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  Land Resources of Russia
Rivers relate to the Kuban basin, the large rivers are: Laba, Belaya, Chokhrak; in the low courses of some rivers there are plavs.
The main rivers are Shilka and Argunj (sources of the Amur), Khilok and Chikoi (the Selenga tributaries), Olekma and Vitim (the Lena tributaries).
Rivers belong to the Volga and the Dnieper basins.
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 Ganges River
It originates as the Bhagirathi River[?] at the Gangotri Glacier[?] in the Himalayas, joins the Alaknanda River[?] to form Ganga, and then flows across the North Indian plains (called the Gangetic Plains[?]).
One part is the Hoogli River[?] near Kolkata, and a major part is the Padma River[?] that enters Bangladesh.
The Yamuna River[?], a major river in its own right, and nearly as sacred, is a tributary of the Ganga, and their confluence is near Allahabad[?].
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ga/Ganges_river.html   (188 words)

  
 Manifestations of Shiva: Glossary
Moksha, the ultimate spiritual freedom, is the freedom from the order of the world.
The final fording of the river to the far shore beyond birth and death.
Moksha, and the wisdom by which it is gained, is pursued only by those who have "left behind" their worldly home.
athome.harvard.edu /programs/mos/mos_glossary/glossary_3.html?slide=35   (772 words)

  
 indiayogi.com - Holy Cities - Varanasi - The City of Light - Varanasi,Searching For Moksha,Lord Shiva And Parvati,Ganga ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Ganga (the Ganges) the 'River of Life', is said to have acquired the boon to wash away the sins of the human race, when it flowed from the tresses of Lord Shiva.
Sins committed during your previous birth are believed to be expiated by the holy waters of the river, as are the crimes of this one.
Especially during festivals the river is colourful with all the gifts floating on the surface.
www.indiayogi.com /content/holycities/varanasi.asp   (968 words)

  
 Brief Historical History
Moksha is left on a mooring buoy in San Simeon cove while John and Casey are taken safely back to Morro Bay.
In the ensuring storm Moksha capsizes on the mooring and fills with water due to large holes having been ripped from the decking.
May 3rd 1999: Moksha, crewed solo by Jason, departs Kailua-Kona on the east side of the island bound for Tarawa - a small island atoll in the Republic of Kiribati (a chain of 33 atolls), 2,200 miles to the southwest.
www.goals.com /expedition360/briefhistorical.asp   (1695 words)

  
 FAQs - Hinduism
Reincarnation is the phenomenon where the immortal soul is continuously born and reborn in any one of 8,400,000 life-forms until it attains moksha.
Moksha is the liberation of the soul from the cycles of birth and death; thereafter, it remains eternally in the service of God in His abode.
Moksha is when the causal body is destroyed and the pure ãtmã achieves everlasting bliss in the worship of God.
www.swaminarayan.org /faq/hinduism.htm   (3735 words)

  
 The Pedal For The Planet Expedition: History of our Journey so far
Jan 1994: Official launch of pedal boat Moksha by HRH The Duke of Gloucester on the River Thames in London.
In the ensuring storm Moksha capsizes on the mooring and fills with water, probably due to large holes that were ripped from the decking where the mast was attached during the storm.
May 3rd 1999: Moksha, crewed by Jason scheduled to depart Kailua-Kona on the east side of the island bound for Tarawa - a small island atoll in the Kiribati chain of islands (also known as The Gilbert Islands) 2200 miles from Kona.
www.goals.com /PedalPlanet/historyR.asp   (1396 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But it is clear that this mode of thinking was meant to influence humans and was a tool to impose self discipline among members of various castes to stick to their vocation and station in life as decided by birth.
But if at all the carrot of Moksha did not serve its implicit purpose of ensuring caste discipline the Dandaniti (Penal Code) as prescribed by the Dharmashastras (legal literature) was always there to do it.
Saudi Arabia, the birth-place of Islam is devoid of fertile plains and river valleys which are congenial to the development of a settled civilized life.
www.freeindia.org /sudheer/nextbook/moksha.html   (7748 words)

