worldliness: The state or quality of being worldly.

(See also: Worldliness, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

worldly: Materialistic, unspiritual. Devoted to or concerned with the affairs or pleasures of the world, especially excessive concern to the exclusion of religious thought and life. Connoting ways born of the lower chakras: jealousy, greed, selfishness, anger, guile, etc. -

(See also: Worldly, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

worldly wise: Knowledgeable in the ways of the world. Street wise. Sophisticated.

See: materialism, samsari.

(See also: Worldly wise, Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)

To seek the Divine within, is it necessary to withdraw from worldly affairs/ Does it not imply running away from one's responsibilities?

It all depends on what it is that you are calling worldly affairs. What kind of worldly affairs you want to do is your choice.... Somebody is in politics, somebody is just a clerk in an office, somebody is running a whole industry and somebody is just sweeping the floors. All of them are doing worldly affairs. So you cannot really withdraw from worldly affairs.

(See also: Essence of Meditation, Meditation, Meditation for Beginners, Meditation Techniques)

Saint Ambrose, (Latin: Sanctus Ambrosius; Italian: Sant'Ambrogio) (c 340–4 April 397), bishop of Milan, was one of the most eminent bishops of the 4th century. Together with Augustine of Hippo, Jerome, and Gregory I, he his counted one of the four doctors of the West of antique church history. Ambrose - Life. Ambrosians Ambrose - Worldly career. Ambrose was a citizen of Rome, born about 337–340 in Trier, Germany, into a Christia ...

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• Ambrose - Worldly career
• Ambrose - Bishop of Milan
• Ambrose - Ambrose and Arians
• Ambrose - Ambrose and emperors
• Ambrose - Character
• Ambrose - Theology
• Ambrose - Writings
• Ambrose - Church Music
• Ambrose - Ambrose and reading

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Asceticism denotes a life which is characterized by refraining from worldly pleasures (austerity). Those who practice ascetic lifestyles often perceive their practices as virtuous and pursue them to achieve greater spirituality. Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body helps to purify the soul, and thus obtain a greater connection with the Divine. In a more cynical context, ascetic may connote some form of self-mortification, ritual punishment of the body or harsh renunciation of pleasure. However the word certain ...

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• Asceticism - Etymology
• Asceticism - Worldly vs Otherworldly
• Asceticism - Religious vs Secular motivation
• Asceticism - Religious Motivation
• Asceticism - Secular Motivation

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The Azeemia Order is a Sufi order founded in Pakistan in 1960 by Qalandar Baba Auliya. Azeemia - PREFACE. Its name is Silsila-e-Alia-e-Azeemia. This organization is also known as AZEEMIA TRUST FOUNDATION. Abdal-e-Haque SYED MUHAMMAD AZEEM BARKHIA founded it. He is known by the name of 'Hazoor Qalandar Baba Auliya', a well known spiritual scholar and teacher, an intellectual and a scientist. The basic purpose of this foundation was the preaching and teaching of spiritualism and the propagation of know ...

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• Azeemia - PREFACE
• Azeemia - Establishment of Silsila-e-Azeemia
• Azeemia - Names and Titles
• Azeemia - Hassan Ukhra Sayyed Muhammed Azeem Barkhiya
• Azeemia - Huzoor Qalandar Baba Auliya R.A
• Azeemia - Worldly Life
• Azeemia - Birth
• Azeemia - Early Education
• Azeemia - Over View of Life
• Azeemia - Career
• Azeemia - Last Days
• Azeemia - Noble Character
• Azeemia - Praise Worthy Qualities
• Azeemia - Disposition
• Azeemia - Some Habits
• Azeemia - Spiritual Training & Initiation
• Azeemia - Miracles
• Azeemia - Pigeon That Came To Life
• Azeemia - Deaf & Dumb Girl
• Azeemia - Spiritual Healing of Tumor
• Azeemia - Work
• Azeemia - Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi
• Azeemia - Birth
• Azeemia - Initiation
• Azeemia - Books
• Azeemia - Societies for Promotion of Education
• Azeemia - Editorship
• Azeemia - Mission
• Azeemia - HUE
• Azeemia - rules

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The Great Apostasy is a term of opprobrium used by some religious groups to allege a general fallen state of traditional Christianity, or especially of Catholicism, reformist Protestantism and (often merely by implication) Eastern Orthodoxy: that it is not representative of the faith founded by Jesus and promulgated through his twelve Apostles. This view is not shared by the churches so accused. Great Apostasy - Overview. Most significant non-Catholic and non-Orthodox Christian denominations have for ...

