Hindu Philosophy- A Rational Life

In Hindu philosophies there are four states   State of awake-Where the Atman is perceiving and acting by the mode of the Manas (mind) with the help of Indriyas (senses)   State of Dreaming- Where the Ataman ceased senses to act and help but the mind remains active. The Atman with mind moves in the body and sees dreams made out of the loose ends of former impression in Smartis (Memories) https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1550936638533357 State of deep and dreamless sleep- Where the Ataman completely separated from mind and senses but the vital essence of Atman that is consciousness remains in full activity. There is no role of mind and senses in this state but the consciousness as a vital part still remain in the body. The Atman become one like Brahman but returned unchanged at the time o awakening.   State of death- Where the Ataman with the sukshma Sarir (vital small body) escaped from the heart and body through a v...

Kshitiz Gaur From a very long time, I was speculating about perfection and a perfect life.   And for this I again went back to reading Vedas, Upnishads and beyond that the present cosmology of Hawkins or Nobel Laureate in Physics Sir Roger Penrose. Looking for the meaning of perfection and aim of perfect life described in Hindu religion to Hindu philosophy and probing meaning of life to perfect life. I introspect what actually people, I mean common mass think about the perfect life.   Google states that ‘perfection  is a flawless state where everything is exactly right. It can also be the action of making something perfect. Since perfect things are without fault or flaw,  perfection  is a perfect condition — everything is 100% great. Of course,  perfection  is hard to find.” Is it really possible to live a perfect life or having perfection in life and is there any example of human being lived a perfect life? If in reality, perfect life is possible ...

Kshitiz Gaur I witnessed many people from west coming to India in search for spiritualism and liberation as they too start maintaining that this world is not real and full of sufferings. These peace hunters have an image of Hinduism that there is some touch stone is there in the religion of Hindus that will heal the materialistic pains with the touch of spirituality.   These searchers have an idea that Hindus have known the real meaning of life and they know how to come over sufferings. They feel that spiritualism will take them to some another world where these is only peace. For Hindus, the world is full of sufferings and therefore Hindu philosophies searched the path of liberation from this sorrowful life. Sometimes, it seems that Hindu philosophies is escaping the reality and have no courage to face the world. It is like, ignoring the realities of world just because there are pain, sorrow, hunger, illness, heartache, ageing and later death .   The Buddha too, after a...

  India is developing, struggling and emerging but even the greatness of India is the Hindu family system. The system that moves according to the tradition and it is joint family fabric of life, the first institution of society. Though changes are seen with emerging nuclear families in metro cities but still majority is a joint family and therefore during joblessness or inflation or depression, every family member stood up to hand each other during Covid-19. Hindu family pattern and relations is the interesting topic I encountered during studying Hindu Philosophy. Certainly, Hindu family system in one of the unique and important institution that make the fabric of society.   For Hindus families, relations and relatives of relatives are the major part of everyone. Despite reading and understanding Hindu families I encountered these families during the time of Covid-19.   Just because of Hindu pattern of family people had not came out on roads at the time of lock down a...

  As a student, learning philosophy really give solace to self and happiness that certainly living a life in accordance with the reasoning is the right path to complete the time. Certainly, one has to live and the concept of ‘free will’ exists when one has to decide the option or path to take decision. The free will to choose and the free will to make decisions and we are also free to act according to the will. And this free will is depends on our decision making quality. We decide according to our knowledge and according to our reasoning and when it went wrong, we accuse the principle of luck or to the god’s will. The higher the reasoning the better the decision taking quality and therefore reasoning plays a vital role in living a good life.   Philosophy helps to open the blockages of mind and also made clearance on the concepts like religion and dogmas. Philosophy also helps to understand how great people grasp the soul of world and also helps us to remove misconceptions. ...

Hindu thought was the values embedded with religion that helped to move this Hindu society. These values were taught as religion, “ Where women are honoured, the gods showers the blessings. But where they are not honoured all acts are fruitless, (Yatr Naryastu Pujayanti, Ramante Tatr Devtah, Yatrtastu n pujayanti Sarwastrafla kirya) ” Manu Smriti III. There was no competition between different religions in India because religion for Hindus was not something to preach but to practice in society. Right conduct was the religion and therefore there was no need of extra stream of ethics in this race.

  Basically, Hindu philosophy, at present, is the subject of story tellers and the sphere went limited with the smell of mysticism. Common mass really do not know what flourished in this Hindu land in relation to knowledge but they are confident that their forefathers and their fathers were certainly wise people and given the best of knowledge to their coming generations, they know about the reality and even believed that those seers also met god or several gods who blessed them with wealth and prosperity and asked them to devote themselves to god or gods for better lives.   And present Hindu race is proud of the treasure their ancestors left and proud of their culture and tag of being oldest civilization in the world, but certainly they do not know what is left by them is not utilize by this generation, the matrix of thinking and speculation is kept locked in the boxes and this race is repeating only the words which are heard in religious sermons. The present race do not kn...

  There are also some of the superstitions which are borrowed from the ancient Hindu civilization and one of them is self torture (Hat Yoga). People nowadays think that by self torturing, god or gods will be happy. There are examples when devotees walk barefoot to the temple in high temperature or rolling on the road or reaching temple or temples by all way walking. They feel that by self torturing god will be happy to see his devotee suffering and it is like penance to pure the self. Majumdar state about post Vedic age and states, “ Another superstition was encouraging by the Brahmana priests among the people and that related to the practice of Tapas or self torture by which it was believed that both gods and men acquired spiritual insight and command over the forces of nature. Sitting between five fires or upon an ant head in the forest and standing upon one leg and holding an arm above head until its muscles were atrophied were considered to be the means of establishing mast...