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Ulrich's Bimonthly Formerly "Picture of the Month"
The rational, the moral, and the general: an exploration | W. Ulrich | Ul... 1 Werner Ulrich's Home Page: Ulrich's Bimonthly Formerly "Picture of the Month" September-October 2014 The Rational, the Moral, and the General: An Exploration Part 4: Ideas in Ancient Indian Thought / Introduction HOME An "Eastern" perspective: three ancient Indian ideas In Part 3 of this Previous | Next WER NER ULRICH'S BIO exploration we considered the character of general ideas of reason as ideal For a hyperlinked overview of all issues of "Ulrich's PUBLICATIONS limiting concepts and hence, the need for finding ways to "approximate" Bimonthly" and the previous "Picture of the Month" series, READINGS ON CSH their intent and to unfold their meaning in real-world contexts of practice. see the site map DOWNLOADS We also considered the eternal tension of the particular (or contextual) and PDF file HARD COPIES the general (or universal) in the quest for such meaning clarification and CRITICAL SYSTEMS described two basic "critical movements of thought" involved, a HEURISTICS (CSH) Note: This is the forth of the essays on the role of general CST FOR PROFESSIONALS contextualizing and a decontextualizing movement. We concluded that the & CITIZENS ideas in rational thought and notion of a cycle of critical contextualization (or "critically contextualist action. With it we begin an A TRIBUTE TO excursion into the world of C.W. CHURCHMAN cycle") might provide an elementary heuristic for reflective and discursive ideas of ancient India, as represented by the Vedic LUG ANO SUMMER SCHOOL processes of "approximation." tradition of thought and esp. -
Art. IX.—On the Interpretation of the Veda
303 ART. IX.—On, the Interpretation of the Veda. BY J. MUIR, Esq. I AM led to make some remarks on the subject of this paper by a passage in Mr. Cowell'3 preface to the fourth volume of the late Professor Wilson's translation of the Big- veda, which appears to me unduly to depreciate the services which have already been rendered by those eminent scholars both in Germany and in England who have begun to apply the scientific processes of modern philology to the explanation of this ancient hymn-collection. Mr. Cowell admits (p. vi.),— " As Vaidik studies progress, and more texts are published and studied, fresh light will be thrown on these records of the ancient world; and we may gradually attain a deeper insight into their meaning than the mediaeval Hindus could possess, just as a modern scholar may understand Homer more thoroughly than the Byzantine scholiasts." But he goes on to say :— "It is easy to depreciate native commentators, but it is not so easy to supersede them; and while I would by no means uphold Sayana as infallible, I confess that, in the present early stage of Vaidik studies in Europe, it seems to me the safer course to follow native tradition rather than to accept too readily the arbitrary con- jectures which continental scholars so often hazard." Without considering it necessary to examine, or defend, all the explanations of particular words proposed by the foreign lexicographers alluded to by Mr. Cowell, I yet venture to think that those scholars have been perfectly justified in com- mencing at once the arduous task of expounding the Veda on the principles of interpretation which they have adopted and enunciated. -
Janaka Janamejaya I Janamejaya I
JANAKA 345 JANAMEJAYA I the King was transferred to them they could be set discussion with Sage Paficasikha about the means to free. One early morning Janaka had, with a pure avoid death. (Santi Parva, Chapter 319). heart, chanted "Rama, Rama" and that good act was (13) There was once a Janaka King called Dharma- exchanged for the freedom of the sinners. dhvaja, and Sulabha, an erudite woman in Mithila After their release had been effected, Janaka asked wanted to test the King. By her yogic powers she Kala : "You say that only sinners come here. What sin assumed the form of a very beautiful woman and visited have I committed that I should come here ?" Kala's Janaka's palace. She was offered a seat by the King, reply to the question was as follows : "Oh ! King, and seated on the stool she took her soul into the no one else in the whole world has so much punya as body of Janaka, and the soul entered into a dicussion you have got. But, a small sin you have committed. on philosophic subjects with Janaka. Sulabha was thus Once you prevented a cow from eating grass, and, convinced about the unique scholarship of the King therefore, you had to come up to the gates ofhell. Now, and left the palace ashamed about her attempt to for. So that sin has been atoned you may go to svarga." test the King. (Santi Parva, Chapter 320) . saluted Kala and in the divine vimana to the son of Janaka went ( 14) Suka, Vyasa not being fully satisfied by Heaven. -
Bhagavata Purana
Bhagavata Purana The Bh āgavata Pur āṇa (Devanagari : भागवतपुराण ; also Śrīmad Bh āgavata Mah ā Pur āṇa, Śrīmad Bh āgavatam or Bh āgavata ) is one of Hinduism 's eighteen great Puranas (Mahapuranas , great histories).[1][2] Composed in Sanskrit and available in almost all Indian languages,[3] it promotes bhakti (devotion) to Krishna [4][5][6] integrating themes from the Advaita (monism) philosophy of Adi Shankara .[5][7][8] The Bhagavata Purana , like other puranas, discusses a wide range of topics including cosmology, genealogy, geography, mythology, legend, music, dance, yoga and culture.[5][9] As it begins, the forces of evil have won a war between the benevolent devas (deities) and evil asuras (demons) and now rule the universe. Truth re-emerges as Krishna, (called " Hari " and " Vasudeva " in the text) – first makes peace with the demons, understands them and then creatively defeats them, bringing back hope, justice, freedom and good – a cyclic theme that appears in many legends.[10] The Bhagavata Purana is a revered text in Vaishnavism , a Hindu tradition that reveres Vishnu.[11] The text presents a form of religion ( dharma ) that competes with that of the Vedas , wherein bhakti ultimately leads to self-knowledge, liberation ( moksha ) and bliss.[12] However the Bhagavata Purana asserts that the inner nature and outer form of Krishna is identical to the Vedas and that this is what rescues the world from the forces of evil.[13] An oft-quoted verse is used by some Krishna sects to assert that the text itself is Krishna in literary -
Interpreting the UPANISHADS
Interpreting the UPANISHADS ANANDA WOOD Modified version 2003 Copyright 1996 by Ananda Wood Published by: Ananda Wood 1A Ashoka 3 Naylor Road Pune 411 001 India Phone (020) 612 0737 Email [email protected] Contents Preface . v ‘This’ and ‘that’ . 1 Consciousness . 6 Consciousness and perception . 11 Creation Underlying reality . 21 Cosmology and experience . 23 Creation from self . 26 The seed of creation . 27 Light from the seed . 29 The basis of experience . 30 Creation through personality . 35 Waking from deep sleep . 48 The creation of appearances . 51 Change and continuity Movement . 59 The continuing background . 60 Objective and subjective . 67 Unchanging self . 68 Continuity . 75 Life Energy . 81 Expression . 82 Learning . 84 The living principle . 89 The impersonal basis of personality ‘Human-ness’ . 93 Universal and individual . 96 Inner light . 103 Underlying consciousness . 104 The unborn source . 108 The unmoved mover . 112 One’s own self . 116 The ‘I’-principle . 117 iv Contents Self Turning back in . 119 Unbodied light . 120 The self in everyone . 135 The rider in a chariot . 138 The enjoyer and the witness . 141 Cleansing the ego . 144 Detachment and non-duality . 146 Happiness Value . 152 Outward desire . 153 Kinds of happiness . 154 One common goal . 158 Love . 160 Desire’s end . 162 Freedom . 163 The ground of all reality . 166 Non-duality . 167 The three states . 169 The divine presence God and self . 176 The rule of light . 181 Teacher and disciple Seeking truth . 195 Not found by speech . 196 Learning from a teacher . 197 Coming home . 198 Scheme of transliteration . 201 List of translated passages . -
A) Karma – Phala – Prepsu : (Ragi) • One Who Has Predominate Desire for Result of Action for Veidica Or Laukika Karma
