indian history : vedas, upanishads, puranas
... philisophical poems and hymns composed over several generations beginning as early as 3000 BC. The Veda was composed in Sanskrit, the intellectual language of both ancient and classical Indian civilizations. Four collections were made, so it is said that there are four Vedas. The four as a group cam ...
... philisophical poems and hymns composed over several generations beginning as early as 3000 BC. The Veda was composed in Sanskrit, the intellectual language of both ancient and classical Indian civilizations. Four collections were made, so it is said that there are four Vedas. The four as a group cam ...
The Dancing Shiva
... He with us. The world is seen as truly sacred when we behold Shiva’s cosmic dance. Everything in the universe, all that we see, hear and imagine, is movement. Galaxies soar in movement; atoms swirl in movement. All movement is Shiva’s dance. When we resist this movement and think it should be other ...
... He with us. The world is seen as truly sacred when we behold Shiva’s cosmic dance. Everything in the universe, all that we see, hear and imagine, is movement. Galaxies soar in movement; atoms swirl in movement. All movement is Shiva’s dance. When we resist this movement and think it should be other ...
Intro - Hymns and Chants
... The Rigveda Samhita is the oldest extant Indic text. It is a collection of 1,028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10,600 verses in all, organized into ten books (Sanskrit: mandalas).[68] The hymns are dedicated to Rigvedic deities.[69] The books were composed by poets from different priestly groups over a pe ...
... The Rigveda Samhita is the oldest extant Indic text. It is a collection of 1,028 Vedic Sanskrit hymns and 10,600 verses in all, organized into ten books (Sanskrit: mandalas).[68] The hymns are dedicated to Rigvedic deities.[69] The books were composed by poets from different priestly groups over a pe ...
AN INSIGHT INTO TH SACRED SCRIPTURES OF HINDU MUNIR
... civilization has been found at Moherjo Dhero on the banks of Indus in Sindh and Herappa on the banks of the Ravi in the Punjab. In this age, it is one the major religions of the world and although most of its followers are found in India, it commands a following of more than 700 million or 13% of th ...
... civilization has been found at Moherjo Dhero on the banks of Indus in Sindh and Herappa on the banks of the Ravi in the Punjab. In this age, it is one the major religions of the world and although most of its followers are found in India, it commands a following of more than 700 million or 13% of th ...
Primary Sources Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism
... The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns counted among the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and contains the oldest texts preserved in any Indo-Iranian language & the world. It was first orally passed down in India & then later on finally was documented. It consists of 1,017 hymns (1 ...
... The Rig Veda is a collection of hymns counted among the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and contains the oldest texts preserved in any Indo-Iranian language & the world. It was first orally passed down in India & then later on finally was documented. It consists of 1,017 hymns (1 ...
Lecture 1 in power point - Computer Science at RPI
... Period of Vedic Mathematics This is a book by Shankaracharya (18841960) of Puri. It was meant to be the first of 16 volumes covering aspects of mathematics by explaining the use of 16 sutras from the Vedas. All of these volumes were lost. Before he dies, he rewrote Vol. 1 from his memory. This volu ...
... Period of Vedic Mathematics This is a book by Shankaracharya (18841960) of Puri. It was meant to be the first of 16 volumes covering aspects of mathematics by explaining the use of 16 sutras from the Vedas. All of these volumes were lost. Before he dies, he rewrote Vol. 1 from his memory. This volu ...
CREATION IN THE MARKANDEYA PURANA The Brahmanical
... what happens “when things are not created, and nothing exists, everything has been destroyed by time at the end of the dissolution of the universe” (Mark. P. 224). In response to this question, Markandeya commences by declaring that Brahma possesses three qualities that are manifested as Brahma the ...
... what happens “when things are not created, and nothing exists, everything has been destroyed by time at the end of the dissolution of the universe” (Mark. P. 224). In response to this question, Markandeya commences by declaring that Brahma possesses three qualities that are manifested as Brahma the ...
HINDU (VEDIC AND RELATED) LITERATURE
... kalpasaastra and jyothisha. The words vedaangaas mean the organs of Vedas (parts of Vedas All the rules defined here for writing the Vedic Sanskrit are also applicable for modern and ancient Sanskrit literature . Thus one can see that rules and science of language are also given through Vedic litera ...
... kalpasaastra and jyothisha. The words vedaangaas mean the organs of Vedas (parts of Vedas All the rules defined here for writing the Vedic Sanskrit are also applicable for modern and ancient Sanskrit literature . Thus one can see that rules and science of language are also given through Vedic litera ...
Hinduta and the California History Textbook Scandal (November
... Page 115, “The Aryans”: current text, “Also about this same time, tribes of people called Aryans began to move into the Indus Valley. These Aryan people came from the area around the Caspian and the Black seas. […] Eventually some of them crossed the Hindu Kush mountains into India where they slowly ...
... Page 115, “The Aryans”: current text, “Also about this same time, tribes of people called Aryans began to move into the Indus Valley. These Aryan people came from the area around the Caspian and the Black seas. […] Eventually some of them crossed the Hindu Kush mountains into India where they slowly ...
