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| 3 social Classes brought by the Aryans |
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1) Brahmins: Priestly Class which was the smallest
2)Kshatriya: The Warrior Class
3) Everyone Else: The Smallest Class which served the other two. |
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| Describe the Aryans class division basis |
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The classes were based upon ones ability as well as skin color and immunity to disease.
There were allowances for class mobility. For example if you had good memory or battle skills you could move into the Brahmin or Kshatriya classes. |
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| The ability to absorb new ideas into existing ones. In the case of India, the Aryans were absorbed into the culture, but India still remained independent. |
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The set of four oral books that the Aryans brought to India. The information came from perfected souls which were humans that had obtained enlightenment.
The texts were not from god, but rather man. Its full of rituals, hymns, philosophical ideas, etc. There is a creation narrative as well as affirmation for the class structure. |
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| It was a book that was written later by Indians that builds on each one of the four books of the Vedas |
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| Written even later than the Brahmanas. These are beginning to question the existence of all the gods. |
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Known as a vedantic book. An even more sophisticated level of thought that the previous books.
They were written so that they appealed to everyone. There is also a search for a unifying principle to combine the opposites in the world. There is a move from ritual toward asceticism. |
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| The practicing sever things in order to obtain the divine. |
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Written around 100 BCE - 100 CE.
It acknowledges the Upanishads, but it is a different interpretation of the religion.
This was a response to the corruption of the religion during the 500's BCE. |
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| This was one of the attempts of Hinduism to clean up its act. It is a reform of the religion. |
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Path of Desire
1) Kama (Pleasure)
2) Artha (Fame)
Path of Renunciation
3) Dharma (Duty)
4) Moksha (Liberation) |
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Pleasure. Pursuing please is a legitimate godly pursuit. This is legitimate in part due to the Kama Sutra.
There are two conditions: Cannot hurt your self, nor can you hurt others.
It is not just enough to be about the personal pleasure. Law of diminishing returns. |
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Fame, wealth, & power. All of these aspects are necessary to life. Everyone needs some of these.
These things are exclusive, if you share them by definition you cannot have them. They are also hard to satisfy... When is enough truly enough. |
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| Doing your duty in the community. Even a community is too narrow of a focus, and it is not fully the path. |
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Liberation or release..
It is readily available to everyone. We all can do this.
Infinite awareness, infinite joy, infinite being.. Nothing less can satisfy the human being. |
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The core of the human, the sousl is infinite being, joy, and knowledge.
the center for every life, and considered a hiddn as well as eternal self. |
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The Hindu word for god.
Man is no less than god. |
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You can have what you want but it won't satisfy you except Moksha.
This is the method of training and discipline with the aim of union or integration with the human spirit or soul (Atman) with god (Brahman). |
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| Preliminary yoga that is mean to get the mind and body ready for the real deal. Great for discipline, concentration, and health. This is not the true yoga of hinduism. |
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Way to god though knowledge.
Sit and contemplate various problems or issues.
The Atman is what makes you, you. The goal here is to get these self (the Atman) with god.
god is known as Brahmans. This god is not personal or anything you can describe. This god is everything. This is Self. The beginning and the end. Literally everything. |
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More personal than Jnana. Love is the way to god. You will be with Brahman not absorbed into it.
This type of god is Saguna |
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This is the way to god though action.
We are physiologically and psychologically hard wired to act.
There are different types of this yoga
Karam Jnana type
Karama Bahakti type |
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The royal road. It is the fastest of all the yogas. It is for the scientific. Physiological exercises or experiments to find Brahman. Experiments to turn yourself inside out because the inside is the home fo the Atman.
8 Steps:
6) your focus is on the god head
7) your mind you is god and all is left is the god head
8) you are in god. You are not aware of yourself at all. When this happens it is called Samadhi. It is a flash of enlightenment, a window into Moksha. |
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Stages of life
1) Student
2) Householder
3) Retirement
4) Sannyasin ( the wondering soul) |
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its a division of labor so that everyone knows what to do from an economic and social perspective.
Organization of society where everyone belongs to a gropu where you know what to do. From the Ayran's three groups. It was not originally hereditary, but has become quite complicated.
There are four recognized castes. |
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| The priests, philosophers, and teachers. Does not have to be one of these three jobs, but you are a high casts. |
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| Originally the warriors, now they make up the milityar, mangers, administrators, political/gov't officials. Theya re white collar. |
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| These are the producers, farmers, craftsmen, merchants, skilled laborers. They could be extremely wealthy. |
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| The everyone else real. These are the uneducated, unskilled, or undereducated. The teaming masses of India. |
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