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Topic: Deva (disambiguation)


  
  Deva - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia
Deva is also a term for heavenly beings in traditional Buddhist cosmology.
Deva in the New Age movement refers to spiritual forces or beings behind nature.
Deva or Dava was used in ancient Dacia as a suffix, which meant "a city" in the Dacian language.
www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Deva   (147 words)

  
  Hinduism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word Devas may variously be translated into English as gods, demigods, deities, celestial spirits or angels, none of which is an exact translation.
According to the philosophy of Mīmāṃsā, all the devas and devīs are the sovereign rulers of the forces of nature, and there is no one Supreme Īshvara as their Lord.
According to the philosophy of Advaita Vedānta, all the devas are simply mundane manifestations of the Supreme Lord (Īshvara) in the human mind and hence, ultimately, different manifestations of the One Brahman that the human mind conceives.
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 Deva - LoveToKnow 1911
There is more than one meaning of Deva discussed in the 1911 Encyclopedia.
We are planning to let all links go to the correct meaning directly, but for now you will have to search it out from the list below by yourself.
This page was last modified 17:00, 14 Apr 2006.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Deva   (67 words)

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