Last week I read a story about yoga clothes-maker/fashion brand Lululemon and their fairly blatant disregard for any sort of overweight or plus-size consumers. In short‚ they admitted that selling to women who wear size 12 and smaller is an important business strategy for them‚ and that it’s based on “design‚ capacity and operational perspective.” That video seems to only anger some customers more. One wrote in response‚ “On one hand you are bashing us for being fat and on the other hand bashing
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The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Juan Mascaro is a poem based on ancient Sanskrit literature contained in eighteen chapters. The period of time‚ around which it was written‚ although it is merely an educated guess‚ was approximately 500 BCE. " there are a few archaic words and expressions‚ some of the greatest scholars have considered it pre-Buddhistic‚ i.e. about 500 BC‚" (Bhagavad Gita‚ xxiv). This quote is found in the introduction to the book and further explains that the exact time it was
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PRINCIPLES OF SRIMAD BHAGAVAD GITA AS TOOLS OF MANAGEMENT DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCE By G. Surya Prakash Rao MBA; Creative Advertising (Northwestern University‚ U.S.A.) Associate Professor‚ St. Augustine PGC (Osmania University)‚Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM)‚ Hyderabad‚ Corporate Training : IIIT and JNTUH Cell: 9440480569 E-mail: suryaguda@yahoo.com RESEARCH SUPERVISION Dr. D. Ram Chandram (Former Vice-Chancellor of Dr. Ambedkar Open University‚ Hyderabad)
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Hinduism Paper Rory Richards HUM/130 June 30‚ 2013 Dawn Tawwater Hinduism Paper Hinduism does not have a set orthodoxy‚ but there are several main beliefs that share a commonality among the different sects. The caste system is one of the oldest principles of Hinduism‚ an aspect as much religious as it is social. According to Hindu teaching‚ there are four basic social classes‚ or castes. Each social order has its own rules and obligation for living. The select few are the Brahman‚ or
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Name: Kenia Ramirez Professor: Rayka Rush Assignment: Buddhism Class: PHIL 2200 Date: April 30‚ 2014 I chose to talk about assignment 2. The question to discuss in this essay is very contradictory because one of the beliefs of Buddhism is the reincarnation‚ but what confuses me is that they do not believe in soul. Buddhism as Jains and Hindus believe in reincarnation but unlike those two religions‚ however Buddhism does not believe. The basic concept of these three religions
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AB Theology III October 2013 Comparative Religion and Cults The Concept of Salvation in Hinduism Essay The concept of salvation is present in almost all religions in its own distinct way. The primary purpose of all religions is to provide salvation to their followers and the existence of many different religions indicates that there is a great variety of opinion about what constitutes salvation and the means of achieving it. The term salvation can be meaningfully
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and significance. To define non-attachment is no facile task‚ for there exists numerous components of its practice. As a yogic practice‚ non-attachment applies over myriad manifestations of nature. However‚ to grasp the role non-attachment plays in yoga‚ one must examine its qualities and obstacles. Why must one practice non-attachment? Understanding these obstacles to Viaragya is crucial to affirm the existence of a spiritual reality underlying the phenomenal world and to discover the inner Atman
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Swami Vivekananda was the greatest gift of God to the Indian society. According to Dr.S.Radhakrishnan‚ "Swami Vivekananda was a saintly personality who was not content merely with reaching and practicing the highest ideals of Hindu religion and philosophy. His motto was worship of God through the service of the poor and lowly and he called upon his countrymen and women to shake off the age old lethargy‚ remove the abuses which had crept into their society and work for the freedom of their motherland
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is perhaps the most famous‚ and definitely the most widely-read‚ ethical text of ancient India. As an episode in India’s great epic‚ the Mahabharata‚ The Bhagavad Gita now ranks as one of the three principal texts that define and capture the essence of Hinduism; the other two being the Upanishads and the Brahma Sutras. Though this work contains much theology‚ its kernel is ethical and its teaching is set in the context of an ethical problem. The teaching of The Bhagavad Gita is summed up in the maxim
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CONTEMPORARY INDIAN THINKERS CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. RAMAKRISHNA PARAMAHAMSA 2. VIVEKANANDA 3. SHAIKH MUHAMMED IQBAL 4. RABINDRANATH TAGORE 5. MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI 6. KRISHNACHANDRA BHATTACHARYYA 7. AUROBINDO GHOSE 8. SARAPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN 9. JIDDU KRISHNAMURTHI 10. RAJNEESH CONCLUSION INTRODUCTION When we speak about Contemporary Indian Philosophy‚ we refer to the pro and post Independence period which is known as the Indian
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