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For questions on the god of preservation, among the Trimurti. Also called Narayana. The Supreme God or Brahman in Vaishnavism. In case of questions exclusively on his avataras, the respective tag is preferable like Rama, Krishna.

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I have lot of confusions regarding what type of work ,mode and thought is right way if our goal is moksha. I have lot of confusions on how to correctly do it. But here I can divide interpretations as ...
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I have read on the Wikipedia page for Jagannatha that Jagannatha represents Chaitanya, Balabhadra represents Jnana, and Subhadra represents Shakti. I have heard the same from some Odia Brahmanas as ...
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Pancha madhavas are listed as bindu madhava (varanasi), veni madhava (prayagraj), kunti madhava (pithapuram), sethu madhava (rameshwaram), sundara madhava (trivandrum). Is there a scriptural reference ...
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Basically i recently started hari bhakti and i plucked tulsi leaves in night (knowingnly) ,i thought it's not that big of a sin but after knowing consequences and punishments and importance of tulsi ...
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There is a famous story of the Vaishnava devotee, Dhruva. The story situated nearing the end of his life continues as follows, After many, many years of rule Dhruva felt that he had fulfilled all his ...
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Sri Hari Vishnu and Maa Parvati are said to be siblings. I want to know if they are twins - born at the same time ? Identical twins ? - Born from same element (Tatva) ?
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I heard somewhere that Lord Parshuram claimed the western ghats from the ocean and then established 108 shivalingas. What is story behind this and where is it mentioned in the scriptures? Or is it ...
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In the story of Jaya and Vijaya, the four Kumaras cursed them to be born as powerful antagonists like Hiranyakashipu, Ravana, etc. These births later caused immense suffering to many innocent beings. ...
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Among the Smṛti texts, there is Manusmṛti and Viṣṇusmṛti. Manusmṛti appears as a dialogue between Syāyambhuva Manu and ṛṣi Bhṛgu while Viṣṇusmṛti appears as a dialogue between Bhagavāna Viṣṇu & ...
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Found this pitcure on twitter. Here we can see that Lord Shiva and Vishnu are preapred to attack some demon. My question is; Why Lord Shiva and Vishnu exchanged weapons? What is the name of demon?
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I am looking for all the scriptures where krishna as Bhagavan himself, i.e., not an avatar of Vishnu but himself bhagavan, is mentioned besides Bhagavatam and Brahma Samhita. I know that although ...
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In traditional Puja manuals in Bengali, whether Shakta or Vaishnava, Vedic or Tantric, all offerings as upācāras are offered to Vishnu first (এতদধিপতয়ে দেবায় শ্রীবিষ্ণবে নমঃ) and then the presiding ...
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Aurobindo Ghosh is known to have interacted to Shree Krishna through his yogic kriyas. He has this profound and unique interpretation as “Bhogbhumi cannot be infinite and even in afterlife Jiva can ...
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A person say has calcified his heart and is living with no inner conscience and is dead internally as in silent void but physically alive. What does Hinduism say about afterlife of such human soul who ...
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Verse 3 of Isha Upanishad असुर्या नाम ते लोका अन्धेन तमसावृताः । तांस्ते प्रेत्याभिगच्छन्ति ये के चात्महनो जनाः ॥ ३ ॥ asuryā nāma te lokā andhena tamasāvṛtāḥ | tāṃste pretyābhigacchanti ye ke ...

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