Meru Uttara Meru : also called Sumeru. In ancient India, Meru was the centre of the seven continents [see India], around it revolved all the planets, & on it was situated Swarga.
... Sun and the Moon, "why do you not go around me? Aren't I a greater Mountain than the Meru?" The Sun thought to himself, "Oh, these old fellows! Look at his pride! Comparing himself with the golden Mahameru. Really!" Instead of answering politely, the Sun went on his daily business of going round the mountain Meru. That surely made Vindhya angry "Ah, old! Am I! I shall show you who is old!" ...
... meaning of this important word by Nirukta, and, in order to [do] it, to lay down briefly the principle of Nirukta. The Sanscrit language is the devabhasha or original language spoken by men in Uttara Meru at the beginning of the Manwantara; but in its purity it is not the Sanscrit of the Page 475 Dwapara or the Kali, it is the language of the Satyayuga based on the true and perfect relation ...
... casual sketch of Tarini by the Mother is revealed as a silent message on how to meditate; and the information about Tara’s indexing 10,000 photographs of the Mother moves us to meditate on the Maha Meru Yantra . For who can exhaust the facets of the Divine Mother? That is why Tara reveals only lightning flashes of those days in Pondicherry when it was as if gods walked on earth while the Supreme ...
... and who makes no distinction between the big and the Page 69 small, between a tiny speck of dust and a huge quantity of gold heaped like a mountain, of the size of the mythical Mt. Meru,—he is to be recognised as the Yogin. In him never arises the feeling of jealousy or passionate friendship; for him there is none as a foe or an expectant guest and friend; nor is he deceived by outward ...
... may walk again in two years but not properly... Is life worth living without dance? Is dance all that life is about? So many new dimensions to yourself! And then that same dance becomes the mount Meru, the axis that stabilizes your life, your psyche; it's the crutch on which you get up, it's the life force. It was much more than just an accident and the courage to come back. Q: There must ...
... distinct, has a definite function to perform and has a definite and distinct place in the hierarchy. Posited in different planes in the rising tier of consciousness, in the pyramidal structure of the Meru, each one has its functioning in the particular sphere of cosmic existence, is important in its own way and fulfils a purpose in the scheme of things. They all derive their strength, their very existence... master-act of the divine force, the world gets transformed into a divine spaceship. Ananda will be the reigning Law. Aswapati's vision recaptures the Tantric mode of understanding Existence as the Meru. No more compartmentalisations or limitations though there is a seeming hierarchy: "For worlds were many, but the Self was one." It is the Ananda that courses through one's veins which have been... united Two began a greater age. 47 The Book of Yoga draws a major portion of its material from Tantra. If in Aswapati's Yoga we found him ascending and descending the several planes of the Meru, in Savitri's Yoga we find her journeying through several enclosures (āvaranās) as in the Sri Chakra. Tantra Yoga has gone into the minutest detail possible of all concepts and experiences and given ...
... and law, among the powers of storm the Wind-God. At the other end of the scale I am the radiant sun among lights and splendours, the moon among the stars of night, the ocean among the flowing waters, Meru among the peaks of the world, Himalaya among the mountain-ranges, Ganges among the rivers, the divine thunderbolt among weapons. Among all plants and trees I am the Aswattha, among horses Indra's horse ...
... eyeholes set with pearls and was surrounded on all sides with rows of bells giving forth a melodious sound. (23-26) Announcing to Śrī Rāma that the said aerial car — which resembled a summit of Mount Meru (the golden mountain) and was the workmanship of Viswakarma (the architect of gods); which was graced with stately palaces decked with pearls and silver and provided with pavements inlaid with crystal... in his hand. (37) Bent low (with reverence), Bharata then saluted his (elder) brother, Śrī Rāma, who stood in the forepart of the aerial car (even) as one would salute the sun appearing on Mount Meru. (38) Duly permitted by Śrī Rāma, the said aerial car, which was unsurpassed (by another), had a swan (as it were) yoked to it and was endowed with extraordinary speed, descended to the earth's surface ...
... bathes his giant sides; lain down appears Measures the dreaming earth in an enormous ease. Him, it is told, the living mountains made 2 A mighty calf of earth, the mother large, When Meru of that milking had the charge By Prithu bid, and jewels brilliant-rayed Were brightly born and herbs on every mountain marge. Page 47 3 So is he in his infinite riches dressed ...
