Vishnuswami    is a Sanskrit word that means "Vishnu Swami." ("Vishnu is [his] Lord")  The Vaishnava ascetics' R...

  A devotee (bhakta) of the deity Vishnu in any of his many manifestations. The doctrine of the 10 avatars, or divine incar nations, is pa...

  Radhashtami  ("Radha's eighth") is a Hindu festival. The festival takes place on the eighth day of the bright (waxing) hal...

  A minor Vaishnava sect created by a Ramanandi ascetic called Baba Sarjudasa in the late 1700s. Sat Nirikara ("Truth Is Formless...