Hindu deities

as a part of life and look forward to going to Varanasi, to die and go to heaven. This city has been where devout Hindus have come to die for 3,000 years (Films Media Group). Our society also does cremation but cremation has a different meaning to Hindu culture. Manikarnika Ghat is located in the center of the city and this crematorium has “been around for thousands of years” (Films Media group). Not only do they cremate in the city but also pilgrims come to pay homage to the gods. Their…

“Interpreter of Maladies”, by Jhumpa Lahiri, is a collection of short stories all involving individuals with some type of a connection to India. Through these short stories, the reader learns a tremendous amount about India’s cultural aspects and how these aspects define India as a country. By utilizing Geert Hofstede’s cultural dimensions framework, one can better understand what exactly creates India’s culture and how it is different from other countries. Hofstede separates these dimensions…

Amongst the enormous corpus of Hindu literature, Mahabharata stands out as a text of great magnitude, originally comprising of 100,000 Sanskrit shlokas, say about 2 million words. ‘Vedvyasya’, the author of Mahabharata has weaved a plethora of characters in this great Hindu epic, through which he takes the reader through every conceivable human emotion and situation, thus making it possible to identify with it even today. It even boasts, ‘What is here is found elsewhere. What is not here is…

Considered the more useful of the considerable number of ways, it is a way of activity. Keeping in mind the end goal to be unified with the perfect, a Hindu adherent must act sacrificially. At the end of the day, a man ought to make the right decision not on the grounds that they need to be remunerated, but rather just in light of the fact that privilege is correct. In the account of the Bhagavad Gita…

The novel “The God of Small Things” written by Roy, an Indian author, contains many great issues, and I chose this book to know more about the Indian culture, religion, and mainly caste system. Roy described social interactions, cultural laws, and ideologies clearly in this novel that how these issues are based on specific rules and disciplines. And these cultural laws, ideologies and social compel the people to follow their rules and disciplines. One of the issues that has been discussed in…

Devu Mahesan, 14510013 The Jain Darsana Introduction Spiritualism and naturalism are the two most important ancient streams of Indian thought. The naturalistic stream is systemized into two major systems, theVaisesika and Jaina. In these systems the naturalistic theory of the external world is combined with a non-naturalistic theory of the human soul, which is the “spiritualistic eschatology” and I feel that this combination of naturalism and nonnaturalism is a uniquely interesting trait and…

Jainism is an ancient religion from India that emphasizes complete nonviolence and asceticism. It is a religion that basically teaches a path to spiritual purity and enlightenment through a disciplined mode of life founded upon the tradition of ahimsa, nonviolence to all living creatures. People who fallows Jainism care called Jains and there are about 4 million Jains worldwide. Jainism emerged in 6th century BCE India, the same time Buddhism was developing. Beginning in the 6th century BCE,…

religion” from the U.S. Catholic journal that Hindu is one of the oldest and, complex religion in the world with different prospect. Writer William explained more details history of Hinduism with current situation of religion. He started with population of India who has majority of Hindus and they believed in Hinduism. According to William, estimated 685 million Hindus follow the Hinduism in the all over the world. In India approximately 80% of Hindu population consider themselves as a followers…

be compared while they both have some of the same concepts they both are well known for its differences. For comparison Judaism and Hinduism one must understand both its meaning. Hindu is known to many as cultural, geographical and or political in nature. As far back before the 16th century the term Hindu was known as a religion of recent origin that can be traced back for thousands of years. The terms 'Hinduism' has many definition and has thousands of years of gradual evolution,…

The Hindu theme that I chose to write about is karma. “The word comes from the root the means “to do” and implies the notion of moral consequences that are carried along with every act” (Molloy, 2010. P. 87). Another term that I hear that relate well with karma is that, you reap what you sow. I’m not of the Hindu religion, but I do believe that karma does come back around to you for the wrong that you do in your life. Therefore, I live by the Golden Rule, “do unto to others as you word have them…