A mudra is a symbolic gesture with hands, fingers or other parts of the body in a prescribed way. While some mudra-s are common and transparent as in yoga, dance, drama, iconography and other forms of ...

Siva in the form of Dakshinamurthy is regarded as the ultimate Guru, for he confers knowledge that destroys ignorance in a unique way, through silence. The upadesa mudra, also known as chin mudra or ...