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	The Skandas
		The meaning of the word "skandas" translates as "piles", which is to say that it is a kind of morass, very disorganized, colliding, and interlocking, and producing the contact of sensation with each other, inside the vortex of the mind, that is producing this veil or cloud of obscuration.
		Skanda sensation is very simple; it breaks out along only in the level of bodily sensation and mental sensation.
		Where the skandas are concerned, it seems the entire negative side is a function of self-importance, in one form or another, and the positive side is function of humility - self-importance being the separation from the Great Spirit, humility being the alignment with It.
	www.hardlight.org /articles/phildy2.html (6746 words)

	Skanda: The Alexander Romance in India
		Skanda is refereed to as ‘Krauñca dāraņa’, and Kraunca is admitted on all hands to be the name of a mountain pierced through by Skanda.
		Skanda is frequently spoken of as the son of fire (Agnibhū - the son of the Ganges (Gangāsuta) and Mystery (Guha).
		Skanda, the greatest of the Devas, was born with the energy of Rudra, of Agni, of Svāhā and of the six women.
	murugan.org /research/gopalapillai.htm (9887 words)

	Skanda Excerpts
		Skanda is known to have arrived in Ceylon in the remote age when it belonged to Lemuria, a vast continent that stretched from Madagascar to near Australia and included India as well as Ceylon.
		Skanda is said to have issued from the third eye of Shiva as six sparks of fire which were cast into the Ganges.
		Skanda's crown of gold, in the shape of a helmet, rose to a peak, denoting the awakened seventh chakra at the top of the head.
	www.hildacharlton.com /skanda_excerpts.htm (7630 words)

	dublinpubscene.com - Entertainment - Dublin Bands - Skandas
		Skandas are a five-piece rock band hailing from Dublin that was formed about two years ago.
		The band has been receiving some very positive feedback since the album was finished and it was recently described by Hotpress as 'an impressive body of work'.
		Just a little note to inform you all that the rock 'n' roll phenomenon that is Skandas are doing a couple of gigs this coming weekend to further promote their 'Humm This' album!
	www.dublinpubscene.com /entertainment/bands/skandas.html (226 words)

	The Skanda cult in India: Sanskrit sources
		An understanding of the place of Skanda in the domestic ritual and social life of the common man in North India may be had from the grhyasūtras and dharmasūtras.
		The prevalence of the Skanda cult and the popularity of the deity is evidenced from the discovery of a large number of coins of the Kushanas and Yaudheyas who ruled in the northwest of India during the beginning of the Christian era.
		What is significant here is the coronation of Skanda with an account of the presents made to him by the gods (45.1-54) and the long list of the names of the warriors who accompanied Skanda to battle the demons (45.55-77) and their characteristics (45.78-112).
	murugan.org /research/sarma.htm (3813 words)

	GroundScore.org
		Self is made up of skandas, which are all of the bodily sensations, thoughts, feelings, and consciousness as a whole that occupies human beings.
		This suffering will always exist as long as the skandas are used as nothing more than a vehicle of torturous denial.
		Buddha believed that when a person begins to see through the web of their human skandas, they will then begin to experience freedom from the suffering that it brings.
	www.groundscore.org /articles_view.asp?nID=228 (1729 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Skandas also have been described as events that appear and disappear.
		Buddhaghosa, the 5th century scholar and writer of Buddhist literature describes the skandas as “defining the limits of the basis of grasping after a self, and what belongs to a self”.
		He looked down from on high and saw but five skandas which, in their own being, were empty”.
	www.ninemountainszengate.com /old/energyinzen.doc (9804 words)

	Monkey See, Monkey Do » origin of consciousness
		the formation of the skandas is part of the nidana cycle, the fourth nidana in fact, before sense perceptions start to make contact with the phenomenal world.
		the consciousness skanda is paramount, but is supported by the skandas of form, feeling, formation, and perception.
		he taught that the skandas in an enlightened being are still there.
	www.owlmonkey.com /halfshell/archives/2004/03/28/origin-of-consciousness (1038 words)

