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  Nandini - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nandini was given to the sage Vasishta by Indra (also referred to as Devendra or Devas) who used her milk to feed thousands of disciples.
He denied it when being questioned and was cursed by Vasishta to be born on earth, as a mortal who would not be allowed to have a woman.
Vasishta replied that he did not give up on her and that he simply can not do anything to stop them.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nandini   (287 words)

  
 Vasishta - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vasishta, in Hindu mythology was chief of the seven venerated sages (or Saptharishi) and the Rajaguru of the Suryavamsha or Solar Dynasty.
He had in his possession the divine cow Kamadhenu, and Nandini her child, who could grant anything to their owners.
The star Mizar of the stellar constellation Ursa Major is thought of as Vasishta and the small one beside it, Alcor, as Arundhati.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vasishta   (465 words)

  
 Vasishta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vasishta is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Vasishtas sagacious discourse to prince Rama was offered at a moment of confusion and crisis in the young princes life, when he was beginning to feel a surge of vairagya at a tender age.
Vasishta: The Preceptor (Priest) of the Royal Dynasty wherein Rama was born, priest to king Dasaratha (RRV-4) (RRV-17c) a great sage and rival of Visvamitra Muni (see SB, C9:7-7).
www.experiencefestival.com /vasishta   (1028 words)

  
 Kulapati (Acharya, The Teacher)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vasishta is supposed to have been born as the result of Brahma’s will-power.
Vasishta was affectionately addressed by his disciples as Kulapati or chiefpreceptor.
Vasishta's daily routine was to teach his disciples, to preach dharma to the visitors and to practise tapas or austerities.
www.freeindia.org /biographies/vashista/page1.htm   (362 words)

  
 New Page 0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This desire of Vasishta was fulfilled in 1972 when Swami Vishnudevananda visited the Sivananda Ashram, Rishikesh and Vasihta was also staying at an ashram in Rishikesh..This is the first meeting between the GURU and the DISCIPLE, Swami Vishnu and Vasishta.The meeting had lasted only 15 minutes.
Vasishta continued his spiritual practice as a priest in various temples, and as a Karmayogi in ashrams etc. In 1990 finally he became a full time SADHAKA in the Sivananda Ashram, Neyar Dam, Kerala.
Swami Vasishta came to the Headquarters of International Sivananda Yoga Centers at Val-Morin, Quebec, Canada, where he stayed for 12 years performing special poojas and worship at the Krishna temple, Swamiji's Samadhi Estate, and around the ashram.
www.yogadoor.com /swvasishthabio.htm   (400 words)

  
 Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Discourses at Sai Sruti, Kodaikanal during April 1996
In the Epic Ramayana, Vasishta was the family priest.
In the competition between Vasishta and Vishwamitra, Adisesha (the snake), was chosen to be the judge due to His qualities.
Vasishta conducted his life in this way but Vishwamitra was put to shame through anger and consequently lost his wealth and respect.
www.geocities.com /babakodaikanal96/ch11.htm   (1795 words)

  
 Bharatha and his relationship with the Lord   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vasishta described to him, in detail all that had happened.
He recognized that this was the dharmic way of doing things and he requested Vasishta and others to let him go to the forest.
Bharatha replied that the request was proof of extreme hatred that the parents, the people, the preceptor and everyone in Ayodhya had towards him, for had they loved him they would not have pressed him to do such a mean sin.
members.rediff.com /saivani/Bharatha.htm   (2868 words)

  
 Kingdom Of Sai - Summer Course Discourse - 17 May 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vasishta was transfixed looking at the splendour of their faces.
Vasishta handed over the sacred vessel to Dasaratha who in turn called Kausalya, his queen to share it with other queens Sumitra and Kaikeyi.
Kausalya had the confidence that the son born to her would be the king of Ayodhya as she was the eldest queen.
www.kingdomofsai.org /DISCOURSES/Disc20020517.html   (2875 words)

  
 Electronics Design Chain Magazine: The Consummate Team Player
Vasishta's interest in the path between design and manufacture is part curiosity, part business necessity.
Vasishta began to see just how dependent design was on the specifics of production.
Vasishta took the role of managing the technology transfer to the semiconductor vendor in Germany.
www.designchain.com /executiveprofile.asp?id=1&issue=spring03   (1518 words)

  
 Vasishta- The Great Sage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vasishta is the guru of Devas (or the demigods) and also the guru of Surya Vamsha (one ancient dynasty in India which is supposed to have originated from the sun god) who is the protector and preceptor of all Bharata Varsha (The land and people of India).
Sage Vasishta understands that it is the proper time to make him understand the deeper meaning of life and he starts his narration of the origin and maintenance of this world by similes and wonderful stories.
Sage vasishta as a Brahmarshi (The knower and enjoyer of Brahman) is eternal and he directly originates from each creator god (Brahma) as Brahma originates in each universal cycle after pralaya.
www.divineaim.com /vasishta.htm   (570 words)

