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Shiavault - a Vault of Shia Islamic Books Hinduism's Online Lexicon - A-z Dictionary T Tagore, Rabindranath: One of India's most highly acclaimed modern-day writers and poets (18611941), son of Devendranath Tagore. He wrote in Bengali and in English. His most famous poetic religious work is Gitanjali, which centers around dialogs between the soul and God Vishnu. He received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. tainted: Sullied, spoiled or stained. Morally corrupt or depraved.

Tai Pongal: (Tamil) A four-day home festival held in the Tamil month of Tai (January-February), celebrating the season's first harvest. Surya, the Sun God, is honored at this time as the giver of all good fortune and as the visible Divine One. Newly harvested rice is ceremoniously cooked outdoors over an open fire in a giant pot (hence pongal, from pongu, "to cook"). The direction of the overflow of boiling milk is an augury for the coming year.

Tai Pusam: (Tamil) A festival held on the Pushya nakshatra near the full-moon day of January-February to worship Lords Siva or Karttikeya, depending on the locality. It is an important holiday, especially dear to the Tamil people, celebrated with great pomp, fervor and intensity in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Fiji, South Africa and Reunion, often marked by the carrying of kavadi. In Mauritius and Singapore it is a national holiday. See: kavadi, Karttikeya.

Taittiriya Aranyaka: (Sanskrit) A forest treatise of Krishna Yajur Veda. See: Veda. Taittiriya Samhita: (Sanskrit) See: Yajur Veda. Taittiriya Upanishad: (Sanskrit) Belongs to the Taittiriya Brahmana of the Yajur Veda and is divided into three sections called valli(s). The first deals with phonetics and pronunciation, the second and third with Brahman and the attainment of bliss.

tala: (Sanskrit) "Plane or world; level; base, bottom." Root of the name of the seven realms of lower consciousness centered in the seven chakras below the muladhara. See: chakra, hell, purgatory, loka, Naraka. talatala chakra: (Sanskrit) "Lower region." The fourth chakra below the muladhara, centered in the calves. Region of chronic mental confusion and unreasonable stubbornness. Corresponds to the fourth astral netherworld beneath the earth's surface, called Tamisra ("darkness") or Talatala.

This state of consciousness is born of the sole motivation of self-preservation. See: chakra, loka, Naraka. tamas(ic): (Sanskrit) "Force of inertia." See: guna.