Poem by Nanak If you bestow your glance of grace, through grace we find the Guide [Satguru] This soul first passes many births, at last the Guide is heard No giver is greater that the Guide, all people make this well The Guide once more imparts the Truth, to those who kill the Self The Guide who makes us grasp reality. Asa ki Var M1 4. AG456 [1] Poem by Mirabai I ...

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Sant Mat, Sant Mat - Sant's Poetry

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Referring to the Shabd, Sant Kirpal Singh, a contemporary Sant Mat guru, stated that "Naam" ("Word") has been described in many traditions through the use of several different terms. In his teachings [3], the following expressions are interpreted as being identical to "Naam": "Naad", "Akash Bani", and "Sruti" in the Vedas "Nada" and "Udgit" in the Upanishads "Logos" and "Word" in the New Test ...

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Shabd, Shabd - Other terms for Shabd, Shabd - Quotes, Shabd - Notes

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Selfless Service is a commonly used term in Sant Mat and Surat Shabd Yoga as well as other spiritual disciplines and in world religions such as Sikhism. The concept is similar to the Christian ideal of Charity as a form of love or devotion for one's fellow man. Because God is perceived as residing in the heart of others, serving other people (and in particular helping them to find God by way of a spiritual teacher) is considered an essential devotional practice. "Service before Self" was a motto by Sant Kirpal Singh which described this practice. A ...

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Seva (Sanskrit: string) is: in Sikhism, volunteer work; selfless service; work offered to God, performed without attachment and with the attitude that one is not the doer. In Siddha Yoga ashrams, Guruseva is a spiritual practice, and students seek to perform all of their tasks in this spirit of selfless offering. Seva is a cornerstone of the Sikh religion. in Sant Mat the same idea has been given a contemporary meaning of serving the Living Master. See Selfless Service. in Indian cuisine, a snack

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Surat Shabd Yoga or Surat Shabda Yoga is a form of spiritual practice that is followed in the Sant Mat and many other related spiritual traditions. As a Sanskrit term, surat means "soul," shabd means "word" and yoga means "union." The term "word" means the “Sound Current,” the “Audible Life Stream” or the “Essence of the Absolute Supreme Being,” that is, the dynamic force of creative energy that was sent out, as sound vibration, from the Supreme Being into the abyss of space at the dawn of the u ...

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• Surat Shabd Yoga - Basic principles
• Surat Shabd Yoga - Movements and masters
• Surat Shabd Yoga - Variations in movements
• Surat Shabd Yoga - Notes and references

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Baba Sawan Singh (1858 - 1948), also know as "The Great Master," was the second Satguru of Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB) from the death of Baba Jaimal Singh in 1903 until his death in 1948. [1] Sardar Bahadur Jagat Singh succeeded him as the third RSSB Satguru. Other disciples who formed spiritual missions elsewhere include Sant Kirpal Singh, Baba Somanath, Pritam Das, and Mastanaji. A chart of this Sawan Singh and related lineages helps s ...

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• Baba Sawan Singh - Notes and references

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Shabd or Shabda literally means “sound” or “word” in Sanskrit. [1] Esoterically, Shabd is the “Sound Current vibrating in all creation. It can be heard by the inner ears.” [2] Variously referred to as the Audible Life Stream, Inner Sound, Sound Current or Word in English, the Shabd is the esoteric essence ...

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Coming from the Latin, initiation implies a beginning. The related verb, initiate, means to begin or start a particular action, event, circumstance, or happening. An initiation is also a ceremony by which a person is introduced into a society, or other organized body, especially the rite of admission into a secret society or order. Normally an initiation rite would imply a shepherding process where those who are at a higher level guide the initiate through a process of greater exposure of knowledge. This may include the revelation of secrets, usually reserve ...

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Kabir (कबीर) (1440 - 1518) (also known as Kabira) was an Indian mystic who preached an ideal of seeing all of humanity as one. He was known to be a weaver and later became famed for scorning religious affiliation, seen as a threat to the elite. His philosophies and ideas of loving devotion to God are expressed in metaphor and language from both the Hindu Vedanta and Bhakti streams and Muslim Sufi ideals. Kabir is also considered one of the early northern India Sants. He was initiated by Ramananda ^Including:

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Surdas (1483 - 1573) was a Hindu poet, sant and musician of India. He is said to have been blind from birth. Surdas - Prolific composition through Inner Vision. Surdas was a very prolific composer. He is known for his "Sur Sagar" (Ocean of Melody). This magnum opus is said to originally contain 100,000 poems or songs; however, today only 8,000 have survived. These songs on the life and adventures of Krishna were dictated by him to an assistant, who had to write faster than the poet could dictate! End ...

