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| | Hinduism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | The first phase of Hinduism was early Brahmanism, the religion of the priests or Brahmans who performed the Vedic sacrifice, through the power of which proper relation with the gods and the cosmos is established. | | | Modern Hindu leaders such as Swami Vivekananda, Mohandas Gandhi, and Aurobindo Ghose, have given voice to a movement away from the traditional ideal of world-renunciation and asceticism and have asserted the necessity of uniting spiritual life with social concerns. | | | One of the oldest living religions in the world, Hinduism is unique among the world religions in that it had no single founder but grew over a period of 4,000 years in syncretism with the religious and cultural movements of the Indian subcontinent. |
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| | All About Hinduism |
| | Hinduism is veritably the fountain-head of all religions. | | | Hinduism is not a religion of mere theories. | | | Hinduism is the religion of the Hindus, a name given to the Universal Religion which hailed supreme in India. |
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| | Hinduism: A Brief Introduction |
| | The Vedas are the sacred scriptures of Hinduism. | | | Hinduism has met the challenge of other religions, primarily, by absorbing them and their practices and beliefs into the mainstream of Hindu religious expression. | | | Hinduism, dating from around 1500 B. C., is the oldest living religion having a membership (1982) of 477,991,300 confined largely to India. |
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| | Religious Movements Homepage: Hinduism |
| | Hindus believe that the entire universe is one divine entity who is at one with the universe, while simultaneouslytranscending it. | | | The Vedas are said to be the eternal truths of the religion and are upheld as the supreme authority for Hinduism. | | | The inhabitants were simplycalled Hindus, Persian for "sindh" and their religion was thus called Hinduism. |
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| | Hinduism |
| | Hinduism is the whole complex of beliefs and institutions that have appeared from the time when their ancient (and most sacred) scriptures, the vedas, were composed until now.. | | | For the Hindu, the chief aim of his existence is to be freed from sarnsara (the binding life cycle) and the wheel of karma with its endless cycle of births, deaths and rebirths. | | | Hindus see the world as an extension of Brahman, part of the absolute, while Christianity views the world as an entity eternally different in nature from God: not part of some universal or monistic One. |
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| | Sacred Texts of Hinduism |
| | Hindu scripture, based on the insights of Hindu sages and seers, serves primarily as a guidebook. | | | For Hinduism there is not revelation of God, of the Absolute, in sharp contrast with Judaism, Christianity and Islam. | | | Though the various Hindu traditions and sects each rely on their own set of scriptures, they all revere the ancient Vedas, which were brought to India by Aryan invaders after 1200 BC. |
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| | Hinduism is Cow-Worship ! |
| | In this it is not the Hindus who are fault, but the religion of Hinduism. | | | For this reverence is prescribed in the `holy' Hindu texts. | | | The most authoritative law-book of Hinduism, and which must be unquestioningly be accepted by all Hindus, is the Manu-Smrti. |
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| | Vaivasvata Manu |
| | Manu is in one sense the Third Logos; in another the spiritual man, the monad, the real and deathless spiritual ego in us, which is the direct emanation of the one Life or the absolute deity of our universe. | | | In Hindu mythology, the son of Svayambhuva, father and husband of Ila, parents of humanity as well as the prajapatis and other manus, who are the entities collectively which appear first at the beginning of manifestation, and from which everything is derived. | | | The manus are said to have emanated the ten prajapatis or progenitors of mankind, called also maharshis (great rishis). |
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| | Misconceptions about Hinduism |
| | Hinduism is a monotheistic religion with one God (Brahman) assuming many forms and names. | | | There is a tendency on the part of some scholars to indicate that the word Hindu might have been created from Sindhu (in Sanskrit meaning ocean or river, especially in the west of India) due to lack of certain letters in old (Vedic) Sanskrit. | | | The symbol ling (used in Hindu and other rituals, and meaning symbol) was likely introduced long ago as a solid image to represent fire (Agni-jwala or flame) in a yajna (worship) seeking prosperity and progeny etc. Lighting a fire (including during worship) used to be a difficult and time-consuming process. |
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| | Revival of Manu Smriti |
| | (as a gesture of burying hindu malpractice of varnasrama) | | | The underlying spirit behind Hindu religion codified by Maharishi Manu is that Religion is essentially a matter of self-discipline, self-culture, enriching of one's inner self, realisation of divinity which lies dormant in every living being irrespective of creed, colour or caste and the manifestation of this divinity in our daily conduct of life. | | | It is time that we Hindus assert ourselves and place the basic teachings of Hinduism before the whole world, for the people to read for themselves and come to their own conclusions directly without interference from those who have been profiting by hurling abuses at Hinduism. |
