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Philosophy - The VaiseshikaThe Vaiseshika
system takes its name from Visesha or particularity which is the characteristic differentia of
things. The aphorisms of Kanada contain the essence of the Vaiseshika
philosophy. The principal subject treated therein is Visesha, one of the six
Padarthas or categories enumerated by the founder.
Excerpt from
All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda
Read more here: » Vaiseshika: Hindu
Philosophy - The Vaiseshika |
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Dictionary on Vedas
Vedas Veda is a generic name for the most ancient Indian sacred literature, i.e. the Rg-veda, Yajur-veda, Sama-veda and Atharva-veda. Each of these books is divided into two portions, mantra and brahmana. The term Veda is generally reserved for the mantras or metrical hymns, especially those of the Rg-veda. Sri Aurobindo has translated and/or commented on many of the Vedic hymns. Most of his writings related to the Vedas have been collected in Volumes 10 and 11of the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library(SABCL), The Secret of the Veda, and Hymns to the Mystic Fire. "I propose...that the Rig-Veda is itself the one considerable document that remains to us from the early period of human thought of which the historic Eleusinian and Orphic mysteries were the failing remnants, when the spiritual and psychological knowledge of the race was concealed, for reasons now difficult to determine, in a veil of concrete and material figures and symbols which protected the sense from the profane and revealed it to the initiated. One of the leading principles of the mystics was the sacredness and secrecy of self-knowledge and the true knowledge of the Gods. The Veda...is an inspired knowledge as yet insufficiently equipped with intellectual and philosophical terms. We find a language of poets and illuminates to whom all experience is real, vivid, sensible, even concrete, not yet of thinkers and sytematisers to whom the realities of the mind and soul have become abstractions. The Vedic Rishis believed that their Mantras were inspired from higher planes of consciousness and contained this secret knowledge. The words of the Veda could only be known in their true meaning by one who was himself a seer or mystic; from others the verses withheld their hidden knowledge. Many of the lines, many whole hymns even of the Veda bear on their face a mystic meaning; they are evidently an occult form of speech, have an inner meaning. Under pressure of the necessity to mask their meaning with symbols and symbolic words...the Rishis resorted to fix double meanings, a device easily manageable in the Sanskrit language where one word often bears several different meanings, but not easy to render in an English translation and very often impossible....The Rishis, it must be remembered, were seers as well as sages, they were men of vision who saw things in their meditation in images, often symbolic images which might precede or accompany an experience and put it in a concrete form, might predict or give an occult body to it. ...The mystics were and normally are symbolists, they can even see all physical things and happenings as symbols of inner truths and realities, even their outer selves, the outer happenings of their life and all around them." -- Sri Aurobindo, The Secret of the Veda, SABCL Vol. 10
(See also: Vedas , Hinduism,
Vedic Scriptures, Yoga, Body Mind and Soul)
For more dictionary entries, see » Scriptures Dictionary |
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| | | |  |  |  | Scriptures: The Advaita Philosophy Of Sri SankaraThe teachings of
Sankara can be summed up in half a verse: Brahman
(the Absolute) is alone real; this world is unreal; and the Jiva or the individual
soul is non-different from Brahman.
The Advaita
taught by Sri Sankara is a rigorous, absolute one. According to Sri Sankara,
whatever is, is Brahman. Brahman Itself is absolutely homogeneous. All
difference and plurality are illusory.
Excerpt from All
About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda
Read more here: » Vedanta Schools: The Advaita Philosophy Of Sri Sankara |
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|  |  |  | Scriptures: Surya, The Eternal
HealerThe Hindu scriptures present the Sun as the
most potent god. There are only five Puranic gods and the Sun is one of them
but the images of the remaining four gods Ñ Vishnu, Shiva, Ganesh and Durga Ñ
are also found in Him. In Surya Sahastranam several synonyms of the Sun are
actually Vishnus names and at one place He is also called Jyotirlinga,
representing Shiva. Mahakal is both the name of Shiva and the Sun.
