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Ānanda ( Sanskrit : आनन्द) literally means bliss or happiness. In the Hindu Vedas , Upanishads and Bhagavad gita , ānanda signifies eternal bliss which accompanies the ending of the rebirth cycle . Those who renounce the fruits of their actions and submit ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
in Hindu theology, "bliss," from Sanskrit ananda- "joy, happiness, bliss," from stem of nandati "he rejoices," which is of unknown origin.
Usage examples of ananda.
We must ask Ananda exactly when and where, he remembers everything, no matter how trivial.
But then Ananda persuaded the Buddha that women should be admitted too.
BEFORE THE ANNUAL CARNIVAL that takes Shravasti by storm when all days are given over to pleasure, Prince Jeta and I paid a call on Ananda at the Buddhist monastery.
Prince Jeta told Ananda about my Cathayan adventures, the holy man affected interest.
But it was Prince Jeta, not Ananda, who asked me to expound the wisdom of the Cathayans.
According to their tradition Kashiapa, the first Zen patriarch, imparted the secret to Ananda, who in turn passed it on to successive patriarchs until it reached Bodhi-Dharma, the twenty-eighth.
The room is bare except for a central alcove in which, behind the altar, is a statue of Bodhi Dharma, the founder of the sect, or of Sakyamuni attended by Kashiapa and Ananda, the two earliest Zen patriarchs.
The first method to be described has been detailed in Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya's "Training of the Mind" (Equinox I, 5, pp.
Shri ParAnanda, Solicitor General of Ceylon and an eminent writer upon and teacher of Yoga from the orthodox Shaivite standpoint, and Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya, the great English Adept, who was one of my earliest instructors in Magick and joined the Sangha in Burma in 1902, gave me my first groundings in mystical theory and practice.
The Beatific Vision, Sat Chit Ananda, Being -- Awareness -- Bliss -- for the first time I understood, not on the verbal level, not by inchoate hints or at a distance, but precisely and completely what those prodigious syllables referred to.