In Indian religions according to Vedas and Bhagavad Gita, Yoni is a form of life or a species.

With the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahmasutra ( known collectively as the Prasthanatrayi ), the mukhya Upanishads provide a foundation for several later schools of Indian philosophy ( vedanta ), among them, two influential monistic schools of Hinduism.

Pandurang Vaijnath Shastri Athavale () ( October 19, 1920 – October 25, 2003 ), also known as Dada-ji (), which literally translates as elder brother in Marathi, was an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer and Hinduism reformist, who founded the Swadhyay Movement and the Swadhyay Parivar organization ( Swadhyay Family ) in 1954, a self-knowledge movement based on the Bhagavad Gita, which has spread across nearly 100, 000 villages in India, with over 5 million members.

It was influenced by the Indian Dharmic philosophy, particularly the Bhagvata Gita, as well as secular writings of authors such as Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau and John Ruskin.

Also, Indian texts on Advaita philosophy such as Ashtavakra Gita and the Yoga of Knowledge such as Bhagavad-Gita refer to a similar state.

More recent major writers in English who are either Indian or of Indian origin and derive much inspiration from Indian themes are R. K. Narayan, Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Raja Rao, Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Vikram Chandra, Mukul Kesavan, Raj Kamal Jha, Vikas Swarup, Khushwant Singh, Shashi Tharoor, Nayantara Sehgal, Anita Desai, Kiran Desai, Ashok Banker, Shashi Deshpande, Jhumpa Lahiri, Kamala Markandaya, Gita Mehta, Manil Suri, Ruskin Bond, Preeti Shenoy and Bharati Mukherjee.

Gita Govinda was composed in the 12th century by Indian poet Jayadeva from Orissa in Sanskrit language.

It is unique in Indian religious literature for its emphasis on the practice of bhakti, compared to the more theoretical bhakti of the Bhagavad Gita ; for its redefining of dharma ; and for the extent of its description of God in a human-like form.

Madhava Panikkar wrote a condensed Malayalam translation of Bhagavad Gita, perhaps the first ever translation of that classic into any modern Indian language.

The Saraswat Brahmins are mentioned in Indian historical texts such as the Bhagwat Gita, Mahabharat, Ramayan & Vedas.

Just as for her teacher she approached noted gurus in various arts and classical dances, for her productions, Rukmini Devi approached noted scholars for inspiration and classical musicians and artists, for collaboration, the result was the creation some of pioneering dance dramas-based on Indian epics like the Valmiki's Ramayana and Jayadeva's Gita Govinda.

Sopana Sangeetham is a form of Indian classical music that developed in the temples of Kerala in south India in the wake of the increasing popularity of Jayadeva's Gita Govinda or Ashtapadis.

Other borrowed texts include poetry by Charles Baudelaire, John Donne, and Muriel Rukeyser, the Bhagavad Gita, and a traditional Tewa Indian song.

Emerson had read Hindu religious and philosophy books including the Bhagavad Gita, and his writings reflected the influence of Indian philosophy.

* The Gita and Indian Culture, Orient Longmans, Bombay, 1963.

Collaborator of the " Society for Promoting Spiritual Understanding between East and West ". In the colony of the Indian monks he becomes acquainted with Svami B. P. Tirtha and assists himin translating an ancient commentary on the Gita.

Gita Mehta ( born in 1943 ) is an Indian writer and was born in Delhi in a renowned Oriya family of freedom fighters.

* Ashtavakra — an Upanishadic Sage mentioned in the Mahabharata, who authored Ashtavakra Gita.

The Bhagavat Gita, an important Hindu script, talks extensively about the afterlife.

In Bhagavad Gita when Arjuna hesitates to kill his kith and kin the lord reprimands him saying thus " Do you believe that you are the doer of the action.

In the second chapter of the Bhagavad Gita Krishna refutes the pacifist ideas of Arjuna and uses various arguments to convince him that he must fight and kill in the impending battle.

The apparent conflict between pacifistic interpretations of Ahimsa and the just war prescribed by the Gita has been resolved by some individuals by resorting to allegorical readings.

Some of which are based on Theosophical interpretations and were notably represented by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who made clear throughout his life and his own commentary on the Gita that it was " an allegory in which the battlefield is the soul and Arjuna, man's higher impulses struggling against evil.

In chapter 17 of the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna describes how faith, influenced by the three modes ( guṇas ) lead to different approaches in worship, diet, sacrifice, austerity and charity.

