Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage CentreBloomsbury Academic, 1988 - 310 pages A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. |
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Page 108
... initiation , choose to take a second initiation from a guru who is famous because of his tyagi , naga or rasik teachings . For some time this sadhu will therefore either remain with his sadhak guru before returning to the group of his ...
... initiation , choose to take a second initiation from a guru who is famous because of his tyagi , naga or rasik teachings . For some time this sadhu will therefore either remain with his sadhak guru before returning to the group of his ...
Page 114
... initiation from any Ramanandi sadhu , but to become a tyagi he should take secondary initiation from a tyagi guru . Central to that secondary initiation is the application of ashes ( vibhūti , khāk or bhasma ) on several parts of the ...
... initiation from any Ramanandi sadhu , but to become a tyagi he should take secondary initiation from a tyagi guru . Central to that secondary initiation is the application of ashes ( vibhūti , khāk or bhasma ) on several parts of the ...
Page 139
... initiation as a naga , the primary initiation as a Ramanandi ( Rām - upāsak ) or Krishna devotee ( Krishna - upāsak ) retains its importance . In the army of Ram there are seven Ramanandi akharas and eleven Krishnaite akharas.25 This is ...
... initiation as a naga , the primary initiation as a Ramanandi ( Rām - upāsak ) or Krishna devotee ( Krishna - upāsak ) retains its importance . In the army of Ram there are seven Ramanandi akharas and eleven Krishnaite akharas.25 This is ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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