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Varuna

God of the sea and of the waters; guardian of the western quarter of the compass.

 (See also: Varuna, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

Varuna

The demigod who presides over water and the oceans.

(See also: Varuna, Bhakti, Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti Dictionary, Body Mind and Soul)

The celestial Sabha of Varuna is matchless. Its dimension is exactly like that of Yama. It is adorned with white walls and arches. It is built by Visvakarma under the waters; it is surrounded on all sides by many celestial trees made of gems and jewels and producing excellent fruits and flowers. Many plants with blue, yellow, black, white and red blossoms have formed themselves into excellent bowers. Hundreds and thousands of beautiful and variegated birds of various species always pour forth their melodies within them.

This is an excerpt from the book What Becomes Of The Soul After Death by Sri Swami Sivananda.

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The Upa-Puranas : The eighteen Upa-Puranas are: Sanatkumara, Narasimha, Brihannaradiya, Sivarahasya, Durvasa, Kapila, Vamana, Bhargava, Varuna, Kalika, Samba, Nandi, Surya, Parasara, Vasishtha, Devi-Bhagavata, Ganesa and Hamsa.

Excerpt from All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda

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The Uttara Marga or Devayana path or Northern path or the path of light is the path by which the Yogins go to Brahman. This path leads to salvation. This path takes the devotee to Brahmaloka. Having reached the path of the gods he comes to the world of Agni, to the world of Vayu, to the world of Varuna, to the world of Indra, to the world of Prajapati, to the world of Brahman.

The Pitriyana path or the path of darkness or the path of ancestors leads to rebirth. Those who do sacrifices to gods and other charitable works with expectation of fruits go to the Chandraloka through this path and come back to this world when their fruits of Karmas are exhausted.

The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book What Becomes Of The Soul After Death by Sri Swami Sivananda.

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Yajnas

These are the outer forms of worship in Hinduism, reminders of its direct connection with the Vedic religion of the ancient past. During the performance of the yajnas, offerings are made to different deities in a prescribed and systematic manner by qualified priests to supplicate them, so that they would assist the worshipper in achieving certain results in life.

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Veles, Volos, Weles, or Voloh is a major Slavic god of earth, waters and Underworld, associated with dragons, cattle, magic, musicians, wealth and trickery. He is also the opponent of thunder-god Perun, and the battle between two of them constitutes one of most important myths of Slavic mythology. Veles appears to be both a very complex and very ancient god: he may even be a relic from a common Proto-Indo-European pantheon. He was imagined to be (at least partialy) serpentine, with horns (of bull, ram or some othe ...

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20000 Varuna ("VAR oo na") is a Kuiper Belt object about 1060 km in diameter, estimated from a combination of thermal and optical measurements. Little is known about it. It has a rotational period of approximately 3.17 hours (or 6.34 hours, depending on whether the light curve is single or double-peaked). It has a density of approximately 1 g/cm⁹ (as dense as water), which implies that it may not be a fully solid body (Jewitt & Sheppard, 2002). The surface is darker than the surface of Pluto indicating it is l ...

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In Hinduism, Parjanya is a Vedic god identified with rain and thunder. Portrayed in the Rig Veda as a bull. Sometimes regarded as an aspect of the god Indra, his name may be cognate with Varuna. Other related archivesHinduism, Indra, Rig Veda, Varuna, Vedic, god, rain, thunder

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In Hinduism, the Adityas are a group of solar deities, sons of Aditi and Kasyapa. In the Rigveda, they are seven deities of the heavens, chief of these being Varuna, followed by Mitra, Aryaman, Bhaga, Daksha, and Ansa, the seventh Aditya was probably the Sun, Surya or Savitar. As a class of gods, the Rigvedic Adityas were distinct from the Vishvedevas. In the Yajurveda (TS), their number is given as eight. In the Brahmanas, their number is expanded to twelve, corresponding to the twelve months: Ansa Aryman < ...

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In Hinduism and Buddhism, the lokapala (Skt. "world protector") were the Guardians of the four directions and were usually placed in pairs at the entrance to tombs. As Guardians they could call upon the spirits of the next world to help them protect the tomb if necessary. In Hinduism, the four are: Indra, the guardian of the east Yama, the guardian of the south Varuna, the guardian of the west

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Vörnir is a giant from Norse mythology. He is only extant in Nafnaþulur in the Prose Edda. The name has been connected to the PIE root *ver- (from *verunyos?), meaning "to cover". Cognates in other Indo-European languages have been suggested, but remain uncertain. The Vedic Varuna, the Mitanni names aruna and urvana, Uranos, the sky god in Greek mythology, the Slavic god Veles, and velnias< ...

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The word Makara can refer to several different things. In Aboriginal mythology, the Makara are the seven sisters who eventually became the Pleiades. In Hinduism, Makara is a sea monster and Varuna's mount. In the Hindu calendar Makara refers to the Zodiacal sign of Capricorn. In geography, Makara is a coastal town west of Wellington, New Zealand. In old Greek, Makara means "blessed." Since many East European

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Damayanti is a character in Hindu mythology. She was the wife of Nala and their story is told in the Mahabharata. Damayanti was a princess who fell in love with Nala simply from hearing about his virtues and accomplishments, although he was addicted to gambling. When it came time for Damayanti to choose her husband at a swayamvara, princes and kings came to seek her hand, including Nala. The gods Indra, Agni, Varuna, and Yama were in attendance too. Nala met the gods on their way there, and they ordered him to go inform Damayanti that

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A cubewano is any substantial Kuiper belt object, orbiting beyond about 41 AU and not controlled by resonances with the outer planets. The odd name is derived from the first trans-Neptunian object found, (15760) 1992 QB1. Later objects were called "QB1-o's", or cubewanos. Objects identified as cubewanos include: (15760) 1992 QB1 (19521) Chaos (20000) Varuna (50000) Quaoar (53311) Deucalion Categ ...

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In Hinduism and Vajrayana Buddhism - especially Kalachakra, the Ashta-Dikpalas are the eight gods who rule the eight directions. They are often augmented with two extra deities for the ten directions (the two extra directions being zenith and nadir), when they are known as the Dasha Dikpala. They are: The gods of the cardinal directors, Indra, Varuna, Yama and Kubera, are also known as the Lokapalas. Categories: Hindu gods | Buddhist mythology ...

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Asura - In Hinduism. In Hindu mythology, the Asura (Sanskrit: असुर) are a group of power-seeking deities, sometimes misleadingly referred to as demons. They were opposed to the devas. Both groups are children of Kasyapa. The name is cognate to Ahura and Æsir, which implies a common Proto-Indo-European origin for the Asura and the Æsir. The negative character of the asura in Hinduism seems to have evolved over time. In general, the earliest texts have the asuras presiding over moral and soc ...

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Mitra or Mithra or Mithras is an important deity of Persian and Indic culture; he appears in the Vedas as one of the Adityas, a solar deity and the god of honesty, friendship, contracts and meetings. In Persian civilization, where his name was rendered as Mithra, he later came into increased prominence as a major deity of Zoroastrianism. He can be identified with a proto-Indo-Persian deity whose name can be reconstructed as *Mitra. Mithraism began as an aspect of the religion of the old Vedic (Hindu) p ...

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