Sentences with phrase «hindu scriptures»

The Kena Upanishad, among the most analytical and metaphysical of Hindu scriptures, begins with these words: «By whom commanded and directed does the mind go towards its objects?

Seeing divinity even in a small insect is the core teaching of Hindu scriptures.

In this article, an effort is done to show that women were attributed highest position in Hindu scriptures and their role as a mother and wife is very crucial in nurturing the inherited values passed on to us since time immemorial.

This lesson looks at some of the many different Hindu scriptures that there are.

A revision booklet with quotes from the Bible and Hindu scriptures for GCSE.

Prem is well - known for his depth of knowledge of yoga psychology, meditation, positive thinking and life coaching, Vedanta philosophy, and Sanskrit and Hindu scriptures.

Jnana Yoga: The philosophical approach — study of Upanishads (Hindu scriptures) Karma Yoga: The yoga of action — the path of selfless service Bhakti Yoga: The yoga of devotion — channelling emotion into devotion Raja Yoga: The scientific, psychological approach — the yoga of mental self - control Hatha Yoga: The physical approach — vehicle of the soul (Hatha Yoga and Raja Yoga are the two branches of Yoga that focuses on the physical culture)

A verse from Hindu scriptures dating from 500 BC reads: «Believe me, my son, an invisible and subtle essence is the Spirit of the whole universe.

If they succeed, later flights will carry Hindu scriptures called the Vedas and the ancient Chinese philosophical work, the I - Ching.

Why don't Progressive Christians quote Greek Myths, Chinese texts, Hindu scriptures, Modern Poetry.

Why do you believe the author of the Gospel of John regarding his alleged eyewitness experiences but you do not believe the author of the Koran, or the authors of the Hindu scriptures for theirs?

Dr Charles (renowned author and an authority on India) says that instances of incest are common in Hindu scriptures.

-- ??? You've been reading more Hindu scriptures than me.

It has a long tradition that in some of its elements goes back to Hindu scriptures, Lao - tse, and parts of the Judeo - Christian scriptures such as sections in Genesis 1, Psalm 103, Psalm 104:29 - 30, Proverbs 8:22 - 31, and various parts of the New Testament.

The mere fact that this law is applicable also to Jams, Buddhists and Sikhs clearly shows that from the beginning it should have been called Civil Code rather than Hindu Code» He adds, that it is not based on any Hindu Scriptures but on «modern concepts and progressive values and is applicable to all citizens irrespective of religion».

The Hindu Scriptures do a lot of the same and are every bit as old, or older.

workingcopy12 Would you accept supernatural accounts coming from some other ancient source, like Roman historians, Egyptian holy books, or Hindu scriptures?

Under his inspiration, several of the Hindu scriptures were translated into Persian, and he was himself the author of many books on religion, including a biography of Sufis and saints, and a treatise on the technical terms of Hindu pantheism and their equivalents in Sufi theology.

He desires here to record his deep appreciation of the service of these men: Dr. Henry E. Allen, University of Minnesota, read the chapter on Moslem Sacred Literature; John Clark Archer of Yale University, on the Sikh Scriptures; Swami Akhilananda of the Ramakrishna Vedanta Society of Boston, and Swami Vishwananda of the Vedanta Society of Chicago, on Hindu Scriptures; Dr. Chan Wing - Tsit (W. T. Chan), Dartmouth College, on the Chinese Literature; Dr. Clarence H. Hamilton, of Oberlin Graduate School of Theology, on Buddhist Scriptures; Dr. D. C. Holtom, on the Japanese Sacred Books; Dr. Charles F. Kraft, of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the Old Testament; Dr. George E. Mendenhall, of Hamma Divinity School, on the Babylonian Literature; Dr. Ernest W. Saunders of Garrett Biblical Institute, on the New Testament; and Dr. John A. Wilson of the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, on the Egyptian Literature.

But the roots of caste can be traced back to a story in the most ancient Hindu scriptures, the Vedas, in which the various social classes are produced from the sacrifice of a primordial man — the priestly class from the mouth, the warrior class from the arms, the merchant class from the thighs, the laboring class from the feet (Rig Veda 90:10).