BHAGAVAD GITA Chapter 18 Moksa Sannyasa Yoga (Final Revelations of the Ultimate Truth) 1 Chapter 18 Moksa Sannyasa Yoga (Means of Liberation) Summary Verse 1 - 12 Verse 18 - 40 Verse 50 - 55 Verse 63 - 66 - Difference Jnana Yoga - Final Summary 3 Types of : between (Meditation) - Be my devotee 1) Jnanam – Knowledge Sannyasa + Tyaga. be my worshipper 2) Karma – Action surrender to me 3) Karta – Doer - Being established and do your duty. Verse 13 - 17 4) Buddhi – Intellect in Brahman’s 5) Drithi – will Nature he becomes 6) Sukham – Happiness free from Desire. Verse 67 - 73 Jnana Yoga Verse 56 - 62 Verse 41 - 49 - Lords concluding - 5 factors in all remarks. actions. Karma Yoga - Body, Prana, Karma Yoga (Svadharma) (Devotion) Mind, Sense Verse 74 - 78 organs, Ego + - Purified seeker who Presiding dieties. - Constantly is detached and self - Sanjayas remember Lord. controlled attains Conclusion. Moksa 2 Introduction : 1) Mahavakya – Asi Padartham 3rd Shatkam Chapter 13, 14, 15 Chapter 16, 17 Chapter 18 - Self knowledge. - Values to make mind fit - Difference between for knowledge. Sannyasa and Tyaga. 2) Subject matter of Gita Brahma Vidya Yoga Sastra - Means of preparing for - Tat Tvam Asi Brahma Vidya. - Identity of Jiva the - Karma in keeping with individual and Isvara the dharma done with Lord. proper attitude. - It includes a life of renunciation. 3 3) 2 Lifestyles for Moksa Sannyasa Karma Renunciation Activity 4) Question of Arjuna : • What is difference between Sannyasa (Renunciation) and Tyaga (Abandonment). Questions of Arjuna : Arjuna said : If it be thought by you that ‘knowledge’ is superior to ‘action’, O Janardana, why then, do you, O Kesava, engage me in this terrible action? [Chapter 3 – Verse 1] With this apparently perplexing speech you confuse, as it were, my understanding; therefore, tell me that ‘one’ way by which, I, for certain, may attain the Highest. -
Introduction to Vedic Knowledge
Introduction to Vedic Knowledge first volume: The Study of Vedic Scriptures Along History by Parama Karuna Devi Copyright © 2012 Parama Karuna Devi All rights reserved. ISBN-10: 1482500361 ISBN-13: 978-1482500363 published by Jagannatha Vallabha Research Center PAVAN House, Siddha Mahavira patana, Puri 752002 Orissa Web presence: http://www.jagannathavallabha.com http://www.facebook.com/ParamaKarunaDevi http://jagannathavallabhavedicresearch.wordpress.com/ The Perception of Vedic Culture in Western History This publication originates from the need to present in a simple, clear, objective and exhaustive way, the basic information about the original Vedic knowledge, that in the course of the centuries has often been confused by colonialist propaganda, through the writings of indologists belonging to the euro-centric Christian academic system (that were bent on refuting and demolishing the vedic scriptures rather than presenting them in a positive way) and through the cultural superimposition suffered by sincere students who only had access to very indirect material, already carefully chosen and filtered by professors or commentators that were afflicted by negative prejudice. It was pope Onorius IV (1286-1287) who inaugurated in the West the study of oriental languages and precisely Hebrew, Greek and Arabic. He had studied at the University of Paris before entering the diplomatic career at the service of pope Clement IV (1265-1268), who sent him to celebrate the crowning of Charles d'Anjou as King of Sicily. After becoming pope, Onorius introduced in the University of Paris the new curriculum (Studia linguarum) aimed at building the languistic knowledge required to understand the original texts of Parama Karuna Devi the Old and New Testament and the Coranic texts, that were the theological, ethical and philosophical foundations of the scholars which in those times were not subject to the Church of Rome: Jews, orthodox Christians and Muslims. -
Caste, Materiality and Embodiment: Questioning the Idealism/ Materialism Debate