... spherical earth of the astronomers" gives place to an earth described "as a flat disk of enormous size", he writes: "Around Meru were four continents (dvipa) separated from the central peak by oceans and named according to the great trees which stood on their shores opposite Meru. The southern continent, on which human beings dwell, had a jambu (rose-apple) as its distinctive tree, and it was therefore... distorts Varāhamihira completely. The Argument from Purānic Geography Our historians may next offer the argument: "Look at the geography of the Purānas. Around Mount Meru there is a ring of land, Jambudvipa, divided from the next continent, Plakshadvipa, by an ocean of salt. Plakshadvīpa in turn forms a concentric circle round Jambudvīpa and so on we make a total of... of Lord Macaulay, seems to have been implicitly believed in by later Hindu theologians, and even astronomers could not emancipate themselves from it, but adapted it to their spherical earth by making Meru the earth's axis, and the continents zones on the earth's surface.' If such an absurd fantasy for the familiar earth can be entertained by Indians on the authority of the Purānas, why should we take ...
... determination to destroy the demons, is endowed with extraor dinary might and resolved to see you and remains seated in his hermitage (even) as Indra (the destroyer of strongholds) on a summit of Mount Meru (the king of mountains), 0 Sītā! (24 25) Mount on my back, 0 auspicious one! Do not show reluctance, 0 charming one! Seek to be united with Śrī Rāma even as Rohinī is with the moon. (26) You will be... down from that tree (beneath which she stood), that wise leader of monkeys then began to grow (in size) in order to inspire confidence in Sītā. (36) Hanūmān (the foremost of monkeys) looked like Mount Meru or Mount Mandara and stood in front of Sītā, shining brightly like a blazing fire. (37) The redoubtable mon key, who resembled a mountain, had a coppery countenance with adamantine teeth and nails ...
... Ksattriyas residing in a body capable of doing its proper duties. Endowed with all-surpassing strength, graced with a splendour that overpowered all others, towering over all on earth, he strode like Meru with its lofty form. Like his form was his intellect, like his intellect was his Page 39 learning; his efforts were worthy of his learning and like his efforts was his success. ...
... like fire and was upholstered with tiger skin. (27-28) Riding his chariot, which moved rapidly with a sound as of thunder and was commodious, was inlaid with gems and gold, which shone like Mount Meru (the gold mountain) and blinded one's eyes with its splendour as it were, which was driven by super excellent horses almost as big as young elephants — (even) as Indra (the thousand eyed god) does... the Videha kingdom) has done what ought to be done in as much as she follows her husband like a shadow and, devoted to her duty, does not leave him any more than the light of the sun forsakes Mount Meru. (24) Oh Laksmana, you are accomplished of purpose in that you are going to serve your godlike brother, who is ever disposed to speak kind words (to all). (25) Indeed this constitutes your great wisdom; ...
... three worlds. (5) The wind god presided over its feathers; the god of fire (lit., the purifier) and the sun god (the source of light) over its head; its shaft was made up of ether; while the Mandara and Meru mountains presided over its weight. (6) Provided with lovely feathers and decked with gold, the arrow, which emitted light from its body, had been made up of the essence of all the elements and shone ...
... Mehendale, M. A., 547, 553, 564, 565, 568-9 Meherauli Iron Pillar of 'Chandra', i, 215, 398, 523-7, 528, 532-3, 596 Menander, 366 Meou-lun, 456 Merutunga: Therāvali, 475, 502 Meru/'Meros', 57, 58, 81 Methora (Mathura), 94, 95, 396 Meyer, E., 251, 281, 282 Meyer, J., 77 Michelson, 315 Mihirakula, 403, 501-16, 600, 606 Milindapanha, 259, 278, 360 Mills, 281 ...
... called - according to them - after either Dionysus's nurse or his native mountain. Some further points may be cited from Diodorus. Like the others he (11.38) mentions the Indian mountain "Meros" (Meru), at whose foot lay the city of Nysa, as a place where Dionysus had been, and he links with its name the Greek legend that Dionysus was bred in his father Zeus's thigh (meros in Greek). In a few things ...
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