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• Great Apostasy - Lutherans and Calvinists - reformists
• Great Apostasy - Temptations of power
• Great Apostasy - The dangers of theology
• Great Apostasy - Compromise with folk religion
• Great Apostasy - Descent into true apostasy
• Great Apostasy - The end result
• Great Apostasy - Roman Apostasy less commonly or differently taught today
• Great Apostasy - Restorationist perspective
• Great Apostasy - Anabaptists
• Great Apostasy - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
• Great Apostasy - Adventists
• Great Apostasy - Jehovah's Witnesses
• Great Apostasy - Anglicans and Episcopalians - a middle way
• Great Apostasy - Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity
• Great Apostasy - Catholic view of history
• Great Apostasy - Worldly ambitions
• Great Apostasy - Theological dangers
• Great Apostasy - Natural or Popular Religion
• Great Apostasy - Related Articles

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Kapilavastu (or, Kapilvastu) is a place in Nepal, where the Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) grew up and lived up to the age of 29. Siddhartha spent his early life in Kapilavastu as a prince, mostly oblivious of worldly miseries. He got married to Yashodhara and had a son named Rahula. Upon confronting worldly miseries such as disease, aging and death, he left Kapilavastu in search of enlightenment and in quest of answers to his q

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Hubert was the eldest son and apparent heir of Bertrand or Boggis, duke of Aquitaine, and grandson of Charibert II, the Merovingian king at Toulouse. Bertrand's wife is variously given in hagiographies as Hugbern, and as Afre, and sister of Saint Oda or perhaps Oda herself, a mark of the low rating accorded women in Merovingian culture, where kings fathered heirs upon peasant women. Modern genealogy often lists Aude or Ode as a wife o ...

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Hubertus, Hubertus - His worldly career, Hubertus - His Christian career

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The Christian doctrine that God exists outside of time led medieval Western culture to use secular to indicate movement away from religious affairs and toward worldly (or time-related) ones. This has been extended to apply relative to all religious or spritual beliefs, whether or not they include a similar doctrine. Examples of secular used in religious contexts include: Secular authority, which involves legal and military authority as opposed to clerical authority, or matters the church controls.See also:

Secularity, Secularity - Secularity as relative worldliness, Secularity - Secular phenomena, Secularity - Secular trend, Secularity - Secular basis, Secularity - Secular equilibrium

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Max Weber made a distinction between innerweltliche and ausserweltliche asceticism, which means (roughly) "inside the world" and "outside the world". Talcott Parsons translated these as "worldly" and "otherworldly" (some translators use "inner-worldly", but that has a different connotation in English and is probably not what Weber had in mind). "Otherworldly" asceticism refers to people who withdraw from the world in order to live an ascetic life (this includes monks who live communally in monasteries, as well as hermits who live alone). "Worldly" asceticism refers to people who ...

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Asceticism, Asceticism - Etymology, Asceticism - Worldly vs Otherworldly, Asceticism - Religious vs Secular motivation, Asceticism - Religious Motivation, Asceticism - Secular Motivation

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Ambrose was a citizen of Rome, born about 337–340 in Trier, Germany, into a Christian family. His father was prefect of Gallia Narbonensis, his mother was a woman of intellect and piety. There is a legend that as an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle, leaving behind a drop of honey. His father considered this a sign of his future eloquence and honeyed-tongue. For this reason, bees and beehi ...

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Ambrose, Ambrose - Life, Ambrose - Worldly career, Ambrose - Bishop of Milan, Ambrose - Ambrose and Arians, Ambrose - Ambrose and emperors, Ambrose - Character, Ambrose - Theology, Ambrose - Writings, Ambrose - Church Music, Ambrose - Ambrose and reading

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A critical view of the unsuitable nature of Rococo in ecclesiastical contexts was taken up by the Catholic Encyclopedia: "For the church the Rococo style may be, generally speaking, compared with worldly church music. Its lack of simplicity, earnestness, and repose is evident, while its obtrusive artificiality, unnaturalness, and triviality have a distracting effect. Its softness and prettiness likewise do not become the house of God. However, shorn of its most grievous outgrowths, it may have been less distracting during its p ...

