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ARTICLES RELATED TO Guru - Bibliography | | | |  Guru - Bibliography: Encyclopedia II - Guru - Types of gurusAccording to the Deval Smriti there can be eleven kinds of gurus and according to Nama Chintamani there are ten types. According to his function gurus are categorized as
rishi
acharyam
upadhya
kulapati
mantravetta
Vaishnava traditions usually categorize gurus as:
vartma-pradarshaka guru (any person who first shows one the path)
shiksha guru
diksha guru
sannyasa guru (who initiates one into sannyasa order)
caittya guru ...
See also:Guru, Guru - Etymology, Guru - Guru in Hinduism, Guru - Guru in Buddhism, Guru - Guru in Sikhism, Guru - Types of gurus, Guru - Succession and lineage parampara, Guru - Guru in a Western culture context, Guru - Gurus in the West, Guru - Assessment and criticism, Guru - Notable scandals and controversies, Guru - Bibliography Read more here: » Guru: Encyclopedia II - Guru - Types of gurus |
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| | | | Guru - Bibliography: Encyclopedia II - Guru - Succession and lineage parampara
The word parampara (Sanskrit परमपरा) denotes a long succession of teachers and disciples in traditional Indian culture. The Hinduism dictionary defines parampara is "the line of spiritual gurus in authentic succession of initiation; the chain of mystical power and authorized continuity, passed from guru to guru." In Sanskrit, the word literally means: Uninterrupted series of succession.
Parampara is also known as Guru (teacher) Shishya (disciple) parampara or guru parampara, where the knowledge ...
See also:Guru, Guru - Etymology, Guru - Guru in Hinduism, Guru - Guru in Buddhism, Guru - Guru in Sikhism, Guru - Types of gurus, Guru - Succession and lineage parampara, Guru - Guru in a Western culture context, Guru - Gurus in the West, Guru - Assessment and criticism, Guru - Notable scandals and controversies, Guru - Bibliography Read more here: » Guru: Encyclopedia II - Guru - Succession and lineage parampara |
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| | | | Guru - Bibliography: Encyclopedia II - Guru - Guru in Hinduism The importance of finding a guru who can impart transcendental knowledge (vidya) is one of the tenets of Hinduism. One of the main Hindu texts, the Bhagavad Gita, is a dialogue between God in the form of Krishna and Arjuna a nobleman. Not only does their dialogue outlines many of the ideals of Hinduism, but the discussion and relationship between the two considered to be an expression of the ideal Guru/disciple relationship. In the Gita itself, Krishna speaks of the importance of finding a guru to Arjuna:
Acquire the t ...
See also:Guru, Guru - Etymology, Guru - Guru in Hinduism, Guru - Guru in Buddhism, Guru - Guru in Sikhism, Guru - Types of gurus, Guru - Succession and lineage parampara, Guru - Guru in a Western culture context, Guru - Gurus in the West, Guru - Assessment and criticism, Guru - Notable scandals and controversies, Guru - Bibliography Read more here: » Guru: Encyclopedia II - Guru - Guru in Hinduism |
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| | | | Guru - Bibliography: Encyclopedia - Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo (Bangla: শ্রী অরবিন্দ) (August 15, 1872–December 5, 1950) was an Indian nationalist, scholar, poet, Hindu mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. His followers further believe that he was an avatar, an incarnation of the supreme being.
Sri Aurobindo spent his life—through his vast writings and through his own development—working for the freedom of India, the path to the further evolution of life on earth, and to bring down what he called the Supramental Truth Consciousness Forc ...
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| | | | Guru - Bibliography: Encyclopedia II - Ayurveda - Historically At the closing of the initiation, the guru gave a solemn address to the students where the guru directed the students to a life of chastity, honesty, and vegetarianism. The student was to strive with all his being for the health of the sick. He was not to betray patients for his own advantage. He was to dress modestly and avoid strong drink. He was to be collected and self-controlled, measured in speech at all times. He was to constantly improve his knowledge and technical skill. In the home of the patient he was to be courteous and modest, ...
