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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…

1 INTRODUCTION Foundation of the Vedic culture emanates from the philosophy and science of Yajï. Yajï is the perennial symbol of this divine culture (Pandya, 2009b). The Sanskrat word ‘Yajïa’ etymologically means ‘to worship’, ‘to unite or connect’, ‘to do charity unconditionally (däna ) in right manner to the deserved. Gayatri and Yajïa are described as the pillars of Indian philosophy and culture. The four vedas signify the philosophy of the eternity and absolute complementary role of…

audience.[19][20] They suggested that Tripathi write a thriller/adventure novel and the philosophy should be a part of the story, hence there would be a mainstream appeal in it.[19] Tripathi felt that no subject was better than Shiva, one of the major Hindu deity and the destroyer of evil; his journey and stories about him would deliver the philosophy that he wanted to…

Zac’s youtube videos was made to expand his experience to others who are foreign to the following religions: Judaism, Islam, and Hinduism. Zac’s purpose is for the viever to gain further understanding like he did. I learned key concepts in each faith and pieces that caught my attention that helped in understanding their beliefs and way of life. The video gave me an insight to key informations about Judaism. First, I learned about the Mezuzah. It is a scribe where part of the Torah is…

India has a glorious history of drama from the ancient times. Drama begins its journey in India with the Sanskrit plays. Indian drama is characterized with the rituals, folks, cultural heritage etc. But the major concern of contemporary Indian drama is the representation of socio-political scenario, marginalization, gender discrimination, oppression, poverty and hunger. A general consensus seems to have emerged that though the social criticism, corruption, oppression, gender discrimination can…

“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…

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,…

CHAPTER 4 4.1 FACTS TO PROVE REAL HAPPENINGS OF RAMAYANA The Ramayana is one of the prestigious possessions of Indian history and with Mahabharata, had a crucial role in shaping the nature and culture of Indian civilization. Ramayana was also a part of the oral tradition when it was recited as early as 1500 BCE, but was finally considered to be penned down in fourth century BCE. Many people of our modern generation have questioned the reality of Ramayana and considered it only a myth. However…