Opinion

=============================================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 15/05/2020 : 2161. #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It-2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. *We noticed the purpose of the Smritis. What do the Smritis tell us? *They lay down the laws of life. What are the laws of life? #These laws depend on the laws of existence itself. Our existence is summed up in our longings or aspirations, and our longings or aspirations are summed up in the fourfold aim of existence, which is what we noticed yesterday: artha, kama and dharma. ##The material values of life sum up our physical requirements or physical needs, and our emotional needs are summed up by kama, the regulation of the way in which we have to fulfil our desires for material comfort and emotional satisfaction i...

============================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- #OPINION : 09/05/2020 : 2153. SRI GAUDAPADACHARYA PARAMA GURU OF SRI ADI SANKARACHARYA #Chapter- 4.The Fourfold Aim of Existence and How to Achieve It. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #We bestowed sufficient thought on the foundations of Indian culture, which are the Vedas. By observing also that the Vedas are not merely a scripture of religion in the sense of an aspiration for a god above the world, we had occasion to go into the different aspects of the meaning of the Veda Samhitas.  ##They are inclusive of at least five aspects of life. It is religion, of course, because the mantras of the Vedas are addressed to gods or divinities above the physical world. But the Veda mantras are also connected with this world, not merely with the oth...