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| | Encyclopedia: Deva (Hinduism) |
 | | Ishta-Deva, or Ishta Devata is a term from Hinduism that means chosen Deity or revered aspect of God by a devotee and is a widely held concept in Smartism. | | | Deva is the Sanskrit word for "god, deity". | | | Devas and Asuras are also cited in traditional Buddhist cosmology. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Deva-%28Hinduism%29
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| | Ishta-deva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In Smartism, a denomination of Hinduism, an ishta-deva or ishta devata is a revered aspect of God chosen by a devotee. | | | However, their wishes are only granted by Me." (Gita: 7:21-22) Another quote in the Gita states: "O Arjuna, even those devotees who worship other lesser deities (e.g., Devas, for example) with faith, they also worship Me, but in an improper way because I am the Supreme Being. | | | In such a concept held by Smartas, different aspects of God are held to be equivalent. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishta-Deva
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| | Glossary |
| | Ishta Deva: The form of God or spiritual ideal, which the devotee chooses to follow. |
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http://www.geocities.com/neovedanta/gloss.html
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| | Agni - definition of Agni in Encyclopedia |
| | In Hinduism, he is a deva, second only to Indra in the power and importance attributed to him in Vedic mythology. | | | Agni is a deity of fire in three religions: |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Agni
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| | ishta_devata |
| | The kula devata is worshiped by generations of scions of a family, the ishta devata is worshiped by particular individuals. | | | Also each individual has his choosen deity (ishta devata). | | | And how do these God and Goddesses that Hindu worship differ from the ishta Devata that every Hindu family has? |
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http://ishta_devata.networklive.org
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| | Uttaranchal Information Centre |
| | Devas, or demigods, are celestial beings similar to angels in Judaeo-Christian traditions. | | | Mahadeva is another name for Shiva, (from the Sanskrit Maha = great, Deva = God), more often than not, the Aghora (fierce) version. | | | Deva = Divine, the Basic element (of world) |
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http://www.4dham.com/go2/Shiva.html
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| | Ishta Devata |
| | Ishta Deva means "Worshipable Deity." It has nothing to do with the "demigods" or Devatas. | | | Is Lord Krishna the Ishta Devata of all Hare-Krishnas? | | | Gaudiya Vaisnavas worship Radha-Krsna and Gauranga Mahaprabhu (and Nityanda Prabhu) as their Ishta Devas. |
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http://www.audarya-fellowship.com/showflat/cat/hinduism/75629/6/collapsed/5/o/1
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| | wikien.info: Main_Page |
| | The idea that deities are powerful conduits of faith and representations of Truth is known as ishta devata, or chosen deity. | | | Since the mind is in turbulence (vritti) and unable to focus on the formless God, God is seen in form. | | | They are sometimes abstract, but more often different representations of Gods and Goddesses like Shiva or Ganesh, Ram or Krishna, Saraswati or Kali. |
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http://www.hostingciamca.com/index.php?title=Murti
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| | wikien.info: Main_Page |
| | However, it is this Ishta-Deva concept of Smartism that has in fact colored the perception of what Hinduism is to the outsider, when in fact the other denominations do not strictly espouse the belief and more closely adhere to the conventional Western perception of what a monotheistic faith is. | | | Hinduism encourages devotees to describe and develop a personal relationship with their chosen deity (ishta devata) in the form of a God or Goddess. | | | Whether believing in the One source as formless (nirguna brahman, without attributes) or as a personal God (saguna Brahman, with attributes), Hindus understand that the one truth may be seen as different to different people. |
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http://www.alanaditescili.net/index.php?title=Hindu
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| | Sapthagiri |
| | This is a continuation of the prayer of the devotee to his Ishta Devata, Sri Rama, whom he says, is none other than the Supreme Brahman that has assumed a Form. | | | In other words his Ishta Devata, Sri Rama, is none other than the Supreme Brahman, who has assumed a Form. | | | It may also mean that the author is remembering his previous life of sin and while remaining in the womb he had prayed for atonement and sought the help of his Ishta Devata. |
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http://www.tirumala.org/sapthagiri/022003/bhakti.htm
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| | Smartism |
| | In Smartism, devotees pray to whatever form of God a devotee prefers, (or as monists prefer to call, Ishta Devata, i.e., the preferred form of God) and ask for God's grace in order to achieve Moksha, end of the cycle of rebirth. | | | The Ishta-Deva concept has confused outsiders and hence made them perceive Hinduism as polytheistic as Smartas are monists, and view multiple manifestations of the one God or source of being. |