  
 India Vilas Kids Corner
Vasishta was the family priest of the king.
Vasishta's argument was that while Viswamitra had a point in general terms, there were indeed exceptional men in the world who cannot be tempted to give up their virtue.
He reminded himself of his priest Vasishta's saying that Dharma was the only light that mortals had on earth and everything else was illusion caused by ajnaana (ignorance).
www.indiavilas.com /kidscorner/hari.asp   (2790 words)

  
 Workshop Participants--Mr. Subash Chander VASISHTA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vasishta has been serving the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) for the past 18 years.
Vasishta has conducted many programmes of different types over a 7 year period as a trainer.
Vasishta is the nodal officer of Human and Institutional Development Project for capacity building of NABARD.
www.worldbank.org /wbi/smmt-3/vasishta.html   (184 words)

  
 SriPedia Padhuka Sahasram
Vasishta, son of Brahma, infused into the waters used for the abhisheka greater power through the Atharva mantras and his own excessive discipline, so as to wash away the stigma that had tainted the Solar race.
Vasishta and the other sages, on performing Your coronation strictly according to Atharva rules, saw a wonderful assembly, whose impressiveness arose from Your presiding over it; on witnessing it, they found their customary self-praise of the usual assemblies of Raghu-vamsa was meaningless in this context.
Sage VasishTA and others could not however take full credit for this benevolent phenemenon, since they had conducted the coronations of other kings as well and did not recognize the level of auspiciousness that they experienced during the reign of Yours (the PaadhukAs) compared to the previous regimes.
www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/ebooks/vdesikan/rps/21.html   (3066 words)

  
 About Yoga Vasishta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vasishta Maha Ramayana or Yoga Vasishta is the most ancient work in Sanskrit on the Vedic Principle.
Sage Vasishta, is teaching principles of Vedanta to his royal pupil, Sri Rama, the conqueror of Ravana and hero of the ancient epic, Ramayana.
The Yoga Vasishta deals with the subject of effecting union of the individual soul with the Supreme Soul amidst all the trials and tribulations of life.
www.divineaim.com /yogavasishta.htm   (1883 words)

  
 VASHISHT- The first individual University.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vasishta's tapas, patience and the aura of God-realization were so great that king Vishwamitra was influenced by him to give up his kingship and desired to become a Rishi like Vasishta.Vishwamitra was a king.
Vasishta came to know that Nandini had hot returned to the Ashram though it was late in the evening.
Vasishta was the priest to Dasharatha and also Rama and he was the preceptor too.
www.swordoftruth.com /cgi-bin/forum.pl?action=display&num=3414   (6122 words)

  
 SemiView   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vasishta commented that "Cost is King." ASIC design cost can be $10-million dollars or more at 130 nanometers and keeps increasing, due to mask costs and design complexity, with each process-node shrink.
Vasishta thought that it would, due to the cost and flexibility advantages application-adaptable architectures, such as platform/structured ASICs, have over cell-based ASICs for all but the highest volume parts.
Vasishta also thought that platform-ASIC flexibility offered the advantage of 'one-stop shopping' for customers who want several variations of a particular chip design from the same vendor.
semiview.com /articles/v1-1_sweep.php   (583 words)

  
 Vasishta and Vishwamitra - Indian Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When Vasishta came to know that all his sons were dead, by the stratagem employed by Vishwamitra, he became consumed by grief.
Vasishta said, "I have already forgiven you, for I know that your actions were the direct result of the curse.
When his mother heard him addressing Vasishta as father, she told him that his real father had been devoured by a Rakshasa, and that Vasishta was only his grandfather.
members.cox.net /apamnapat/articles/StoriesFromMahabharata660.html   (1790 words)

  
 Kingdom Of Sai - Rama Navami Discourse - 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
When there was no one around, she approached Sage Vasishta and explained to him the sad plight of her sons.
I am unable to understand why they are restless and crying incessantly right from their birth." Vasishta closed his eyes and went into meditation to find out the reason for the children's strange behaviour.
Vasishta said, "Dasaratha, your sons are not ordinary mortals.
www.kingdomofsai.org /DISCOURSES/Disc20020421.html   (5336 words)

  
 Vasishta - Perceptor of the Ishvahu Clan - Indian Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vasishta is the chief of the SaptaRishis, the seven great sages.
Some accounts also say that the wife of Vasishta was Urja, a daughter of Daksha.
Vasishta is also famous for his struggle with Vishwamitra for being the greatest sage of all time.
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 Singaravelavar Subrahmanya Temple, Sikkal
Sage Vasishta made a sivalinga made of butter obtained from the milk of the divine cow Kamadhenu for worship.
This temple was worshipped by sages Vasishta, Viswamitra, wish-granting cow Kamadenu and Emperor Muchukunda of Deva Loka.
Vasishta is said to have prayed to Shiva to recover his Kamadhenu, whose milk flowed and froze to form butter.
murugan.org /temples/sikkal.htm   (631 words)

