In 1955, Shree Maharajji organized a religious convention in which, prominent spiritual leaders of India gathered. Mahamahopadhyay Giridhar Sharma, President of the Kashi Vidvat Parishad had also come and was enthralled by Shree Maharajji's learning and scriptural knowledge. In another convention organized in Kanpur in 1956, in which, Shree Raj Narain, Shat Shastree, the Chief Secretary of the Kashi Vidvat Parishad, happened to hear Shree Maharajji's discourses. He was so enthralled by the discourses that after returning to Kashi, he invited Shree Ma ...

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Being, Being - Being and substance in Aristotle, Being - Being in continental philosophy and existentialism, Being - Being in Islamic philosophy

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Among the first inquiries into what "being" encompassed was that undertaken by Aristotle. The term "substance" in Aristotle was a precise metaphysical term denoting an individual thing about which specific assertions may be made. Since the Aristotelian view of matter is negative, the "substance" or "being" is a real thing that exists. Since matter renders things more obscure to our perception, it follows that the true essence of an object is independent of ...

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Why should we understand how the universe was created? Because it gives us a clearer understanding of where we have come from, where we are going, who and what we are, and what our purpose is here. Once you consider that there is a purpose to life, the search for life's origins may very well lead you into a different direction than simply trying to find an explanation for a mechanical or chemical process of creation. This article by Stephen Knapp takes different approach to the origin of the universe, the Vedic approach.

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Question One: Why does Hinduism have so many Gods?

Hindus all believe in one Supreme God who created the universe. He is all-pervasive. He created many Gods, highly advanced spiritual beings, to be His helpers.

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Basics of Hinduism: Are the Gods of Hinduism really married?

It is true that God is often depicted with a spouse in our traditional stories. However, on a deeper philosophical level, the Supreme Being and the Gods are neither male nor female and are therefore not married.

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Yog means union. Union with a supreme power which is the source of creation, perfection and destruction. Union with the supreme intellect and the guiding force behind the perfect mechanism of the universe. Yoga is merging oneself with this force that guides the human being to a state of total bliss. A human being is a small universe in itself. When the consciousness of this small universe unites with the energy prevailing in the vast canopy of the universe the union is complete and the light of wisdom starts flowing in the human body.

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'Atman or Self is one. There is one common consciousness in all beings. All Jivas are reflections of the one Supreme Soul or Paramatman. Just as one sun is reflected in all pots of water, so also the one Supreme Being is reflected in all human beings. One cannot become many. One appears as many. One is real. Many are illusory.

From "Easy Steps to Yoga" by Sri Swami Sivananda.

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Yog means union. Union with a supreme power which is the source of creation, perfection and destruction. Union with the supreme intellect and the guiding force behind the perfect mechanism of the universe. Yoga is merging oneself with this force that guides the human being to a state of total bliss. A human being is a small universe in itself. When the consciousness of this small universe unites with the energy prevailing in the vast canopy of the universe the union is complete and the light of wisdom starts flowing in the human body. The light contains everything a human needs to evolve. A human is a part of nature and constantly striving for perfection. This is the natural course of evolution because god is the personification of ultimate perfection.

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God and Gods of Hinduism

The most prevalent expression of worship for the Hindu comes as devotion to God and the Gods. In the Hindu pantheon there are said to be three hundred and thirty-three million Gods. Hindus believe in one Supreme Being. The plurality of Gods are perceived as divine creations of that one Being. So, Hinduism has one supreme God, but it has an extensive hierarchy of Gods. Many people look at the Gods as mere symbols, representations of forces or mind strata, or as various Personifications generated as a projection o of man's mind onto an impersonal pure Beingness.

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Religion and Dharma Are Not Synonymous

Dharma and religion are not the same thing. The terms are used interchangeably for want of an appropriate English word. The Oxford Dictionary defines religion as "A system of faith, especially personal God entitled to obedience".

