Raja Yoga

Hinduism encompasses all aspects of life of for those who choose this religion’s followers. From daily activities to architecture, everything is related back to the ideals and traditions of the Hindu faith. The field trip to Temple, Texas to visit the Hindu Temple, Omkara Mahaganapathi Devasthanam, enlightened me on the traditions and aspects of Hinduism granting me a greater understanding on the Bhagavad Gita. The architecture, at first, only seems to differ from churches, temples, or other…

The Fictional World of R K Narayan: A Study Metaphysical Novels Chapter VI A Tiger for Malgudi A. Phaniraja Kumar In this Metaphysical Chapter, A…

Hinduism is the leading religion, or way of life, particularly in India. Although Hinduism contains an overall variety of philosophies, it is a family of connected religious cultures by shared concepts, rituals, cosmology, and shared textual means. What does it mean to be Hindu? Hinduism recommends the eternal duties, such as honesty, refraining from harming living beings, patience, mercy, self-restraint, compassion, among others. When people refer to being Hindu they refer to a certain god or…

luminous Visvaruchi (the All-gleaming, all-formed) − these seven, flickering about, form the seven tongues of the fire” (English Translation of Mundaka Upanishad, 3). These fires are the fires of the Karma-Yoga which is a work of action to become one with Brahman. The spark is the Atman and the various yogas is the fire poker to stoke the flames and make our fire burn high and bright enough to soon become one with…

All throughout the history of India, there has been an ‘important’ emphasis on caste, or varna, determining which occupation and class one belongs to. During the Vedic period, five classes were created consisting of Brahmins, the priestly caste, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudras and the Dalits . Not only did this caste system determine occupation, but also determined the financial being of those belonging to that specific caste. Roughly around 563 B.C.E, a prince was born into the Kshatriya…

In the words of Mahatma Gandhi, “The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different”. This Gandhi quote appears to be true, because one can take two completely different religions, and through reading, one will notice there are similarities. The differences only come in when one compares the way religions approach certain situations. This proves to be true between Buddhism and Hinduism. The Buddhist and Hindu approach to spiritual fulfillment differ in many ways, but have…

work culture to maximize labour productivity and welfare. Bhagavad Gita is the divine song of Lord Krishna. It occurs in the Bhishma Parva of Mahabharata. It consists of 18 chapters of a total 700 verses on various subjects like Dharma, Bhakti, Karma, Yoga and Vedanta. The teachings of Gita are applicable to the entire mankind irrespective of caste, creed, and age. It provides ways of fulfilling all duties and roles, in the most peaceful and skillful manner, hence it is rightly called as the…

Sai Baba lived for 60 years at Shirdi during which period, He did not move out physically to any other town or city. He never saw reailway train. He was never seen by anyone reading a book or writing anything; He never signed; He did not give long scholarly discourses on philosophy or spirituality. He did not make anyone His disciple or spiritual heir. Although thousands of people rushed towards Him to seek His divine grace and protection, only a few names of His close devotees, most of whom…

The two religions that I choose are Buddhism and Hinduism. Buddhism is a religion based on the teachings of Gautama. He came to be called the Buddha, which means the “awakened one,” after he experienced a profound realization of the need to understand, death, and existence. The epic story of the birth of the Buddha was that he was conceived without sex; instead, a white elephant carrying a lotus flower entered his mother’s womb during a dream. The God arranged for the Buddha to see 4 sights…

Meditation and Ayurveda Mind and meditation Meditation is the practice of training the individual mind to induce consciousness. It is the state of mind in which individual acknowledges the content i.e. memories of the past or ideas for the future without being identified with them. Once individual removes the limitation of the past and future he/she can achieve the balance of psychological, physical and emotional state. Dr. Joan Borysenko, leading researcher in the field termed meditation as…