... which humanity has to seize for its perfection and its highest spiritual welfare. Page 11 × All the Puranic tradition, it must be remembered, draws the richness of its contents from the Tantra. × The cosmic Play ...
... 18 RV, 1.154.4; tridhatu can be understood as triple Infinite, which is in the Upanishads called Sachchidananda. Page 69 19 RV, IV.50; Brihaspati becomes Brahma in the Puranic tradition. 20 RV, 1.154. 21 RV, 1.170.1; Compare the description of the Supreme in the Kena Upanishad, and Katha Upanishad. 22 RV, 1.71.2. 23 RV, 1.72.9. 24 RV. 1V.l. ...
... new material is flowing into us; we have not only to assimilate the influences of the great theistic religions of India and of the world and a recovered sense of the meaning ¹. All the Puranic tradition, it must be. remembered, draws the richness of its contents from the Tantra. ². The Cosmic Play Page 91 of Buddhism, but to take full account of the potent though limited ...
... illuminating. But I don't understand why he says that those who are not acquainted with Indian subjects would not understand Nandalal's Shiva-paintings. He seems to suggest that knowledge of the Puranic tradition would help in appreciating his works. But one need not know all traditions to appreciate art. Disciple : We do not have to know Christian traditions in order to appreciate European ...
... theory of the Vedic creed and the Vedic symbolism. The Angiras Rishis are ordinarily described as seven in number: they are sapta viprāḥ , the seven sages who have come down to us in the Puranic tradition 1 and are enthroned by Indian astronomy in the constellation of the Great Bear. But they are also described as Navagwas and Dashagwas, and if in VI.22 we are told of the ancient fathers, the ...
... root of this world-tree’s appearance as non-Brahmic. Jnaneshwar then proceeds to link up her works with the Sankhya description of this vast material creation. It essentially follows the Puranic tradition of the gross physical universe as a product of the eightfold Nature, ashtadha prakriti , emanating from and working in the power of Maya. Out of the Consciousness-Force, chidvritti , shoot ...
... Vishnu is a natural precursor and sufficient origin of the Puranic Narayana, Preserver and Lord of Love. In the Vedic religion, ritualistic sacrifice occupied the central place. In the Puranic tradition, the Vedic sacrifice persisted only in broken and lessening fragments. The house of fire was replaced by the temple, the Karmic ritual of sacrifice was transformed into the devotional temple ritual ...
... Arguments for the Existence of God Marie Sklodowska Curie Page 106 × All the Puranic tradition, it must be remembered, draws the richness of its contents from the Tantra. × The Cosmic Play ...
... without a soul. In reality, however, all movements in man, all forces in nature are more than mere movements and forces, they are personalities, embodiments of conscious beings. Indeed the Puranic tradition has elaborated this conception almost to its extreme limit. Those people crowded the world with an infinite number of Gods and Goddesses. They speak of 33 crores of Gods. The earth is the playfield ...
... forms without a soul. In reality, however, all movements in man, all forces in nature are more than mere movements and forces, they are personalities, embodiments of conscious beings. Indeed the Puranic tradition has elaborated this conception almost to its extreme limit. Those people crowded the world with an infinite number of Gods and Goddesses. They speak of 33 crores of Gods. The earth is the playfield ...
... Lords of the Truth, epithets expressive of Knowledge, Joy, Infinity and Power. In the later tradition the name of Aryaman is placed at the head of the Fathers to whom as their appropriate offering is given the symbolic food, the piṇḍa of the Puranic funeral and memorial rites. In the Puranic traditions the Fathers are of two classes, divine and human, the latter being the ancestors, the Manes. But ...
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