Article CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 200–216 February 2020 brandeis.edu/j-caste ISSN 2639-4928 DOI: 10.26812/caste.v1i1.123 Caste, Materiality and Embodiment: Questioning the Idealism/ Materialism Debate Subro Saha1 (Bluestone Rising Scholar Honorable Mention 2019) Abstract Exploring the contingencies and paradoxes shaping the idealism/materialism separation in absolutist terms, this paper attempts to analyze the problems of such separatist tendencies in terms of dealing with the question of caste. Engaging with the problems of separating ‘idea’ and ‘matter’ in relation to the three dominant aspects that shape the conceptualisation of caste—origin(s), body, and society—the paper presents caste as an enmeshed idea-matter embrace that gains its circulation in practice through embodiment. Aiming to counter caste with its own logic and internal contradictions, the paper further proceeds to show that these three aspects that had otherwise been seen for a long time as shaping caste also contradict their own efficacy and logic. With such an approach the paper presents caste as a ghost that feeds on our embodied ideas. Further, bringing in the trope of (mis)reading, the paper tries to examine the intricacies haunting any attempt to deal with the ghost. The paper therefore, can be seen as a humble effort at reminding the necessity of reading the idea of caste in its spectralities and continuous figurations. Keywords Caste, idealism, materiality, touch, embodiment Introduction Despite all diverse attempts to get rid of caste, its persistence reminds us continuously of its haunting spectrality that even after so much beating refuses to die.1 It haunts us like a ghost whose origin and functional modalities continue to baffle us with its shifting trajectories and (trans)formative capacities, and thus continuously challenges our approaches to exorcise it. -
YOGA Year 8 Issue 3 March 2019
Year 8 Issue 3 March 2019 YOGA Membership postage: Rs. 100 119-Mar-Y-coverdraft.indd9-Mar-Y-coverdraft.indd 3 99/03/2019/03/2019 111:02:371:02:37 AAMM Hari Om YOGA is compiled, composed and pub lished by the sannyasin disciples of Swami Satyananda Saraswati for the benefit of all people who seek health, happiness and enlightenment. It contains in- formation about the activities of Bihar School of Yoga, Bihar Yoga Bharati, Yoga Publications Trust and Yoga Research Fellowship. Editor: Swami Gyansiddhi Saraswati Assistant Editor: Swami Yogatirth- GUIDELINES FOR SPIRITUAL LIFE ananda Saraswati YOGA is a monthly magazine. Late Talk a little, sleep a little subscriptions include issues from January to December. Watch your speech. Watch every word. Published by Bihar School of Yoga, Speak no word that is impure or vulgar Ganga Darshan, Fort, Munger, Bihar – 811201. or that can hurt the feelings of another. Speak no word that is disrespectful Printed at Thomson Press India Ltd., Haryana – 121007 and contemptuous. Speak measured and sweet words. Think twice before © Bihar School of Yoga 2019 you speak and thrice before you act. Membership is held on a yearly basis. Please send your requests Health is a state in which one sleeps for application and all correspond- well, is at ease, free from any kind ence to: of dis-ease or uneasiness. Regulate Bihar School of Yoga Ganga Darshan the hours of sleep, which should not Fort, Munger, 811201 be more than six hours when you Bihar, India are in good health. This can even be - A self-addressed, stamped envelope reduced to five hours if one does not must be sent along with enquiries to en- have much physical fatigue or heavy sure a response to your request mental strain. -
CASTE SYSTEM in INDIA Iwaiter of Hibrarp & Information ^Titntt
CASTE SYSTEM IN INDIA A SELECT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of iWaiter of Hibrarp & information ^titntt 1994-95 BY AMEENA KHATOON Roll No. 94 LSM • 09 Enroiament No. V • 6409 UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF Mr. Shabahat Husaln (Chairman) DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE ALIGARH MUSLIM UNIVERSITY ALIGARH (INDIA) 1995 T: 2 8 K:'^ 1996 DS2675 d^ r1^ . 0-^' =^ Uo ulna J/ f —> ^^^^^^^^K CONTENTS^, • • • Acknowledgement 1 -11 • • • • Scope and Methodology III - VI Introduction 1-ls List of Subject Heading . 