guidance

Connecting with the inner self that provides a sense of knowing as we attune to a higher dimension of self. Until we connect with guidance from within, we need guidance from an outer mentor, a moral code, or ethical philosophy

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Upadesh:

Upadesh: Teaching (by Baba) (SSS-II). Spiritual initiation, guidance (SSS-II)

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bhajana-kriya

to practice devotional service under the spiritual master’s guidance.

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Brahmacarya:

Brahmacarya: A celibate student under the guidance of a spiritual master; celibate student life; the first order of Vedic spiritual life.

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HIGHER SELF - the belief that within each person there is a Divine Spark, a highly spiritual being whom we can listen to for guidance.

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Upanayana:

Upanayana: Traditional ceremonial rites which purify and clarify the intellect, (BV-31), the rite of leading the pupil to the preceptor (BV-41). This rite of initiation is called Upanayana, 'leading near', that is to say, taking the boy near the Guru or spiritual preceptor for (spiritual training) Brahmopadesam (guidance to Brahmam). (SSS-II)

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Mishnah (Hebrew, Jewish). The older portion of the Jewish Talmud, or oral law,, consisting of supplementary regulations for the guidance of the Jews with an ample commentary. The contents are arranged in six sections, treating of Seeds, Feasts, Women, Damages, Sacred Things and Purification. Rabbi Judah Haunasee codified the Mishnah about AM. 140.

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Saint Dream Symbols:

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Saint, Guidance, Wise self, Spiritual self

Psychography. A word first used by theosophists; it means writing under the dictation or the influence of one’s "soul-power", though Spiritualists have now adopted the term to denote writing produced by their mediums under the guidance of returning "Spirits".

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Brahmanas (Sanskrit) Hindu Sacred Books. Works composed by, and for Brahmans. Commentaries on those portions of the Vedas which were intended for the ritualistic use and guidance of the "twice-born (Dwija) or Brahmans.

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Healing the Heart workshop: Psychospiritual component of a healing program run by cardiologist Stephen Sinatra, M.D. In 1995 the program included meditation and a visualization involving patients' requesting guidance from believable spiritual powers.

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Vibhuti:

Vibhuti means ash. People come to Shivabalyogi with requests for all sorts of help, whether curing diseases or mental disorders, solving relationship problems, helping with work or other practical problems, or giving spiritual guidance and development. His Holiness typically blesses vibhuti, which if used as directed will automatically bestow the requested help. The miracles he has worked through vibhuti are countless.

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Over the last century, it is in the realm of art that a contrarian movement developed - towards spirituality, a movement that has been sought to be described by one word: 'Abstract'.

One of the first to define the abstract was W Kandinsky, who explained it as non-materialism in art, the exploration of the spiritual entity of things, when art, stripped of its theatricality, and its "bait of entertainment" reached a pure core. The dictionary splits the word abstract into the Latin 'abs', meaning 'away from', and 'tractum', meaning 'to draw'. Clearly, it means to draw away from the external to the internal entity of things.

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Dictionaries usually describe God as the Supreme Being. Since we cannot put God on a table for a thorough investigation, God and his nature is still seen by some as belonging to a belief system.

Scholars, who believe in the theory of evolution, naturally think that this system of belief must also have undergone its own evolution. They say that ' animism ' (a belief in souls) slowly developed into ' polytheism ' (the belief in many Gods) and from there developed into a belief of one God.

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Nature Spirits Those imperfectly evolved elementals or elemental spirits which in their unthinkably vast aggregate form the entire background of all the manifested cosmos in its seven-, ten-, or twelve-fold ranges of being.

The beings in hierarchies further advanced in evolution than the human kingdom are termed dhyani-chohans. The nature spirits of the three higher cosmic planes are of incomprehensibly greater power as well as even possibly of lofty spiritual and intellectual development than those of the four lower cosmic planes, although unevolved monads or spiritual elementals exist in multitudinous hosts on these three spiritual cosmic planes likewise.

Hence it is that the harmonious work of all the cosmic planes depends upon their interactions and interrelations, under the guidance of highly evolved cosmic spirits or dhyani-chohans. The nature spirits therefore are as much present and active in the visible world as they are in the invisible spheres.

Called in different ages by a host of names, they are best known in Europe by the terms given by the medieval Fire-philosophers: salamanders (beings of the element fire); sylphs (denizens of the element air); undines (the water elementals); and gnomes (beings of he element earth). These are all general terms for elementals, whether of spiritual or material worlds, though most commonly used for the more material elementals.

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Silent Watcher, In theosophy, highly advanced spiritual entities, each the summit of a spiritual-psychological hierarchy composed of beings working under their direct inspiration and guidance. Every hierarchy, high or low, has a Silent Watcher as its own supreme head.