See also:Ayurveda, Ayurveda - Brhat Trayi The greater triad, Ayurveda - Basic concepts and methodology, Ayurveda - Qualities, Ayurveda - The Five Elements, Ayurveda - Doshas, Ayurveda - Vata, Ayurveda - Pitta, Ayurveda - Kapha, Ayurveda - Herbs and Minerals in Ayurvedic Medicine, Ayurveda - Historically, Ayurveda - Today, Ayurveda - Ayurvedic Herbs in Western Medicine, Ayurveda - Partial Bibliography Read more here: » Ayurveda: Encyclopedia II - Ayurveda - Historically |
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| | | | Guru - Bibliography: Encyclopedia II - Prem Rawat - Earliest years of Maharaji At an early age Prem Rawat was known as Sant Ji and as Balyogeshwar (Sanskrit: बालयोगेश्वर = child master of yogis), or more fully, Balyogeshwar Param Hans Shri Sant Ji Maharaj. Later on he was called by the title Guru Maharaj Ji (Hindi: Maharaj = great king.) or Guru Maharaji. He dropped the term Guru from his title in the 1980s.
In his book Clarity' he says:
My parents named me Prem Rawat. Since then, many people have given me many names. ...
See also:Prem Rawat, Prem Rawat - Earliest years of Maharaji, Prem Rawat - Childhood, Prem Rawat - Succession to his father's mantle, Prem Rawat - Establishment in the West, Prem Rawat - Maharaji’s First Trip to the West, Prem Rawat - Establishment of organizations in the West, Prem Rawat - Permanent residence in the West, Prem Rawat - Early Western students' passion, Prem Rawat - Marriage and family rift, Prem Rawat - Turn toward Western modes of teaching, Prem Rawat - Prem Rawat's alleged early plan to deny personal divinity, Prem Rawat - Transition in the 1980s, Prem Rawat - Prem Rawat's activities today, Prem Rawat - Access to the techniques, Prem Rawat - The organizations, Prem Rawat - Current activities, Prem Rawat - Number of practitioners of Knowledge, Prem Rawat - Life work, Prem Rawat - Other personal aspects, Prem Rawat - Criticism, Prem Rawat - Bibliography Read more here: » Prem Rawat: Encyclopedia II - Prem Rawat - Earliest years of Maharaji |
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| | | | Guru - Bibliography: Encyclopedia II - Hippie - Drugs Driven by the appeal of the Sixties "psychedelics guru", Harvard professor Timothy Leary, who advocated use of these drugs as a form of mind expansion, many hippies participated in recreational drug use, particularly marijuana (see cannabis, cannabis (drug), and hashish) and hallucinogens such as LSD (see both psychedelic and psychedelic drug) and psilocybin (see Psychedelic mushroom). Some hippies prize marijuana for its iconoclastic, illicit nature, as well as for its psychopharmaceutical effects. Although some hippies did not use drugs, drug use is a trait often ascribed to hippies. Some hippies used drugs to express their di ...
See also:Hippie, Hippie - Origins, Hippie - Politics, Hippie - Drugs, Hippie - Legacy, Hippie - Characteristics, Hippie - Pejorative connotations, Hippie - Hippy, Hippie - European countercultures after WW2, Hippie - Bibliography Read more here: » Hippie: Encyclopedia II - Hippie - Drugs |
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| | | | Guru - Bibliography: Encyclopedia II - The Mother - Difficulties facing the biographer There are a number of different narratives interwoven in Mirra's life, most dramatically the transformation of a girl from a non-religious family in France into a woman worshipped by thousands in India as an incarnation of the Divine Mother (The Hindu 2001); the first Westerner to become an Indian guru (Rawlinson 1997).
Mirra/The Mother herself did not care for biographies of her life, and never wrote a comprehensive or systematic account of her life. However a lot of biographical information is found scattered through her work ...
See also:The Mother, The Mother - Difficulties facing the biographer, The Mother - Early Life, The Mother - Meeting Sri Aurobindo, The Mother - The Mother of the Ashram, The Mother - The Physical Transformation, The Mother - Auroville, The Mother - Important Disciples, The Mother - The Mother - Quotes, The Mother - Partial bibliography Read more here: » The Mother: Encyclopedia II - The Mother - Difficulties facing the biographer |
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