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 | | The Smarta sect of the 6 astika schools of Brahmanism, also referred to as the Advaita sect of Shankarites, holds that Shiva (otherwise referred to as a Sudran god) and Vishnu (normally considered an Aryan god) are both gods of the same religion, and that Shaivas and Vaishnavas are hence both `Hindus'. | | | While Brahmanists of the 6 orthodox schools (Aryan Vaishnavites, Vaidikas, Smartas, Yogics, etc.) uphold the rigid apartheid caste system of Manu, Dravidian Shaivites oppose the very concept of caste, as do in fact all `astika' (heterodox) `Sramanic' religions of Jainism, Buddhism and Carvakism. | | | Using this definition, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs are classed as separate religions [ Read.14 ]. |
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| | Smartas simply believe that God has many forms such as Vishnu or Shiva; Again, Vaishnavites, however believe that God is only Vishnu-Narayana. | | | Only Smartas believe that Vishnu is a personal aspect of God or one of many forms of God. | | | Quadel, I may not have been clear so I added the following language: However, followers of Vaishnavism, unlike Smartas, do not believe that Vishnu is one of many personal forms of God or Saguna Brahman but believe Him to be the only Ultimate Reality Brahman exclusively. |
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| | Smarta sect is the liberal branch of current day Hinduism that believes in attainment of salvation through mainly Jnana yoga. | | | Smarta system Smarthism is an ancient Brahminical tradition in the ninth century. | | | The five-sect system of Smartas is that in which the deities can be chosen as one’s own personal and preferred deity (Ishta Devata). |
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| | The sabha was convenied and a powerful Smarta leader stood up and addressed Prabhupada, in very advanced extempore Sanskrit, and after offering his arguments for almost one hour he triumphantly took his seat, sure that he had stumped the controversial Acharya. | | | Prabhupada Sarasvati Thakura was unpopular with the Smarta Brahmins and other Sanskrit scholars who he ridiculed for their mundane ideas. | | | Among his disciples was an exceptionally gifted Sanskrit expert holding a Ph.D. with honors, although none of the Smartas was aware of this. |
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http://www.hare-krishna.org/showflat/cat/HareKrishnaNews/2632/0/collapsed/5/o/1
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| | These are bhakti yoga, karma yoga and raja yoga, which certain Smartas teach can also bring enlightenment. | | | Smartas revere the Vedas and honor the Agamas. | | | Today this faith is synonymous with the teachings of Adi Shankara, the monk-philosopher known as shanmata sthapanacharya, "founder of the six-sect system." He campaigned India-wide to consolidate the Hindu faiths of his time under the banner of Advaita Vedanta. |
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http://www.hinduism-today.com/archives/2003/10-12/44-49_four_sects.shtml
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| | To the smartas the only qualification necessary for Deity worship are birth in a high family, external clenaliness and ability to chant sanskrit verses. | | | Only when he attains "bhutasuddhi" or the realization that the constitutional position of the living entity is a servant of Krsna from a bona fide spiritual master can he perform purified worship. | | | The smartas consider the Deity as different from the Lord, as something transient and imaginary for temporary assistance of the aspirant, to be rejected or immersed later on. |
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http://www.salagram.net/BVT-apa.html
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| | Smartas and Vaishnavas revere the golden orb as Surya Narayana. | | | Saivites revere Surya, the Sun God each morning as Siva Surya. |
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| | I think Sikhs respect Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad as prophets of god, but not as being higher than other prophets. | | | I think the best contrast is: Sat Chit Ananda (Truth, Consciousness, Bliss) of Hindu Smartas with Sat Sri Akal (Truth, Treasure and Eternity) of Sikhs. | | | June 8, 2004, 03:09 PM It’s a non-Abrahamic monotheism, and a very interesting hybrid, combining Hindu beliefs about the soul and afterlife with Islamic God-belief. |
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http://www.iidb.org/vbb/archive/index.php/t-88049
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| | The fourth sect, called the Smartas, consists of worshipers who do not belong to these three sects but who follow the ancient traditions and worship all the gods without distinction. | | | The majority of Hindus do not belong to any sect, but their religious practices do not differ basically from those of other Hindus. |
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http://www.shangrala.org/RELIGIONS/6Hinduism/Practices.html
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| | By the 7th century, when the Smartas initiated their worship of five deities, omitting Brahma, he had lost all claims as a supreme deity. | | | In classical times an attempt to synthesize the diverging sectarian traditions is evident in the doctrine of Trimurti, which considers Vishnu, Shiva, and Brahma as three forms of the supreme, unmanifested deity. |
