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The folk tales of India included in this multimedia title are:
Mantra ? Pandit Bhimsen Joshi Mantra is a sacred sound, chanted to aid the concentration or to express the essence of a sutra. It is like a short scripture or a series of syllables used in meditation and rituals. It consists of sounds or words that enable one to cut through discriminating thoughts so the…
1. OM. Sukesan Bharadvaja, $aibya Satyakama, Sauryayanin Gargya, Kausalya Asvalayana, Bhargava Vaidarbhi and Kabandhin Katyayana, intent on brahman, established in brahman, seeking the supreme brahmin, approached the blessed Pippalada, fuel in hand, thinking, ‘He will teach us all about it’. 2. The rsi said to them, ‘Live with us another year in asceticism, celibacy and…
An underlying theological assumption in texts celebrating the Mahadevi is that the ultimate reality in the universe is a powerful, creative, active, transcendent female being. The Lalita-sahasranama gives many names of the Mahadevi, and several of her epithets express this assumption- She is called, for example, the root of the world (Jagatikanda, name 325), she…
1. ‘”He carries himself (atman) in two parts, the breath and the sun. These are its two paths, the inner and the outer. They both move on in a day and a night. The sun is the outer self, the breath the inner self. The movement of the inner self is measured by the movement…
Sri Sudarshana Lakshmi Sahasranamam (Sanskrit) Sudarshana is a powerful and popular weapon of the divine world wielded often by Lord Vishnu and Lord Krishna, in order to put an end to evils as and when they appear on earth. Though Sudarshana is a weapon it is deified and worshipped as god in order to attain…
III.1 1. ‘Two birds, companions and friends, Cling to the same tree. One of them eats the sweet pippala-berry: The other looks on, without eating. 2. In the same tree a man is plunged. Deluded, he grieves from powerlessness: When he sees the other, powerful one, content, Sees his greatness, he is freed from sorrow….