A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism
author: Swami Harshananda
edition: 2008, Ramakrishna Math
pages: 2084
ISBN-13: 9788179070574
Topic: Hinduism
Encyclopaedia of Hinduism - Brhad-yogi-yajnavalkya
This page describes Brhad-yogi-yajnavalkya which is located on page 377 of the first volume in the book: A Concise Encyclopaedia of Hinduism by Swami Harshananda. This book, known as “a concise encyclopaedia of hinduism”, includes a vast amount of topics covering general aspects on Hinduism, but also contains important aspects regarding Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism This page contains an online preview of the full text and summarizes technical terms, as well as information if you want to buy this book.
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Yoga Vasistha [English], Volume 1-4 [by Vihari-Lala Mitra]
Yoga Yajnavalkya. Along with or prior to Patanjali comes the Yoga Sastra of Yogi Yajnavalkya, the leading authority of the Satapatha Brahmana, who is also regarded as a main originator of the yoga doctrine in his later writings. (Ibid. p. 237). Yajnavalkya speaks of his obtaining the Yoga Sastra from the sun, ~~ ~~ "He who wishes to attain yoga must know the Aranyaka which I have received from the sun, and the Yoga sastra which I have taught."...
Read full contents: Chapter X - Rise of the heretical yogas
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi [by Ganganatha Jha]
Yogi- Yajnavalkya (Do., 283).—‘The Religious Student and the Agnihotrin should repeat the Gayatri 108 times: the Hermit and the Renunciate, more than 1,000 times, Yama (Parasharamadhava, p. 286).—‘There is nothing superior to the Gayatri for purposes of Japa; there is no penance higher than the Gayatri; there is no meditation higher than the Gayatri; there is no Homa higher than the Vishnusmriti, 55. 15-16—[reproduces the words of Manu]. Yama (Viramitrodaya-Samskara, p. 429)....
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Parama Samhita (English translation) [by Krishnaswami Aiyangar]
The Pancaratra is a growing tradition, and without a thorough-going study of this tradition as incorporated in the Mokshadharma of the Mahabharata involving a study of the Sankhya, Yoga and the modifications that these underwent as well as the relations between the position of Yajna-valkya as innovator and his teachers before him, no definite conclusion in regard to the doctrinal position would be possible (* 1) M. Bh, XII, 348 shl, 31-34; 156-10....
Read full contents: Gita, a manual of Pancaratra teaching
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