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Mahabharata

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The Mahabharata
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Mahabharata ("Great Bharata"): one of India's two great ancient epics telling of the great war between the Pandavas and the Kauravas and serving as a repository for many spiritual and moral teachings.

Mahabharata
Famous epic written in Sanskrit, consisting of 100,000 verses.
Manas ...

Mahabharata is to give the historical documents of Krishna. Mahabharata has less myth and more history in it.

Mahabharata - The Hindu epic; the Bhagavad-Gita is part of this epic.
Mahamaya - The Great Illusionist; a name of Kali, the Divine Mother. See also maya. Manana - Reflection or concentration.
Manas - Mind.

Mahabharata [an epic poem of over 100,000 slokas written principally by the sage vyasa and dealing centrally with the conflict between the Pandavas and the Kauravas, descendants of Bharata].
mahabrahman [the great brahman].

Mahabharata - world's longest epic poem, written by the sage Vyasa, describing conflict between two kingdoms (Pandavas and Kauravas) and their battle at Kurukshetra ca. 1400 B.C.
Mahanand - entry into God-consciousness ...

MAHABHARATA:
An epic poem that recounts the struggle between the Kauravas and Pandavas over the disputed kingdom of Bharata, the ancient name for India. Within this vast narrative is contained a wealth of Indian secular and religious lore.

MAHABHARATA:
An epic poem in Sanskrit, attributed to the sage Vyasa, which recounts the struggle between the Pandava and Kaurava princes over a disputed kingdom.

The Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita are the grand epic illustrations of the problems of a spiritual seeker and of the ways of confronting them and solving them once and for all.

The Mahabharata is a very long poem that tells of a war between two clans of a royal family in northern India. One clan, known as the paragons of virtue is lead by Arjuna (the hero in the Gita) and his four brothers.

In the Mahabharata, when Drona is training Arjuna how to become a fine archer, he trains him how to concentrate on the eye of the bird alone, not on the whole bird, sitting in the tree etc., just the eye to the exclusion of all else.

In the Mahabharata, when Arjuna is exercising his art of archery, Bhisma, his teacher, asks him to focus on the eye of a distant bird.

hero of the Mahabharata and central figure of the Bhagavad Gita.
Asamprajnyata samadhi
state in which no traces of thought are present.

Embedded within the great Indian epic, Mahabharata, it is the conversation between Lord Krishna and Prince Arjuna, which took place on the battlefield of Kurukshetra before the commencement of the great battle.

The dharma is touched upon at length in The Bhagavadgita (The Song of God), a section of the epic poem The Mahabharata. In it, Krishna explains the meaning of righteousness in sustaining the world order.

a part of the famous Hindu epic 'Mahabharata'. Teachings of Lord Krishna to his disciple Arjuna at the commencement of the battle of Kurukshetra, with explanations on sannyasa yoga, karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga.
Bhakti
devotion ...

Composed of 700 verses, the Bhagavad Gita was written in the third or fourth century BCE as part of the epic text the Mahabharata.

In the Mahabharata, Siva commissions this entity "to destroy the sacrifice prepared by Daksha. Then Virabhadra, 'abiding in the region of the ghosts (ethereal men). . . .

This dialogue takes place in the Bhishma Parva of the Mahabharata. The Bhagavad-Geeta is composed of 700 (or 701) shlokas (verses) arranged in 18 chapters.

The ear; also one of the heros in the Mahabharata.
Karna Pidasana
Pressure on ears pose.

Arjuna ("White"): one of the five Pandava princes who fought in the great war depicted in the Mahabharata, disciple of the God-man Krishna whose teachings can be found in the Bhagavad Gita ...

teacher of the Pandava and Kaurava princes from the Mahabharata epic
Durga
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The unitive discipline of insight, which is the name of certain liberation teachings and schools referred to in the Mahabharata
SAMNYASA YOGA ...

The Mahabharata, the great Indian epic, says: "Speak the truth which is pleasant. Do not speak unpleasant truths. Do not lie, even if the lies are pleasing to the ear. That is the eternal law, the dharma.

There are also many other scriptures such as the Puranas, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, etc. Next come the books written by great mystics or masters such as Swami Sivananda, Swami Vishnu-devananda, or other saints from all traditions.

He is worshiped by Vaishnavas as the eighth avatara, or incarnation, of Vishnu. He is best known as the Supreme Personage depicted in the Mahabharata, and specifically in the Bhagavad Gita. For Gaudiya Vaishnavism, Krishna is the Godhead.

Mahabharata has analysed and classified the truth as under: Silence is greater than the speech, true speech is greater than the silence, ...

See also: Spirit, Yoga, India, Brahma, Krishna