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http://www.keywordmage.net/sm/smartism.html
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| | Ishta-Deva |
| | Ishta-Deva, o Ishta Devata es un término del hinduism que significa deity elegido. |
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http://www.yotor.net/wiki/es/is/IshtaDeva.htm
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| | Beliefnet.com |
| | I have also noticed many born Hindus accepting the teachings of Christ, while still worshiping their ishta deva, or main deity. | | | as far as i know about 'vaisnavism', 3/5 vaisnava sects (visnusvami/vallabhas, nimbarkas, & gaidiyas)have krishna as their ista deva and the sri vaisnavas & madhvas have narayan as their ista deva. | | | Sometimes there is a seperate sect title that may be used for such worship. |
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http://www.beliefnet.com/boards/message_list.asp?boardID=389&discussionID=223364
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| | Experiences of Meditation |
| | Bhakti yoga, which is related to tantra through its emphasis on mantra and deity, focuses on the purification of the emotions and develops love for God, usually through the vehicle of relationship with one's ishta deva (an ideal form of God). | | | This is why tantrics practice methods that arouse the kundalini: mantra, pranayama, meditation on the kundalini, the company of an enlightened teacher, and devotional methods such as puja (worship) and kirtan (chanting). | | | As a friend once said to me, "The truly amazing thing is that although God is so vast, it is still possible to have a personal relationship." Most devotees of bhakti yoga experience a relationship with God that is intensely personal in nature. |
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http://www.cit-sakti.com/kundalini/experiences-of-meditation.htm
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| | Yoga Part 2 |
| | This form of God becomes their Chosen Ideal -the 'Ishta Deva'. | | | However, the main danger on the path of Bhakti Yoga is the likely-hood of developing fanaticism, if one ignores that other persons, like him, also have the right to reach the God through their own Ishta Deva and path which may be different from his own. | | | The person involved in Bhakti develops 'one pointed' concentration by losing himself in the beauty and love of his Ishta by developing a particular bhava (attitude). |
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http://www.geocities.com/neovedanta/a52.html
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| | Interfaith Studies: Sri Ramakrishna |
| | Jadu Mallick, a Hindu who had chosen Jesus as his personal god (ishta deva) read the bible to Sri Ramakrishna. | | | He also had some acquaintance with Christianity and the Bible and saw a vision of Jesus whom he recognised as an incarnation of God. |
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http://www.interfaith-center.org/elearning/web/spirituality/ramakrishna.html
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| | Phantasmata Magazine #One - Mage's Guide tp adepthood, part II |
| | Bhakti Yogi: These yogins carry a doll of their Ishta Deva (God Ideal, often baby Krishna) with them at all times and literally treat it as if were a living child. | | | What follows is a compiliation of methods I and others have used to "Remember." They may be useful in your own spiritual practice. | | | Tikkun Of The Holy Sparks: Visualize "raising up" the "holy sparks" in everything you touch and see throughout the day. |
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http://phantasmata.fix.no/one/onep6b.html
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| | parishad109 |
| | om SrimAn Maha-GanA-dhipataye namaH, sri Gurubhyo namaH, sri Sarasvatyey namaH, sri VedAya namaH, sri Veda-purushAya namaH, Ishta devatA-bhyo namaH, kula-devatA-bhyo namaH, stana-devatA-bhyo namaH, grama-devatA-bhyo namaH, vAstu-devatA-bhyo namaH, sachii purandarA-bhyAm namaH, umA maheshvarA-bhyAm namaH, mAtA pitrubhyAm namaH, lakshmi- nArayanAbhyAm namaH, sarvebhyo devebhyo namo namaH, sarvebhyo-brAhmanebhyo namo namaH, yetad-karma-pradhAna-devatAbhyo namaH | | | prArambha kAryam nirvigna-mastu, shubham shobhanamastu, ishTa devatA kuladevatA suprasannA varadA bhavatu. | | | Ishta- kAmyArta prayukta, samyag-Acharita, sri varamahAlaxmi, sAmpuurna phala- vapyartim, sri varamahalaxmyey svaruupAya suvasinye vAyana dAnam karishey |
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http://www.salagram.net/parishad120.htm
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| | Baldaeus Theological College - Articles - The Challenge of Militant Hinduism |
| | But you must acknowledge that there are many paths (margas) toward God and that your way is merely yours, that Jesus is merely your ishta deva. | | | To the orthodox Christian this kind of distinctly Hindu approach to reality goes against the grain. | | | The traditional as well as new militant Hindu stance is: You may believe anything you choose, worship in any way you see fit, have any code of ethics you like. |
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http://www.baldaeus.com/html/0063.html
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| | Roger Walsh reviews Ken Wilber's Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution |
| | By the time the subtle levels have emerged, experience is more interior and concerned with subtle experiences of light and sound (shabd and nad yoga) or archetypal imagery, for example, the shaman's power animals, the Hindu's Ishta Deva, the Christian contemplative's sacred figures. | | | At the causal level all form and experiences drop away leaving only pure consciousness, such as the Buddhist's nirvana, the Vedantin's nirvikalpa samadhi, the Gnostic's abyss. | | | Rather, it refers to an initial transpersonal stage at which experience is still largely somatically based, such as in the experiences of kundalini energy or of the divinity of nature. |
