Talk:Diksha

Reliable sources for the term dharmic religions?
Where are the reliable sources that use the term dharmic religions in the context of this article? Dharmic religions is a now deleted obscure neologism and should not be used throughout Wikipedia. a good alternative is Indian religions. The number of google scholar results for "Indian religions"+"Indian religion" is (45.600 + 84.200) while it is only (492+475) for "dharmic religions" +"dharmic religion". See Deletion_review/Log/2007_September_8. Andries 19:21, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

On the subject of Deeksha(Diksha)
UPDATE: 8/30/2011 6:45 p.m.

This little paragraph In Indian religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, diksha is the ritual of initiation into the worship of some deity by a guru (diksha guru) who bestows mantra(s) and takes the karma of the initiate - at least in case of Vaishnava diksha, as per Hari Bhakti Vilasa 1.70:

Is a misinterpretation, because I have a website for you as a reliable resource. http://www.ammabhagavan.net

It is a energy transference to the neocortex of the brain, which results as spontaneous emotional reactions of joy,inner calmness,bliss, and mental clarity. Here's another website for you all to visit www.onenessuniversity.org. If this is in violation I apologize.

Update: I have noticed that this page has not been updated since after my last post back in July of 2009. It is encouraged to update this article.

Also, Deeksha or Diksha was never given in 1979. Any of the Guru's mentioned of that time period and thereafter have not gave any kind of Deeksha to anyone.

The only person who is capable of giving Deeksha and teaching others how to be initiated to give Deeksha is Sri Bhagavan(Kalki.) He is living now and lives in India along with his wife Sri Amma.

Regardless of anyone's belief. It is not possible for anyone to give Deeksha to anybody. You have to undergo training from a Oneness Trainer to give Deeksha that was taught by Sri Bhagavan.

There's all kinds of reliable resources on this subject, your staff of this website just have to keyword search it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by EarthKat30 (talk • contribs) 20:15, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Phonetic spelling
Phonetic spelling Deeksa is not that common to justify the move. Wikid as&#169; 09:20, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

Spelling?
I looked for "Diksha", redirected to "Diksa". Since the s stands for ṣ, I propose moving the page back to Diksha, or as a less palatable alternative, to Dikṣa. Devadaru (talk) 15:10, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Since there is no objection, I shall move the page... 12:54, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Requested move
Diksa → Diksha — As above: Diksha is the preferred spelling; Diksa is a misspelling. I couldn't move the page myself, probably because Diksha already exists (as a redirect). Note that I had proposed moving in August, and there were no objections--Devadaru (talk) 13:01, 28 December 2010 (UTC)

Weak oppose - Diksa has just a little bit more common usage. Marcus Qwertyus   09:28, 12 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Hi Marcus, how did you judge which is in more common usage? I just compared searches on Google for Diksa and Diksha, and found Diksa to Diksha on Web: 79,600 to 290,000; on Scholar: 622 to 819; on Books: 13,000 to 12,200. Diksa beats out Diksha only in books, and only by 800. I then searched books with the phrase diksha initiation vs diksa initiation; there diksha beats out diksa by 3390 to 3330. So I am not convinced that "Diksa" is the more common usage. Looks like they are about the same in books, and Diksha far more widespread on the web. (Then again, I should say I have some doubt about the accuracy of Google's numbers, because sometimes they change in strange ways. Maybe they suggest a general trend?) The reason I prefer Diksha is that Diksa suggests the word be pronounced with a pure silibant "s" sound, which is a mispronunciation. The ṣ is generally pronounced "sh". Best wishes. Devadaru (talk) 14:51, 12 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Google search results update: The estimated number of search results is terrible, often off by a factor of ten or more. Comparing google books searches for Diksa and Diksha, and clicking on the last page of results, gives actual number of results 443 to 446 (rather than estimated results 13,000 to 12,200)! Devadaru (talk) 15:30, 12 January 2011 (UTC)


 * ✅. NW ( Talk ) 00:22, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

fix for dead link
This broken link:

http://faculty.washington.edu/prem/mw/mw.html

can be replaced with:

http://students.washington.edu/prem/mw/d.html

LaRaine Mae (talk) 19:26, 6 November 2015 (UTC)lm

External links modified
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I am confused by the "see also" section on this article. What does it have to do with diksha, other than being Hindu? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hemmingweigh (talk • contribs) 14:06, 9 July 2023 (UTC)