Source Book Modern Hinduism

A Source-Book of Modern Hinduism (Paperback, Revised)

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Their views were opposed by other Hindus such as the Sanatan Dharma Sabha of Their accounts of Hinduism were forged in physically, politically and spiritually hostile surroundings [impoverished, famine prone Bengal — now West Bengal and Bangladesh]. Plagued with anxieties and fears about their own health, regularly reminded of colleagues who had lost their lives or reason, uncertain of their own social location, and preaching to crowds whose reactions ranged from indifference to amusement to hostility, missionaries found expression for their darker misgivings in their production of what is surely part of their speckled legacy: Klaus Witz [] states that Hindu Bhakti movement ideas in the medieval era grew on the foundation of Upanishadic knowledge and Vedanta philosophies.

John Henderson [] states that "Hindus, both in medieval and in modern times, have been particularly drawn to those canonical texts and philosophical schools such as the Bhagavad Gita and Vedanta, which seem to synthesize or reconcile most successfully diverse philosophical teachings and sectarian points of view. Thus, this widely recognized attribute of Indian culture may be traced to the exegetical orientation of medieval Hindu commentarial traditions, especially Vedanta.

Patrick Olivelle [] and others [] [] [] state that the central ideas of the Upanishads in the Vedic corpus are at the spiritual core of Hindus. Monier-Williams , p. Three gods, Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, and other deities are considered manifestations of and are worshipped as incarnations of Brahman. The members of various Hindu sects worship a dizzying number of specific deities and follow innumerable rituals in honor of specific gods.

Because this is Hinduism, however, its practitioners see the profusion of forms and practices as expressions of the same unchanging reality. The panoply of deities are understood by believers as symbols for a single transcendent reality. The devas are powerful spiritual beings, somewhat like angels in the West, who have certain functions in the cosmos and live immensely long lives.

Certain devas, such as Ganesha, are regularly worshiped by the Hindu faithful.

A Source-Book of Modern Hinduism

Note that, while Hindus believe in many devas, many are monotheistic to the extent that they will recognise only one Supreme Being, a God or Goddess who is the source and ruler of the devas. These are collected from the pyre in a rite-of-passage called asthi sanchayana , then dispersed during asthi visarjana. This signifies redemption of the dead in waters considered to be sacred and a closure for the living.

Tirtha locations offer these services. Caste-based discrimination fundamentally contradicts the essential teaching of Hindu sacred texts that divinity is inherent in all beings. It is the formative period for the Upanishads and Brahmanism [subnote 7] Jainism and Buddhism.

For Smart, the "classical period" lasts from to CE, and coincides with the flowering of "classical Hinduism" and the flowering and deterioration of Mahayana-buddhism in India. According to Muesse, some of the fundamental concepts of Hinduism, namely karma, reincarnation and "personal enlightenment and transformation", which did not exist in the Vedic religion, developed in this time.

For nearly two millennia they and their culture gradually penetrated India, moving east and south from their original seat in the Punjab. They mixed with people who spoke Munda or Dravidian languages, who have left no traces of their culture beyond some archaeological remains; we know as little about them as we would about the Indo-Aryans if they had left no texts. Remarkable cave paintings have been preserved from Mesolithic sites dating from c. The worship of certain plants and animals as sacred, for instance, could very likely have very great antiquity. The worship of goddesses, too, a part of Hinduism today, may be a feature that originated in the Neolithic.

Witzel mentions a range between and BCE. The renouncer tradition played a central role during this formative period of Indian religious history [ These include the two pillars of Indian theologies: First, it is apparent in the suggestion that the Advaita Vedanta philosophy of Sankara c. Second, in an Indian context, neo-Vedanta philosophy subsumes Buddhist philosophies in terms of its own Vedantic ideology. The Buddha becomes a member of the Vedanta tradition, merely attempting to reform it from within. Finally, at a global level, neo-Vedanta colonises the religious traditions of the world by arguing for the centrality of a non-dualistic position as the philosophia perennis underlying all cultural differences.

It was the areas which had been least exposed to the Brahmanical fold which showed the largest numbers of Muslims. Forced conversion did happen, though.

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According to Malik , p. Lorenzen , pp. Nicholson , p. The complexities of Asian nationalism are to be seen and understood in the context of colonialism, modernization and nation-building. Suzuki , who conjuncted Zen to Japanese nationalism and militarism , in defense against both western hegemony and the pressure on Japanese Zen during the Meiji Restoration to conform to Shinbutsu Bunri. Yet, Rinehart emphasises that it is "clear that there isn't a neat line of causation that leads from the philosophies of Rammohan Roy, Vivekananda and Radhakrishnan to the agenda of [ He [Hutton] considers modern Hinduism to be the result of an amalgam between pre-Aryan Indian beliefs of Mediterranean inspiration and the religion of the Rigveda.

Ghurye , p. An Anthropological Perspective , page 68, as quoted by Sjoberg, calls Hinduism a "synthesis" in which the Dravidian elements prevail: In this process the rude, barbaric Aryan tribes were gradually civilised and eventually merged with the autochthonous Dravidians. Although elements of their domestic cult and ritualism were jealously preserved by Brahman priests, the body of their culture survived only in fragmentary tales and allegories embedded in vast, syncretistic compendia.

On the whole, the Aryan contribution to Indian culture is insignificant. The essential pattern of Indian culture was already established in the third millennium B. The Case of Hindu Indian Americans".

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The life of Hinduism. Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: University of Hawaii Press, 39 2: Naturally the Sankhyakarikas do not mention God, Vachaspati interprets this as rank atheism.

The perfectibility of human nature in eastern and western thought. For the Mimamsa the ultimate reality is nothing other than the eternal words of the Vedas. They did not accept the existence of a single supreme creator god, who might have composed the Veda. According to the Mimamsa, gods named in the Vedas have no existence apart from the mantras that speak their names.

The power of the gods, then, is nothing other than the power of the mantras that name them. They also thought there was no need to postulate a maker for the world, just as there was no need for an author to compose the Veda or an independent God to validate the Vedic rituals. Guy Beck , Alternative Krishnas: The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant. Stone; James Porter; Timothy Rice The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: The Religions of India: Archived 1 March at the Wayback Machine.

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Pilgrims in Hindu Holy Land: Sacred Shrines of the Indian Himalayas. Eck , pp. The Strides of Vishnu: Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective: Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective. The earliest promotional works aimed at tourists from that era were called mahatmyas [in Puranas]. Klostermaier , p. Eck , p.

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