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http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/~reffland/anthropology/anthro2003/archy/angkor/brahma.html
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| | Some of the smarta panditas who spoke first claimed that anyone born in a sudra family, even though initiated by a spiritual master, could never become purified and perform the brahminical duties of worshiping the deity or initiating disciples. | | | But when he began discussing the actual qualifications for becoming a brahmana, the qualities of the Vaisnavas, the relationship between the two, and who, according to the Vedic literature, is qualified to become a spiritual master and initiate disciples, the joy of the Vaisnava-haters disappeared. | | | The caste-conscious brahmana community had become incensed by Bhaktivinoda Thakura's presentation of many scriptural proofs that anyone, regardless of birth, could become a brahmana-Vaisnava. |
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http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/parampara4.htm
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| | The Math has its branches at Varanasi, Allahabad, Nasik, Mumbai, Khanapur, Goa, Gokarn, Sadashivgad and Belgaum. | | | The Smarta Gaud Saraswats called as 'Adves' (people with'add nama') in South Kanara are also followers of this Math. | | | Its followers are Saraswats who call themselves Pednekars. |
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| | The result of Smarta priests taking over the main worship is to lessen the power of the temple and thereby diminish devotees' access to the Gods who use the temples to channel blessings. | | | According to Sri Chandrasekara, the Vedas hold that these Adi Saivas are the only ones who should perform worship in the sanctum sanctorum of a Siva temple. | | | Through his training, which takes place in his ancestral temple, the Sivacharya learns the mystical methods of worship—akin to the most advanced methods of meditation—to open a channel between our world and the world of the Gods. |
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http://www.hinduismtoday.com/2001/11-12/66-67_hindu_year.html
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| | Such Smartas do not know the secret tattva of the gopis and Krsna, so they may have raised this aforementioned question out of ignorance. | | | In India, the Smarta-samaja (those caste brahmanas who are attached only to the external, ritualistic rules and regulations of Vedic culture) do not except this behavior, and that is why Srila Sukadeva Gosvami told the real fact secretly. | | | There is a reason that Sri Sukadeva Gosvami did not reveal this truth clearly at first. |
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| | The Smarta religion arose "by the 7th century, when the Smartas inistituted their worship of 5 deities, omitting Brahma, he had lost all claims as a superior diety. | | | However, the definition of `Hinduism' was essentially Smarta, and by propagating `Hinduism' the Smartas hoped to submerge their old rivals the Vaishnavites. | | | They were, as they are, divided into thousands of communities and tribes, each having its own religious beliefs, rituals, modes of worship, etc. |
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| | Smartas, who worship five major deities: Vishnu, Siva, Shakti, Ganesh, and Surya, the sun-god. | | | Shaktas, who worship the goddess Durga or Kali. |
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| Â | The Advaita Vedânta Home Page - Advaita and Advaitins Today |
| | The traditional pancAyatana pUjA scheme of smArta worship is offered to Siva, vishNu, Sakti, gaNeSa and sUrya, as aspects of saguNa brahman. | | | smArtas, who integrate the domestic Vedic ritual with devotional aspects of Hinduism. | | | The smArtas also regard themselves as followers of SankarAcArya and his successors at the various maThas, but there is a lot of regional variation in this regard. |
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| | Smartas has free rein to choose whichever Hindu deity they wish to worship. | | | Shaktas worship Shakti, the divine Mother, in any one, or many of her forms ( Kali, Durga, etc.). | | | Balinese Hindus follow a sect of Hinduism which once flourished on the nearby island of |
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| | An overview of Hinduism covering scriptural sources and beginnings of Hinduism, The Vedic Tradition, The Major Religious Traditions - Vaisnavism, Saivism, and Saktism as well as the Smartas, The six Major Hindu Philosophical Systems, Theory of Karma and Reincarnation, Hindu Scientific traditions and heritage. |
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| | This commenced the development of a new caste known as the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmins, who had now firmly differentiated themselves from the rest of the Gaud Saraswat Brahmins of Goa. | | | The acceptance of the sanyassin, Shrimat Parijnanashram Swami, as their guru also started the new smarta guruparampara, or line of gurus. | | | Those who represent this persuasion primarily engage in the worship of the following five deities: Shiva, Vishnu, Devi, Surya, and Ganesha. |
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| | Koteshvara Brahmins living in Koteshvara village were also converted by Sri Vadiraja Swami of Sode Matt and were taken as disciples of Vishnu. | | | The Vaishnava sampradayis follow the Udaya- thithi for a full day and Smarta sampradayis follow the actual running thithi. | | | Their form of worship divides them into different sampradayis, hence Bhagavata, Smarta or Vaishnava sampradaya etc. The ritual of performance of puja differs according to one’s sampradaya. |