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| | Sacred-Texts: Hinduism |
| | Hindu Mysticism by S.N. Dasgupta [1927, not renewed] | | | These are Hindu law books written by the sages Âpastamba and Gautama, in the first millenium B.C. The Sacred Laws of the Âryas, Part II George Bühler translator [1879] (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. | | | The Vedas are the primary texts of Hinduism. |
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| | Iskcon & Hinduism |
| | Regarding the status of Hinduism today as a representative of the ancient Vedik traditions called Sampradayas or Parampara, or disciplic lineages, and the purity and chastity of the teachings within modern Hinduism to the Acharyas (spiritual masters authorised to present Sanatan Dharma - the eternal religion) is much in conflict. | | | The main tenets of Hindu dharma are: belief in one Supreme Principle-Brahman, accepting the authority of the Vedas, the theory of karma and rebirth, values designated as purusartha, the social organisation of varna-asrama and jati, performance of rituals and practice of samanya-dharma. | | | He does not descend in his incarnation to revive Hindu religion, but to revive the eternal religion which is surrender to himself. |
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| | Manu and the Brits |
| | Though it was the first serious attempt at codification of Hindu law, the text was far from accurate in its references to the original sources, or to their varied traditional interpretations. | | | Others, claiming to speak on behalf of Hindu culture, took my comment as an insult to the great shastrakar himself These diverse responses indicate that there is a serious misconception among the modern educated elite over the actual status and role of the shastras in our religious life and cultural traditions. | | | The protesters believed that the ancient text is the defining document of Brahmanical Hinduism, and also the key source of gender and caste oppression in India. |
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| | Search Results for Manu - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | (Sanskrit: “Fish”), first of the 10 avatars (incarnations) of the Hindu god Vishnu. | | | (Sanskrit: “Tradition of Manu”), traditionally, the most authoritative of the books of the Hindu code (Dharma-sstraa) in India. | | | Most authoritative of the books of the Hindu law code... |
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| | Women in Hinduism |
| | She was required by her spouse, the "ideal husband"of the Hindus, to pass through the fire ordeal after her return from Sri Lanka. | | | When he created them) Manu allotted to women (a love of their) bed, (of their(seat and (of) ornament, impure desires, wrath, dishonesty, malice and bad conduct. | | | Islamic Khalifat and Sati: One far-fetched idea ascribes the origin of Sati as being due to the molestation of Hindu women by Muslim men. |
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| | Am I A Hindu |
| | According to Manu, only the first three upper castes were allowed to study Vedas and other holy scriptures. | | | There was a time in Hinduism, those who have crossed high_seas going to U.K. were excommunicated from the caste. | | | Manu might have propagated it, but almost all Hindu saints supported caste system. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Manu (Hinduism, Biography) - Encyclopedia |
| | Traditionally ascribed to him are the Laws of Manu, best known of the Sanskrit smriti texts (see Sanskrit literature). | | | A.D. 200, from diverse ancient sources and provide detailed rules, presumably directed to Brahman priests, governing ritual and daily life. | | | You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Hinduism, Biographies > Manu |
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| | Brahman Superiority and Hinduism |
| | It should be noted that the books in which the Brahmans have been elevated to such a superhuman and super-divine position were written by the Brahmans themselves. | | | To Brahman, the three worlds and the gods owe their existence. | | | This the Brahman's did to perpetuate the dominance of the invading nation over the defeated people. |
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| | Hinduism Today Table of Contents Dec 1994 |
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| | Manu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | *Manu in Indo-European mythology was the first man, hero and first Holy King to rule this earth, see Manu (Hinduism), Germanic Mannus, Mannaz. | | | Manu is a member of the cast of a controversial film released in 2000 called Baise-moi. | | | Manu is the Maori word for a bird. |
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| | The Laws of Manu translated by George Buhler |
| | The translations presented in this page are in the public domain and reproduced according to the Berne Convention for the benefit of our readers. | | | The Laws of Manu translated by George Buhler | | | All images on this page, all graphics, the html mark up, and all files at this site are © copyright V.Jayaram, 2000-2001, except where noted. |
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