The Epistemology of the Empiric Reality in Advaita Vedanta
... Maya explains all that can not be directly accounted for by the changeless, fullness of Brahman. All antakarana, things arising from the world of action (or simply things that are measurable or qualified) are Maya. Maya is both action and the effect of action, both of which are illusion. The three n ...
... Maya explains all that can not be directly accounted for by the changeless, fullness of Brahman. All antakarana, things arising from the world of action (or simply things that are measurable or qualified) are Maya. Maya is both action and the effect of action, both of which are illusion. The three n ...
Transcendental Meditation
... keeps him endlessly in the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. His salvation comes with the knowledge of the illusion of life and of man's oneness with Being. Further, whatever man is in his present state is a result of his karma or actions in his previous life. As long as a soul has not merged its ...
... keeps him endlessly in the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. His salvation comes with the knowledge of the illusion of life and of man's oneness with Being. Further, whatever man is in his present state is a result of his karma or actions in his previous life. As long as a soul has not merged its ...
Hidden Fire: Orthodox Perspectives on Yoga
... I have drank coffee with people instrumental in the movement of yoga, Hinduism and the New Age in America who, in order to be initiated into her cult, were prompted to eat human corpses from Nepalese graveyards. Not too long ago, the popular British newspaper The Guardian reported that child sacrifi ...
... I have drank coffee with people instrumental in the movement of yoga, Hinduism and the New Age in America who, in order to be initiated into her cult, were prompted to eat human corpses from Nepalese graveyards. Not too long ago, the popular British newspaper The Guardian reported that child sacrifi ...
Vedanta
... 5.4 Dvaita Dvaita was propounded by Madhwāchārya (1199–1278 CE). It is also referred to as tatvavādā - The Philosophy of Reality. It identifies God with Brahman completely, and in turn with Vishnu or his various incarnations like Krishna, Narasimha, Srinivāsa etc. In that sense it is also known as sa ...
... 5.4 Dvaita Dvaita was propounded by Madhwāchārya (1199–1278 CE). It is also referred to as tatvavādā - The Philosophy of Reality. It identifies God with Brahman completely, and in turn with Vishnu or his various incarnations like Krishna, Narasimha, Srinivāsa etc. In that sense it is also known as sa ...
The Vedas - Garnet Valley School District
... As historical and religious literature often is, the text is written from the perspective of the most powerful groups, priests and warrior-kings. Scholars say it is therefore unlikely that it represents the totality of religious belief and practice in India in the first millennium BCE. This perspect ...
... As historical and religious literature often is, the text is written from the perspective of the most powerful groups, priests and warrior-kings. Scholars say it is therefore unlikely that it represents the totality of religious belief and practice in India in the first millennium BCE. This perspect ...
The Sanatana Dharma: The Vedas, Upanishads and Vedanta
... orthodox devotional scriptures of Brahmanism, Vaishnavism, Shaivism and Shaktism (Tantrism), that are the major religious traditions of Hinduism. The Vedic-Hindu tradition has in turn, been influenced by non-Hindu traditions, especially Buddhism (Buddha is seen as a Hindu avatar), but also Islam, Ja ...
... orthodox devotional scriptures of Brahmanism, Vaishnavism, Shaivism and Shaktism (Tantrism), that are the major religious traditions of Hinduism. The Vedic-Hindu tradition has in turn, been influenced by non-Hindu traditions, especially Buddhism (Buddha is seen as a Hindu avatar), but also Islam, Ja ...
Shankara`s Advaita Vedanta
... Shankara’s teaching on the Upanishads, Vedanta (Brahma) Sutra and Bhagavad Gita is the very nondual essence of Vedanta, and a sublime contribution to the world’s spiritual literature, and to our nondual Great Wisdom Tradition teaching. Shankara (788-820) was the supreme adept-realizer of the Hindu U ...
... Shankara’s teaching on the Upanishads, Vedanta (Brahma) Sutra and Bhagavad Gita is the very nondual essence of Vedanta, and a sublime contribution to the world’s spiritual literature, and to our nondual Great Wisdom Tradition teaching. Shankara (788-820) was the supreme adept-realizer of the Hindu U ...
Shankara`s Advaita Vedanta
... Shankara’s teaching on the Upanishads, Vedanta (Brahma) Sutra and Bhagavad Gita is the very nondual essence of Vedanta, and a sublime contribution to the world’s spiritual literature, and to our nondual Great Wisdom Tradition teaching. Shankara (788-820) was the supreme adept-realizer of the Hindu U ...
... Shankara’s teaching on the Upanishads, Vedanta (Brahma) Sutra and Bhagavad Gita is the very nondual essence of Vedanta, and a sublime contribution to the world’s spiritual literature, and to our nondual Great Wisdom Tradition teaching. Shankara (788-820) was the supreme adept-realizer of the Hindu U ...
Hinduism in Animal de fondo by Juan Ramón
... Juan Ramon's God loves both physically and spiritually, but is also cognizant, knowing, aware, "conscious" of everything." The omniscience might suggest again the consciousness of Pratima Bowes's third statement. Perhaps "el amor =is completo" would be the equivalent of bliss (ananda). Ultimately, t ...