7i- B$' Annotated Bibliography 87 -^^^ Author Index .zm - 243 Title Index X4^-Z^t L —i ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my sincere and earnest thanks to my teacher and supervisor Mr. Shabahat Husain (Chairman), who inspite of his many pre Qoccupat ions spared his precious time to guide and inspire me at each and every step, during the course of this investigation. His deep critical understanding of the problem helped me in compiling this bibliography. I am highly indebted to eminent teacher Mr. Hasan Zamarrud, Reader, Department of Library & Information Science, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh for the encourage Cment that I have always received from hijft* during the period I have ben associated with the department of Library Science. I am also highly grateful to the respect teachers of my department professor, Mohammadd Sabir Husain, Ex-Chairman, S. Mustafa Zaidi, Reader, Mr. M.A.K. Khan, Ex-Reader, Department of Library & Information Science, A.M.U., Aligarh. I also want to acknowledge Messrs. Mohd Aslam, Asif Farid, Jamal Ahmad Siddiqui, who extended their 11 full Co-operation, whenever I needed. -
GONE to the DOGS in ANCIENT INDIA Willem Bollée
GONE TO THE DOGS IN ANCIENT INDIA Willem Bollée Gone to the Dogs in ancient India Willem Bollée Published at CrossAsia-Repository, Heidelberg University Library 2020 Second, revised edition. This book is published under the license “Free access – all rights reserved”. The electronic Open Access version of this work is permanently available on CrossAsia- Repository: http://crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-crossasiarep-42439 url: http://crossasia-repository.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/4243 doi: http://doi.org/10.11588/xarep.00004243 Text Willem Bollée 2020 Cover illustration: Jodhpur, Dog. Image available at https://pxfuel.com under Creative Commons Zero – CC0 1 Gone to the Dogs in ancient India . Chienne de vie ?* For Johanna and Natascha Wothke In memoriam Kitty and Volpo Homage to you, dogs (TS IV 5,4,r [= 17]) Ο , , ! " #$ s &, ' ( )Plato , * + , 3.50.1 CONTENTS 1. DOGS IN THE INDUS CIVILISATION 2. DOGS IN INDIA IN HISTORICAL TIMES 2.1 Designation 2.2 Kinds of dogs 2.3 Colour of fur 2.4 The parts of the body and their use 2.5 BODILY FUNCTIONS 2.5.1 Nutrition 2.5.2 Excreted substances 2.5.3 Diseases 2.6 Nature and behaviour ( śauvana ; P āli kukkur âkappa, kukkur āna ṃ gaman âkāra ) 2.7 Dogs and other animals 3. CYNANTHROPIC RELATIONS 3.1 General relation 3.1.1 Treatment of dogs by humans 3.1.2 Use of dogs 3.1.2.1 Utensils 3.1.3 Names of dogs 2 3.1.4 Dogs in human names 3.1.5 Dogs in names of other animals 3.1.6 Dogs in place names 3.1.7 Treatment of humans by dogs 3.2 Similes -
Brahma Sutra
BRAHMA SUTRA CHAPTER 1 1st Pada 1st Adikaranam to 11th Adhikaranam Sutra 1 to 31 INDEX S. No. Topic Pages Topic No Sutra No Summary 5 Introduction of Brahma Sutra 6 1 Jijnasa adhikaranam 1 a) Sutra 1 103 1 1 2 Janmady adhikaranam 2 a) Sutra 2 132 2 2 3 Sastrayonitv adhikaranam 3 a) Sutra 3 133 3 3 4 Samanvay adhikaranam 4 a) Sutra 4 204 4 4 5 Ikshatyadyadhikaranam: (Sutras 5-11) 5 a) Sutra 5 324 5 5 b) Sutra 6 353 5 6 c) Sutra 7 357 5 7 d) Sutra 8 362 5 8 e) Sutra 9 369 5 9 f) Sutra 10 372 5 10 g) Sutra 11 376 5 11 2 S. No. Topic Pages Topic No Sutra No 6 Anandamayadhikaranam: (Sutras 12-19) 6 a) Sutra 12 382 6 12 b) Sutra 13 394 6 13 c) Sutra 14 397 6 14 d) Sutra 15 407 6 15 e) Sutra 16 411 6 16 f) Sutra 17 414 6 17 g) Sutra 18 416 6 18 h) Sutra 19 425 6 19 7 Antaradhikaranam: (Sutras 20-21) 7 a) Sutra 20 436 7 20 b) Sutra 21 448 7 21 8 Akasadhikaranam : 8 a) Sutra 22 460 8 22 9 Pranadhikaranam : 9 a) Sutra 23 472 9 23 3 S. No. Topic Pages Topic No Sutra No 10 Jyotischaranadhikaranam : (Sutras 24-27) 10 a) Sutra 24 486 10 24 b) Sutra 25 508 10 25 c) Sutra 26 513 10 26 d) Sutra 27 517 10 27 11 Pratardanadhikaranam: (Sutras 28-31) 11 a) Sutra 28 526 11 28 b) Sutra 29 538 11 29 c) Sutra 30 546 11 30 d) Sutra 31 558 11 31 4 SUMMARY Brahma Sutra Bhasyam Topics - 191 Chapter – 1 Chapter – 2 Chapter – 3 Chapter – 4 Samanvaya – Avirodha – non – Sadhana – spiritual reconciliation through Phala – result contradiction practice proper interpretation Topics - 39 Topics - 47 Topics - 67 Topics 38 Sections Topics Sections Topics Sections Topics Sections Topics 1 11 1 13 1 06 1 14 2 07 2 08 2 08 2 11 3 13 3 17 3 36 3 06 4 08 4 09 4 17 4 07 5 Lecture – 01 Puja: • Gratitude to lord for completion of Upanishad course (last Chandogya Upanishad + Brihadaranyaka Upanishad).