyclopedically cover a wide range of topics, particularly legends and other traditional lore. [47] Composed primarily in Sanskrit, but also in regional languages, [48] [49] several of these texts are named after major Hindu deities such as Vishnu, Shiva, and Devi. [50] [51]
Here are additional clues for each of the words in today's Mini Crossword. NYT Mini Across Hints 1 Across: "Vertically challenged" — HINT: It starts with the letter "S"
David Frawley was born to a Catholic family in Wisconsin and had nine siblings. [6] Frawley is largely an autodidact. [6] He studied ayurveda under B. L. Vashta of Mumbai for a span of about a decade, and obtained a "Doctor of Oriental Medicine" degree via a correspondence course from the International Institute of Chinese Medicine, Santa Fe, New Mexico, [5] a school for acupuncture which ...
[3] [4] The book was published in 1923 while Savarkar was still in jail. [5] It was retitled Hindutva: Who Is a Hindu? (with the second phrase as a subtitle) when reprinted in 1928. Savarkar's epigraph forms part of the canon of works published during British rule that later influenced post-independence contemporary Hindu nationalism. [6]
The book then describes Yogananda's return visit to India in 1935, where he encountered leading spiritual figures such as Therese Neumann [14] [15] in Bavaria, the Hindu saint Ananda Moyi Ma, [16] Mahatma Gandhi, [17] Rabindranath Tagore, [18] Nobel Prize-winning physicist Sir C. V. Raman, [19] and Giri Bala, "the woman yogi who never eats."
Paripūraṇāṉantha Bōtham _ Tamil Hindu work attributed to the works of Pamban Swamigal. Patthu Pirapantham _ A Tamil Hindu work composed by Pamban Swamigal. Purana (पुराण): Purana meaning "ancient" or "old" is the name of a genre (or a group of related genres) of Indian written literature (as distinct from oral literature). Its ...