Hindu Philosophy- A Rational Life

  One of the most important terms, recently in use is ‘trance,’ the Hindu philosophy has no trace of this word in different philosophies. The meditation, prayer and dhyana are the common words used in spiritual sense. Yoga used the Dhyana as one of the tributary of eight fold part. The  Yoga used Samadhi as the last resort of this practical philosophy in which it explained the consciousness as transcended and generated some power.  Even the Buddhist philosophy talked about transcendental of consciousness but do not used the term trance.   Trance a stage in which stupor or stage of coma or stoppage of consciousness is felt even when the individual is conscious. The condition is like feeling the consciousness away from the body and then realizing something. Sometimes it is realized as sub-consciousness state. The word trance is usually used by Western writers in explaining the mass ritual or the spirit of dancing in which the dancer of participant in the mass ritual ...

  The Hindu religion talked much and much about liberation which was the ultimate freedom from the suffering, ultimate freedom from the bonded chain of rebirth, Even Samkhya said the ultimate liberation is death and even unorthodox streams talked at large about liberation, “Surely do I know much more that what I have told you and wherefore my disciples, Have I not told you that. Because it does not lead to the turning from the earthly, to the subjection of all desire, to the cessation of the transitory, to peace, to knowledge, to illumination to Nirvana. Two things only my disciples do I teach- Misery and the sensation of misery. Human existence is full of misery and pain, our immediate duty, therefore is to get rid of this misery and pain ” Gautama Buddha, as stated in Mulmadhyamika Karika. The liberation in Hindu philosophy was concluded that man had to come out from this painful world and there is no god but man himself has to make efforts to attain that stage, as Max Mulle...

One or Many?   There is a famous story in the Kandogya Upinsad of Sama Veda, VII Kanda in which a son who returned after studying all Vedas and he tried to impressed his father by orating what he had learned. The story tried to explain that the father felt that his son was sensing proud with the show of orating Vedas again and again. To make his son realized that knowledge doesn’t have the essence of proving show; he asked his son to leave eating food and drinking water for next two days and then come to him to narrate the Vedas he has learned. The son obeyed his father and remained fasting for two days and then came back to him. Then the father asked him to speak all four Vedas. The son only able to remember two Vedas which he learnt with great efforts and only narrated them, the father then again the son to continue the fasting for next two more days and return to him. The son again obeyed and remained on total fasting and returned to his father who asked him to recites ...

I encountered with many people who talk about GITA, but that is not my interest to spread any ideology. What make me surprise that BHAGWAT GITA and spirituality are used as synonyms. I again read and re-read BHAGWAT GITA , just to know where I left things behind, I translated chapters after chapters and what I only and only found is that BHAGWAT GITA is the Genesis of actions rather than teaching anything for spiritual or any innate ideas. Unfortunately the Shrimad Bhagwat Gita which is the most important religious book of Hindus is taken as spiritual philosophy at present. Gita means these days that nothing is true and there is no place of materialism in this world. But Gita pronounced this world as real and emphasized on action, right to say, prescribed actions and also the principle of balance life- emotionally and physiologically. The lesson which Gita taught to this Hindu race is the passions and its shortcomings of greed, hatred, desire and so on and encouraged man to...

  Reasonable religion One of the reasons that may be responsible for the blindfold faith in present Hindu race is the breaking of joint families . The unitary families emerged in last three-four decades and now family means a couple and their two children. Indian family system was totally different where there were brothers, cousins, grand parents and their parents. The joint family system was the base of faith of individual that if anything happens wrong, my brothers, my sisters, my cousins, uncles and their uncles and relatives will come forward to help. B.N. Luniya in Evolution of Indian Culture made brief notes on later Vedic age and epic period and stated, “Joint family was the framework of the society. The eldest male member of the family was the head. He was expected to show high sense of responsibility and duty towards other members of the family. He commanded great respect and authority in the family. ” The psychological aid to individual that my family is there to sup...