... Juan Ramon's God loves both physically and spiritually, but is also cognizant, knowing, aware, "conscious" of everything." The omniscience might suggest again the consciousness of Pratima Bowes's third statement. Perhaps "el amor =is completo" would be the equivalent of bliss (ananda). Ultimately, t ...
Is Dharma, Dharma? As a being raised in the Western World, where
... Throughout Asrama, a good Hindu is also observing the laws of Manu. There are three debts he must pay if he wants to be eligible for Moksa, his ultimate liberation, and avoid Hell. First, there is Vedic study to the seers. Secondly, he must perform rituals to the Gods. And finally, he needs to have ...
... Throughout Asrama, a good Hindu is also observing the laws of Manu. There are three debts he must pay if he wants to be eligible for Moksa, his ultimate liberation, and avoid Hell. First, there is Vedic study to the seers. Secondly, he must perform rituals to the Gods. And finally, he needs to have ...
Misrepresentation of Ancient India and Hinduism in American
... Ramayana, written later than the Mahabharata,…” Hindu tradition and mainstream modern scholarship generally agree that the Ramayana was composed 9 earlier than the Mahabharata. 3.2 Insensitive and frivolous remarks: A textbook uses a sidebar title “Where’s the Beef?” (OUP, p. 144) in a section deali ...
... Ramayana, written later than the Mahabharata,…” Hindu tradition and mainstream modern scholarship generally agree that the Ramayana was composed 9 earlier than the Mahabharata. 3.2 Insensitive and frivolous remarks: A textbook uses a sidebar title “Where’s the Beef?” (OUP, p. 144) in a section deali ...
pujya-paramtattva-swami-neasden-temple
... Naturally, then, when thinking of compassion, the first, most vivid and personally touching example that comes to mind is that of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. When he was anointed as the head of the new religious fellowship that would soon become the Swaminarayan Sampradaya, he prayed for all his disciple ...
... Naturally, then, when thinking of compassion, the first, most vivid and personally touching example that comes to mind is that of Bhagwan Swaminarayan. When he was anointed as the head of the new religious fellowship that would soon become the Swaminarayan Sampradaya, he prayed for all his disciple ...
Ancient Civilisations and the Aryan Myth By Prabir Purkayastha
... does not make the Indians either superior or inferior to others. Nobody is arguing that the Asian steppe region, currently held as the origin of the Indo-European speakers, produced a superior race or a superior culture. However, if Aryan superiority is accepted, then the need to claim a glorious Ar ...
... does not make the Indians either superior or inferior to others. Nobody is arguing that the Asian steppe region, currently held as the origin of the Indo-European speakers, produced a superior race or a superior culture. However, if Aryan superiority is accepted, then the need to claim a glorious Ar ...
Brahma - hol.es
... there is always controversy over who is superior among the hindu triad -- brahma, vishnu and shiva. almost all myths, though, agree upon brahma being the creator ... BRAHMA | HINDU GOD | BRITANNICA Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:36:00 GMT brahma, one of the major gods of hinduism from about 500 bce to 500 ce, ...
... there is always controversy over who is superior among the hindu triad -- brahma, vishnu and shiva. almost all myths, though, agree upon brahma being the creator ... BRAHMA | HINDU GOD | BRITANNICA Mon, 17 Apr 2017 22:36:00 GMT brahma, one of the major gods of hinduism from about 500 bce to 500 ce, ...
Varanasi City of Light
... their religion. This can be translated as the 'eternal way of conduct' – eternal because it is divine in origin and way of conduct because it covers every aspect of life." Hinduism has a very pluralistic approach which makes its spiritual traditions very rich and colorful. In Hinduism, Brahma the cr ...
... their religion. This can be translated as the 'eternal way of conduct' – eternal because it is divine in origin and way of conduct because it covers every aspect of life." Hinduism has a very pluralistic approach which makes its spiritual traditions very rich and colorful. In Hinduism, Brahma the cr ...
Hindu deities
Hinduism is the dominant religion of the Indian subcontinent. It comprises three major traditions, Shaivism, Vaishnavism and Shaktism, whose followers considered Shiva, Vishnu, Radha and Shakti (also called as Devi) to be the supreme deity respectively. Most of the other deities were either related to them or different forms (incarnations) of these deities. Hinduism has been called the ""oldest religion"" in the world, and many practitioners refer to Hinduism as ""the eternal law"". (Sanātana Dharma). Given below is a list of the chief Hindu deities followed by a list of Hindu deities (including demi-gods). Among them Radha is the biggest goddess.Within Hinduism, a large number of personal gods (Ishvaras) are worshipped as murtis. These beings are significantly powerful entities known as devas. Initially the Hindu pantheon of Gods included a limited set of deities and many new sects have since formed acknowledging living priests as deities. The exact nature of belief in regard to each deity varies between differing Hindu denominations and philosophies. Often these beings are depicted in humanoid or partially humanoid forms, complete with a set of unique and complex iconography in each case.The devas are expansions of Brahman into various forms, each with a certain quality.