Other episodes of the Mahabharata – Indralokâgama, and three others ( Berlin, 1824 ); Diluvium, and three others ( Berlin, 1829 ); a new edition of Nala ( Berlin, 1832 ) – followed in due course, all of which, with A. W. Schlegel's edition of the Bhagavad Gita ( 1823 ), proved excellent aids in initiating the early student into the reading of Sanskrit texts.

These include the epic battle of Mahabharata at Kurukshetra mentioned in the Hindu mythology ( including the recital of the Bhagavad Gita by Krishna ), and the three battles of Panipat.

Moreover, Hindus have found it easier to focus on anthropmorphic icons, because Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 5, that it is much more difficult to focus on God as the unmanifested than God with form, due to human beings having the need to perceive via the senses.

The libretto of Doctor Atomic by Peter Sellars draws on original source material, including personal memoirs, recorded interviews, technical manuals of nuclear physics, declassified government documents, and the poetry of the Bhagavad Gita, John Donne, Charles Baudelaire, and Muriel Rukeyser.

One of the first and most dramatic illustrations of Karma can be found in the Bhagavad Gita.

The reciprocal love between Radha ( the supreme lover ) and Krishna ( God as the Supremely Loved ) is the subject of many poetic compositions in India such as the Gita Govinda and Hari Bhakti Shuddhodhaya.

They encouraged Gandhi to join them in reading the Bhagavad Gita both in translation as well as in the original.

Among the principal works and stories that are a part of the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right.

Some 18 chapters of Vyasa's Jaya constitutes the Bhagavad Gita, the sacred text of the Hindus.

It was later adopted in the Bhagavad Gita of the Mahabharata.

Panentheism is also expressed in the Bhagavad Gita.

Similarly, Srila Prabhupada, author Bhagavad Gita As It Is and founder of the Hare Krishna Movement, has propounded the same pluralistic, nonsecular view: that "' Christ ' is another way of saying Krsta and Krsta is another way of pronouncing Krishna, the name of God.

The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico ; Oppenheimer remarked later that it brought to mind words from the Bhagavad Gita: " Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.

* c. 1310 BC: The Bhagavad Gita is written, according to some Hindu traditions.

Krishna is often described and portrayed as an infant or young boy playing a flute as in the Bhagavata Purana, or as a youthful prince giving direction and guidance as in the Bhagavad Gita.

* Rajan Parrikar Music Archive includes detailed articles on Indian classical music with analyses and audio extracts from rare recordings.

* Rajan and Sajan Mishra – Contemporary North Indian Musician

Rajeshwari Sunder Rajan, Leela Kasturi, Sharmila Rege, and Vidyut Bhagat are Indian feminist essayists and critics writing in English.

After a pathetic performance in 1983, Rajan Bala, a noted cricket columnist, wrote an article on him titled " Sidhu: The Strokeless Wonder " in Indian Express.

She is the daughter of Ravi Shankar, Indian sitar player, and Sukanya Rajan, a bank employee.

* Kumar Pallana as Rajan Gupta, an Indian janitor in America due to a warrant for his arrest back in India.

* M. S. Sundara Rajan, former chairman and managing director, Indian Bank

* Rajan Kanda, ( born 1977 ) an Indian expert in IT Service Management and Service Quality ; responsible for transformational improvements in many Indian, European and American organizations about how they perceive and deliver the value out of their Services.

* V. V. Rajan Chellappa-He is an Indian politician. Mayor on MaduraiCorporation. also previously served as Rajya Sabha in 1992-1998.

* T. S. S. Rajan ( 1880 – 1953 ), Indian politician and freedom-fighter.

* Rajan Narayan, Indian journalist

* Rajan P. Dev ( 1951 – 2009 ), Indian actor

The second Klaww Gang member is Rajan, a powerful Indian " spice lord " who is in possession of the Clockwerk wings and heart.

The theme of this interview is an identical depiction of a real-life interview that Dawood Ibrahim's aide Chotta Shakeel gave to Indian journalist Sheela Bhatt, after an assassination attempt on Chotta Rajan in Bangkok in 2000.

Noted Bangkok-based Indian gangster, Chhota Rajan claimed responsibility for the killing.

The ENDLF collapsed when Rajan started working with Indians-Devananda was opposed to the Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War.

Balachandra Rajan ( 1920 – 2009 ) was an Indian diplomat and a scholar of poetry and poetics.