{"id":2346,"date":"2013-03-02T20:25:21","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T14:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2013-03-02T20:25:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-02T14:55:21","slug":"the-meaning-of-pradakshina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?p=2346","title":{"rendered":"The meaning of Pradakshina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Talk 212. \u00a0 \u00a0Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/RONA019P.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2348 alignleft\" title=\"RONA019P\" src=\"http:\/\/arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/RONA019P-300x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/09aruna-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2347 alignright\" title=\"09aruna 11\" src=\"http:\/\/arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/09aruna-11-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Maharshi observed: Pradakshina <\/em>(the Hindu rite of going round the object of \u00a0worship) is &#8220;All is within me.&#8221; The true significance of the act of going round \u00a0Arunachala is said to be as effective as circuit round the world. That means that \u00a0the whole world is condensed into this Hill. The circuit round the temple of \u00a0Arunachala is equally good; and self-circuit <em>(i.e., <\/em>turning round and round) is as \u00a0good as the last. So all are contained in the Self. Says the Ribhu Gita: &#8220;I remain \u00a0fixed, whereas innumerable universes becoming concepts within my mind, rotate \u00a0within me. This meditation is the highest circuit <em>(pradakshina).'&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"share-link-wrapper share-link-button share-link-button-green\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?ibsa=share&id=2346\" class=\"share-link\" id=\"share-link-91655877401\" onclick=\"iBeginShare.handleLink(event);return false;\">Share<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var el = document.getElementById('share-link-91655877401');el.params = {title: 'The meaning of Pradakshina', link: 'http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?p=2346', skin: 'green', content: 'http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/?ibsa=get_content&id=2346'};<\/script><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk 212. \u00a0 \u00a0Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi Maharshi observed: Pradakshina (the Hindu rite of going round the object of \u00a0worship) is &#8220;All is within me.&#8221; The true significance of the act of going round \u00a0Arunachala is said to be as effective as circuit round the world. That means that \u00a0the whole world is condensed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arunachala","category-girivalam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.arunachala-live.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}