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Re: Pranam
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To: alt-hindu@uunet.uu.net
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Subject: Re: Pranam
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From: Mats Olausson <bbt-intl@algonet.se>
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Date: 19 Jul 1995 07:44:18 GMT
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From news@algonet.se Wed Jul 19 03: 32:08 1995
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Newsgroups: alt.hindu
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Organization: AlgoNet Public Access Node, Stockholm
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References: <3u4e5c$7nm@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
"P. Dwivedi" <pdwivedi@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote:
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> "Pranam" is a salutation-with-respect to you elders.
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> On 11 Jul 1995, Rick Hallowell wrote:
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> : My wife is taking a comparative religions class and one of her reading
> : assignments is _Kalki_ by Gore Vidal using Hinduism as a basis. One
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> : the words used several times in the book is *pranam* as on p. 168,
> : "Then he made the pranam sign and sat cross-legged..." Our western
> : dictionaries have no reference to this word. Can you help us?
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> : TIA
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> : --
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> : Rick Hallowell@ridgecrest.ca.us
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The original pranam is pranam omkara. What "OM" or "OMKARA" is, tells
the world's foremost Vaisnava scholar of all times, Jiva Goswami:
a-karenocyate krsnah
sarva-lokaika-nayakah
u-karenocyate radha
ma-karo jiva-vacakah
"OM", or "AUM" means as follows: A is Krishna the Absolute Supreme Lord.
U is Radha, His eternal female counterpart (consort) and pleasure potency.
M(A) is the Lord's marginal potency, His essential parts (simultaneously
one with but still - because of having free will and minutely independent
individuality - separate, namely the living being. That is us - the
minority dwelling in the material realm, and the majority of living
souls exisiting God-consciously in the spiritual world.
