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नाम nama

The (divine) Name; in nama-bhakti the Name and the Named are held to be one, so that chanting the Name is being in the deity's presence.

Where this term appears

  • What is a Mantra? Worship

    And there is nama-japa , the simplest of all, the repetition of a divine name, "Rama, Rama," "Krishna, Krishna," carried through an ordinary day.

  • What is Navaratri? Worship

    …्यै नमस्तस्यै नमो नमः ॥ ya devi sarvabhuteshu shakti-rupena samsthita namas tasyai namas tasyai namas tasyai namo namah — Devī Māhātmya 5.32 · the refrain spans 5.32–34 "To the Goddess who abides in all beings …

  • What is the Hanuman Chalisa? Worship

    rama duta atulita bala dhama, anjani-putra pavanasuta nama — Messenger of Rama, house of measureless strength; son of Anjana, called the child of the wind.

  • Hinduism and the Coming of Islam History

    …rotected subjects to Hindus and Buddhists, comes to us from the Chach Nama , a Persian text written around 1226, some five centuries after the events it describes.

  • The Garland of Letters Treatise

    The letters are not marks and not conventions; they are the subtle sound-forms, the matrikas , out of which nama and rupa , name and form, are born, and from name and form the whole manifest universe.

  • The Great Mantras Treatise

    …tury Bengali saint who made the communal singing of the divine names, nama-sankirtana , the center of a whole devotional movement, and in the twentieth century it travelled out of India to become, through the G…

  • The Sound That Remains Treatise

    This is nama-bhakti , the devotion of the Name, and it carries a further claim that orders the whole of the present age.

  • Do Aghoris really eat human flesh? Journal

    …the forms more terrible than the terrible, sarvebhyah sarva-sarvebhyo namas te rudra-rupebhyah, to all of them, to every one, salutations, O Rudra, to all your forms.

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