* Prabhavananda, Swami Sermon on the Mount According to Vedanta 1991 ISBN 0-87481-050-7

According to Swami Sivananda, the view that the Shiva lingam represents the phallus is a mistake ; The same sentiments have also been expressed by H. H. Wilson in 1840.

According to the testimony of Swami Devageet ( Charles Harvey Newman ) she was admonished in front of the others, with Osho declaring that his house, and not hers, was the centre of the commune.

According to A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Harā refers to " the energy of God " while Krishna and Rama refer to God himself, meaning " He who is All-Attractive " and " He who is the Source of All Pleasure ".

According to Vedas, holy name of Vishnu is so powerful that one ( even outcaste or meat-eater as in ISKCON ) can become brahman ( dvija, twice-born, by qualification if he actually knows vedanta and Brahman, Vishnu ) by accepting initiation from bona-fide spiritual master ( like A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ).

According to Adi Sankara's commentary on the Vishnu Sahasranama, translated by Swami Tapasyananda, Govinda has four meanings:

According to the International Nath Order of the Nath Sampradaya, the Avadhuta Gita is a text of Advaita Vedanta sung by Dattatreya and recorded by his disciples Swami and Kartika.

According to Jain traditions, it was on this day, falling at the beginning of chaturmas, the four month rainy season retreat, Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara, after attaining Kaivalya, made Indrabhuti Gautam, later known as Gautam Swami, a Ganadhara, his first disciple, thus becoming a Guru himself, therefore it is observed in Jainism as Guru Purnima, and is marked special veneration to one's Gurus and teachers.

According to the International Nath Order of the Nath Sampradaya, the " Avadhuta Gita is a distillation of the sublime realization sung by Dattatreya and transcribed by two of his disciples, Swami and Kartika.

According to Adi Sankara's commentary on the Vishnu sahasranama, translated by Swami Tapasyananda, Janardana means " One who inflicts suffering on evil men.

According to Swami Sivananda's book, Sixty-Three Nayanar Saints, pg.

According to Dvaita philosophy, Mayavada is an incorrect understanding of the nature of Supreme and it is strongly refuted by saints like Madhavacarya, Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Baladeva Vidyabhusana, Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur and most recently by Bhaktivedanta Swami.

According to Sri Swami Sivananda: " Prarabdha is that portion of the past karma which is responsible for the present body.

According to the letter of 28 July 1970 A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada appointed the following members to the commission, all of them non-sannyasis ( non-renunciates ).

According to Praveen Swami, Naik is " perhaps the most influential Salafi ideologue in India ".

According to Swami, Naik's IRF has proved to be a " magnet " for figures linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba, while his message has mesmerised violent Islamists, and his works " help make sense of the motivations of Indian recruits to the jihad.

According to Princeton University website, the book " explores the life and mission of His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami ( 1950-2005 ), an African-American seeker who rose from impoverished conditions in the Cleveland ghetto to become a global spiritual leader of the Hare Krishna movement ".

According to Swami Kriyananda, " The assumption of this mudra helps to hasten the advent of deep spiritual states of consciousness.

According to the teachings of Swaminarayan, devotees consider God ( Swaminarayan ) to be manifest through Pramukh Swami Maharaj.

According to the chroniclers, the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur once asked his courtiers who deserved the exalted title of " Falcon of the Quraysh " ( Saqr Quraish, foremost of the Prophet's tribe ).

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

According to Strabo, writing two centuries after the events, rather than being destroyed by the Romans like their Celtic neighbours, " the Boii were merely driven out of the regions they occupied ; and after migrating to the regions round about the Ister, lived with the Taurisci, and carried on war against the Daci until they perished, tribe and all — and thus they left their country, which was a part of Illyria, to their neighbours as a pasture-ground for sheep.

According to a legend, it is derived from the Forefather Čech, who brought the tribe of Czechs into its land.

According to Julius Caesar, the Belgian tribe of the Atuatuci " was descended from the Cimbri and Teutoni, who, upon their march into our province and Italy, set down such of their stock and stuff as they could not drive or carry with them on the near ( i. e. west ) side of the Rhine, and left six thousand men of their company there with as guard and garrison " ( Gall.

According to the research of Russian anthropologist S. M. Shirokogoroff, in the Manchu tribe of the Amur river mothers used to put their male babies ' penises into mouths as a caress, since it was not considered a sexual act.

According to Strabo their territory was divided in accordance with custom, each tribe was further divided into cantons, each governed by a military aristocratic ruler whose title chief of the tribe gave him the powers of a King-Priest (' tetrarch ').

According to native oral legends Fijians were also descendants of a nomadic tribe from Tanganika ( Tanzania ).

According to the books Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses ; his name was Hoshe ' a the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him Yehoshu ' a ( Joshua ) () the name by which he is commonly known ; and he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus, and was probably the same age as Caleb, with whom he is occasionally associated.

According to Harry W. Fritz, " All earlier Missouri River travelers had warned of this powerful and aggressive tribe, determined to block free trade on the river.

According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was a son of Amram, a member of the Levite tribe of Israel descended from Jacob, and his wife, Jochebed.

According to the enthnographer James Mooney, the population of the tribe was about 200 families in 1702 ; 1000 people in 1780 ; 300 in 1805 ; 80 in 1829, when they were living with the Otoe ; and 13 in 1910 ; afterward, their population numbers are combined with those of the Otoe.

According to him, Mieszko I had fought against the Weltaba tribe, commonly identified with the Veleti.

According to Widsith, Offa's opponents belonged to a tribe or dynasty called Myrgingas

According to Rebbenu Bachya, the word Yahalom in the verse Exodus 28: 18 means " pearl " and was the stone on the Hoshen representing the tribe of Zebulun.

According to some archaeologists, PIE speakers cannot be assumed to have been a single, identifiable people or tribe, but were a group of loosely related populations ancestral to the later, still partially prehistoric, Bronze Age Indo-Europeans.

Brichtothe states that it is " not mere sentimental respect for the physical remains that is ... the motivation for the practice, but rather an assumed connection between proper sepulture and the condition of happiness of the deceased in the afterlife " According to Brichtothe, the early Israelites apparently believed that the graves of family, or tribe, united into one, and that this unified collectivity is to what the Biblical Hebrew term Sheol refers.

According to the Primary Chronicle Rurik was one of the Rus, a Varangian tribe likened by the chronicler to Danes, Swedes, English and Gotlanders.

According to very early traditions that are presumed to contain a good deal of historical truth, the edhilingui were the descendants of the Saxons who led the tribe out of Holstein and during the migrations of the sixth century.

According to the Tanakh, Saul was the son of Kish, of the family of the Matrites, and a member of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve Tribes of Israel.

According to the Bible the first king, Saul, was a Gibeonite, a tribe with its roots in Edom, and in order to unify the new kingdom and cement his own authority Saul promoted his own god, Yahweh, as god of the kingdom ; previously, each extended family or clan was the " people " of a particular god, but now the entire Israelite community became the " people of Yahweh ".

According to Ibn Ishaq, he was stopped from doing so by two rabbis from the Banu Qurayza tribe, who implored the king to spare the oasis because it was the place " to which a prophet of the Quraysh would migrate in time to come, and it would be his home and resting-place.

According to Tacitus, writing a generation later, these were in fact the original tribe to be called Germani, and all other uses of the term extended from them.

According to ancient Chinese texts, before the Xia Dynasty was established, battles were frequent between the Xia tribe and Chi You's tribe.