nama
नाम namaThe (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.