Performing rituals alone is not dharma . Worship or upasana is the method. The mind gets purified by worshipping the Supreme Lord, Bhagwan. It will yield love for the Lord and all living beings. There will be no violence. Therefore, love for the Supreme Lord is the best dharma .

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Sankara can refer to: Shiva, whom Hindus, especially Shaivites, worship as supreme God or their Supreme Being. This is distinguished from worship of deities or devas, i.e., gods, who are not the Supreme Being but higher powers that control forces of nature, such as fire, wind, water, etc. Adi Sankara, Hindu philosopher of roughly 800 CE credited with reviving Hinduism Thomas Sankara, a West African political figure Sankara Stones, magical rocks from the 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of

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Ishvara (ईश्वर in devanagari script, pronunciation /ī:sh vərə/), also variously transliterated (romanized) as Īshvara, Īshwara, Īshwar, Īśvara, etc. (Sanskrit: "the Supreme Lord, and hence the Cosmic Controller") is a Hindu philosophical concept of God meaning that entity or the Supreme Being which is the lord and the ruler of everything. Hinduism uses the term Ishvara exclusively to refer to the One and the Supreme God in a kind of monotheistic sense. The Atharva Veda explicitly sa ...

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Sarosh Yazata is a holy being in Zoroastrian lore, in the service of the Zoroastrian supreme being, Ahura Mazda. He is thought of as guarding the gates of Heaven or the Chinvat bridge that leads to Heaven. He is compared to a guardian dog in one verse, and is considered to be a Protector of Souls. Variant forms of the name include Surush, Sirushi, Sraosha, Srosh, Serosh, and Surush Asha. Other related archivesAhura Mazda, Yazata, Zoroastrian, d

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In Hinduism, a Rishi (ṛṣi) is a sage and/or seer who "heard" (cf. shruti) the hymns of the Vedas from the Supreme Being Brahman while he was in deep meditation. A rishi can be regarded as a combination of a patriarch, a priest, a preceptor, an author of Vedic hymns, a sage, a saint, an ascetic, ...

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Monotheistic faiths believe that there is a supreme being, who is necessarily unique, and the different names given to that being in different languages could in principle be translated as English God. However, the "real" name of God plays an important role in some cultures. Names of God - List of Names. Aten is the earliest name of a God associated with monotheistic thought. See also the Great Hymn to the Aten by Akhenaten. Ahuramazda "Lord Wisdom" is the name of the supreme be ...

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• Names of God - Taboos
• Names of God - Judaism
• Names of God - Literature and fiction

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Emanationism technically is a henotheism component in the cosmology of certain religious or philosophical systems that argue a Supreme Being did not directly create the physical universe, but instead emanated lower spiritual beings who created the world. According to this paradigm, Creation proceeds as an outpouring or even a transformation in the original Absolute or Godhead. The Supreme Light or Consciousness descends through a series of stages, gradations, worlds or hypostases, becoming progressively more material and embodied, before finally turning around to return to the One, retracing its steps thr ...

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Supreme Court of the United States Decided June 14, 1943 West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that held that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution protected students from being forced to salute the American flag and say the Pledge of Allegiance in school. It was a significant court victory won by Jehovah's Witnesses, whose religion forbade them from saluting or pledging to political institutio ...

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!Xu is arguably the main god of the Bushmen of southern Africa. He is considered benevolent and all-powerful supreme being. He is also the sky god to whom the souls of the dead go. He is said to "summon the magicians to their profession, and gives them supernatural powers." The Bushmen add that he provides the rain and is invoked in illness, before hunting and before traveling. Other related archivesAfrica, Bushmen

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Creation is the following: Generally, creation is the act or result of bringing something into existence from nothing at all. In theology, Creation is God's act of bringing the universe into existence from nothing. Creationism is the belief that the natural universe, life, and humanity was created by a supreme being's supernatural intervention. Creation is a yearly Christian music festival which happens in the Eastern and Western parts of the United States. It's also kn

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