Vaishnava

The Vaishnava is the devotion of Vishnu like supreme god, one of the most important spiritual expressions of the Hindouisme with the Shivaïsme. More generally, Vaishnava is the name of the excessively pious people of the divinity, but it indicates also any thing in relation to her.

The worship

Vishnu is especially venerated in the form of its misadventure S or incarnations on ground, two more popular being:
  • Krishna, born with Mathurâ in India approximately 5000 years ago according to the tradition hindouist. Inaugurating the Kâlîyuga, the last age of the world, before the destruction, it is, with the warrior Arjuna, the central figure of the Bhagavad-Gîtâ.
  • Râma, the prince of Ayodhya, the hero of the Râmâyana.

The seventh misadventure of Vishnu is Râma, eighth is Krishna, and the ninth exchange following the sources: Buddha, in the large majority of the schools, but also more rarely and less seriously, Jesus-Christ or sometimes the founder of the sect which one consults the crowned texts. The integration of Buddha in the Hindu Pantheon appeared rather tardily, probably at the 8th century; this process altogether rather bold is the expression of the brahmanic Counter-Reformation to the Bouddhisme, started with the Certain sources recognize all those which precede as true will avatara , increasing by there the traditional account of Bhagavad-gita of ten (Kalki including, which will appear at the end of the era present, the Kali Yuga) with step less than 27, it is the case of Srimad Bhagavata which of account 22.

The devotion not being accompanied by exclusion in India, it is difficult to count Vaishnava. However, one generally considers that it accounts for 75 to 80% of the Hindus, the remainder being shivaïtes.

The sign ( tilak mark related to the face) of recognitions of the vishnouites is the tirunama and often illustrated on the walls of the temples and even of the stores. It consists of two white lines which leave the root of the nose to form U ( urdhva will pundra ) comprising in its center a red or black feature, notation symbolic of the traces of the foot and triple not of Vishnou, one of the two great figures of the Hindu Pantheon, with Shiva. Another mark on the face of the vishnouites is a triangle with the point turned downwards, symbol of water and female principle.

One finds in all the schools and current vishnouites the theological bases of the system philosophico-monk of Vedânta. The bhakti (“attachment”, “devotion”), expression very widespread in India with the the Middle Ages, is a phenomenon primarily vishnouite, as well on the religious level as historical

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