He makes a living by teaching affluent housewives in Bombay how to sing devotional bhajans and ghazals. |
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This makes it excellent for those practicing bhakti or a devotional religious path. |
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Saivism values both bhakti and yoga, devotional and contemplative sadhanas, or disciplines. |
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Here is an article about mysticism and devotional practices with a chaotic slant. |
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How the theistic moral life culminates in devotional life will be discussed in this book. |
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Many Sunday mornings were spent with Mom making devotional house visitations for the shut-ins. |
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There are many great Kagyu siddhas of the past who followed this devotional approach, which is particularly important at the Vajrayana level. |
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In line with this belief, devotional cults sprang up in which reverence and homage were offered and intercessions sought. |
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Every day of the week, Sri Gopalan teaches tabla, mridangam and devotional singing. |
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Bhakti yoga cultivates a devotional relationship with God through prayers and rituals. |
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If one wants to ignore this devotional service, there is the danger of turning to atheism. |
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It was meant as a kind of religious devotional image and he had planned to produce ten thousand copies. |
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Daily prayer meetings were held in the ashram with the singing of devotional songs and readings from the Gita. |
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I get up early and exercise and have devotional time-private time of reading and prayer. |
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In the chaos of a recent move and exciting reunions with old friends I did very little ritual or devotional work at all. |
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Yet as an atheist and Marxist can we expect that she would understand or appreciate Hindu devotional or yogic practices? |
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Anyway, after reading a section from one of Hine's books about devotional magic I decided to make a shrine for Ganesha. |
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These places of worship were stuffed with devotional images, which were adorned on festival days and adored on others. |
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When with devotees of other sects, they enthusiastically join in their devotional songs. |
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We need to bring together the devotional and mystical and scriptural pieces. |
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By simple definition, meditation is engagement in contemplation, especially of a spiritual or devotional nature. |
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Registered parishioners were more likely to attend Mass weekly, receive Communion, and participate in a variety of devotional activities. |
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The organ of today is devotional, churchly, vital and filled with tonal charm. |
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The idols that have originally been introduced to serve as devotional media had got elevated to the status of divinity. |
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Anand sings bhajans and other devotional songs in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. |
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Under a blanket of darkness, we set off in our twin-hulled craft, paddles slapping at the water, as Nitish sang devotional songs. |
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You can almost hear the organ playing devotional music in the background, and detect the faintest whiff of incense on the breeze. |
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Achim Moeller presented them in the ornate gold-leafed frames usually reserved for portable devotional paintings of the highest value. |
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The Baroque section features religious sculpture, including processional figures, ritual liturgical objects and private devotional altars. |
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The band are aiming at spiritual uplift, at finding common ground between pop music, alternative rock and religious devotional. |
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He is calling neither for the restoration of the Tridentine Latin liturgy nor for a return to the devotional practices of past generations. |
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Among the lay population, confraternities were an important source of devotional association, mutual aid, and charitable assistance to the poor. |
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For one thing, devotional cults were also popular within India, and the worship of the Hindu god Krishna antedates Christ by several centuries. |
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How would the uses of the prints in a devotional context revise Gauguin's notion of the function of his own sacred art? |
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I learned so much from so many people but mainly I learned from the very poor who were so deeply devotional. |
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They sing devotional songs in praise of the lord, and holy texts are chanted throughout the night. |
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Sound boxes blare devotional numbers, priests chant mantras and, as evening descends, one can find people of all ages flocking the pandals. |
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After a light supper, there are optional devotional music and chanting sessions. |
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Later, we will learn that the halos worn by saints in devotional art are based on the depiction of the divine in Egyptian art. |
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Guanyin possesses the attributes of a devotional icon, at the same time that she appears to be a visionary manifestation. |
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Simultaneously, Cranach continued to produce altarpieces and devotional images reflecting Lutheran theology. |
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It was a joy to sit amid thirty or so girls and give a devotional talk as two of the housemothers translated my English into Tagalog. |
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Because of Calvinist proscription of the use of images in worship, patronage for altarpieces and private devotional objects virtually dried up. |
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He also leads devotional songs and has captured the interest of the young and old alike. |
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Worship of Vishnu and his various avatars especially Rama and Krishna in a profoundly devotional form is the basis of Vaishnavism. |
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When the Crossings women join together to sing and dance to music, then, it is only to devotional music deemed appropriate. |
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The material in this book constitutes the best combination of theology and devotional reading that I have come across for a long time. |
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Flemish pictures of the 15th century often show devotional woodcuts fixed to a wall with sealing wax, and already flyblown and curling up. |
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Singing of devotional songs like bhajans has been one of the significant ceremonials at temples and other religious congregations. |
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According to Hamburger, the devotional image develops in order to record and provoke the visionary experience cultivated by the nuns and, to a point, imitated by the laity. |
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It does so in ways that fulfill deep-seated emotional needs that, at their profoundest level, are devotional. |
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A ten-year-old devotional written in the voice of God suddenly became a commercial juggernaut. |
