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The first Hindu temple in the Western World was dedicated at San Francisco on 7 January 1906. Swami Trigunatitananda planned the temple himself, combining ideas from a Hindu Temple, a Christian …
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गौणश्चेत्, न, आत्मशब्दात् ॥ ६ ॥ gauṇaścet, na, ātmaśabdāt || 6 || gauṇaḥ—Secondary (figurative); ceta—if (it be said); ta—not; ātmaśabdāt—because of the world ‘Self’ (Atman). 6. If it be …
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तद्यथेह कर्मजितो लोकः क्षीयत एवमेवामुत्र पुण्यजितो लोकः क्षीयते तद्य इहात्मानमनुविद्य व्रजन्त्येतांश्च सत्यान्कामांस्तेषां सर्वेषु लोकेष्वकामचारो भवत्यथ य इहात्मानमनिवुद्य व्रजन्त्येतंश्च …
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अनुपश्य यथा पूर्वे प्रतिपश्य तथाऽपरे ।सस्यमिव मर्त्यः पच्यते सस्यमिवाजायते पुनः ॥ ६॥ anupaśya yathā pūrve pratipaśya tathā’pare .sasyamiva martyaḥ pacyate sasyamivājāyate punaḥ .. 6.. Nachiketa …
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अथ ह प्राणा अहंश्रेयसि व्यूदिरेऽहंश्रेयानस्म्यहं श्रेयानस्मीति ॥ ५.१.६ ॥ atha ha prāṇā ahaṃśreyasi vyūdire'haṃśreyānasmyahaṃ śreyānasmīti || 5.1.6 || 6. Once the sense organs began to quarrel …
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“Skill in action is called yoga.” This means that the same action, when it is done ordinarily, becomes the source of bondage; and when this action is done in the proper spirit, it purifies the mind …
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