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| | At that time there were many smartas (nondevotee followers of Vedic rituals) at the holy place of Navadvipa, which was also the birthplace of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. | | | Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu did not manifest His spiritual potencies at Navadvipa, but He did manifest them in South India and liberated all the people there. | | | Followers of the smriti - sastra are called smartas. |
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| | This is due only to your ignorance and lack of experience in the Vedic culture. | | | When the sacred rites of samadhi were completed Sri Vinodabihari Brahmacari, grief stricken and weeping in separation from Srila Prabhupada, fainted. | | | "After this some of Srila Prabhupada's disciples wanted to perform his sraddha-samskara according to the smarta tradition. |
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| | Due to this diversity, Hindus are profoundly tolerant of other religions, respecting the fact that each has its own pathway to the one God. | | | For Smartas—who see all Deities as reflections of the One God—the choice of Deity is left to the devotee. | | | This liberal Smarta perspective is well known, but it is not the prevailing Hindu view. |
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| | It was the theistic smartas who first adopted the Puranas as a vehicle for their teachings (smartas are the followers of smritis; these are sacred law-codes, based on the teaching of the Vedas). | | | Their aim was to regain support for Brahmanical authority by associating it with popular gods and the popular epics and the puranas. |
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| | Those that do not belong to these three sects nor go by their sectarian scriptures (agamaa), but go by the ancient traditions (smritis) and worship all gods without any exclusive preference came to be known as Smartas. | | | The symbolism is common to all Hindus, but the exclusive emphasis on a particular god or goddess in this scheme at a later time gave rise to various sects like Vaishhnava (worshipers of Vishnu), Shaiva (worshipers of Shiva) and Shakteya (worshipers of Shakti). | | | However, all sects teach that the particular name and form of their deities are limitations, which we in our weakness impose on the all-pervading Brahman. |
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| | Furthermore, the traditional Vaishnavism of > the smArta sampradAya sannyasis is also established by their > rigorous adherence to saying ``iti nArAyaNa smRti:'' when > concluding their correspondence and addressing other sannyAsis > with the greeting ``om namo nArAyaNAya'', a purely Vaishnava > practice. | | | Would > you say that the Catholic Church of today practices > religion the same was as Jesus taught it? | | | > Third, it is highly misleading to project the practices > of present day smArtas onto Sankara's personal beliefs > and teachings, without sound historical authority. |
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| | They are Vaishnavas, just as those who worship God Shiva are called Smartas or Shaivas. | | | Those who follow the teachings of this Acharya are called Madhavas. | | | The system of thought expounded by him is known as Dvaita philosophy. |
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| | One can find four main schools of thought: Vaishnavas (those who worship Lord Vishnu and Krishna), Shaivites (who worship Lord Siva), Shaktas (who worship the goddess Durga), and Smartas (who worship Vishnu, Siva, Shakti, Ganesha, and Surya the sun god). | | | West coast of Gujarat where Lord Krishna spent the later part of his life. |
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| | The Smarta pandits came and complained to Maharaj Krishnachandra, saying that a man is being worshipped in Nabadwip and this worship is the root cause of the famine. | | | And in this peroid the Smarta pandits, the scholars and Shakta worshipers - the devotees of Durgadevi - came into power to such a degree that the worshippers of the Mahaprabhu Deity installed by Visnupriya Devi became afraid. | | | Then the pujari priest of the Deity of Mahaprabhu in the line of Visnupriya built an underground tunnel and in that tunnel they placed Mahaprabhu. |
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http://www.gaudiyadiscussions.com/index.php?act=ST&f=1&t=725&s=594d69b6621842156a3ff583479150f7
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| | The essence of Smarta worship is that one worships five gods – Shiva, Vishnu, Ganapati, Surya and Shakti. | | | In the time prior to Shankara, these different Hindu sects were often in conflict with each other, and this syncretic system of worship under the banner of the Advaita philosophy made it possible for a neo-Hinduism or neo-Brahmanism to take shape. | | | Usually, emphasis is placed on Shankara’s philosophical contribution and it is forgotten that he was also the founder of the Smarta school of worship. |
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http://www.audarya-fellowship.com/showflat/cat/travel/25754/0/collapsed/5/o/1
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| | Within the Great Tradition of Hinduism are four main, living sub- traditions, called sampradayas: (1) Shaivites (2) Vaishnavites (3) Shaktas and (4) Smartas. | | | Hinduism has a vast network of sacred symbols. |
