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PRANA-VYANA-SAMANA-APANA-UDANA by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| Through the breath called PRANA a living creature is enabled to move. Through that called VYANA , they put forth strength of action. That called APANA moves downwards. That called SAMANA resides within the heart. Through that called UDANA one eructates and is enabled to speak in consequence of its p... |
| Published: Tuesday 31 October, 2006 |
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The Mantric Approach of the Vedas by Dr. David Frawley |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| The Vedas are mantric teachings. They consist of various mantric chants or hymns cognized by different seers or Rishis from the Cosmic Mind. They set forth Dharma or natural law, which is mantra in manifestation. As such the Vedas are impersonal and eternal, just as cosmic law cannot vary. This same... |
| Published: Tuesday 31 October, 2006 |
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Good and Pure by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| I shall now tell thee of those who are called good and whose practice are pure. |
| Published: Friday 06 October, 2006 |
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The Dirt of Humanity by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| Hold your tongue, O you that were born in a sinful country. Hear from me, O Salya, the sayings, already passed into proverbs, that men, young and old, and women, and persons arrived in course of their listless wanderings, generally utter, as if those sayings formed part of their studies, about the w... |
| Published: Friday 06 October, 2006 |
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Wickedness by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| What are the indications, O best of regenerate ones, of a wicked person? Questioned by me, tell me how I am to know who is wicked? |
| Published: Friday 06 October, 2006 |
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Malevolence by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| I know what benevolence is, in consequence of my observation of persons that are good. I do not, however, know them that are malevolent, nor the nature of their acts, O Bharata. Indeed, people avoid malevolent persons of cruel deeds even as they avoid thorns and pitfalls and fire. It is evident, O B... |
| Published: Friday 06 October, 2006 |
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The Wheel of Life by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| The wheel of life moves on. It has the understanding for its strength; the mind for the pole (on which it rests); the group of senses for its bonds, the five great elements for its nave, and home for its circumference. |
| Published: Friday 06 October, 2006 |
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Ashramas – The Four Modes of life by Understanding Hinduism |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| A person's duties, in the Hindu tradition, are determined by the stage of life (Ashrama) to which he belongs. Life, which is regarded by Hinduism as a journey to the shrine of truth, is marked by four stages (Ashramas) each of which has its responsibilities and obligations. |
| Published: Friday 06 October, 2006 |
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Emancipation by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| How does one become emancipated after passing through a repeated round of painful births?
How does Jiva (embodied soul), freed from the body, attain to what is different from it (viz., Brahman or Supreme Reality)?
Where do the acts exist of one that is devoid of body? |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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Self-Realisation |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| What is the cause of this universe? Is it Brahman (the Supreme Reality)? Whence do we come? Why do we live? Where shall we at last find rest? Under whose command are we bound by the law of happiness and its opposite? |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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Self-restraint by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| O grandsire, O thou of virtuous soul, what, indeed, is said to be productive of great merit for a person attentively engaged in the study of the Vedas and desirous of acquiring virtue? |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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Happiness by The Bhagavad Gita |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| Man goes in quest of joy and searches in the external perishable objects for his happiness. He fails to get it but instead he carries a load of sorrow on his head. |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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Happiness by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| You have said that happiness is the highest object. I do not comprehend this. This attribute of the soul that (you say) is so desirable is not sought by the Rishis who are regarded to be engaged in something promising a higher reward. It is heard that the Creator of the three worlds, viz., the puiss... |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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The practice of self-restraint by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| The man of self-restraint beholds his innumerable foes (in the form of lust, desire and wrath, etc.), as if these dwell in a separate body. Like tigers and other carnivorous beasts, persons destitute of self-restraint always inspire all creatures with dread. For controlling these men, the Self-born ... |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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Misery by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| Persons conversant with the Vedas have said that death and immurement are both painful. Life is dear unto all. All creatures are made miserable by grief and pain. All creatures wish for happiness. Misery arises from various sources. |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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In what kind of man or woman, does the goddess of prosperity alw by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| I always reside with him that is eloquent, active, attentive to business, free from wrath, given to the worship of the deities, endued with gratitude, has his passions under complete control, and is high-minded in everything. |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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What is that one act a person may acquire great celebrity? by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| What is that one act, by accomplishing which with care, a person may become the object of regard with all creatures and acquire great celebrity? |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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These vices are regarded as very powerful foes of all creatures by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| Tell me, O thou of great wisdom, everything about that from which spring wrath and lust, and fear and loss of judgment, and inclination to do (evil to others), and jealousy and malice and pride and envy, and slander and incapacity to bear the good of others, and unkindness and covetousness. |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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Calamity overtakes him who is deficient in wisdom by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| Calamity overtakes him who is deficient in wisdom, or who is of low birth, or who is cruel, or who cherishes hostility for a long time, or who is devoid of energy, or is of a bad disposition, in fact he who has such marks. |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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Nine duties that are eternal by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| The nine eternal duties applicable to all. |
| Published: Thursday 05 October, 2006 |
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Thought, Speech and Deed by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| Living creatures, by being attached to objects of the senses, which are always fraught with evil, become helpless. Those high-souled persons, however, who are not attached to them, attain to the highest end. The man of intelligence, beholding the world over-whelmed with the evils constituted by birt... |
| Published: Wednesday 04 October, 2006 |
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Righteousness(Part 6) by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| See with your own eyes, O Jalali, who, viz., those that are good or those that are otherwise, have adopted this path of duty that I have spoken of. You shall then understand properly how the truth stands. Behold, many birds are hovering in the sky. Amongst are those that were reared on your head, as... |
| Published: Wednesday 04 October, 2006 |
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Righteousness (Part 5) by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| This course of duty that you, O holder of scales, preaches, closes the door of heaven against all creatures and puts a stop to the very means of their subsistence. From agriculture comes food. That food offers subsistence even to you. With the aid of animals and of crops and herbs, human beings, O t... |
| Published: Wednesday 04 October, 2006 |
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Righteousness (Part 4) by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| Thus addressed by the intelligent Tuladhara on that occasion, Jalali of great intelligence, that foremost of ascetics, said these words unto him.’ |
| Published: Wednesday 04 October, 2006 |
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Righteousness (Part 3) by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| There was once a Brahmana of the name of Jalali who lived in a certain forest, practising the ways of a forest recluse. Of austere penances, he proceeded on a certain occasion towards the sea-shore, and having arrived there began to practise the most severe penances. |
| Published: Wednesday 04 October, 2006 |
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Righteousness (Part 2) by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| Thou sayest that righteousness or duty depends upon delicate considerations, that is indicated by the conduct of those that are called good, that it is fraught with restraints (from numerous acts), and that its indications are also contained in the Vedas. |
| Published: Wednesday 04 October, 2006 |
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Righteousness (Part 1) by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| All men that inhabit this earth are filled with doubts in respect of the nature of righteousness. What is this that is called righteousness? Whence also does righteousness come? Tell me this, O Grandsire! Is righteousness for service in this world or is it for service in the next world? Or, is it fo... |
| Published: Wednesday 04 October, 2006 |
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Morality by The Mahabharata |
Topic: Vedic Teachings |
| When the high righteousness suffers decay and is transgressed by all, when unrighteousness becomes righteousness, and righteousness assumes the form of its reverse, when all wholesome restraints disappear, and all truths in respect of righteousness are disturbed and confounded, when people are oppre... |
| Published: Wednesday 04 October, 2006 |
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