  
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In the middle and lower reaches of the river Voronezh and along its tributaries (in Lipetsk and Voronezh Regions) it is not frequent.
The Russian desman occurs essentially at the river Zhizdra bottom-land and the river-mouths of its tributaries from the town of Kozelsk till the Zhizdra river mouth (in the Kaluga Region).
It is common in the lower reaches of the river Moksha and along the river Tsna (in Tambov and Ryazan Regions).
www.bcc.seu.ru /programs/vyhuhol/publications/desman-mos.html   (5527 words)

  
 Search Results for "Moksha"
...applicable, and only those who have attained liberation from rebirth, called mukti (or moksha) or nirvana, can transcend it.
This release (moksha or mukti) is a form of salvation, and is possible only for the...
Also universally accepted is the goal of moksha or mukti, liberation from suffering and from the compulsion to rebirth,...
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 Eastern Beliefs
Moksha is a state of liberation, self-unity, pure aloneness, endless calm, freedom from action and desire, and freedom from karma and rebirth.
Moksha is attainable in this world or at the time of death.
Moksha results in the soul being immersed in a loving self-transcendence of egoless bliss (ananda).
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 HINDU Coffey Funeral Home
The soul is reborn again and again unless it breaks free of the cycle of reincarnation and gains moksha, or salvation (when the soul is united with Brahman).
The next life depends on progress in the current life, and each life either moves toward or away from moksha, in the process called karma - the belief that all actions have their effects, good and bad.
This river is especially holy at the sacred city of Varanasi.
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 AntiBJP | The 'Replies to Integral Humanism' Series-Part 2
Moksha, by definition implies a dichotomy between body and soul.
Moksha is attained after sacrificing one's property, wealth, achievements and by meditation and introspection in a jungle, of the banks of a river.
The ideas of Moksha and Kama are based on the body-soul dichotomy found throughout the history of philosophical thought.
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 GeoNative - Mordovia - Mordvin - Moksha - Erzya
Both Erzya and Moksha are used as literary languages, with the same alphabet.
Moksha and Erzya are close Uralic languages, and their self-designations are Erzjanj Kelj and Mok
Erzya and Moksha placenames are most of the times coincidental - Izenak berdinak izan ohi dira gehienetan Erzia eta Mokxa hizkuntzetan.
www.geocities.com /Athens/9479/mordo.html   (327 words)

  
 Saraswati
Late Vedic texts record the river as disappearing at Vinasana (literally, "the disappearing"), and as joining both the Yamuna and Ganga as an invisible river.
In the post-Vedic age, She began to lose her status as a river goddess and was increasingly associated with literature, arts, music, etc. Her name literally means the one who flows, which can be applied to thoughts, words, or the flow of a river (in Sanskrit: "dhaara-pravaah").
She is usually depicted near a flowing river, which may be related to her early origins as a water goddess.
www.thaiexotictreasures.com /saraswati.html   (1174 words)

  
 languagehat.com: THERE ARE NO MORDVINS.
Fifty miles south of Moscow the Oka River flows toward the east, having risen in the Central Russian hills far to the south, flowed north through Orel, and turned sharply east at Kaluga.
I had known that the Mordvin language included two main dialects, Erza (or Erzya; the z is palatal) and Moksha, that had little or no mutual comprehensibility, but I thought it was parallel to, say, Upper and Lower Sorbian.
By the 12th century Erza and Moksha were already two different nations with culture, languages and anthropological types distinctively of their own.
www.languagehat.com /archives/000376.php   (677 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Moksha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Moksha, river, c.375 mi (600 km) long, rising NW of Penza, central European Russia, and flowing generally NW into the Oka River.
Oka, river, c.925 mi (1,490 km) long, rising S of Orel, central European Russia.
One of the oldest living religions in the world, Hinduism is unique among the world religions in that it had no single founder but grew over a period of 4,000 years in syncretism with the religious
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 Moksha Yoga (River West) on Centerstage Chicago - Moksha Yoga (River West) : 700 N. Carpenter St., Chicago, (312) ...
Moksha just may be the last stop on my Chicago quest.
One of the first studios of its kind in Chicago, Friesen founded Moksha in 1999 after studying with yoga giants such as Ana Forrest and Shiva Rea in Los Angeles.
Moksha Yoga (River West) was mentioned in these articles...
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 Hinduism 101 - Important Pilgrimage Spots. - free Suite101.com course
Hindus, right from the beginning of the religion and probably under influence from the older animalistic religions of the subcontinent, have always held rivers to be sacred, probably because they found that they were totally dependant on the water to drink and irrigate their crops.
Jamunotri is the glacial source of the River Jamuna, another holy river much associated with Krishna who was born in Mathura on its banks.
This is not an inhabited place but the shifting deltaic estuary where the main distributary of the River Ganga falls into the Bay of Bengal a few miles to the south of the city of Calcutta in the state of West Bengal.
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 BBC - Religion & Ethics - Moksha
Moksha is the end of the death and rebirth cycle and is classed as the fourth and ultimate artha (goal).
It is a paradox in the sense that overcoming desires also includes overcoming the desire for moksha itself.
The River Ganges is considered the most sacred place to scatter ashes.
www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/hinduism/beliefs/moksha.shtml   (559 words)

