• Jiva (Sanskrit: जीव, IAST: jīva), also referred as Jivātman, is a living being or any entity imbued with a life force in Hinduism and Jainism. The word...
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  • Jīva (Sanskrit: जीव) or Ātman (/ˈɑːtmən/; Sanskrit: आत्मन्) is a philosophical term used within Jainism to identify the soul. As per Jain cosmology, jīva...
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    Jiva Goswami (Sanskrit: जीव गोस्वामी, romanized: Jīva Gosvāmī; c. 1513 – c. 1598) was an Indian philosopher and saint from the Gaudiya Vaishnava school...
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  • Upadhi (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    self, Brahman (Sanskrit: ब्रह्म ) is hidden in a living being, jiva (Sanskrit: जीव ) by the upādhi of the mind, Antahkarana (Sanskrit: अंतःकरण ) and the...
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    Sanskrit literature is a broad term for all literature composed in Sanskrit. This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan...
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    knows Jiva's works in and out and is at home with this high point of Sanskrit learning in the sixteenth century and the traditions from which Jiva draws...
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  • to: Jīva (Jainism), the soul substance in Jainism Jīvá, a Sanskrit trigonometric term also known as jyā; see Jyā, koti-jyā and utkrama-jyā JIVA!, a 2021...
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  • Dictionary of Upanisads. Sarup & Sons. p. 140. ISBN 978-81-7625-148-8. The jiva comes out with the letter Ha and gets in again with the letter Sa Woodroffe...
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  • Jñāna (redirect from Gyan (Sanskrit))
    In Indian philosophy and religions, jñāna (Sanskrit: ज्ञान, [ˈdʑɲaːnɐ]) is "knowledge". The idea of jñāna centers on a cognitive event which is recognized...
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    Soul (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    ātman (self, essence) in every being. In Hinduism and Jainism, a jiva (Sanskrit: जीव, jīva, alternative spelling jiwa; Hindi: जीव, jīv, alternative spelling...
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    Dravya (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    universe is made up of six eternal substances: sentient beings or souls (jīva), non-sentient substance or matter (pudgala), principle of motion (dharma)...
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  • Shakti, jivas, and the world. Accordingly, sambandha-jnana includes knowledge of the three tattvas or truths: Krishna-tattva, Shakti-tattva and jiva-tattva...
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    Moreover, Jains try to avoid unnecessary injury to plants and sūkṣma jīva (Sanskrit for 'subtle life forms'; minuscule organisms). The goal is to cause...
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  • Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit Dictionary (1899): " jīvá n. (in geom. = jyā) the chord of an arc; the sine of an arc Suryasiddhanta 2.57"; jīvá as a generic adjective...
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  • Sanskrit has inherited from its reconstructed parent the Proto-Indo-European language an elaborate system of nominal morphology. Endings may be added directly...
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    Ishvara (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    abheda translates as 'one-ness'. Self (their English phrase for the Sanskrit word: jiva) are considered parts of God, and thus one with Him in quality, and...
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    and jīva – these five entities are eternal." "From all the Vedas, Purāṇas, Itihāsa and Smṛti scriptures, I have gleaned the principle that jīva, māyā...
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    Nandi (Hinduism) (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    Nandi (Sanskrit: नन्दि), also known as Nandikeshvara or Nandideva, is the bull vahana (mount) of the Hindu god Shiva. He is also the guardian deity of...
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    Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    in non-difference, known as achintya-bhedabheda, was developed later by Jiva Gosvami in his book Bhagavat Sandharbha. Mahaprabhu founded Gaudiya Vaishnavism...
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  • Anubandha chatushtaya (category Sanskrit words and phrases)
    (aptitude); b) vishaya ('subject matter' or 'the theme') pertaining to the Jiva-Brahman identity; c) prayojana or phalasruti ('result' or 'fruit') which...
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    Jyotirlinga (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    800km 500miles 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1    A Jyotirlinga (Sanskrit: ज्योतिर्लिङ्ग, romanized: Jyotirliṅga, lit. 'lingam of light') or Jyotirlingam is...
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  • Ātman (Hinduism) (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    orthodox schools of Hinduism believe that there is Ātman in every living being (jiva), which is distinct from the body-mind complex. This is a major point of...
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    by early followers of Chaitanya, such as Sanatana Goswami, Rupa Goswami, Jiva Goswami, Gopala Bhatta Goswami and others. The focus of Gaudiya Vaishnavism...
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  • Paramatman (category Pages with Sanskrit IPA)
    (aspect) of the Jiva presiding in the right eye become unified with the Paramatman and the Jiva presiding in the heart, then the Jiva does not see, smell...
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    Mahāvākyas (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    Gaudapada's Advaita Vedanta, in his Mandukya Karika. Advaita Vedanta Jiva Monism Soham (Sanskrit) Vakya Vritti Ajativada I Am that I Am Al-Hallaj "Consciousness"...
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    Satya (redirect from Sat (Sanskrit))
    Satya (Sanskrit: सत्य; IAST: Satya) is a Sanskrit word translated as truth or essence. It also refers to a virtue in Indian religions, referring to being...
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  • Anekantavada (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
    Anekāntavāda (Sanskrit: अनेकान्तवाद, "many-sidedness", Tamil: பல்லுரை) is the Jain doctrine about metaphysical truths that emerged in ancient India. It...
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  • Atman (redirect from Ātman (Sanskrit))
    or anātman — "not-self", central concept in Buddhism Ātman (Jainism), or Jīva, a philosophical term used within Jainism to identify the soul Atman jnana...
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    Ajiva (Sanskrit) is anything that has no soul or life, the polar opposite of "jīva" (soul). Because ajiva has no life, it does not accumulate karma and...
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    Nimbarka (section Jiva)
    of simultaneous unity and diversity between Brahman, the individual soul (jīva) and the universe (jagat). Vedānta Pārijāta Saurabha is further commented...
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