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| # Topics that are profound with esoteric insights of ancient seers provide an insight into the characteristics of the vedas and vedanta. Examples : Vidya (Brahmavidya, Bhumavidya, Panchagnividya), Mahavakyas, Yajna (Srauta yajnas), Margas (Paths in life and for enlightenment) such as Pravritti and Nivritti, Shastras (Nyaya and Mimamsa). | | # Topics that are profound with esoteric insights of ancient seers provide an insight into the characteristics of the vedas and vedanta. Examples : Vidya (Brahmavidya, Bhumavidya, Panchagnividya), Mahavakyas, Yajna (Srauta yajnas), Margas (Paths in life and for enlightenment) such as Pravritti and Nivritti, Shastras (Nyaya and Mimamsa). |
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− | == Topics == | + | == Dharma Classification == |
− | Manifold are the topics that have been included under the Dharmasastra from very ancient times. | + | Manifold are the topics that have been included under the Dharmasastra from very ancient times. While some works classify Dharma based on Shrutis (Vedic texts and rites) and Smritis (Classes and Stages of life) the three sources Srauta, Smarta, and Sistachara |
| #dharmik perspective of life ('''dharmik jeevan dristi''') | | #dharmik perspective of life ('''dharmik jeevan dristi''') |
| #dharmik codes of conduct ('''dharmik vyavahar sutra''') | | #dharmik codes of conduct ('''dharmik vyavahar sutra''') |
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| #'''Jivana Chakram'''<nowiki> : In line with this eternity, creation and destruction are cyclic and mutually complementary. [example of seed that grows into tree, gives rise to more seed that fall to the ground again and each seed, in its destruction gives rise to more trees]</nowiki> | | #'''Jivana Chakram'''<nowiki> : In line with this eternity, creation and destruction are cyclic and mutually complementary. [example of seed that grows into tree, gives rise to more seed that fall to the ground again and each seed, in its destruction gives rise to more trees]</nowiki> |
| #'''Tapas''': Hard efforts to integrate faculties of bodily potencies with those of mind and speech and yoking them to achieve unity of personality. Tapas can be dharmik or adharmik. When engaged favourably (such as Bhagavad Gita yada samharate chayam …Kurma), such integrated effort can help one can visualize God, achieve immortality and eternal service to cosmos, subjectively as well as objectively. It is complete tuning of body, mind and speech to the total evolution of the spirit to its fullness. Self-control comes as a first step in an eight-fold path called yoga. | | #'''Tapas''': Hard efforts to integrate faculties of bodily potencies with those of mind and speech and yoking them to achieve unity of personality. Tapas can be dharmik or adharmik. When engaged favourably (such as Bhagavad Gita yada samharate chayam …Kurma), such integrated effort can help one can visualize God, achieve immortality and eternal service to cosmos, subjectively as well as objectively. It is complete tuning of body, mind and speech to the total evolution of the spirit to its fullness. Self-control comes as a first step in an eight-fold path called yoga. |
− | #Karma siddhanta… | + | #'''Karma siddhanta''' |
| #Role of moksha, independence (svatantrata) in individual and social life | | #Role of moksha, independence (svatantrata) in individual and social life |
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| == Code of conduct (Dharmik vyavahar sutra) == | | == Code of conduct (Dharmik vyavahar sutra) == |
− | The concept of Dharma is a far reaching one, embracing the whole life of man. The propunders of Dharmasastra meant by Dharma not a creed or religion but a mode of life or a code of conduct, which regulated a man's work and activities as a member of society and as an individual. Dharma was intended to bring about the gradual development of a man and enable him to reach what was deemed to be the goal of human existence. From this standpoint various divisions of dharma were suggested. Dharma was divided into Srauta and Smarta | + | The concept of Dharma is a far reaching one, embracing the whole life of man. The propunders of Dharmasastra meant by Dharma not a creed or religion but a mode of life or a code of conduct, which regulated a man's work and activities as a member of society and as an individual. Dharma was intended to bring about the gradual development of a man and enable him to reach what was deemed to be the goal of human existence. From this standpoint various divisions of dharma were suggested. |
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− | Some elements of the dharmik codes of conduct that (dharmik vyavahar sutra) that are aligned with such a dharmik perspective of life. | + | Some elements of the dharmik codes of conduct that (dharmik vyavahar sutra) that are aligned with such a dharmik perspective of life. |
| #Sarve bhavantu sukhinaha [Somebody may think this is impractical. Swami Vivekananda however said. It is unfortunate when man tries to idealize reality instead of realizing ideals] | | #Sarve bhavantu sukhinaha [Somebody may think this is impractical. Swami Vivekananda however said. It is unfortunate when man tries to idealize reality instead of realizing ideals] |
| #Vasudaiva Kutumbakam | | #Vasudaiva Kutumbakam |