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BABHRAVYA This sage condensed Svetaketu’s love teachings to a mere one hundred and fifty chapters some time in the fifth century BC, or earlier, creating the sixty-fourfold division of the lovemaking techniques in imitation of the structure of Rig Veda. BABHRAVYAKARIKA The title of Babhravya’s great seven-part work. It survived into the middle ages, for Yashodhara quotes from it. BALI A demon who accumulated enough power, through sacrifice and penance, to turn the gods out of their kingdom. Vishnu tricked him into losing it again by assuming the form of a dwarf and asking him for as much ground as he could cover in three strides. Vishnu’s first two strides covered heaven and earth. Bali was allowed to keep the nether regions. BALKH A province in northern Afghanistan, lying between the Hindukush mountains the Oxus river. In Vatsyayana’s day the Kushanas, whom the Aryans regarded as barbarians, ruled it. BANDHA Muscular lock or contraction to control the flow of prana BANDHA PADMASANA Bound Lotus BANGA The rich land of modern Bangladesh which adjoined the Gupta Empire. Samudragupta annexed them. BASTI A Kriya for lower colon irrigation BHAGAVAD-GITA. "Song of the Lord." This scripture consists of eighteen chapters from the Mahabharata epic. It is chiefly a dialog between the avatar Lord Krishna and his disciple Arjuna on the eve of the historic battle of Kurukshetra, about 3000 BC The Gita is allegory as well as history, a spiritual treatise on the inner battle between man’s good and bad tendencies. Depending on the context, Krishna symbolizes the guru, the soul or God: Arjuna represents the aspiring devotee. Of this Holy Scripture Mahatma Gandhi wrote: "Those who will meditate on the Gita will derive fresh joy and new meanings from it every day. There is not a single spiritual tangle which the Gita cannot unravel." BHAGAVAN KRISHNA. An avatar who lives as a king in India three millenniums before the Christian era. One of the meanings given for the word Krishna in the Hindu scriptures is "Omniscient Spirit." Thus, Krishna, like Christ, is a spiritual title signifying the divine magnitude of the avatar—his oneness with God. The title Bhagavan means, "Lord." In his early life, Krishna lived as a cowherd who enchanted his companions with the music of his flute. In this role Krishna is often considered to represent allegorically the soul playing the flute of meditation to guide all misled thoughts back to the fold of omniscience. 
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