Hindu deities

doubt the larger version of the text was authored by Valmiki, and consider the attribution as a mark of modest respect and reverence for him in the Hindu tradition by the actual unknown author(s) or compiler(s). The author of the shorter version, the Laghu-Yogavasistha, is generally considered to be Abhinanda of Kashmir. This is one of the longest Hindu texts in Sanskrit after the Mahabharata, and an important text of Yoga. In Chapter 2 of Book VI, titled as the story of Iksvaku, the text…

Abstract Tamilnadu is one of the major tribal population states in India and tribal people are the symbolic of tradition, culture and Indicators of many historical segments of State. Generally the respect on Elderly in tribal society is very common and obey the orders of elderly is the system followed in majority of tribal societies. These situations changing from last two decades with drastic changes in lifestyle of Indian society, increasing the human needs, Advance of science and technology.…

When one thinks of India, the endless diversity is noticeable. The significant difference in culture is evident throughout India. Considering territories there are 29 states, geographically from Everest to Desert and land surrounded by the Indian Ocean. India is a country with 22 official languages and so many local languages. Certainly, India is a country with various subcultures and numerous cultural values. At the same time, the country with population one side rooted to India’s own…

HINDU PEOPLE Hindu people also follow the tenets of Dharma, Karma, and Moksha. Dharma is the ultimate goal in Hinduism and is the “right way of living”. It also proposes that there is a way of living life according to your own path of truth and that these paths vary between all of us. On the other hand, Karma proposes that anything a person does, whether good or bad, will eventually return to them in this or a future life. This concept is closely related to that of reincarnation, doctrine in…

This final project will discuss the music of India, specifically the music that my interview subject, Mr. Ravi David, grew up listening to. I had the pleasure of interviewing Mr. Ravi David, a member of Bayview Glen Church, in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. He is a retired gentleman who serves as an Elder in my church. He was born in India in the 1950’s and lived there until he old. He was raised in a traditional Indian family; however, he is a seventh generation Christian. Due to his fathers work…

that were written under the influence of events through the historical change. Like Unpahidas, Vedas and Ramayana, the Bhagavad-Gita is an Indian poem, which is one of the most important texts of Hindu tradition that consist in itself 18 chapters and about 700…

The grounds on which the debate on sati was taken up was through the invention, preservation and gendering of Indian culture and tradition. British Colonial authority employed orientalist scholarship as a way to challenge sati from within Indian tradition and in turn become masters of that tradition . Thus, the protection of women and women’s agency became absent in the discourse as scripture was used as the defining feature of sati, furthering the project of preservation. Scripture was thus…

India, but instead keep it the way it’s been for thousands of years. I would prefer a traditional India because if its modernized then our Hindu culture will not survive. Hinduism is based on traditional times of having a set caste system and believing in traditional values. If modernization occurs then all of the castes will fall out of place, all of the Hindu traditional values will be lost and at least 40% of India will devastated. I also don’t agree with the untouchable class being taken…

accommodate and support their interests seen as a collectivist behavior with collectivist intention. With regard to religiosity, he said that praying is one of the rituals that he most holds on to before starting the day activity. He believes that his Hindu values guide him to be fair in working. He believed that anything that we were doing has an impact on our destiny or he called it as the principle of dharma. Furthermore, he said that when you do something bad like cheating or hurting others,…

Imagine being at church in the middle of service and someone walks through the door in a Football Jersey, with face paint and a foam finger yelling and cheering loudly right in the middle of the pastor’s sermon. A football fan behaving as if he was at a football game at a church service would definitely seem out of place and even be seen as offensive to some. Your location at any given time should directly influences the way you behave. People at church have one set of values that control how…