Right along with the kabbalah, the koran, the book of mormons, a mix of all the hindu scriptures, battlefied earth, shinto scriptures, the life of buddah, the teachings of confucis etc...

Most detractors argued that today's caste system has little actual basis in Hindu scripture.

For some time, many Marriott Hotels have featured copies of the Book of Mormon, and, now, according to Kate Shellnutt at the Houston Chronicle, Hare Krishnas have placed roughly 7,000 copies of the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita in 100 Houston - area hotel rooms.

It will be necessary, however, to go back to the beginnings of the new heretical movement in Hinduism and see how it arose and what therefore these new scriptures have to say on the great central themes of Hindu scripture.

When people think about the origin of nuclear weapons, they tend to quote Robert Oppenheimer, who quoted Hindu scripture after the Trinity test.

I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad - Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, «Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.»

By the standards of 45 - year - old artist Damien Hirst, the work, titled «I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds» — a line from the Hindu scripture the Bhagavad Gita quoted by Manhattan Project director J. Robert Oppenheimer after watching the test detonation of the first atomic bomb — is not particularly shocking.

In other religious services on Google Home, the Divine Song action plays songs from the Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita.

Not exact matches

There's now talk of the universe expanding and contracting, just like the Hindu and other non-Christain scriptures say, indicating the universe dying and being reborn, over and over.

The Sikh scriptures, the Guru Granth Sahib or Adi Granth, which was originally compiled by the 5th Guru, Guru Arjan in 1604 — in the same year as work began on the Authorised or King James Version of the Bible — contains devotional hymns by Hindu and Muslim poets and saints as well as by the Gurus.

Although, the various orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy have different views about the nature of Vedic revelation, they accept the authority of the Vedas and claim that that their thinking is based on these scriptures.

Quite quickly as I began to read Hindu and other scriptures, I found passages that were «inspiring».

Paul, and whoever actually wrote 2 Timothy, must have been aware of, and even familiar with, other scriptures, such as Hindu and Chinese writings.

By the age of seven he knew most of the Hindu Bhagavad Gita by heart and by sixteen had read several other Indian scriptures.

I will come back to this point later, but here we only need affirm what St. Paul and St. John so strongly affirm, contrary to the Gnostic - Hellenic - Hindu tradition, and in the true spirit of the Hebrew Scriptures: that the whole creation — not just a few human souls — has been redeemed and reconciled in Christ.

The daily routine of the orthodox Hindu is probably much more determined by some part of his scriptures than that of the people of the West by the Bible, or for that matter than that of any other people by its scripture, save only the Moslems.

Within Hindu sacred literature may be found, as in most scripture, almost every type of writing.

In fact the word Hindu or Hinduism appears nowhere in the ancient «Hindu» scriptures.

The Christian Bible does not appropriate a single sentence of the Hindu or Islamic Scripture; why should it accept the entire Jewish Bible?

The interest in Asian religion so manifest in the 1960s can be traced back to his time at Columbia University in the 30s, where he discussed oriental scriptures with a Hindu monk, Mahabarata Bramachari, who also urged him to read Christian mystical literature, such as the Confessions and the Imitation of Christ.

How would you feel about Hindu or any other religion's scriptures displayed on public buildings?

Compelling references continue through the millennia in numerous esoteric texts: the sacred B'on treaties, manuscripts of the Kalki lore, the Puranas, the earliest texts of the Kalachakra Laghutantra, in the even older Kalachakra Mulatantra, and in the ancient wisdom traditions of civilizations throughout the Himalayan regions of Asia and beyond.The Zhang Zhung and Tibetan scriptures refer to the mysterious world as Shambhala I lam - yig, B'on treaties as Olmolungring, Hindu histories as Aryavarth, Chinese as Hsi Tien, and Russian traditions as Belovoyde.In an esoteric treatise composed in the early 1500s by Ensapa Lobsang Döndrup, the Third Panchen Lama describes his remarkable visit to a land of wise masters hidden deep in the Himalayas.

The four essential ornaments of Penjor which are Tamyang, Bakang - bakang, Sampyan, and Lamak are symbol of Catur Weda (four divisions of Hindu Holy Scripture which are Atarwa Weda, Sama Weda, Yayur Weda and Rg Weda).