" Devas are always looking to the supreme abode of Vishnu " ( tad viṣṇoḥ paramaṁ padaṁ sadā paśyanti sṻrayaḥ Rig Veda 1. 22. 20 )

Vaikuntha ( Sanskrit व ै क ु ण ् ठ, vaikuṇṭha ), Param Padam (‘ supreme abode ’), or Paramapadam is the home of Vishnu.

One may also call brahmaloka, abode of Brahman or Vishnu a ' jnana-loka ', at least that may be true if one follows advaita system of Shankaracarya: he is supreme jnani, best of all impersonalists, and ultimately Shiva / Shankaracarya says: worship Govinda ( Krishna )-He is Supreme Brahman.

She is that aspect of the supreme power by whose grace alone we shall ultimately released from the darkness of ignorance and the bondage of maya and taken to the abode of immortal knowledge, immortality, and bliss.

Whoever repeats this prayer composed with the five holy letters before Lord Shiva, attains that supreme abode of His and enjoys eternal bliss.

" The Adorable ( Bhagavan ) is one, passionless, formless, nameless, unborn, existence, thought, joy ( sachchidanand ), the supreme abode.

The supreme object of their lives is now fulfilled, says the wife, her husband has achieved immortality.

It is the purpose of Armed Forces Day to give Americans an opportunity to honor men of the Armed Forces, those who have made the supreme sacrifice, those who remain to preserve our security.

Closely related to this function is the fact that the religious system provides a body of ultimate ends for the society, which are compatible with the supreme eternal ends.

The answer the authors give to it, therefore, is of supreme importance.

For style and assurance, for a supreme and regal bearing there is still no one who can touch her.

at the supreme delights to be found in one of the world's finest restaurants, La Bonne Auberge, which is situated on the seacoast twenty miles west of the Nice airport ; ;

Advaita Vedanta differs from the view that karma is a law of cause and effect but instead additionally hold that karma is mediated by the will of a personal supreme god.

In most jurisdictions, the court system is divided into at least three levels: the trial court, which initially hears cases and reviews evidence and testimony to determine the facts of the case ; at least one intermediate appellate court ; and a supreme court ( or court of last resort ) which primarily reviews the decisions of the intermediate courts.

A jurisdiction's supreme court is that jurisdiction's highest appellate court.

* 1998 – Pakistan's National Assembly passes a constitutional amendment to make the " Qur ' an and Sunnah " the " supreme law " but the bill is defeated in the Senate.

Similarly, in the Greek Magical Papyri, the term " Aion " is often used to denote the All, or the supreme aspect of God

*" God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

This is provided for in Article II of the Constitution, which states that the President " shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the supreme Court.

Barbadian law is rooted historically on English common law, and the Constitution of Barbados implemented in 1966, is supreme law of the land.

General Melchett ( Stephen Fry ) rallies his troops from a French château thirty-five miles from the front, where he is aided and abetted by his assistant, Captain Darling ( Tim McInnerny ), pencil-pusher supreme and Blackadder's nemesis, whose name is played on for maximum comedic value.

In a non-stock corporation with no general voting membership, e. g., a typical university, the board is the supreme governing body of the institution ; its members are sometimes chosen by the board itself.

Even so, its first recorded use in the function of a constitution ( supreme law of the land ) is with Sarsa Dengel beginning in 1563.

Courts generally interpret statutes that create new causes of action narrowly – that is, limited to their precise terms — because the courts generally recognize the legislature as being supreme in deciding the reach of judge-made law unless such statute should violate some " second order " constitutional law provision ( cf.

In the United States, the power of the federal judiciary to review and invalidate unconstitutional acts of the federal executive branch is stated in the constitution, Article III sections 1 and 2: " The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.

While Israeli law is undergoing codification, its basic principles are inherited from the law of the British Mandate of Palestine and thus resemble those of British and American law, namely: the role of courts in creating the body of law and the authority of the supreme court in reviewing and if necessary overturning legislative and executive decisions, as well as employing the adversarial system.

According to the Constitution of the Czech Republic, the President is the head of state while the Prime Minister is the head of government, exercising supreme executive power.

Under a theocracy, perceived divine status translated into earthly authority under divine law This can take the form of supreme divine authority above the state's, granting a tool for political influence to a priesthood.

The Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus taught that above the gods of traditional belief was " The One " and polytheist grammarian Maximus of Madauros even stated that only a mad person would deny the existence of the supreme God.

Instead of going mad, they accepted terror as a normal administrative method and regarded obedience to all orders from above as a supreme virtue ....

Despite the common law tradition Cuius est solum eius est usque ad coelum et ad inferos of owning all the air above one's property, the US supreme court ruled that aircraft in the US have the right to use air above someone else's property without their consent.

Absolutism was underpinned by a written constitution for the first time in Europe in the 1665 Kongeloven (" King's Law ") of Denmark-Norway, whose § 2 ordered that the monarch shall from this day forth be revered and considered the most perfect and supreme person on the Earth by all his subjects, standing above all human laws and having no judge above his person, neither in spiritual nor temporal matters, except God alone.

In the Palestine Solidarity Review, Veronica A. Ouma reviewed the book and argued her view that while Dworkin " pays lip service to the egalitarian nature of ... societies hierarchies, she envisions a state whereby women either impose gender equality or a state where females rule supreme above males.

" O most unfortunate Prahlada, you have always described a supreme being other than me, a supreme being who is above everything, who is the controller of everyone, and who is all-pervading.

" O most unfortunate Prahlada, you have always described a supreme being other than me, a supreme being who is above everything, who is the controller of everyone, and who is all-pervading.

As stated above In Hermetic religion the supreme Deity, or Principle, is referred to variously as ' God ', ' The All ', or ' The One '.

No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body ; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs ; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles ,-a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.

In Chinese history are generally 3 levels of supreme and fully independent sovereignty or high, significantly autonomous sovereignty above the next lower category of ranks, the aristocracy who usually recognized the overlordship of a higher sovereign or ruled a semi-independent, tributary, or independent realm of self-recognized insufficient importance in size, power, or influence to claim a sovereign title, such as a Duchy which in Western terms would be called a Duchy, Principality, or some level of Chiefdom.

As Napoleon I, the founder of the Bonaparte dynasty and only head of the First French Empire, owed his success – both his personal rise and the growth of his empire – above all to his military excellence, it is hardly surprising that he bestowed most elaborate honours on his generals, especially those raised to the supreme army rank of maréchal ( marshal ).

All the supreme war councilors have agreed to unite and move forward in accordance with the principles stated above.

As a result, although the federal government is ( as discussed above ) recognized as sovereign and has supreme power over those matters within its control, the American constitutional system also recognizes the concept of " State sovereignty ," where certain matters are susceptible to government regulation, but only at the State and not the federal level.

Nevertheless, his sharp, authentic descriptions of the hunting field have retained their popularity among fox-hunters ... Among a wider public his mordant observations on men, women, and manners ; his entertaining array of eccentrics, rakes, and rogues ; his skill in the construction of lively dialogue ( a matter over which he took great pains ); his happy genius for unforgettable and quotable phrases ; and above all, his supreme comic masterpiece, Jorrocks, have won him successive generations of devoted followers.

Edelinck stands above and apart from his predecessors and contemporaries in that he excelled, not in some one respect, but in all respects, that while one engraver attained excellence in correct form, and another in rendering light and shade, and others in giving color to their prints and the texture of surfaces, he, as supreme master of the burin, possessed and displayed all these separate qualities, in so complete a harmony that the eye is not attracted by any one of them in particular, but rests in the satisfying whole.

Krona possesses a supreme genius-level intellect, but his arrogance, lack of patience, short temper and above all insatiable hunger for knowledge have gotten the better of him.

"[...] the party leadership has uncovered the anti-party line which Alexandru Drăghici, encouraged by servile, uncultured, and decaying elements, has introduced to the bodies ' activities, attempting to remove them from party control and to erect them into supreme bodies standing above party and state leadership, thus causing serious harm to activity in various domains, including that of scientific research.

" (" You are quite mistaken, my angel, if you suppose that King Louis-Philippe rules us ... supreme above the Charter reigns the holy, venerated, substantial, delightful, obliging, beautiful, noble, ever-youthful, and all-powerful five-franc piece!

Among the multiple interpretations of anuttara are: " supreme ", " above all " and " unsurpassed reality ".