Life Achivments Work Media Publication Media Pratyabhijnavimarshini and its larger edition Viviriti belong to the Pratyabhijna (recognition) school of Shaiva Shastra as propounded by Utpala Deva and originated by Somananda. Both Vedanta and Shaivism professed the same goal: “the removal of veil of ignorance.” While in Vedanta the negation of facts of experience was the requirement …
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Life of Adi Shankarcharya
Achivments Work Media Publication Sankara was born to the nambUdiri brahmana couple, Sivaguru and Aryamba, in a little village called kalaDi in Kerala. The couple had remained childless for a long time, and prayed for children at the vaDakkunnAthan (VRshAcala) temple in nearby Trichur. Siva is said to have appeared to the couple in a dream and promised them …
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Swami Akhandanand Ji (1864-1937) He was born on Friday, 25 July 1911 in Pushya Nakshatra (Shravana Amavasya v.s. 1968 per Vikram Calendar) in the village of Maharai in the district of Varanasi. His Saryupareen Brahmin family named him Shantanu Behari, after the god of the same name.[citation needed] He was aged 10 when his grandfather made him read the …
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Life Achivments Work Media Publication Shri Adi Shankaracharya (788-820) Shankara was born in a Brahmin family circa 788 AD in a village named Kaladi on the banks of the river Purna (now Periyar) in the Southern Indian coastal state Kerala. His parents, Sivaguru and Aryamba, had been childless for a long time and the birth of Shankara was a …
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Life Achivments Work Media Publication Achievments Of Abhinav Gupta Pratyabhijnavimarshini and its larger edition Viviriti belong to the Pratyabhijna (recognition) school of Shaiva Shastra as propounded by Utpala Deva and originated by Somananda. Both Vedanta and Shaivism professed the same goal: “the removal of veil of ignorance.” While in Vedanta the negation of facts of experience was the …
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Life Achivments Work Media Publication Life of Abhinav Gupta Most of the information about the life of Abhinavagupta is gleaned from his own writings. Abhinavagupta was a Brahmin whose ancestors had been distinguished scholars in the court of Kanauj. His ancestor Atrigupta, who was born in Antarvedi, the Doab between the Ganges and the Jamuna, was …
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Life Achivments work Audio-Video Publication Abhinavagupta is considered the greatest exegetical theologian of the Shaiva tradition in the medieval period. A prolific and polymath writer, he is credited with the authorship of as manyas fifty works, only some of which survive to the present day. The two most important philosophical writings were the Parâtrimshikâ-Vivarana and the …
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श्रीराम के बार-बार मना करने पर भी अयोध्यावासी वापस नहीं लौट रहे थे। श्रीराम भी उनके दु:ख से दु: खी थे। पूरी रात अभी बाकी थी। तभी श्रीराम ने सुमन्त्र को रथ ले चलने के लिए कहा और सीता तथा लक्ष्मण के साथ अयोध्या वासियों को सोता हुआ छोड़कर वे चल दिए। जब राम, लक्ष्मण, सीता गंगा पार करने …
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मन साथ सदा परवाना, कर किरपा करम छड़ना , कर किरपा करम छड़ना जी,अब कर दो नाम दीवाना । सूरत चढ़े सुने धुन ताना, मन मारो करो निशाना, मन मारो करम निशाना जी,अब कर दो नाम दीवाना, सब छूटे बाण कमाना, सत-शब्द मिले ढृढ़ ताना, सत-शब्द मिले ढृढ़ ताना जी,अब कर दो नाम दीवाना, कोई करे ना मेरी हाना, मोहे …
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गुरुवार हम भी शरणागत हैं, स्वीकार करो तो जाने । अब हमे पतित से पावन सरकार करो तो जाने ॥ प्रेमी जन तुमको ध्याते, तुम भक्ति भाव वश आते । हम कुटिल हृदय से कलुषित, उपकार करो तो जाने ॥ गुरुवार हम भी… ज्ञानी तुम में तन्मय हैं, ध्यानी भी तुममे लय है । हम अज्ञानी चंचल चित्त, निस्तार करो …
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