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• Surdas - Status of Brij Bhasha raised
• Surdas - Impact on Bhakti movement
• Surdas - Foremost of the Ashta-chaap
• Surdas - Shuddhadvaita

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The word gnosis (from the Greek word for knowledge, γνώσις) has several uses. Gnosis - Classical meanings. Among the gnostics, gnosis was first and foremost a matter of self acquaintance which was the goal of enlightenment. Later, Valentinius, more usually called Valentinus, taught that gnosis was the privileged "knowledge of the heart" or "insight" about the spiritual nature of the cosmos, that brought about salvation to the pneumatics - people who believed they could achie ...

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• Gnosis - Influences on contemporary culture
• Gnosis - Intercultural associations
• Gnosis - Video Game References
• Gnosis - Gnostic blogs

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The term Quan Yin Method was coined in the 1970s by Suma Ching Hai, a popular and controversial spiritual teacher who professes that she is a manifestation of God and the Buddha, to describe the type of meditation that she practices and teaches. It is a Chinese term lending to the English translation, “contemplation on the sound.” According to Master Ching Hai, the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, popularly known as Quan Yin by many Chinese Buddhists and Taoists, practiced this form of med ...

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• Quan Yin Method - Doctrine
• Quan Yin Method - The First Level
• Quan Yin Method - The Second Level
• Quan Yin Method - The Fifth Level
• Quan Yin Method - Metaphysical Method
• Quan Yin Method - Initiation
• Quan Yin Method - Master Ching Hai's use of the Quan Yin Method
• Quan Yin Method - Criticism

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Eckankar, Religion of the Light and Sound of God emphasizes the value of personal experiences as the most natural way back to God. The current spiritual leader of Eckankar (since October 1981) is Harold Klemp. They are generally regarded as a new religious movement begun in 1965, but it is their opinion that they are a sort of "Perennial Philosophy", with ancient origins. However, extensive research by current and ex-members have never been able to substantiate any ancient origins. Klemp has done much to distance himself and the movem ...

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• Eckankar - Teachings borrowed?
• Eckankar - Is Eckankar a Cult?

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Goswami Tulsidas (1532-1623; Hindi: तुलसीदास) was a medieval Hindi poet and philosopher. He was born in Rajpur, India in the district of Banda in Uttar Pradesh, during the reign of Humayun. Tulsidas wrote twelve books and is considered the greatest and most famous of Hindi poets. He is regarded as an incarnation of Valmiki, the author of Ramayana written in Sanskrit. He wrote Ramacharitamanasa (The Lake that is the Story of Rama), an epic devoted to Rama. This Ramayana is read and worshipped with great re ...

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Bhakti movements are Hindureligious movements in which the main spiritual practice is the fostering of loving devotion to God, called bhakti. They are monotheistic movements generally devoted to worship of Shiva or Vishnu or Shakti. Sikhism evoloved out of the Bhakti movement. Bhakti movement - Origins. The Bhakti Movement was essentially founded in South India and later spread to the North during the late medieval period. The notion of 'Bhakti' (loosely translated as devotional love to God) i ...

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• Bhakti movement - Origins
• Bhakti movement - Rama bhakti
• Bhakti movement - Vaishnava bhakti
• Bhakti movement - Influences
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Meditation like yoga originated in Vedic Hinduism many centuries ago, it was much later adopted into a wide variety of practices of religious and non-religious formats which emphasize mental activity or quiesscence. The English word comes from the Latin meditatio, which originally indicated every type of physical or intellectual exercise, but which later could perhaps be better translated as "contemplation." This usage is found in Christian spirituality, for example, when one "meditates" on the sufferings of Christ; as w ...

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• Meditation - Frequency and duration
• Meditation - Purposes and effects of meditation
• Meditation - Metta meditation: the practice of loving-kindness
• Meditation - Health applications and clinical studies of meditation
• Meditation - Meditation and the brain
• Meditation - Meditation and EEG's
• Meditation - Adverse effects
• Meditation - Meditation and drugs

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