Vaishnavism

Hinduism and Buddhism The picture of the Hindu temple looks like it’s heavily decorated. There is much detail to it. You can look at it from any angle and you will see something. However, if you focus on one section of the temple, it won’t have any meaning to it. The temple as a whole resembles something. But one section will not resemble anything. This is mostly because of the ideology and correlation of Atman: inner self and Brahman: the great cosmic spirit (Smith 22). The Brahman is the…

The fragrance emitted by the lilies filled the air. The night blooming jasmine on the arbour opened their buds slowly releasing their scent. The cuckoo birds returned to their perch on the arbour. The setting sun cast a warm, orange glow across the village. The scene would have transported anyone to seventh heaven; especially, a poet or a painter. Lamps were turned on at all the homes. Radha watched the evening scene through a window in her home. She didn 't feel joy. She felt as if the setting…

Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges was removed from the origin of The Bhagavad-Gita by thousands of years and miles, yet his works bear remarkable similarities to The Gita’s teachings. Specifically, Borges’ short stories, “The Immortal” and “The Library of Babel,” reflect and parallel the teachings of the sacred Hindu text, The Bhagavad-Gita, namely, its assertion that desire creates suffering and inhibits the pursuit of knowledge, and its perspective that divinity and spirituality can be found…

In many different religious texts, there are many similarities and difference; if you closely examine each of the texts. The same is true of both the Bhagavad Gita and The Raptures of St. Teresa. While examining these two texts, it is obvious that the experiences that were described were both religious and instructional. In the case of Teresa, she goes on and on about the vision that God grants her and how they have helped to shape her life. “These refer to all visions [of life].” The simple and…

love for Hindu deities through poetry and other forms of art. Bhakti is an intense emotional love for a personal god. It favors an immediate experience of the divine. This trend leads to the creation of major Hindu devotional groups: Shaivism, Vaishnavism, and Shaktism. All three major groups are unified within the realm of bhakti/devotion; however, each group is distinguishable through their belief system, traditions, and rituals. Hindus believe in Brahman which is the ultimate truth in the…

People who follow Vaishnavism, follow the god Vishnu as the supreme god. People who follow Shaivism, follow the god Shiva as their supreme god. Those who follow Shaktism, follow the goddess Shakti as their supreme god. Those who follow Smartism, follow Pancha Devata as their supreme god. The largest group is Vaishnavism. As said before, they follow Vishnu or his other forms, such as Krishna and Rama. Vishnu is the preserver…

the author of Abortion: Whose Religious Beliefs Should Prevail?, it is clear that Judaism still give the right to women to abort only if it for their health, production from unacceptable relations, complications, and adultery. (Bennett) Unlike Vaishnavism and Catholicism that do not exactly consider the well being of the women or fetuses, and view abortion as murder under any conditions. Since Catholicism is related to Christianity and originated from Judaism, something that has to be…

and might not force people for accepting Hinduism or any of its branches, but it is religious controversies that create the biggest divisions among people. It is written in the book that Hinduism has four major branches: Vaishnavism Shaivism, Shaktism, and Smartism. Vaishnavism is the brach of Hinduism that worships Vishnu as supreme god; Shaivas/Shaivities are people who accept Shiva as supreme god; Shaktas worship goddess Shakti in different forms and Smartas leave the choice of worshipping…

there are many religions that have a belief of worshipping only one god such as Baha'i Faith, Caodaiism, Cheondoism, Christianity, Deism, Eckankar, Islam, Judaism, Mandaeism, Rastafari, Shaivism, Seicho no Ie, Shaktism, Sikhism, Tengrism, Tenrissm, Vaishnavism, and Zoroastrianism as well as other ancient religions that are no longer in practiced such as Atenism. Those who only worship one god normally believe that their god is their creator and accomplished all of their work without the help…

“Mohandas grew up in a home steeped in Vaishnavism worship of the Hindu god Vishnu with a strong tinge of Jainism, a morally rigorous Indian religion whose chief tenets are nonviolence and the belief that everything in the universe is eternal. Thus, he took for granted ahimsa (non injury to all…