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http://cogweb.ucla.edu/CogSci/Walsh_on_Wilber_95.html
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| | THE OMNIC SOUND TECHNIQUE |
| | Sincerely ask your guru’s/Ishta Deva’s, or Lord Shiva’s/Ganesha’s blessings for success in meditation before starting. | | | Step (1): Inhale slowly and deeply through nose. |
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http://www.gita.be/omnic.htm
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| | India Culture Disucssion chat forums |
| | Because the basis of the religion is that you could believe in your own god (ishta deva) and could attain salvation. | | | Indians yet never went around the globe trying to convert people into Hindu religion. | | | Religions like Christianity, Islam as opposed believe in numbers, they go to any extremes to get the numbers. |
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http://indiaculture.net/talk/messages/65/794.html?935342152
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| | Beliefnet.com |
| | I guess this can happen at times, as this has happened to me. After a while of learning and growing on your spiritual path, the ishta devata for you would eventually reveal his/herself to you. | | | I don't seem to be able to find my ishta deva. | | | You may eventually find that one manifestation of God overall suits you, and you would be just closely drawn to him/her. |
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http://images.beliefnet.com/boards/message_list.asp?boardID=4590&discussionID=283281
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| | Hasya2 |
| | Birbal was a worried man. When he couldn't find any solution, he went to the temple of his chosen Ishta deva, Lord Shiva. | | | Meditating quietly there for about an hour, his Lord revealed to him the solution. | | | Akbar was much senior to her in age and she also felt no charm or attraction in marrying an elderly person, elder to even her father. |
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http://www.hknet.org.nz/Hasya13.htm
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| | Newsletter |
| | An Ishta Deva or Devi is one’s personal God. | | | Lakshmi is the Divine Mother, she always answers the prayers of her children.” He said, “She is your Ishta Devi.&; I didn’t need him to tell me this last part. | | | It was years after Baba had given me the name Kamalakshi that I became aware that Lakshmi was my Ishta Devi. |
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http://www.shambhava.com/sangha/newsletter/September2004/NewsLetter.htm
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| | Islamica Community Forums - Jews/Christians |
| | But I was uncomfortable with the need to pick an ishta deva, a form of deity. | | | In discussing my connection with Hinduism elsewhere, I had written, For years I identified myself as a bhakta yogi: one who prays through tears, music and poetry, in ecstatic devotion. |
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http://www.islamicaweb.com/archive/t-19486
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| | indien |
| | Thus the temple is an image, not only of the spiritual worlds, but of all manifestations, from the dark underworlds of subconscious life through the twilight world of man to the bright heavenly worlds of the devas.“ (71) | | | „Surya is the visible manifestation of Parabrahman and the very Self of all the Devas. | | | The foundation anchored in the ground is bhu, the Earth, the vertical body of the temple is bhuvar, the Ether or Middle Space, and the towering Shikhara represents svar or Heaven... |
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http://www.zaunschirm.de/indien.html
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| | A Tribute to Hinduism - Symbolism in Hinduism |
| | The Hindu devotee, while he will generally have one particular form of god- his or her ishta deva, or chosen deity - on whom his devotion centers, moves easily between one god and another. | | | It has been said that images are to the Hindu worshipper what diagrams are to the geometrician. | | | The same idea carries over into the human sphere. |
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http://www.atributetohinduism.com/Symbolism_in_Hinduism.htm
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| | Compositions of Sri UtthukkAdu Venkatasubbaiyar |
| | Most of his krithis are addressed to his ishta devata, Krishna. | | | avatamsita kEki pinja kuntala ghanalAlana maNI maNDita kirITa navanIta nirargaLa cOra dEva dEva manOhara mOhana smaraNa (kSaNa) | | | His works are marked with beautiful flow of rhythmic patterns and laya. |
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http://www.geocities.com/vc_sekaran/Oothukkadu_compositions.html
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| | about you |
| | Swamiji illustrates with his example the BHAVA of love for ones ISHTA DEVA (the form visualized as divine by a person). | | | This love and resulting relationship with our ISHTA becomes more and more real, until it's all that matters. | | | Then one is able to dedicate body and mind to a durable endeavor to realize and finally become divine. |
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http://www.shreemaa.org/aboutyou.htm
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