	Sacred Scrolls of the Holy Order of Nazorean Essenes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		There can be no doubt that the Five Skandas are dependent on the bounty or otherwise of the soul’s karma.
		The Five Skandas are like modeling clay while the soul is the sculptor.
		Yet the Five Skandas with body and soul are all as one; they all become strong and worship the One Sacred Spirit for their creation and for the image they have been made in.
	essenes.net /jesussutra2.html (2436 words)

	esamskriti- Introduction
		Shrimad Bhagavata, one of the Purana books, consists of about eighteen thousand verses which are assigned to twelve books or Skandas.
		Apart from its superb poetry and the very wide range of its devotional teachings, the reason for its wide and ever-expanding appeal is its elaborate exposition of the life and message of Sri Krishna and the necessity of cultivating devotion to him.
		If you like to buy the diary please email Shyama : himatsingka@auroville.org.in, or call her at 91 0413 2331962 / 2336672.
	www.esamskriti.com /html/new_inside.asp?cat_name=qanda&cid=1002&sid=164 (433 words)

	GLOSSARY [N to Z] OF RELIGIOUS TERMS:
		Wiccan, other Neopagan traditions, Native American spirituality and other Aboriginal religions recognize variations of this -- sometimes including center, and the four points on the compass that lie between the cardinal directions.
		Skandas: In Buddhism, the five principal components of the personality: form, sensation, perception, impulse, and consciousness.
		Social Darwinism: An attempt to adapt Charles Darwin natural selection principles to human society, thus producing a culture that embraces the "survival of the fittest." This is based on a misunderstanding of Darwin's theories.
	www.religioustolerance.org /gl_s1.htm (1751 words)

	Other Publications
		Of the twelve skandas, 6 have been published.
		So far, the first skanda and two parts of the tenth skanda have been released.
		The first three kandas were prepared by Late Puttaparthy Narayanacharyulu and the remaining skandas were entrusted to Sri M Sarabheswara Sarma.
	www.tirumala.org /activities_publi_others.htm (337 words)

	Buddhism of Wisdom and Faith - Namo Amitabha
		The five skandas (or aggregates) are form, feeling, perception, volition and consciousness.
		The skanda of form relates to the physical body, while the remaining four concern the mind.
		Precisely because they are well-endowed in body and mind, they are undergoing the suffering of the five raging skandas.
	www.geocities.com /amitabha48vows/bwf12.htm (2444 words)

	Eastern Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Any sense of self is a construct by consciousness based on the input from the other skandas and from itself.
		If I reexamine the skandas, with the added meaning of the characteristics of existence and the second Noble Truth, the true implication of the first Noble Truth is proved out.
		We must put effort into understanding the true nature of the 5 aggregates (skandas) of life, to see them for what they really are, (illusions in process) and detach from them.
	www.purifymind.com /EasternPhilosophy.htm (4430 words)

	The Empty Bell: Becoming the True Self (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In the Buddhist traditions of Southeast Asia, all of one's inner experience is an impermanent process of basic elements (skandas).
		These skandas are the ultimate, ever-changing elements of self-perception and perception of others and things.
		In the Mahayana tradition, even the skandas are ephemeral and empty.
	www.emptybell.org /trueself.html (8348 words)

	The Selfish Lie
		You know your sense of touch is changing -- you couldn't stand the hot water when you first began washingdishes, and now it isn't so bad.
		Again, we could assume that the previous skanda is an impermanent vehicle to get us to something permanent, in this case perceptions.
		Also referred to as mind, this is the very basis of all the other skandas, the electricity that runs through the brain.
	www.mc.maricopa.edu /~tomshoemaker/handouts/soul.html (1735 words)

	Rainbow Mountain Pinwall: 1st of 5 Skandas:How we came to feel seperate from the oneness, LionHeart at 4/25/2004 20:33 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Confused mind is inclined to view itself as a solid, on-going thing, but it is only a collection of tendencies, events.
		In Buddhist terminology this collection is referred to as the Five Skandas.
		This is the culmination of the first Skanda, the creation of ignorance form.
	f50.parsimony.net /forum201110/messages/1178.htm (696 words)

	AsiaFinest Discussion Forum > Buddhist Afterlife
		What is normally thought of as the "self" is in fact an agglomeration of constantly changing physical and mental constituents ("skandha").
		Detaching oneself from the skandas and ego leads to "anuttara-samyak-sambodhi" or perfect enlightenment.
		That is why Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was able to acheive enlightenment and oversome suffering, because he realized the empty nature of the five skandas.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t40093.html (6266 words)