Read more here: » Surya Sahastranam: Surya, The Eternal
Healer |
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|  |  |  | Scriptures: Dharma, Artha, Karma and Moksha - The
PurusharthasPurusharthas,
Dharma, Artha, Karma and Moksha
Purusha means human being
and artha means object or objective. Purusharthas means objectives of man.
According to Hindu way of life, a man should strive to achieve four chief
objectives (Purusharthas) in his life. They are:
1. dharma
(righteousness),
2. artha
(material wealth),
3. kama
(desire) and
4. moksha
(salvation).
Every individual in a society is expected to achieve these four
objectives and seek fulfillment in his life before departing from here. The
concept of Purusharthas clearly establishes the fact that Hinduism does not
advocate a life of self negation and hardship, but a life of balance,
achievement and fulfillment.
Read more here: » Purusharthas: Dharma, Artha, Karma and Moksha - The
Purusharthas |
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| | | |  |  |  | Scriptures: Hindu view on Science, Knowledge and EducationHindu
view on Science, Knowledge and Education
Hindu scriptures recognize two types of knowledge: the lower
knowledge and the higher knowledge. Knowledge of the rites and rituals and
scholarly study of scriptures is considered to be lower knowledge, while higher
knowledge is the knowledge of Atman and Brahman gained through personal
experience or self realization. Of the two, the Higher Knowledge alone is true,
because it liberates the individuals from the cycle of births and deaths.
Read more here: » Hinduism
and Science:Hindu view on Science, Knowledge and Education |
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Dictionary on Ramayana
Ramayana "The most ancient Sanskrit epic poem, written by the sage Valmiki. It is estimated to have been composed about 500 B.C., and contains approximately 50,000 lines. The Ramayana describes the life of Sri Rama: his banishment from Ayodhya; life in the forest with his faithful wife Sita; Sita's abduction by Ravana; the war of Rama and his allies against Ravana; defeat of Ravana and rescue of Sita; Rama's return to Ayodhya as ruler; slander of Sita by the people of Ayodhya and her banishment from the kingdom; her subsequent exoneration and final ascent to heaven, where she is joined by Rama." -- Ramakrishna-Vedanta Wordbook "The Ramayana is a work of the same essential kind as the Mahabharata; it differs only by a greater simplicity of plan, a more delicate ideal temperament and a finer glow of poetic warmth and colour. The main bulk of the poem in spite of much accretion is evidently by a single hand and has a less complex and more obvious unity of structure. There is less of the philosophic, more of the purely poetic mind, more of the artist, less of the builder. The whole story is from beginning to end of one piece and there is no deviation from the stream of the narrative. At the same time there is a like vastness of vision, an even more wide-winged flight of epic sublimity in the conception and sustained richness of minute execution in the detail. ...The eopic poet has taken here also as his subject an Itihasa, an ancient tale or legend associated with an old Indian dynasty and filled it in with detail from myth and folklore, but has exalted all into a scale of grandiose epic figure that it may bear more worthily the high intention and significance. The subject is the same as in the Mahabharata,, the strife of the divine with the titanic forces in the life of the earth, but in more purely ideal forms, in frankly supernatural dimensions and an imaginative heightening of both the good and the evil in human character. On one side is portrayed an ideal manhood, a divine beauty of virtue and ethical order, a civilization founded on the Dharma and realising an exaltation of the moral ideal which is presented with a singularly strong appeal of aesthetic grace and harmony and sweetness; on the other are wild and anarchic and almost amorphous forces of superhuman egoism and self-will and exultant violence, and the two ideas and powers of mental nature living and embodied are brought into conflict and led to a decisive issue of the victory of the divine man over the Rakshasa. All shade and complexity are omitted which would diminish the single urity of the idea, the representative force in the outline of the figures, the significance of the temperamental colour and only so much admitte as is sufficient to humanise the appeal and the significance. The poet makes us conscious of the immense forces that are behind our life and sets his action in a magnificent epic scenery, the great imperial city, the mountains and ocean, the forest and wilderness, described with such a largeness as to make us feel as if the whole world were the scene of his poem and its subject the whole divine and titanic possibility of man imaged in a few great or monstrous figures. The ethical and the aesthetic mind of India have here fused themselves into a harmonious unity and reached an unexampled pure wideness and beauty of self-expression. The Ramayana embodied for the Indian imagination its highest and tenderest human ideals of character, made strength and courage and gentleness and purity and fidelity and self-sacrifice familiar to it in the suavest and most harmonious forms..." -- Sri Aurobindo, The Foundations of Indian Culture, SABCL Vol 14 pp. 289-90
(See also: Ramayana , Hinduism,
Vedic Scriptures, Yoga, Body Mind and Soul)
For more dictionary entries, see » Scriptures Dictionary |
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|  |  |  | Scriptures: Introduction to BuddhismBuddhism is a philosophy and/or religion based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama (Sanskrit; in Pali, Siddhattha Gotama), who lived between approximately 563 and 483 BCE. Originating in India, Buddhism gradually spread throughout
Asia to Central Asia, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, as well as the East Asian countries of China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan.
