The Veda and Indian Culture: An Introductory EssayMotilal Banarsidass Publishing House, 01.01.1991 - 115 Seiten This is an introductory book on the Veda meant for the beginners. The book avoids pedantic discussions and presents in a rapid manner the core of the Vedic discovery. The Vedic Rishis have described the human journey, its difficulties and its battles as also the secret of the victory. The central issue is how to perfect our ordinary psychological faculties. The entire science of yoga owes its origin to the Vedic psychology. At present mankind is passing through a crisis which can be met only at the deepest psychological level. In this context, the Veda has contemporary relevance.The author has presented the quintessence of the Vedic message in a few brief chapters, and the language is deliberately non-technical. There is a growing thirst among young people who want to be introduced to the secret of the Veda and to understand how various developments of Indian culture are rooted in the Veda. The present book may serve to meet this need. The book also contains material, both in the main text and in the appendices, which may also be of interest to scholars. |
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According action Agni ancient India Angirasas Aranyakas Aruni Ashram aspiration Atharvaveda Baudhāyana Bhagavad Gita Brahmacharins Brahmanas century B.C. Chhanda Chhandogya Upanishad commentaries consciousness Dharma Dharma Sūtra divine dynamic experience Gita gods Grihya Sūtra harmony heaven highest human hymns ideal important India Indian culture Indian history Indian philosophy individual Indra inner intuition Jyotish Kalpa Katha Katha Upanishad Kātyāyana Krishna Yajurveda light luminous Mahābhārata Mandala mantras means Nachiketas Nirukta perfection period physical psychological pupil Purāņa reality religion reverence Rigveda Riks Rishis Rita ritam rituals sacrifice Samaveda Samhita Satyakama secret seeker Shākhā Shiksha Shrauta Shrauta Sūtra Shukla Yajurveda Soma soul spiritual Sri Aurobindo stage supra-cosmic Supreme Sūtra Svetaketu synthesis Taittiriya teacher terrestrial thee thou art tion tradition truth various Varuna vast Veda Vedānga Vedic knowledge Vedic literature Vedic Rishis Vedic seers venerable Sir verses vital and mental Vyākarana wisdom word Yajna Yama Yoga
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Seite 66 - ... opulent images. He is the rapturous priest of the sacrifice, the God-Will intoxicated with its own delight, the young sage, the sleepless envoy, the ever-wakeful flame in the house, the master of our gated dwelling-place, the beloved guest, the lord in the creature, the seer of the flaming tresses, the divine child, the pure and virgin God, the invincible warrior, the leader on the path who marches in front of the human peoples, the immortal in mortals, the worker established in man by the gods,...
Seite 77 - An inferior man cannot tell you of Him; for thus told thou canst not truly know Him, since He is thought of in many aspects. Yet unless told of Him by another thou canst not find thy way to Him; for He is subtler than subtlety and that which logic cannot reach.
Seite 79 - Just as these (rivers) do not know that they are this river or that, 2. "so also, O dear one, all these creatures also know not, though they have come forth again out of the Being, that they again go forth out of the Being. Whether they may be here a tiger or a lion or a wolf or a boar or a worm or a bird or a gadfly or a gnat, what they may be, they are again born. 3. ''This universe consists of what that finest essence is, it is the real, it is the soul, that thou art, O Svetaketu !" — "Venerable...
Seite 32 - The universal embracing dharma in the Indian idea is a law of ideal perfection for the developing mind and soul of man; it compels him to grow in the power and force of certain high or large universal qualities which in their harmony build a highest type of manhood. In Indian thought and life this was the ideal of the best, the law of the good or noble man, the discipline laid down for the self-perfecting individual, arya, srestha, sajjana, sadhu.
Seite 15 - that Truth", was the thing found by Indra and the Angirasas in the cave of the Panis. By the rending of that cave the herds of the divine dawn which are the rays of the Sun of Truth ascend the hill of being and the Sun itself ascends to the luminous upper ocean of the divine existence, led over it by the thinkers like a ship over the waters, till it reaches its farther shore. The Panis who conceal the herds, the masters of the nether cavern, are a class of Dasyus who are in the Vedic symbolism set...
Seite 30 - Therefore let a Brahmana, after he has done with learning, wish to stand by real strength; after he has done with that strength and learning, he becomes a Muni (a Yogin) ; and after he has done with what is not the knowledge of a Muni, and with what is the knowledge of a Muni, he is a Brahmana. By whatever means he has become a Brahmana, he is such indeed. Everything else is of evil.
Seite 9 - That splendour of thee, O Fire, which is in heaven and in the earth and in the plants and in the waters and by which thou hast spread out the wide mid-air, is a vivid ocean of light which sees with a divine seeing"? He would say, "What is this nonsense? How can there be a splendour of light in plants and in water and how can an ocean of light see divinely or otherwise? Anyhow, what meaning can there be in all this, it is a senseless mystical jargon.
Seite 59 - ... aesthetic, sensuous and hedonistic experience. But this effort too always strove to keep itself within the ancient frame and not to lose the special stamp of the Indian cultural idea. The enlarged secular turn was compensated by a deepening of the intensities of psycho-religious experience. New religions or mystic forms and disciplines attempted to seize not only the soul and the intellect, but the emotions, the senses, the vital and the aesthetic nature of man and turn them into stuff of the...