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| | When one gets liberation from the cycle of birth and death, one is said to have achieved the fourth goal of life. | | | Worship with the goal of liberation is the approach in which we find the followers of Sankaracarya, Ramanujacarya, Madvacarya, and others -- Smartas, Sivaites, etc. All these worshippers adore the Salagrama-sila |
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| | Here Jesus doesn't mean Jews in general but the Pharisees (John 8.13) who trying to protect their monopoly of power gave in to adharma - they wanted to kill Jesus (John 8.37, 59). | | | So this passage has nothing to do with antisemitism. | | | In India there is a group of so-called smartas (smarta brahmanas) who similarly stick overly to the rules and miss the essence. |
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http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/EJ126/ej126k.htm
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| | Traces the history of Hinduism from its beginning, describing a history of the different branches of the religion including Vaisnavism, Saivism, and Saktism, and the nonsectarian Smartas. | | | Cover scans & book quotes copyrighted by their respective owners. |
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| | Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami was never concerned for the petty criticisms of the caste conscious 'smartas' and 'gosais', or others who never preached to try to lessen the suffering of the living entities in this world, for his turning those born outside of the 'Hindu' caste of 'brahmin' into sincere 'Vaisnava brahmins'. | | | Rather he strictly followed the higher principal of compassion to all the conditioned souls, as spoken by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; | | | Yet for His devotee He gave up His reputation. |
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| | Whatever the name, this festive celebration of the birth of Lord Krishna is observed as a holy day by all Hindus throughout India. | | | Lord Krishna's birthday, Srijayanti or Krishnashtami also known as Janmashtami is the most popular festival in the whole of India. | | | These two are the names by which this festival is called by the Vaishnavas, while among the Smartas it is known as Gokulashtami, and in Northern India as Janmashtami. |
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| | Certainly, Manu's orthodox Brahmanic doctrine of varnashramadharma was maintained by the Smartas, those who followed the teachings of the | | | Gupta India saw fundamental developments of theistic Brahmanism. |
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| Â | The Hare Krsnas - Disciplic Succession - The Mayavada School - The Saivites |
| | You would say that those, those smartas say, and I know smarta brahmanas who are worshipers of Visnu. | | | You'll find amongst smarta brahmanas there are also some of them Vaisnavas, but they are impersonalists. | | | You would say they still are impersonalists in some ultimate sense because at some point they would deny... |
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| | He was born in Hyderabad in ~1690 as the second son of gambhIraraya and koNamAmbAL of the kaushika gotra [several southerners claim that he belonged to the vaDamA branch of smArtas, while Maharashtrians claim that he was of the Deshasta branch of Maharatti Brahmins. | | | He would rank no less than great savants of the mantra shAstra throughout bhArata, through the ages, like amoghavajra and indrabodhi of Kanchipuram, vasugupta, lakshmaNa deshikendra and abhinavagupta of Kashmir, Adi sha~nkara of the Kerala country, dIpAMkarashriGYAna of Kalinga and matsyendra of the icy Himalayas. | | | The distinctions amongst the pa~ncha draviDa may have been less pronounced then]. |
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| | Even orthodox people in these traditions may hold these views to some degree. | | | Those called Hindu fundamentalists are also divided up into these different sects. | | | They are divided up into Shaivites, Vaishnavas, Shaktas, Smartas and a number of other groups which are constantly being revised relative to modern gurus. |
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| | By the light of these judgements the darkness of the Karmajada Smarta's doctrine will certainly soon be dispelled." | | | Prabhupada Srila Sarasvati Thakura set out from Calcutta with Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura's follower Sriyukta Sureshchandra Mukhopadhyaya on the 6th September and at 10 p. | | | A few established people of the caste Gosvami sect also joined those Smartas due to the attachment of the materialistic social tie, and instead of exhibiting the moral courage to protest against them, they began to support them. |
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| | Where do you come from and which languages do you speak? | | | That guy e-mailed me saying he wasnt her cousin, and im not making up stories smartas*! | | | Likes to ride scooters and pops up when you don't have change for a call. |
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| | Vijay Sadananda Pai writes: > Vaisnavas accept smrti as well; so do Smartas, who follow Sankara. | | | The Narayana Upanishad is not an authoritative Upanishad, not only from a philological standpoint, but also because neither Sankara nor Ramanuja referred to it in the course of their philosophical works. | | | I feel compelled to point out the flagrant inaccuracies in the following article. |
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