ananda
आनन्द ānandaBliss. In the Taittiriya Upanishad the innermost sheath is the anandamaya kosha, and bliss is one of the qualities the tradition associates with brahman (sat-chit-ananda).
Where this term appears
- Atman and Brahman Essentials
A later tradition compressed this into a single famous compound, sat-chit-ananda , being-consciousness-bliss.
- How to Read a Murti Deities
The scholar Ananda Coomaraswamy argued that the Indian artist worked by inner visualisation, holding the form in meditation before shaping it in stone, so that the finished image is a vision made visible.
- Ishvara, Bhagavan and Brahman: How Hinduism Conceives God Essentials
Hinduism conceives the one ultimate reality under three principal names that mark three ways of approaching it. Brahman is the formless, attributeless Absolute…
- Lila: The World as Divine Play Essentials
They are the movements of a dance, done in the fullness of ananda , the bliss-dance, the ananda-tandava .
- Sat-Chit-Ananda: Being, Consciousness, Bliss Essentials
…e one thing that cannot be pointed to. The words are sat , chit , and ananda .
- Tantric Alchemy: The Quest for the Immortal Body Lineages
…na, the vast systematising Rasaratna-samuccaya , and the South Indian Ananda-kanda build out a whole technical literature: how to purify mercury through a long sequence of operations, how to "kill" or fix its v…
- The Chola Age and the Temple as Institution History
The art historian Ananda Coomaraswamy, who first taught the modern world how to read this image, called it one of the clearest images of the activity of God that any art or religion can boast.
- The Pancha Bhuta Sthalam: Five Element Temples Temples
And yet Chidambaram is also the home of the most famous image in all of Shaivism, for here Shiva is Nataraja , the Lord of the Dance, performing the Ananda Tandava , the dance of bliss, in the golden hall.