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Darshan: An audience, seeing, or teaching with a spiritual teacher. This can be a private audience or, in the case of Sathya Sai Baba, may be attended by many thousands of people. It may also be silent, as in the case of Mother Meera.

 
(See also: Darshan, Body Mind and Soul )

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darshana: (Sanskrit) "Vision, sight."
 
Seeing the Divine. Beholding, with inner or outer vision, a temple image, Deity, holy person or place, with the desire to inwardly contact and receive the grace and blessings of the venerated being or beings. Even beholding a photograph in the proper spirit is a form of darshana. Not only does the devotee seek to see the Divine, but to be seen as well, to stand humbly in the awakened gaze of the holy one, even if for an instant, such as in a crowded temple when thousands of worshipers file quickly past the enshrined Lord.
 
Gods and gurus are thus said to "give" darshana, and devotees "take" darshana, with the eyes being the mystic locus through which energy is exchanged. This direct and personal two-sided apprehension is a central and highly sought-after experience of Hindu faith. Also: "point of view," doctrine or philosophy.
See: shad darshana, sound.

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Swami Sivananda Saraswati (स्वामी सीवानन्द सरस्वती) (Sep 8, 1887—Jul 14, 1963), as he is known under his monastic name, was born Kuppuswamy in Pattamadai, Tamil Nadu, India. A Hindu by birth, he is a well-known proponent of yoga and vedanta. He is reputed to have written over 300 books, on these and related subjects, during his life. He went to medical school in Tanjore and worked as a doctor in Malaya. In 1923 he left Malaya for India on an extensive pilgr ...

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Born in Chandepalle a small town in Nalgonda district of Andhra Pradesh,India, she had her first Samadhi at the age of six, which lasted for a whole day. When she was 12 her uncle Bulgur Venkat Reddy met her for the first time, and immediately recognized in her the girl of his visions. He became convinced that she is the Divine Mother and started to take care of her, allowing her to unfold her inner experiences. At 1974, Mr. Reddy brought her to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry, India, of which he was a member. There Mother Mee ...

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darshan: to see or view, usually used in the context of “beholding”a holy person or an idol.

 
(See also: darshan , Hinduism, Yoga, Body Mind and Soul)
 

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Mother Meera receives many thousands of visitors of all religions for Darshan (literally seeing, primarily in a spiritual context), which she conducts in total silence. Her darshan consists of a ritual, where she will touch a persons head, and then look into his eyes. During this process, she reportedly 'unties knots' in the persons subtle system and permeates him with light. She doesn't charge any money for doing so and she will not give lectures. She says in her book Answers, Part I, "Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how ...

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