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Specifically, the Hood Museum of Art has acquired a variety of paintings, including an altarpiece, several easel paintings and some small devotional panels. |
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I developed a liking for devotional songs of the Goddess from childhood. |
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The visual stimulation of this wall of images finds a serene counterpart in a small room opening to the right, re-creating the devotional sanctum of a Mouride holy man. |
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The text centers on the compound of one marabout whose home is filled both inside and out with devotional imagery and serves as a site for the meetings of talibes. |
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A small, bird-like woman, in later years troubled by failing eyesight and arthritis, she was renowned for her piety, sponsoring the publication of devotional literature. |
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Acquiring siddhi through Tantric discipline does not really rely on a physical partnership because transcendence relies on devotional practices and surrendering of the ego. |
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The devotional significance of sacramental topoi is complemented by what may be characterized, obversely, as a sacramentalization of the devotional sphere. |
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Some of the stalls have devoted a good deal of space to cassettes and compact discs containing devotional music, inspirational songs and recorded discourses. |
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She has made several subsequent recordings of devotional songs and chants. |
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The passageway is lit by a ribbon of alabaster above and subtly punctuated by the cathedral's devotional chapels, which are arranged along the inner walls. |
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New confraternities and devotional groups grew up almost everywhere. |
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The competition is open to those aged 16 to 24 and has categories for light and classical Hindustani and Carnatic vocal, instrumental and devotional music. |
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A proper understanding of these images relies on a conversance with the doctrinal sources treating the decaying corpse as a subject for devotional practice. |
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This invocation, replete with rich mythological allusions, has been an important item in the devotional repertoire of all Kashmir Hindus for the last several decades. |
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Books of hours, in both manuscript and printed versions, provide valuable clues to the beliefs and devotional habits of medieval people. |
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Finally, the Book of Hours, very commonly the personal devotional book of a wealthy layperson, was often richly illuminated in the Gothic period. |
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The jori and sarinda were introduced to Sikh devotional music by Guru Arjan. |
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The Kirk, heavily influenced by Calvinism, also discouraged poetry that was not devotional in nature. |
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In the late Middle Ages, the ostensory is developed, a device used in particular devotional practices to expose the host for adoration. |
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Can a devotional poem serve both poetry and the needs of an actual praying community? |
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A Thanka, a Buddhist devotional cloth, a gift to Pope John Paul II by the Dalai Lama in 1978 is displayed. |
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Printing presses produced primers and other devotional materials, and recruitment to the English clergy began to rise after almost a decade. |
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In the history of medieval prayer, Books of Hours were among the most widely used Latin devotional texts. |
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In the 6th and 7th centuries, the first devotional hymns were created in the Tamil language. |
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These words are found in all medieval Books of Hours, the devotional books made for the laity. |
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Festival songs, devotional songs, poetry, album songs, mappila pattu, manjani songs or any other category songs will not be entertained. |
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The exterior is captivating, but make sure to see the retablos, or devotional paintings, inside. |
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Mr Khan, an acclaimed singer primarily of devotional qawwali songs, also excels in ghazals and light music. |
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In the 15th century, the introduction of cheap prints, mostly in woodcut, made it possible even for peasants to have devotional images at home. |
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In 1670, as a sign of her rising favour with the pontiff she requested, and was granted, devotional objects. |
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Denis Renevey sees Margery's text as a commentary on her body's public performance of anchoritic discursive and lay devotional practices. |
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Vaishnavism is the devotional religious tradition that worships Vishnu and his avatars, particularly Krishna and Rama. |
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The Bhakti movement refers to the theistic devotional trend that emerged in medieval Hinduism and later revolutionised in Sikhism. |
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The rise of theistic devotional trend of the Bhakti movement and the advent of Sikhism. |
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An heir to the devotional, observantine, and legalist traditions, the Jesuits organized along military lines. |
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There was a change in patterns of piety, affecting devotional and practical life in all its departments. |
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Thereafter, the Jainas in the South and Central regions lost ground in face of rising Hindu devotional movements. |
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She spent much of her time in prayer, devotional reading, and ecclesiastical embroidery. |
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Luttrell wanted the drawings to reflect the current devotional, cultural, political, economic and dynastic aspirations that he and his family had. |
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Robert Boyle, notable as a scientist, also wrote his Meditations on God, and this work was immensely popular as devotional literature well beyond the Restoration. |
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Duccio and the Sienese painters segue into a long gallery dedicated to the Gothic altarpiece and devotional practice in Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands. |
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Gothic sculptures independent of architectural ornament were primarily created as devotional objects for the home or intended as donations for local churches. |
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It will interest students and researchers of chant traditions, Egyptian music, Middle Eastern musics both devotional and more secular, and liturgics. |
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Books range from the academic to the popular, from devotional literature and works on spirituality to books addressing contemporary issues in the Church and society. |
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There More prepared a devotional Dialogue of Comfort against Tribulation. |
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Several Naat Khawan and qawwals presented devotional poetry and Qawwali during the Mehfil which was highly appreciated by hundreds of visitors present on the occasion. |
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They also provided elegies, devotional poetry, commemorated the generous acts of their patrons and satirised certain people in verses which might have the intensity of curses. |
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