  
 The Vasus are Cursed by Vasishta - Indian Mythology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Vasus are Cursed by Vasishta - Indian Mythology
Vasishta, the son of Varuna was a great sage.
Rishi Vasishta had been away from his hermitage at this time.
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 Yoga Vasishta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Yoga Vasishta is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
To each hymn of the Rig -Veda, the name of the Seer or Rishi to whom it was revealed is prefixed.
It, thus, becomes evident on the authority of these very names (such as Vasishta, Viswamitra, Narada, etc.), all of which belong to men born in various manvantaras and even ages, that centuries, and perhaps millenniums, must have elapsed between the dates of their composition.
www.experiencefestival.com /yoga_vasishta   (894 words)

  
 Yoga Vasishta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Brhma gita I (skandha purana) Brhma gita II(yoga vasishta) Devi gita...
The Yoga Vasishta or Vasishta sudha is one of the most important...
Yoga Vasishta is the teachings of Sage Vasishta to Rama, to pave...
www.yoga-secrets.info /yoga-vasishta.html   (578 words)

  
 The Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi website - book extract - Yoga Vasishta Sara
The Brihat (the Great) Yoga Vasishta or Yoga Vasishta Maha Ramayana as it is also called, is a work of about 32,000 Sanskrit couplets, traditionally attributed to Valmiki, the author of Srimad Ramayana.
It is a dialogue between Sage Vasishta and Sri Rama, during which Advaita (the doctrine of non-duality) in its pure form of ajatavada (theory of non-origination) is expounded, with illustrative stories in between.
A further condensation of this work was made long ago, by an unknown author, into about 230 couplets, divided into ten chapters, as Yoga Vasishta Sara (Essence of Yoga Vasishta), of which this translation is presented for the first time.
www.ramana-maharshi.org /vasishta.htm   (1116 words)

  
 Tehelka - The People's Paper
By “Taunted by their wives, who brought their husbands’ manhood into question, asking how could they, who were Gods, fear a mere rishi, those Vasus came down like eight comets on that mountain and took Nandini and her calf from Vasishta’s asrama.
Moreover, the germ of a deep destiny was hidden in that curse; there were mysterious designs to be accomplished by it, on earth.
Vasishta had grown calmer now and felt pity for the contrite Vasus.
www.tehelka.com /story_main4.asp?filename=hub072404a_tale.asp&id=3   (702 words)

  
 Vasishta -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vasishta, in (Click link for more info and facts about Hindu mythology) Hindu mythology was chief of the seven venerated sages (or Saptharishi) and the (Click link for more info and facts about Rajaguru) Rajaguru of the Solar Dynasty.
He had in his possession the divine cow (Click link for more info and facts about Nandini) Nandini who could grant anything to her owner.
The star M101 of the stellar constellation (A constellation outside the Zodiac that rotates around the North Star) Ursa Major is thought to Vasishta and the small one beside it as Arundhati.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/va/vasishta.htm   (133 words)

  
 Printer Friendly Format - News Shopper   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The authority is still disputing claims of negligence and has not accepted liability for any mistakes made during Lynne Vasishta's gynaecological investigation in August.
But Mr Justice Laws was told by Margaret Brown, counsel for Mrs Vasishta, in the High Court on Monday that although she appeared perfectly normal she had suffered significant brain damage.
A 25 per cent reduction was made to the damage claim after the judge decided Mrs Vasishta, who lives in Sutton, would have had "difficulties of some substance" in proving liability had the health authority contested her claim.
www.newsshopper.co.uk /misc/print.php?artid=58500   (279 words)

  
 Valmiki Ramayana - Ayodhya Kanda
vasishhThaH R^ishhiH= the sage Vasishta; shreshhThaH= the excellent; vadataam= among the speakers; shreshhThavaak= having eloquence; uvaacha= spoke; tam bharatam= to that Bharata; Kaikeyi sutam= the son of Kaikeyi; evam= who was thus; shokatamtaptam= tormented with grief.
The sage Vasishta, the excellent one among the speakers having eloquence, spoke to that Bharata, Kaikeyi’s son who was thus tormented with grief.
Hearing the words of Vasishta, Bharata conversant with his duty fell prostate and proceeded with all the arrangements for the obsequies.
www.valmikiramayan.net /ayodhya/sarga76/ayodhyaitrans76.htm   (1558 words)

  
 Volkswagen row claims minister
Reddy also shifted his Major Industries Minister Botcha Satyanarayana, who is in the eye of the storm, from the existing portfolio, on his request, to facilitate a fair probe into the alleged financial irregularities in the deal.
He, however, defended the government's decision to deposit Rs 11 crore (Rs 110 million) into the account of Vasishta Wahan, besides supporting strongly the role of his cabinet colleague in the negotiations with regard to Volkswagen's India project.
He quoted a latest e-mail from VW's Alfred Stroehlein to state industry commissioner on Wednesday, which said Jagadeesh Raja, one of the promoters of Vasishta Wahan, arrived this morning in Hannover and was on his way to meet the authorities in order to clear up the situation.
www.rediff.com /money/2005/jul/15volks.htm   (422 words)

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