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  Hayagriva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Tibetan Buddhism, Hayagriva is a wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvara.
It is rumoured that Tibetan horse-dealers worship Hayagriva because he is believed to frighten away demons by neighing like a horse.
Hayagriva is the presiding deity of several srivaishnava sects such as Andavan Ashramam, Parakala Mutt and Ahobila Muttum.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hayagriva   (326 words)

  
 Untitled Document
Hayagriva: At first Darwin was a Christian, but his faith in the existence of a personal God dwindled, and he finally wrote, "The whole subject"--that is the subject of religion, or God--"is beyond the scope of man's intellect.
Hayagriva: Well, by that he means that the strong pass on their hereditary characteristics to their offspring, and that the race..., no individual survives, but that the race improves.
Hayagriva: And he, he was ridiculed, Bryan, for his fundamental..., for his fundamentalism.
www.angelfire.com /ego2/prabhupada/con2.htm   (2491 words)

  
 Hayagriva, Param Vir
Hayagriva is a horse-headed being known in Indian and Tibetan sacred literature and art as an incarnation of Vishnu, associated with knowledge and wisdom.
Though Hayagriva, as a mythological archetype, is associated with many stories and fantastical episodes, I have kept my work free of narrative and, as I did in an earlier work, internalised the drama around his magical qualities, in three distinct panels of the work.
The polyrhythmic background is symbolic of the deity Hayagriva’s association in traditional imagery with the eternity of space, and its spiral-like quality is represented by an exact golden section in the main rhythmic division of the panel.
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 Lalita trishati - ITRANS document
Hayagriva is the incarnation of VishhNu who assumed the form of a horse to kill a demon by the same name.
Hayagriva reveals to Agastya that the great Goddess, lalitaa, is without beginning or end and is the foundation of the entire universe.
Hayagriva lifts up Agastya and tells him that he is indeed a great man since Lalita herself had commanded him to impart the trishathi to Agastya.
www.hindunet.org /srh_home/1996_3/msg00223.html   (895 words)

  
 [No title]
English professor Hayagriva das, she writes, was "comprehension and style editor" for the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, but Macmillan Publishing abridged it because they thought the purports repetitive.
Hayagriva worked with Srila Prabhupada on "Bhagavad-gita As It Is" in New York in 1966, then came to San Francisco to continue their work; he was there when I first met Srila Prabhupada in early 1967.
Macmillan, not Hayagriva, was responsible for abridging the 1968 Gita and for having the cover art changed to a solitary four-armed form of Visnu.
www.chakra.org /discussions/BMFeb23_03.html   (1750 words)

  
 Mirrors of the Heart-Mind - Hayagriva Essay
Hayagriva or, "horse-necked one," is a primary emanation of Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of absolute compassion.
In Tibet, Hayagriva is one of the primary yidam, or chosen meditational deities.
Hayagriva is also associated with Padmasambhava, who is shown seated to the right of Buddha Amitabha.
kaladarshan.arts.ohio-state.edu /exhib/sama/Essays/CC94.002Hayagriva.html   (783 words)

  
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Hayagriva or, "horse-necked one," is Vishnu who came once more to clear the world from evil he is manifestation of absolute compassion.
Hayagriva's anger, directed at the causes of suffering, results from the compassion he feels for his afflicted devotees.
Hayagriva is a eighteen avatar of Vishnu, the reveler of sacred lore and the protector of righteousness and truth.
www.goddessherself.com /mantras/hayagriv.htm   (1702 words)

  
 SIGMUND FREUD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hayagriva: And so in teaching this he was teaching something radically different, and this is one of the reasons that he was condemned to death--for blaspheming the demigods, for blaspheming the gods.
Hayagriva: Now Socrates, as a teacher, in addition to believing in the value of insight or meditation, Socrates also believed that knowledge can be imparted from one person to another.
Hayagriva: "It is the cause of knowledge and truth, and so while he may think of it as an object of knowledge, he would do well to regard it as something beyond truth and knowledge, and precious as these both are, of still higher worth.
homepage.ntlworld.com /prabhupada/socrates.htm   (5296 words)