Read more here: » Buddhism: Introduction to Buddhism |
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| |  |  |  | Scriptures: Cosmic Vision Alone Reveals the Truth
True realisation takes place on knowing and seeing God in His transcendental form. It is a metaphysical experience within the human body. The manifestation of inherent divinity is in reality the revelation of the divine self of man. This is not different from the Supreme Self that permeates even the tiniest particle in the universe. It is accessible to all human beings.
(See also: Self-Realisation , God and Religion,
Peace on Earth, Peace of Mind, Love and Happiness, Life and Beyond, Body Mind
and Soul)
Read more here: » Self-Realisation: Cosmic Vision Alone Reveals the Truth |
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|  |  |  | Scriptures: How to Identify a Modern Saint
Many people study religious scriptures profusely - which is a good thing. But they feel that the 'scriptural word' is enough. That is a mistake. A scripture is like a map. And a map is not the territory. What may appear as a beautiful mountainous range on paper could well turn out to be a treacherous obstacle in real life. Similarly, a river painted in brilliant hues of blue on a map, might be infested with snakes and crocodiles in reality.
(See also: Life and Death, Life and Beyond, Death
and Dying, Body Mind and Soul)
Read more here: » Life and Death: How to Identify a Modern Saint |
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|  |  |  | Scriptures: Metallurgy of The Soul: Back to Nature
Studying Jain holy scriptures, I found I could draw a parallel between the behaviour of matter or non-living substance and the soul which is a living substance. Souls are infinite in number: Some are pure and liberated; others are unliberated and live a bodily or embodied existence. Pure souls possess properties or characteristics comprising infinite knowledge, vision and bliss and are quite different from unliberated, mundane, souls which have limited knowledge through mind and sense organs, experiencing birth and death.
(See also: Life and Death, Life and Beyond, Death
and Dying, Body Mind and Soul)
Read more here: » Life and Death: Metallurgy of The Soul: Back to Nature |
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| |  |  |  | Scriptures: Hindu Philosophy - The Purva MimamsaPurva Mimamsa or
Karma-Mimamsa is an enquiry into the earlier portion of the Vedas, an enquiry
into the ritual of the Vedas or that portion of the Vedas which is concerned
with the Mantras and the Brahmanas only. The Purva Mimamsa is so called,
because it is earlier (Purva) than the Uttara Mimamsa, not so much in the
chronological as in the logical sense.
Excerpt from
All About Hinduism by Sri Swami Sivananda
Read more here: » Purva Mimamsa: Hindu Philosophy - The Purva Mimamsa |
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|  |  |  | Scriptures: Introduction to HinduismIntroduction
to Hinduism
Statistically,
there are over 700 million Hindus, mainly in Bharat (India), and Nepal. Hinduism is referred to as Sanatana Dharma, the
eternal faith. Hinduism is not strictly a religion. It is based on the practice
of Dharma, the code of life. Since Hinduism has no founder, anyone who
practices Dharma can call himself a Hindu. He can question the authority of any
scripture, or even the existence of the Divine.
Read more here: » Hinduism: Introduction to Hinduism |
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