Collection

Our collection currently contains more than 100,000 works of art and design dating from ancient times to today. Of these objects, 1,980 of them are on view in the museum now. 84,308 of them are available online. There are 1,370 recent acquisitions. All of our collection records are living documents. They are frequently revised and enhanced.

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Imran Qureshi

Opening Word of This New Scripture
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Unknown Maker

The Fourth Ordeal of Esfandiyār and the Zan-Jadu (خان چهارم با زن جاذو ), Mongol
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Helen Frederick

3. O Lord! By which path can an embodied being become one with the Absolute? Have compassion on me O Lord! I kneel at thy lotus feet. Parviti to Shiva.
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Helen Frederick

106. O Parvati! The Guru affords protection from curses pronounced by sages serpents, and gods, and also from the fear of time and death.
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Helen Frederick

The Guru Gita is the wish-fulfillling cow to those who repeat it with desire the wish-fulfilling tree to the imaginative type and the wish-fulfilling jewel to contemplatives, It is conducive to...
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Helen Frederick

37. Salutations to the Guru whose existence makes this world real. He is the sun whose light illuminates it. His love makes sons loveable.
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Helen Frederick

I bow to the author of the five eternal cosmic processes - creation sustenance, dissolution, control and award of grace. 94
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Helen Frederick

73. Salutations to the Guru who by power of self-knowledge, has burnt up all the karmas accumulated through countless lives.
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Helen Frederick

[soild cricle]. 51.... The wise continually offer handfuls of flowers with butterflies humming around them....
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Helen Frederick

144. It accomplishes impossible tasks delivers one from the fear of harm from the nine planets, puts an end to bad dreams, and makes good dreams come true.
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Helen Frederick

111. I bow to the Guru who encompasses the entire universe.... From Brahma to a clump of grass.
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Helen Frederick

70. Caitanyam śāśvatam śāśvata vyomatitam niranyanam; Nāda bindu kalātitam, tasmai śrīgurave namah.
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Helen Frederick

Just as water merges in the ocean milk in milk, butter in butter, the space inside a broken pot in the space outside, likewise, the individual soul merges into the Universal Being. 162.
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Helen Frederick

61.... pure as gold refined in fire and tested thoroughly in the flames of reason, always protects one from death
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Helen Frederick

114. Just as an image of quartz shines in a mirror similarly that which is consciousness and bliss, the true self, shines in the buddhi.