  
 Hayagriva Stotram of Vedanta Desika
Lord Hayagriva with the face of a white horse appeared as the acharya and wrote this grantham in my mind, and all I have done is reproduced it.
He variously describes the "hala hala" sound arising from Lord hayagrIva with the face of a horse, and the sound of the oranments in His leg, as the Vedic emanations from the Lord.
Swami Desikan composed the Hayagriva stotram as Lord Hayagriva was giving His pratyaksha darsanam to the acharya in Tiruvahindrapuram.
www.ramanuja.org /sv/acharyas/desika/stotras/hayagriva-nk.html   (1407 words)

  
 Temples In Assam
Hayagriva (Vishnu with horse head) is the name of one of the incarnations of Lord Vishnu.
There is another reference to the killing of a demon named Hayagriva near Visvanatha (also spelt as Vishvanatha); The Lord of the world ('Jagatpita') is said to have fought with Hayagriva and after having killed him migrated to Manikuta.
With one piece the Hayagriva image was made and the other had the image of the Fish-god named 'Madhava'.
www.indiantravelportal.com /assam/temples/hayagriva-madhab-temple.html   (1350 words)

  
 Hayagriva Phurpa
Since Hayagriva is one of the deities who conquers nagas, it is especially useful to cure illnesses caused by nagas, such as skin diseases.
The horse is the distinguishing symbol of Hayagriva.
The three faces of Hayagriva signify that he is the deity invoked to dwell within the phurpa.
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Practicing on Hayagriva is one of the five Classes of Means for Attainment of Pristine Cognition.
One of four gate keepers, Hayagriva is a Tantric deity always depicted with a horse's head within his flaming hair.
Black Hayagriva is an extremely wrathful aspect of Buddha Amitabha and Red Hayagriva is Avalokiteshvara in wrathful form.
www.turtlehill.org /glos/h.html   (725 words)

  
 Cast for Eternity: Bronze Masterworks from India and the Himalayas
In contrast, the bodies of the deities are left ungilded in red copper representing the iconographically prescribed red colour of Hayagriva and his consort Vajravarahi.
The three faces of Hayagriva and his partner are given focus and animation with gold and coloured paints.
Hayagriva (‘horse-neck’) is the fierce assistant of the compassionate Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, and their spiritual progenitor, Amitabha, is shown in the flaming hair above the three horse heads.
www.asianart.com /exhibitions/antwerp/51.html   (318 words)

  
 MantraOnNet.com : Shopping
Sri Lakshmi Hayagriva (the Lord with the horse's face) is the presiding deity for all knowledge.
It is said that Hayagriva restored the knowledge bank viz.
Lord Narayana at once incarnated with the lustrous white horse face Hayagriva, rushed to the nether world and destroyed the demons and restored the Vedas.
www.mantraonnet.com /shopping-hayagriva.html   (100 words)

  
 Horse-king
Hayagriva is considered to embody the speech aspect of all buddhas, so the characteristic high-pitched whinny of a stallion is understood as the cry that is Wisdom.
An ancient Hayagriva temple at Hajo (Kamrup District) in Assam enshrines this form of Vishnu.
According to Tibetan folk traditions, when a fine riding horse dies, its skull is sometimes placed on the roof of the owner's house to ensure that the wealth of the household does not disappear with the loss of the animal itself.
www.khandro.net /animal_horse_2.htm   (3116 words)

  
 Hayagriva   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hayagriva, in Hinduism, is considered a minor incarnation of Vishnu; a god mentioned in epic and Puranic literature.
At the request of Brahma, Hayagriva rescued the Vedas stolen by two demons from the bottom of the primeval ocean.
Depicted in human form, he has a head of a horse and eight hands.
www.themystica.com /mythical-folk/articles/hayagriva.html   (163 words)

