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Hindi svāmī 'master, lord, prince', used by Hindus as a term of respectful address, < Sanskrit svāmin in same senses, also the idol or temple of a god. As a direct form of address, or as a stand-in for a swami's name, it is often rendered Swamiji (also Swami-ji or Swami Ji ).
He prescribed different aspects of God to be worshipped: name, form, activity, deeds, place, vachanas , memories and the blessing of God's incarnation. He considered five forms of God as Supreme called "Pancha Krishna": Dattatreya , Krishna , Chakrapani, Govinda Prabhu and Chakradhara himself.
The Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy Temple or simply known as Yadadri or Yadagirigutta temple, [1] (also known as Pancha Narasimha Kshetram and Rishi Aradhana Kshetram) [2] is a Hindu temple situated on a hillock in the small town of Yadagirigutta in the Yadadri Bhuvanagiri district of the Indian state of Telangana.
Sadguru Siddharudha Maharaj lived in the style of an ascetic throughout his life. Considered to be an incarnation of Shiva, one of the Trinity deities of Hinduism, Siddharudha renounced his home and his family ties at the very young age of 6 years, and set himself the goal of finding his Satguru or spiritual master.
The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Padma Bhushan Award to Swami Tejomayananda, on April 12, 2016. As the Head of Chinmaya Mission Worldwide, Swami Tejomayananda – known in the Mission as Pujya Guruji – has been involved in several projects, including the Chinmaya International Residential School in Coimbatore, the Chinmaya Centre of World Understanding in New Delhi, the ...
Shankara came to be presented as an incarnation of Shiva in the 14th century, [10] [web 1] to facilitate the adoption of his teachings by previously Saiva-oriented mathas in the Vijayanagara Empire. From the 14th century onwards hagiographies were composed, in which he is portrayed as establishing the Daśanāmi Sampradaya, [ 11 ] organizing a ...
The temple has a number of shrines, with those of Shiva as Dharbaranyeswarar, his consort Praneswari Amman , Shani (Saniswararan) and Somaskanda (a combined form of Shiva with Parvati and his son Murugan) being the most prominent. All the shrines of the temple are enclosed in large concentric rectangular granite walls.
Chinna Jeeyar Swami was born in Arthmuru near Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, in a traditional vedic family.His grandfather, Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Jeeyar, also known as Pedda Jeeyar Swami, mentored him and he was educated and trained by several scholars in Sri Vaishnava Sampradaya.