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  • This prompted me to explain mutual respect in Hinduism wherein each individual has the freedom to select his own personal deity (ishta-devata, not to be confused with polytheism) and pursue a highly individualized spiritual path (sva-dharma).

    Rajiv Malhotra: Tolerance Isn't Good Enough: The Need For Mutual Respect In Interfaith Relations Rajiv Malhotra 2010

  • This prompted me to explain mutual respect in Hinduism wherein each individual has the freedom to select his own personal deity (ishta-devata, not to be confused with polytheism) and pursue a highly individualized spiritual path (sva-dharma).

    Rajiv Malhotra: Tolerance Isn't Good Enough: The Need for Mutual Respect In Interfaith Relations Rajiv Malhotra 2010

  • This prompted me to explain mutual respect in Hinduism wherein each individual has the freedom to select his own personal deity (ishta-devata, not to be confused with polytheism) and pursue a highly individualized spiritual path (sva-dharma).

    Rajiv Malhotra: Tolerance Isn't Good Enough: The Need For Mutual Respect In Interfaith Relations Rajiv Malhotra 2010

  • Coming up from the beginning, the Caspakian passes, during a single existence, through the various stages of evolution, or at least many of them, through which the human race has passed during the countless ages since life first stirred upon a new world; but the question which continued to puzzle me was: What creates life at the beginning, cor sva jo?

    The People That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • Caspak, I had indeed come up cor-sva jo -- from the beginning I had come up through the hideous horrors of the lower Caspakian spheres of evolution, and I could not but feel something of the elation and pride which had filled To-mar and So-al when they realized that the call had come to them and they were about to rise from the estate of Band-lus to that of Kro-lus.

    The People That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • She told me that among the Galus there were a few babies, that she had once been a baby but that most of her people "came up," as he put it, "cor sva jo," or literally, "from the beginning"; and as they all did when they used that phrase, she would wave a broad gesture toward the south.

    The People That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • He learned that all but those who were cos-ata-lu came up cor-sva-jo, or from the beginning.

    Out of Time's Abyss Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • They speak of ata and cor sva jo, meaning reproduction and from the beginning, and point toward the south; but no one has a mother.

    The People That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • Therefore they say he sleeps (svapiti), because he is gone to his own (sva-apîta) '(Ch.Up. VI, 8, 1).

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

  • -- (Or else we have to explain 'sva/s/abdena' as follows), In the passages preceding and following the passage under discussion

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881

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