  
 Asura Hayagriva
Hayagriva, meaning one with the horse's neck, was the son of 'Kashyap Prajapati'.
Through his great penance he had managed to obtain boon from the Goddess that he could only be killed by another "Hayagriva".
Thus, Vishnu Taking the form of the "one with the head of a horse" entered into a battle with the Asura and eventually killed him with the grace of the goddess.
maavaishnodevi.org /legend6.asp   (336 words)

  
 Vedanta Desika - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tradition regards Vedanta Desika as the incarnation of the ghanta (=Bell) of the Lord of Tirupati.
His writings include devotional works on deities and Acharyas, treatises on Vishishtadvaita, commentary on the Gita, secret doctrines of Vaishnavism (Rahasyathrayam), original Tamil poems, epic poems and allegorical dramas in Samskrit, dialectical works directed against rival schools, treatises on practical daily life and several other miscellaneous treatises.
His gloss on the meanings of the Vedas, reconciling the teachings of the Alwars and the PrasthAna-traya created history because it brought to the Divya Prabhandham of the Alwars a status equivalent to the Vedas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vedanta_Desika   (1868 words)

  
 SriPedia hayagriva stotram
Sri Hayagriva SaakshAthkAram spurred Swamy Desikan to compose on the spot the sacred HayagrIva SthOthram as his reverential tribute to the Lord of all Vidhyais for His dhivya anugraham.
This vigraham is a Lakshmi Hayagriva Vigraham, which is today at the ParakAla matam and is the ArAdhana Moorthy of the YathIsvarALs of that Matam at Mysore.
The neighings of HayagrIva Moorthy is in the form of Saama GhAnam covering all the saamans (manthrams) in all its forms.
www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/ebooks/vdesikan/hayagriva_stotram   (16396 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hayagriva is a wrathful form of Buddha Amitabha and Chenrezig, the embodiment of the Buddhas’ compassion.
Hayagriva practice is a powerful method for healing and developing the mind, as well as transcending negative emotions, mental delusions and psychosis.
Traditionally, the practice of Hayagriva is used for exorcism (the dispelling of negative forces and harmful mental states) for oneself and others.
www.interlog.com /~gaden   (1472 words)

  
 Jean-Paul Sartre   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Hayagriva: There again, he would emphasize accident--he uses the word--that man is thrown into the world, or cast into the world.
Hayagriva: According to him he says, "The first principle of existentialism is that man is nothing else but what he makes of himself, since there is no God to conceive of human nature."
Hayagriva: He believes that each man is responsible for other men, but that he believes..., he also believes that each man has the freedom to work out his own destiny, so to speak.
homepage.ntlworld.com /prabhupada/dialectic/sartre2.htm   (2336 words)

  
 Himalayan Antiques Antiques,Regional Art,Asian,Indian Subcontinent Directory
Identifiable as Hayagriva by the horse head protruding from his hair, he is portrayed here as single headed and with two arms, three eyes and a pair of Garuda wings.
Hayagriva is considered to be the wrathful form of Avalokitesvara and has many forms.
Identifiable as Hayagriva by the horse head protruding from his hair, he is portrayed in his three-headed and six-armed form with his consort Krodhishvari, the "Wrathful Goddess".
www.trocadero.com /pmorse/catalog/Antiques:Regional_Art:Asian:Indian_Subcontinent30.html   (782 words)

  
 Srila Prabhupada and Hayagriva: Dispelling an Internet Myth
Fortunately, Hayagriva Prabhu has left us an excellent memoir of his early years in ISKCON, "The Hare Krsna Explosion." And from that lively and informative book, and from the Folio VedaBase, you can easily find out when Srila Prabhupada and Hayagriva were together.
But Hayagriva's memory must have been tricking him: In the time he speaks of, he was in San Francisco, Srila Prabhupada in New York.
Hayagriva Prabhu, of course, was named after the horse-headed incarnation of Lord Krsna.
www.chakra.org /discussions/BMMay08_03.html   (778 words)