"There are human 'Silent Watchers,' an there is a 'Silent Watcher' for every globe of our Planetary Chain. There is likewise a Silent Watcher of the solar system of vastly loftier state or stage . . ." He is "one who through evolution having practically gained omniscience or perfect knowledge of all that he can learn in any one sphere of the kosmos, instead of pursuing his evolutionary path forwards to still higher realms, remains in order to help the multitudes and hosts of less progressed entities trailing behind him. There he remains at his self-imposed task, waiting and watching and helping and inspiring, and so far as we humans are concerned, in the utter silences of spiritual compassion. . . . He can learn nothing more from the particular sphere of life through which he has now passed, and the secrets of which he knows by heart. For the time being and for ages he has renounced all individual evolution for himself out of pure pity and high compassion for those beneath him" (OG 156).

See also WATCHER

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Sortes Sanctorum (Latin) [from sors lot + sanctum holy]

Divination of the holy ones; the oracular responses, sayings, or prophecies of the oracles. In a more popular sense, the mere casting of lots, or the attempt to ascertain the future by methods which have been popular throughout the ages.

Divination was sometimes resorted to in the early Christian Church, and sanctioned even by Augustine, with the proviso that it must be used only for pure and lofty purposes. One manner probably consisted in picking a passage in holy writ, after praying for divine guidance.

In the ancient sanctuaries, however, a genuine divination was practiced by actual seers who based their operations upon mathematics and on the fact that nature foreshadows what is to come to pass, because all her processes are regulated by law, and are consistent sequences of phenomena connected in a causal chain from spiritual originants.

Thus the ancient seer or forecaster, taking almost any natural occurrence, or a series of them, could from his trained faculties, forecast what the present series of events in nature were inevitably leading towards. To do this successfully one would have to be a genuine seer, which means employing the awakened intuition and spiritual clairvoyance which lie latent in most human beings.

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Master, Masters Adopted in theosophical literature to designate those human beings further progressed on the evolutionary pathway than the general run of humanity, from which are drawn the saviors of humanity and the founders of the world-religions.

These great human beings (also known by the Sanskrit term mahatma, "great self") are the representatives in our day of a brotherhood of immemorial antiquity running back into the very dawn of historic time, and for ages beyond it.

It is a self-perpetuating brotherhood formed of individuals who, however much they may differ among themselves in evolution, have all attained mahatmaship, and whose lofty purposes comprise among other things the constant aiding in the regeneration of humanity, its spiritual and intellectual as well as psychic guidance, and in general the working of the best spiritual, intellectual, psychic, and moral good to mankind. From time to time members from their ranks, or their disciples, enter the outside world publicly in order to inspire mankind with their teachings.

Two of Blavatsky's teachers became publicly known under the names of Master M (Morya) and Master KH (Koot Hoomi). Some of their correspondence with one of Blavatsky's earlier theosophical helpers has been published as The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett.

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Definition and meaning of Judaism

Judaism - [World History]

Judaism is a religion and philosophy with belief in one god (monotheism); it originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people. Hebrews believed that God (Yahweh) was responsible for the world and everything within it. They preserved their early history in the Old Testament which describes the migration of the Hebrews to Egypt, their enslavement by the pharaohs, their exodus under the guidance of Moses, and the covenant the Hebrews have with God based on their commitment to the Ten Commandments. They prospered in Israel for less than a century before they were again exiled and enslaved. The spiritual and ethical principles of Judaism are written in the first five books of the Old Testament, the Torah. Human life was respected but subject to God's judgment and punishment. The Hebrews developed an ethical world view based in their faith with belief in the ultimate power of one god and a concern for individuals. Today, Jews live in different parts of the world, including the United States. The Jewish homeland is Israel.

(Source: The Social Studies Center at Texas University )

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Definition and meaning of Judaism

Judaism - [World History]

Judaism is a religion and philosophy with belief in one god (monotheism); it originated with Abraham and the Hebrew people. Hebrews believed that God (Yahweh) was responsible for the world and everything within it. They preserved their early history in the Old Testament which describes the migration of the Hebrews to Egypt, their enslavement by the pharaohs, their exodus under the guidance of Moses, and the covenant the Hebrews have with God based on their commitment to the Ten Commandments. They prospered in Israel for less than a century before they were again exiled and enslaved. The spiritual and ethical principles of Judaism are written in the first five books of the Old Testament, the Torah. Human life was respected but subject to God's judgment and punishment. The Hebrews developed an ethical world view based in their faith with belief in the ultimate power of one god and a concern for individuals. Today, Jews live in different parts of the world, including the United States. The Jewish homeland is Israel.

(Source: The Social Studies Center at Texas University )

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