gaining enlightenment varies. First we must cover the basics of both Hinduism and Buddhism and then we will compare and contrast with one another. “Truth is one‚ though the wise refer to it by various names.” This phrase written in the Sanskrit’s Rig Veda 1.164.46 pretty much summarizes my perception of Hinduism in a nutshell. Even though Hinduism is considered Monotheistic‚ there are over 330 million individual deities. This is described by Indic religious expert Graham M. Schweig as a “polymorphic
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FRACTAL TIME (ESSAY) Introduction In his book‚ first published in 2009‚ ’Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age’‚ Gregg Braden gave wonderful clues into what we would expect to occur in our world and universe by the year 2012. Though years have passed since the first publication of the book‚ the information in the book remains relevant to us today. Gregg labours to elaborate how it is possible to read the past in order to discover what the future holds for us in our world and
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The-Royal-Maratha-Warriors Friday‚ November 28‚ 2008 The Royal Maratha Warriors Royal Clans of Maratha Community Shri Chintamani‚ Theur Flag of the Maratha EmpireImage:The original photo of god Khandoba temple devhara of Jejuri.jpg :god Khandoba The Marāthās is a collective term referring to an Indo-Aryan group of Hindu‚ Marathi-speaking castes of Kshatriya‚ warriors‚ commoner and peasants‚ hailing mostly from the Indian state of Maharashtra. They created the Maratha Empire which covered
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Green accounting‚ Environmental Management Accounting‚ Environmental Financial Accounting‚ Environmental National Accounting‚ Segment Environmental Accounting‚ Eco Balance maintenance Environmental Accounting‚ Corporate Environmental Accounting‚ Rig Veda. INTRODUCTION In a business organization it is considered to be prudent to make best use of all available resources‚ whether they are men‚ money‚ materials‚ machines or methods. The business entity is a part of social community and it is judged
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The waste Land T.S.Eliot complcted ‘The Waste Land’ in the autumn of 1921‚ and with the constructive suggestions of Ezra Pound about the structure of the poem ‚the present draft of the poem ‚ which was published in 1922‚ has become a classic. It is also‚ more importantly‚ the symbol of a whole age‚ signifying a new kind of poetry and a poetic revolution in modern English Literature and culture. The poem is a masterpiece of innovative poetic design and embodies an entirely new and original poetic
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Palace of Illusions by Chitra Bannerjee Divakaruni is a beautiful book which gives a woman’s perspective on a story that deals mainly with male characters i.e. the great epic‚ Mahabharata. The book has been written from Draupadi’s‚ who was the wife of the 5 Pandava heroes in this epic‚ point of view. It throws light on her innermost thoughts and feelings‚ traced right from her childhood to her demise in the lap of the Himalayan mountains. It talks about her feelings about the strange in which
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mind the four Vedas. Vedas are the earliest scriptures of the Hindus. He distilled the essence from each of the Vedas. From Rigveda’‚ he derived the words‚ from Sama Veda’‚ he derived the music‚ from Yojurve Veda’‚ the code of gesture and from Atherva Veda’‚ the element of sentiment or flavor. He blended all of these ingredients and added his own divine genious. Thus‚ he created an entirely new activity. Brahma named this activity Natya’‚ which was later renamed Natya Veda’. Brahma
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Vedic period can be termed as feminine glory. Women participated in all spheres like men. They studied in Gurukulas and enjoyed equality in learning Vedas. In Aitereya Upanishad‚ the wife was called as companion of husband. In the Rig-Veda‚ the wife was blessed to live as a queen in the house of her husband. The word Thampati‚ so often used in the Veda‚ characterizes both wife and husband. According to MacDonnell and Keith‚ this word signifies the high status of
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The Indus Valley Civilization About Indus Valley Civilization The earliest traces of civilization in the Indian subcontinent are to be found in places along‚ or close‚ to the Indus River. Excavations first conducted in 1921-22‚ in the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro‚ both now in Pakistan‚ pointed to a highly complex civilization that first developed some 4‚500-5‚000 years ago‚ and subsequent archaeological and historical research has now furnished us with a more detailed picture
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metaphysics‚ logic‚ ethics or cosmology. Hence‚ historians of Indian philosophy typically understand the term “Hindu philosophy” as standing for the collection of philosophical views that share a textual connection to certain core Hindu religious texts (the Vedas)‚ and they do not identify “Hindu philosophy” with a particular comprehensive philosophical doctrine. Hindu philosophy not only includes the philosophical doctrines present in Hindu texts of primary and secondary religious importance‚ but also the
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