Ramanashram
An ashram located in Tiruvanamalai, established by Ramana Maharshi.
Places, R_Category, Sacred_Walks
Places, R_Category, Sacred_Walks
Rameshwaram
A sacred coastal town in South India, the closest point in India to the neighbouring country, Sri Lanka. Figures in the epic Ramayana, where Rama built a bridge from India to Sri Lanka to enable his army to cross the ocean.
Kriya_Yoga, Mysticism, P_Category
Pranayama
A powerful yogic practice that uses certain breathing techniques to generate and direct the flow of prana in the human body.
S_Category, Spirituality
Sadhaka
A spiritual seeker who has undertaken spiritual disciplines, usually under the guidance of a master.
Kriya_Yoga, Mysticism, P_Category
Prathishta
Process of consecration or energizing an object with Divine energies. These processes are mainly of two kinds – Mantraprathishta, through chanting of appropriate mantras and performing of rituals and pranaprathishta, through a direct process involving the consecrator’s own prana shakthi – life energies.