#Ancient Culture( Samskaram ) of Bharatham-1.2 : Swami Krishnananda
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#OPINION : 14/12/2019 : 1988.
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Something is happening in the world outside, in nature. Something is happening among people outwardly. There is a large country; there is a large world. There are people. Something is happening to them or they are doing something, and you react in a particular manner to these events taking place in society outside or to the world in general.
How do you react?
That reaction is the product of your culture. You will react in a particular manner in respect of natural history, and also social history. This is a very subtle point because though individual reactions in respect of particular events may vary from moment to moment, from person to person, general reactions are common, and they lay the very foundation of a community.
Thus, cultures can be individual and also collective. India is a country with millions of people inhabiting it, and each person has his own or her own ways of thinking due to the individual differences in their evolutionary stages, but commonly an Indian is supposed to think in a general and collective manner.
There is some common background on which an Indian thinks, in spite of there being so many differences among individuals. That commonness of thought that we find in India among its citizens is the culture thereof.
This is what we call Indian culture.
Before I go further into this subject, I request you all to read two books. You have to read them thoroughly from cover to cover. The name of the first book is Foundations of Indian Culture written by Sri Aurobindo. The second book of Aurobindo is The Human Cycle.
The book was called originally Psychology of Social Development, and now it has been reprinted under a different title, The Human Cycle, and is clubbed with another book that he wrote. The entire book now goes under the title of The Human Cycle and Ideal of Human Unity. But this book must be read after the first book, Foundations of Indian Culture.
This is a standard work which will inspire you not only by the elevated style of English literature, but also by the profundity of thought. It is a classic.
There is another book which is also very inspiring and interesting: Eastern Religions and Western Thought by S. Radhakrishnan. There are many other books, but as you have no time to read too many books, I mentioned only the basic fundamentals.
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IN The history of Bharatiya Samskaram we find even in the Rig Veda, the oldest of scriptures, the Indian mind experiencing the intimation of something divine and immortal within itself. The inward search of man gathers volume and power in the Upanishads. The Upanishads seek to realize the transcendental dimension of man-the dimension of Divinity transcending humanity.
In this spiritual direction human awareness goes beyond the body, the sense and the surrounding world : man realizes himself as the immortal Self. Coming in the wake of the Upanishads, the Srimad Bhagavad Gita works out a complete philosophy of life, reconciling the sacred and the secular, work and worship.
The spirituality that proceeds from the Vedas and the Upanishads, and reinforced by Sri Krishna,
Ancient Rishi-s, Great Acharya-s Swami Sri Adi Shankaracharya, Sri Ramanujacharya, Sri Madhvacharya and many others, is glorified into universality by Acharya like Swami Vivekananda, Swami Sivananda, Swami Chinmayananda, Swami Krishnananda, Swami Chidananda, Swami Tejomayananda and so on. They introduced religion with the power to illumine and guide humanity as a whole.
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JAY HIND
JAY BHARATHAM
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.
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#OPINION : 14/12/2019 : 1988.
Chapter 1: The Definition of Culture ( Samskaram ) -2.
=====================================================================Something is happening in the world outside, in nature. Something is happening among people outwardly. There is a large country; there is a large world. There are people. Something is happening to them or they are doing something, and you react in a particular manner to these events taking place in society outside or to the world in general.
How do you react?
That reaction is the product of your culture. You will react in a particular manner in respect of natural history, and also social history. This is a very subtle point because though individual reactions in respect of particular events may vary from moment to moment, from person to person, general reactions are common, and they lay the very foundation of a community.
Thus, cultures can be individual and also collective. India is a country with millions of people inhabiting it, and each person has his own or her own ways of thinking due to the individual differences in their evolutionary stages, but commonly an Indian is supposed to think in a general and collective manner.
There is some common background on which an Indian thinks, in spite of there being so many differences among individuals. That commonness of thought that we find in India among its citizens is the culture thereof.
This is what we call Indian culture.
Before I go further into this subject, I request you all to read two books. You have to read them thoroughly from cover to cover. The name of the first book is Foundations of Indian Culture written by Sri Aurobindo. The second book of Aurobindo is The Human Cycle.
The book was called originally Psychology of Social Development, and now it has been reprinted under a different title, The Human Cycle, and is clubbed with another book that he wrote. The entire book now goes under the title of The Human Cycle and Ideal of Human Unity. But this book must be read after the first book, Foundations of Indian Culture.
This is a standard work which will inspire you not only by the elevated style of English literature, but also by the profundity of thought. It is a classic.
There is another book which is also very inspiring and interesting: Eastern Religions and Western Thought by S. Radhakrishnan. There are many other books, but as you have no time to read too many books, I mentioned only the basic fundamentals.
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NOTE :
IN The history of Bharatiya Samskaram we find even in the Rig Veda, the oldest of scriptures, the Indian mind experiencing the intimation of something divine and immortal within itself. The inward search of man gathers volume and power in the Upanishads. The Upanishads seek to realize the transcendental dimension of man-the dimension of Divinity transcending humanity.
In this spiritual direction human awareness goes beyond the body, the sense and the surrounding world : man realizes himself as the immortal Self. Coming in the wake of the Upanishads, the Srimad Bhagavad Gita works out a complete philosophy of life, reconciling the sacred and the secular, work and worship.
The spirituality that proceeds from the Vedas and the Upanishads, and reinforced by Sri Krishna,
Ancient Rishi-s, Great Acharya-s Swami Sri Adi Shankaracharya, Sri Ramanujacharya, Sri Madhvacharya and many others, is glorified into universality by Acharya like Swami Vivekananda, Swami Sivananda, Swami Chinmayananda, Swami Krishnananda, Swami Chidananda, Swami Tejomayananda and so on. They introduced religion with the power to illumine and guide humanity as a whole.
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JAY HIND
JAY BHARATHAM
VANDHE MATHARAM
BHARAT MATHA KI JAY.
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