  
 WWF - Ganges River Case Study
Although the river’s annual flow regime is subject to local variations, the predominant pattern is for a low-flow dry season from January to May and a wet season from July to November, with peak flows usually occurring in August.
Fisheries along the river are of considerable economic value and their output makes a major contribution to regional nutritional needs.
The river becomes the final resting place for thousands of Hindus, whose cremated ashes or partially burnt corpses are placed in the river for spiritual rebirth.
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 Search Results for "Moksha"
Moksha, (mok´sh) (KEY), river, c.375 mi (600 km) long, rising NW of Penza, central European Russia, and flowing generally NW into the Oka River.
"Culture and the Individual," Moksha: Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1931-1963), eds....
Among its tributaries are the Moskva, the Klyazma, and the Moksha....
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 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
The Studenets and Tsna rivers protected it on the north and east sides, respectively, and a water-filled ditch protected it on the south and west sides.
Rich fl earth (chernozem) soils have humus contents of 8-9%, and the gray forest and alluvial-meadow soils that have formed along the rivers are rich in organic matter as a result of luxurious vegetation and plenty of moisture.
The main rivers are the Tsna (Volga River basin) and the Voronezh and Vorona (Don River basin); the remaining rivers are shallow.
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 Moksha - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
MOKSHA [Moksha], river, c.375 mi (600 km) long, rising NW of Penza, central European Russia, and flowing generally NW into the Oka River.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Moksha" at HighBeam.
THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE With SPA MOKSHA Presents Deepak Chopra, MD One of The Century's Top Heroes And Icons According To Time Magazine.
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 No moksha for Ganga in Varanasi : The Ganga is Dying, SIT, Varanasi, sewage, pollution : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
Confluences of rivers are sacred in Hinduism but not in Varanasi it seems, where the Asi river now known as Nagwa Nala meets the Ganga.
It is not just the sewers that are polluting the river, there are people searching for valuables, sifting through ashes from the pyres of the Manikarnika cremation ghat while dead bodies are thrown straight into the river.
One of the most mythological word Ganga in real form is now becoming a dirty river with full of sewage...
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 THE HOLY GANGA
It is also believed that river Ganga has taken birth from the water pitcher of Lord Brahma.
In Padmapuran Ganga is eulogised as a river of salvation; "Swarga Moksha Pradaganaga".
Hindus consider this river to be the Mother and address it as Ganga maiya i.e.
www.mydivineplanet.com /theholyganga/ganga.htm   (466 words)

  
 Hudud al-'Alam - 52 - Commentary of V. Minorsky
This river could be taken either for the upper course of the Volga itself, or the Don (supposing that it was considered as an affluent of the Volga, cf.
Two tribes compose the Mordva people: the Moksha in the basin of the Moksha river which flows to the Oka from the east and of which the southernmost head-water is still called Bur
I must confess that I do not quite see the point of the argument about the toponymy, for the Burtas river flowing into the Tsna is the southernmost source of the Moksha river; of the other names quoted in Smirnov, o.c.
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 Shiva Rea's Celebratory Workshop
I liked her imagery of us all on our "riverboat" mats, riding down the great river on a journey of transformation, which is the energy of Siva, and she (Shiva), as our "river guide."
She continued the theme that we are all part of a great river, and that, paradoxically, we also contain the entire universe inside of us.
During the savasana, I had a scary thought: that this is what it would be like to die, floating out of the body towards the light.
www.yogachicago.com /may03/shivarea.shtml   (2125 words)

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