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According to Gaudiya Vaishnava tradition, this text's central mantra, known as the Hare Krishna, or Mahā ("Great"), Mantra, was given in the 16th century to Chaitanya Mahaprabhu at his initiation in Gaya (though the Sanskrit mantra is absent from his biographies). [3] This mantra, presented in two lines, contains the words Hare, Rama, and Krishna.
Dakshineswar Kali Temple built in 1855 is of the Divine Mother Goddess Kali, known as Bhavatarini The idol of Goddess Kali at the temple. One day on the 16th of September, Narendra requested Ramakrishna to pray to Goddess Kali, the Divine Mother, for some financial welfare, which was the immediate need of his family.
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) [1] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers. [2] [3] Some mantras have a syntactic ...
The ten mahavidyas, Rajasthan. Top: Kali. Second row (l->r): Bhairavi, Bhuvaneshvari, Tara. Third row (l->r): Bagalamukhi, Shodashi, Chhinnamasta. Last row (l->r):Kamalatmika, Matangi, Dhumavati. Kali The goddess who is the ultimate form of Brahman, and the devourer of time (Supreme Deity of Kalikula systems). Mahakali is of a pitch black ...
The Sanskrit-English Dictionary states Kali is "of a class of mythic beings (related to the Gandharvas, and supposed by some to be fond of gambling)". [4] The Bhagavata Purana describes Kali as wearing the garments of a king and portrays him as a brownish-skinned asura (demon) with a dog-like face, protruding fangs, pointed ears and long green ...
Kali yantra The yantra of Matangi, the tantric Saraswati. A yantra comprises geometric shapes, images, and written mantra. Triangles and hexagrams are common, as are circles and lotuses of 4 to 1,000 petals. Saiva and Shakti yantras often feature the prongs of a trishula. [11] Mantra Yantras frequently include mantras written in Sanskrit.
In Tantra, the shmashana emerged to be a primary concept of spiritual practices called Shava sadhana. [2] [3] Aghoris and Kapalika are some sects that perform rituals in the shmashana. They invoke Kali, Tara, Yogini, Dakini, Bhairava, Bhairavi, and beings like Vetala, Pishacha, Brahmarakshasha and worship these entities as the shmashana ...
Mantra-śāstra - textbooks on Mantras, metaphysics of mantric sound, related practices and rituals Prapañcasāra tantra and its commentaries and Ṭīkās; Śāradatilaka tantra by Lakṣmaṇa Deśikendra; Mantramuktāvali of Paramahaṃsa Pūrṇaprakāśa; Mantramahodadhi of Mahīdhara; Mantradevaprakāśikā of Viṣṇudeva