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Nara +

“Man”, the original, eternal man [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nara Sinha +

Lit., “Man‐lion”; an Avatar of Vishnu [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Nara. +

The waters of Space, or the Great Deep, whence the name of Nârâyana or Vishnu [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Narada +

One of the Seven great Rishis, a Son of Brahmâ This “Progenitor” is one of the most mysterious personages in the Brahmanical sacred symbology. Esoterically Nârada is the Ruler of events during various Karmic cycles, and the personification, in a certain sense, of the great human cycle; a Dhyan Chohan. He plays a great part in Brahmanism, which ascribes to him some of the most occult hymns in the ''Rig Veda'', in which sacred work he is described as “of the Kanwa family”. He is called Deva‐Brahmâ, but as such has a distinct character from the one he assumes on earth — or Pâtâla. Daksha cursed him for his interference with his 5,000 and 10,000 sons, whom he persuaded to remain Yogins and ''celibates'', to be reborn time after time on this earth (''Mahâbhârata''). But this is an allegory. He was the inventor of the Vina, a kind of lute, and a great “lawgiver”. The story is too long to be given here [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Narainsawmy, A. +

President of the Vellore Theosophical Society in 1884. +

Naraka +

In the popular conception, a hell, a “prison under earth”. The hot and cold hells, each eight in number, are simply emblems of the globes of our septenary chain, with the addition of the “eighth sphere” supposed to be located in the moon. This is a transparent ''blind'', as these “hells” are called ''vivifying hells ''because, as explained, any being dying in one is immediately born in the second, then in the third, and so on; life lasting in each 500 years (a blind on the number of cycles and reincarnations). As these hells constitute one of the six ''gâti ''(conditions of sentient existence), and as people are said to be reborn in one or the other according to their Karmic merits or demerits, the blind becomes self‐ evident. Moreover, these Nârakas are rather purgatories than hells, since release from each is possible through ''the prayers and intercessions of priests for a consideration'', just as in the Roman Catholic Church, which seems to have copied the Chinese‐ritualism in this pretty closely. As said before, esoteric philosophy traces every hell to life on earth, in one or another form of sentient existence [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Narasimhachariar, L. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Narasimhayya, M. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Narasimhiah, B. P. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol5|vol. 5]] (1883–1884). +

Narayan, Bishan +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol7|vol. 7]] (1885–1886). +

Narayan, T. S. Laksmi +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol7|vol. 7]] (1885–1886). +

Narayana +

The “mover on the Waters” of space: a title of Vishnu, in his aspect of the Holy Spirit, moving on the Waters of Creation. (See ''Mânu, ''Book II.) In esoteric symbology it stands for the primeval manifestation of the ''life‐principle, ''spreading in infinite Space [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Narayana (Mahatma) +

Indian adept known in Theosophical literature as the Tiruvallam Mahatma. Identified by the compiler of Blavatsky’s collected writings as the author of “A Mental Puzzle”, signed “One of the Hindu Founders of the Parent Theosophical Society”. +

Narayanaswamy, C. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol7|vol. 7]] (1885–1886). +

Narayaniah, B. K. +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol11|vol. 11]] (1889–1890). +

Narayanopanishad +

Zirkoff lists editions by G. A. Jacob (Bombay, 1891) and A. Mahadeva Sastri (Adyar, 1923), and refers to K. Narayanasvami Aiyar’s ''Thirty Minor Upanishads'' (Madras, 1914). (BCW [[SMW::off]][[Zirkoff B. - Appendix (BCW vol.5)#366|5:366]][[SMW::on]]). +

Nargal +

The Chaldean and Assyrian chiefs of the Magi (Rab Mag) [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Narin Doss +

This name credited to the publications in ''The Theosophist'', [[Theosophist/Vol6|vol. 6]] (1884–1885). +

Narjol +

A Saint; a glorified Adept [[Category: CTD info from Theosophical Glossary]] (TG). +

Narmadashankar Lalshankar +

A Gujarati poet. His poem “Welcome Theosophy” appeared in ''The Theosophist'' in May 1880. This contribution documents his literary response to the early Theosophical movement in India. +