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Rococo, Rococo - Historical Development, Rococo - Rococo in Different Artistic Modes, Rococo - Furniture and Decorative Objects, Rococo - Architecture, Rococo - Painting, Rococo - Sculpture, Rococo - Music, Rococo - Rococo worldliness and the Roman Catholic Church, Rococo - External link

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In numerical descriptions, such as of a time series of numbers, a secular trend is the long-term upward or downward trend in the numbers, as opposed to a smaller cyclical variation with a periodic and short-term duration. For example, in the business operating cycle, revenue might fluctuate during the fiscal year. Experienced management could ignore the cyclical fluctuation in revenue and concentrate instead on the larger trend from year to ...

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Secularity, Secularity - Secularity as relative worldliness, Secularity - Secular phenomena, Secularity - Secular trend, Secularity - Secular basis, Secularity - Secular equilibrium

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Azeemia - Birth. Huzoor Qalandar Baba Auliya (R.A) was born in 1898 in the town of Khorja, District Buland Shehr, Uttar Pradesh, India. His parents named him Mohammad Azeem. His family lineage goes back to Hazarat Imam Hassan Askari. Azeemia - Early Education. He got his primary education from a local school of the town Khorja. Till High school he studied in Buland Shehr and then took admission in Aligarh Muslim University for Intermediate. See also:

Azeemia, Azeemia - PREFACE, Azeemia - Establishment of Silsila-e-Azeemia, Azeemia - Names and Titles, Azeemia - Hassan Ukhra Sayyed Muhammed Azeem Barkhiya, Azeemia - Huzoor Qalandar Baba Auliya R.A, Azeemia - Worldly Life, Azeemia - Birth, Azeemia - Early Education, Azeemia - Over View of Life, Azeemia - Career, Azeemia - Last Days, Azeemia - Noble Character, Azeemia - Praise Worthy Qualities, Azeemia - Disposition, Azeemia - Some Habits, Azeemia - Spiritual Training & Initiation, Azeemia - Miracles, Azeemia - Pigeon That Came To Life, Azeemia - Deaf & Dumb Girl, Azeemia - Spiritual Healing of Tumor, Azeemia - Work, Azeemia - Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi, Azeemia - Birth, Azeemia - Initiation, Azeemia - Books, Azeemia - Societies for Promotion of Education, Azeemia - Editorship, Azeemia - Mission, Azeemia - HUE, Azeemia - rules

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Dusts (Worldly Dusts)

A metaphor for all the mundane things that can cloud our bright Self-Nature.

These include form, sound, scent, taste, touch, dharmas (external opinions and views). These dusts correspond to the five senses and the discriminating, everyday mind (the sixth sense, in Buddhism).

 (See also: Dusts (Worldly Dusts, Buddhism, Body Mind and Soul)

Be that as it may, Hubert set out immediately for Tongeren Maastricht, for there Lambert was bishop. Saint Lambert received Hubert kindly, and became his spiritual director. Hubert now renounced all his very considerable honors, and gave up his birthright to the Aquitaine to his younger brother Eudo "the Great", whom he made guardian of his infant son, Floribert. Having distributed all his personal wealth among the poor, he studied for the priesthood, was soon ordained, and shortly afterwards became one of St. Lambert's chief associates in t ...

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Hubertus, Hubertus - His worldly career, Hubertus - His Christian career

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The adjective "ascetic" derives from the ancient Greek term askesis (practice, training or exercise). Originally associated with any form of disciplined practice, the term ascetic has come to mean anyone who practices a renunciation of worldly pursuits to achieve higher intellectual, emotional, or spiritual goals. Many warriors and athletes, in Greek society, applied the discipline of askesis to attain optimal bodily fitness and grace. The manner of life, the doctrine, or principles of someone who engages in askesis< ...

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Asceticism, Asceticism - Etymology, Asceticism - Worldly vs Otherworldly, Asceticism - Religious vs Secular motivation, Asceticism - Religious Motivation, Asceticism - Secular Motivation

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Rococo - Furniture and Decorative Objects. The lighthearted themes and intricate designs of Rococo presented themselves best on a smaller scale than the imposing Baroque architecture and sculpture. It is not surprising, then, that French Rococo art was at home indoors. Metalwork, porcelain figures, and especially furniture rose to new pre-eminence as the French upper class ...

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Rococo, Rococo - Historical Development, Rococo - Rococo in Different Artistic Modes, Rococo - Furniture and Decorative Objects, Rococo - Architecture, Rococo - Painting, Rococo - Sculpture, Rococo - Music, Rococo - Rococo worldliness and the Roman Catholic Church, Rococo - External link

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