Upanishads

Legalism- A negative philosophy that humans are all bad people. He incorporated this into his laws which had harsh punishments and very little rewards. Confucianism-Based on Confucius’s thinking that a person could improve. These laws were lighter and led to education reforms improving literacy. Ban Zhao- Was a female writer who believed in Confucianism and she wanted women to become more educated to live better lives. Daoism- A belief that people shouldn’t spend time on education but finding…

back to seventh century BCE, Jainism wasn’t popular until Vadhamana Mahavira, a religious teacher, became a Jainist in late 600 BCE. Vadhamana was born around 540 BCE in north India to a kshatriya family. Jainist doctrine inspiration was taken from Upanishad teachings. Everything in the world - the universe, whether humans or the air, had a soul. The body was just a container for the soul that caused suffering. The only way to rid of the suffering was to ditch ones selfishness in order to escape…

but not the way we believe in like many peopple believe that there were aliens and spacecrafts were used in mahabharata. His view of science and technology in Mahabharata times was influenced by prehistoric india as described in vedas, puranas and upanishads. He has a question for us to ponder on that is What if The Mahabharata actually employed advanced science and technology far beyond what we can even think today and which for some reason had never made it to our recorded history; either…

Udana flows upwards. By performing virtuous deeds, men are carried to virtuous worlds. By sinful acts (men are) carried to sinful worlds. By combining both kinds of karmas (virtuous and sinful acts) verily (men are) carried to human dimension. Through virtuous work (self effort, sadhana, discipline and a positive sankalpa) Udana can be raised upwards and when it rises above Manipura Chakra, liberation and Moksha can be attained. Sinful act refers to conflicts, desires, ambitions, passions, etc.…

wisdom long recognized plurality and multiplicity as the ‘nature of nature’. But for them, they are not related through a relation of difference, but through a relation of variation, variety. The many are varieties of one ultimate reality as the Upanishads teach. But for European epistemology, the many are one different from the other. This creates a very serious problem.” (Dr. T S…

and most adaptable religious traditions known to man. From 2500-400 B.C.E., Hinduism’s growth from a religion of oral tradition, continued its shift into one attentive on the sacred texts known as the Vedas, which stipulated ritual action, to the Upanishads, sometimes referred to as Vedanta ("Last part of Veda") (Radhakrishnan, 1956), which then focused more on questioning Brahman, "the unchanging reality amidst and beyond the world" (Puligandla, 1997) which "cannot be exactly defined" (Sinari,…

How people have sought ekstasis through disciplined ritual. In the selection “Homo Religiosus,” from Karen Armstrong’s A Case for God, the author describes a series of diverse religions, spanning many continents and millennia, and summarizes their respective goals and practices. She argues that the common thread between these varied cultures is how practitioners of each undertake a series of rigorous practices in order to achieve a different, fulfilled state, a feeling that she dubs ekstasis.…

not kill” (Exodus 21:13), validates that even a fetus is still considered to be a human being. However, the Hindu religion also believes that “abortion is an equivalent misdeed to killing one’s own parents,” according to the holy text Kaushitaki Upanishad (Alles). It is arguable that the deliberate killing of a life can promote a culture, in which the human life is disposable and has little…

CAÑAMO, Kristianne Coleen G. 3JRN1 LIT PRELIMS 1) Discuss the roles of the tradition and individual talent (artists) using this passage from Eliot's essay Tradition and Individual Talent: “…the past should be altered by the present as much as the present is directed by the past.” T.S. Eliot’s Traditional and Individual Talent, briefs readers about his critical assessment on the concept of poems as the poet’s way of expressing his or her personality through a long essay. A noteworthy passage…

An century or two after those Jaiminya Brahmana, those Vedic priests assemble the Mundaka upanishad the place kali will be those name about a standout amongst the seven quivering tongues of the fire god, Agni, whose flames eat up conciliatory oblations also transmit them of the gods. Between the second century BC what's more 3rd century AD, kali…