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		WG Skandas, the impermanent elements that enter into man's constitution and which he assumes upon incarnating.
		GH Skanda The name of the god of war, also known as Karttikeya (so called because he was reared by the six Pleiades, Krittikas), hence he is described as six-headed.
		For the purpose of destroying the Daitya Taraka, who had become a potential source of trouble to the deities because of the austerities he had performed and his strict religious observances, Skanda was produced, springing from the seed of Siva which had been cast into the fire and then carried to Ganga (the Ganges river).
	www.theosophy-nw.org /theosnw/ctg/sk-so.htm (6626 words)

	E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum > The Real "i" (Self)
		Oct 27 2003, 11:42 PM In all Buddhist school of thought we share one great goal, to become free from the notion of I. It is said, all five skandas, like body, form, sensation, mental formation - consciousness are empty.
		The defination of empty skandas is not to be misunderstood as, empty of an I. Skandas means accumulation or heap, their nature is emptiness.
		Taking our mind, the mind nature is misunderstood as I. Instead experiencing mind nature, which is cleare emptiness our mind makes in each in every moment the movement in spitting up minds nature in experiencer and experience.
	www.lioncity.net /buddhism/lofiversion/index.php/t546.html (8918 words)

	There is no religion higher than truth by E.L.Gardner
		The pure elemental essence of the mental plane, untouched by human emotion or thought, is of the clarity of ‘rock crystal’ (Patanjali).
		But the slightest Skandas of its creator—i.e., personal desire vibrations—will be awakened into a desire to live.
		But if its elemental life is affected by the skandas of its creator—though quite unconsciously conveyed—then absorption and enhancement by the elemental will merely mean the birth of an attractive royal edition by its creator.
	www.theosophical.ca /NoReligion.htm (4217 words)

	About Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The seven types of suffering come from the Five Skandas.
		The Five Skandas are life components, which are made up of the elements of forms, sensation, perceptions, mental formations and consciousness.
		These Five Skandas are like armed robbers invading and robbing our peace of mind.
	www.nantien.org.au /htmls/about_4truths.htm (3175 words)

	Is the principle of karma selfish in nature (Netalive.org)
		They lead to the 5 skanda which are (if memory servs correctly): Feelings, thoughts, perceptions, desires and body--4 mind, one body.
		One can not escape these skandas while in the flesh, unless becoming enlightened.
		The reason i say this is because you are doing good because you want good, you know you'll get good from the effect of karma.
	www.netalive.org /topics/17096 (7677 words)

	Reference
		SKANDAS- There are five of these that classify the processes or personality that are the make up of a human being.
		Each is related to a skanda and how it can be transformed.
		These five Buddhas are also known as Tathagatas (the Perfect Ones) and Jinas (Conquerors).
	www.taraco.com /ref.html (6533 words)

	Nonduality Salon Highlights, #1211 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The five skandas comprise of the five (notice the vertical and
		are perceived, the bottom three are the facultative skandas
		When the Heart Sutra refers to the skandas and claims that
	www.nonduality.com /hl1211.htm (2131 words)

	Ganesha chaturthi
		The worship of these five deities is called the panchAyatana pUjA.
		In some cases, a sixth God, Skanda is also worshipped.
		Just as there are Vaishnavas, Shaivas, Shaktas, Sauras, and Skandas, attached to the worship of respective deities, there are Ganapatyas, who are ardent devotees of Ganesha.
	www.advaita-vedanta.org /articles/ganesha_chaturthi_legends_prayers.htm (2515 words)

	Dharma Talks: Transformation Through Form
		Today, I would like to talk about transformation through form.
		Form, "rupa" in Sanskrit is one of the five aggregates or skandas.
		There are 10 forms – 5 sense fields: color, sound, smell, taste and touch and 5 sense capacities or sense organs – eye organ, ear, nose, tongue and body.
	www.bamboointhewind.org /teaching_transform.html (784 words)

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		Noble Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva, looking at the profound practice of transcendent knowledge, saw the five skandas and their natural emptiness, and thus transcended all suffering.
		It is the begining of the Heart Sutra, a zen buddist meditative scripture to teach the use of perfect wisdom (prajnaparamita) to cleanse error from the heart (hridaya).
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	yaoi.y-gallery.net /view/1561 (82 words)

	The Zurvár Language (Surfarian) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		skandas indicates that the speaker hopes the phrase is correct, or comes to be correct.
		dò gwárv skandas - I hope you are well
		Zurvár lacks what might be described as "ascribtion verbs", that is the special verb forms English uses to ascribe properties to nouns, ie: "was, am, will be, were, are, is".
	www.space.net.au /~dpwyrm/zurvar/grammar.html (2751 words)

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