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  • If you start with an absolute consciousness as the source of everything – the kind of absolute perfection the word purna addresses – how do you get to the nitty-gritty of ordinary life?

    Exclusive concentration Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • It is a very short text in which the word purna occurs seven times.

    Integrality and the Purna Stotra Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Sri Aurobindo uses integral here as a translation of the Sanskrit word purna. and the word purna has a very beautiful and long history in India.

    Integrality and the Purna Stotra Tusar N Mohapatra 2006

  • Thankfully, the bush name is now toxic in American politics. purna

    Jeb Bush: 'I don't know' if Obama is a socialist 2009

  • A purna or integral state of brahmana tusarnmohapatra Says: October 5, 2007 at 4:51 am

    Archive 2007-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • All in all, Bankim was making the point that the national self being the same as the divine Self, it was prior to the individual self and that it is only by raising his self to the level of the national and divine Self that the individual could realize his best self - his purna manushyatva full humanity.

    Attainment of full humanity through the cultivation and harmonious development of physical and mental faculties Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • We have already said that Bankimchandra identified the attainment of purna manushyatva as the goal of religion.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • We have already said that Bankimchandra identified the attainment of purna manushyatva as the goal of religion.

    Attainment of full humanity through the cultivation and harmonious development of physical and mental faculties Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • All in all, Bankim was making the point that the national self being the same as the divine Self, it was prior to the individual self and that it is only by raising his self to the level of the national and divine Self that the individual could realize his best self - his purna manushyatva full humanity.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • That is, evolving from a puny being or kshudra/shudra to a purna or integral state of brahmana who encompasses the whole brahmanda or cosmos in his consciousness.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

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