  
 Prabhupada on Socrates Part One
They retained..., the Greeks retained their worship of the demigods, but there is no mention of a Supreme God under whom everyone else served, and Socrates, on..., neglected the worship of these demigods.
Hayagriva: And so in teaching this he was teaching something radically different, and this is one of the reasons that he was condemned to death—for blaspheming the demigods, for blaspheming the gods.
He knows that there’s something outside the cave that is light, and he may return to the cave to tell people in the cave that this is darkness.
www.krishna.org /Articles/2004/12/010.html   (4149 words)

  
 Experiencing Swamy Desika -- #65
In the lower left hand Lord HayagrIva holds a book as though it is an evidence for the recovery of the Vedas carried away by an asura from the four-faced Brahma.
Lord HayagrIva is seated on a beautiful full-blown white lotus (pundarIka) sparkling like a part of the dissected spatikamani (marble slab).
In the last Sloka of HayagrIva stotra Swami Desika advises all of us to read the Stotra with devotion for the attainment of mastery over words and their meanings (vaagartha siddhi).
www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/mirrors/swamydesika.tripod.com/ESD/esd65.html   (459 words)

  
 Prabhupada Letters :: 1967   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Replying your letter of Nov. 9, I beg to inform you that Kirtanananda and Hayagriva's recent standing is being directly dealt by me; at least Hayagriva is not as fanatic as Kirtanananda.
I understand that Hayagriva and Kirtanananda are continuing to chant Hare Krishna is their center.
By their present behavior it appears that Hayagriva belongs to the same feather and Krishna has saved His Gita Upanisad by transferring the whole thing into your hands.
sangalog.blogspot.com /archives/2004_11_14_sangalog_archive.html   (1483 words)

  
 Tiruvahindrapuram: subsidiary shrines
It is said that at the age of twenty, a young Vedanta Desika meditated here on Lord Hayagriva and secured His blessings.
In Lord Hayagriva's sannidhi are Lakshmi Hayagriva, Yoga Hayagriva (pictured on the left), Yoga Narasimha, Venugopala, and Garuda.
The shrine dedicated to Krishna as the youthful cowherd boy of Brindavana is also a special one, as it attracted Desika so much that he composed the twenty verses of the Gopala Vimsati in His praise.
www.ramanuja.org /sv/temples/tiruvahindrapuram/subsidiary.shtml   (286 words)

  
 indiayogi.com - Yogi Shop - Shaligrams - Details of Hayagriva - 2 - Kamal Narayan Shaligram, Shesh Nag Shaligram, ...
Hayagriva is an avatar of Vishnu and is depicted as a human being with the head of a horse to denote knowledge and wisdom.
He is known for rescuing the Vedas from the bottom of the oceans, where they were hidden by demons.
But since these 'shilas' or stones are so very difficult to obtain and bring from the treacherous mountainous terrains in the high Himalayas, we accept your contribution like a donation.
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 Hayagriva Chopper (rta mgrin gri gug)
When it is joined with the figures of Hayagriva, as in this ritual object, it is known as Hayagriva chopper.
As an attribute it is held in the right hand of many a fierce deity of Buddhism, especially the female ones, symbolizing critical, analytical and dissective wisdom, which cuts through and chops up all delusive appearances and reduces all things to voidness, suitable for the transformation into wisdom.
Hayagriva is worshipped in Tibet principally by horse-dealers because he is believed to frighten away demons by neighing like a horse.
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 History of Sahasranama Stotra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It is presented in the form of instructions imparted to the sage Agasthya by Hayagriva who is an incarnation of Sri Maha Vishnu.
Hayagriva tells Agasthya the story of the incarnation of Lalitha Devi and describes her sports.
On repeated questioning of the anxious student, Agastya maharishi, Hayagriva first explains the reasons why Lalitha Sahasranama is so divine and sacred, and why it can be imparted only to the highly potent and exalted and that the reasons why it was not imparted in the first place.
www.srdm.org /ska/history.htm   (553 words)

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