Satya Mahima Dharma

Satya Mahima Dharma

Satya Mahima Dharma (the "dharma of the divine glory") is a religious tradition in Hinduism, from Orissa. It goes back to a historic person called Mahima Svama (or Mahima Gosain). He is said to have appeared in Puri in 1826. Dissatisfied with the ritualised idol worship of Lord Jagannath, he left Puri and travelled to the Kapilas hills near Dhenkanal where he engaged himself in severe yogic practices. In 1862 he became a siddha and started preaching a new dharma. He is said to have attained samadhi in 1876. Under his first disciple Govinda Baba and the dissident saint poet Bhima Bhoi, the movement shifted away from the coastal region towards the central and western parts of Orissa. Spreading also to other states (Madhya Pradesh, AP, West Bengal, Assam), people from different regions and socio-cultural backgrounds joined as followers. Since then, several monastic as well as lay currents and competing associations emerged and various regional centres (Joranda, Khaliapali) have been established. Mahima Dharma is a popular ascetic movement which considers the void, shunya, as the divine principle, opposing as such any idol worship. The void can only be venerated through fire or its manifestation in the sun, traits which link Mahima Dharma to the nirguna bhakti tradition.

References

* Banerjee-Dube, Ishita. 2001. ‘Issues of Faith, Enactment of Contest: The Founding of Mahima Dharma in Nineteenth-Century Orissa’. In Kulke, H. and Schnepel, B. (eds.). "Jagannath Revisited", New Delhi: Manohar, 149 – 177.
* Banerjee-Dube, Ishita and Johannes Beltz 2008 (eds.), "Popular religion and ascetic practices. New studies on Mahima Dharma", New Delhi: Manohar Publishers.
* Eschmann, Anncharlott 1978. ‘Mahima Dharma: An Autochthonous Hindu Reform Movement’. In Eschmann A., Kulke, H. & Tripathi, C.G. (eds). "The Cult of Jagannath and the Regional Tradition of Orissa", New Delhi: Manohar, 375 – 410.
* Guzy, Lidia 2002. "Baba-s und Alekh-s – Askese und Ekstase einer Religion im Werden", Berlin: Weissensee Verlag.

ee also

*Mahima Religion

External links

* [http://www.mahimadharma.de Mahima Dharma]


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