...First hand information with Hindu person Reporter: Mrs Singh thank you, for agreeing to speak with me about your religion. Please tell me what is Hinduism? Mrs. Singh: Hinduism is a western term used to describe the assorted religions and cultural traditions stemming from the Vedas, the ancient Sanskrit writing of India. Reporter: Is this a new religion? Mrs. Singh: No. It may have started about five thousand years ago. It has no single founder. In fact it may have started with the arrival of the Aryans who invaded Northern India in the second millennium and introduced the Sanskrit language and the Vedas. Before you ask you next question, I would like to make an important point: Hinduism has no common set of beliefs and practices. But there are a number of philosophical concepts which are widely accepted and are usually passed down by spiritual teachers called Gurus. Reporter: I read somewhere that your religion and Sikhism were once the same. Is this true? Mrs. Singh: Sikhism was formed out of Hinduism. Some people did not like the way they were treated. You see the society was divided into many social classes with many poors. It was felt that Sikhism would take them out of suffering and bring them closer to God. The Sikhs also wanted to separate from the Hindus. They did not accept the Vedas as authority on religion. Reporter: My family is Christian. We use the Bible as our guide book and we believe in God the Father and Jesus the Son. What is your guide...
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...It is not surprising that there should be so much confusion and conflict over the issue of language. It is assumed that it is single problem with a unique solution. One group argues that English language owes its position to British imperialism and that it is inconsistent with national self-respect to continue to use it to the exclusion of our beautiful regional languages. A second group contents that, whatever the evils of British imperialism, English has helped Indian nationalism to achieve freedom; that it has been the vehicle of higher education, technology and scientific research and that it has been the invaluable link for forging the unity of India and any attempt to discard it will result in a breakdown of our educational system and take the country back by two centuries in all aspects of modern life A third group is convinced that as all regional languages of India arc well developed and have worth literatures, all of them should have equal status. There is a lot of confused thinking going on in India today over the problem of finding a universally acceptable link language for the country. The debate on the subject rages 'ad infinitum' in all available forums like the parliament, the press, the platform etc; but none of the many points of view being put forward every day appears to be gaining acceptance. That is so mainly because most of the thinking on the subject is super-charged with emotion and the issues involved have been greatly clouded by the import of prejudices...
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...“ How to Control Emotions ” This would give you guide on how to control your emotions towards your better half, friend, officemate and all of the people around you. The rules of practicing “ UGALING LANGIT, UGALING KAAYA-AYA ”. 1. Ang maunang magalit ang may karapatang magalit, pag naunahan ka ng galit nya tumahimik ka nalang muna. 2. Walang taong nag-aaway mag-isa, Pag hindi kayo sumagot o pumatol titigil din daw ang taong nakikipagaway sa inyo. 3. Ang taong galit “ BINGI ”, If someone is angry wala raw pinakikinggan so don’t try to explain and fight. Hindi ka nya iintindihin dahil wala siyang naririnig kundi ang sarili nya. 4. Ang taong galit “ ABNOY “, ayon sa pastor biblical daw ito, because the lord said when he crucified.. “Father patawarin mo sila dahil hindi nila alam ang kanilang ginagawa”. Modern term for this kind of people are abnoy. So you better not get angry para wag ka matawag na abnoy. You should know and realized that the person who make your day bad are jewel, because you need them for you to mature. Hanggat andyan daw sila at kinaiinisan mo ibig sabihin immature ka pa. God will not take away those people. It’s for you to take away your bad feelings towards them. You’ll know na mature ka na pag dumating na yung time na hindi ka na naiinis sa mga taong ito. Because you have learned to accept them and to have patience with them. 5. Finally the best part of this is to tell yourself na because of this person, I will grow mature, and that dahil sa contribution nya...
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...Sets Sail for India on December 16, 1896 on the Prince Regent Lutipold; 2: Had a close association with Ajit Singh-Raja of Khetri? Ans: Swami Vivekananda 7. Where in Andaman and Nicobar is India's only live volcano? Barren Island 8. Chalukyas had their capital at Vatapi now called Badami. Which district will it be in Karnataka? Ans: Bijapur 9. Who wrote the Panchatantra? Ans: Vishnusharma 10. The three wings of village panchayat are: Gram Sabha, Gram Panchayat and what? Ans: Nyaya Panchayat 11. In which city Gautama Buddha died at the age of 80? Ans: Kushinagar 12. The first municipal corporation was set up in 1688, in which Indian city? Ans: Madras 13. What is the literal meaning of 'Nataraj' in Sanskrit? Ans: Lord of Dance 14. Which is the oldest mountain range in India ? Ans: Aravallis. 15. INS Arihant is India's first what? Ans: Nuclear Submarine 16. Which monument in Delhi was designed by Fariburz Sahba ? Ans: Lotus temple 17. An explorer found a silver coin marked 7 BC. He was told it was a forgery. Why? The label BC only could have come into usage after 0 BC. 18. What day follows the day before yesterday if two days from now will be Sunday? Thursday 19. Bonnie’s father has five daughters but has no sons. Four of thedaughters are named...
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...Kamusta ka na? To be honest there's a lot of things that I wanted to tell you, share with you pero sa sobrang dami I don't know where to start. First of all I miss you! Palaging nagpla-play sa isip ko yung mga times na palagi tayong magkausap sa phone kahit inaabot na tayo ng umaga. Those times na palagi tayong magkasama, nagkwekwentuhan ng punong puno ng katatawanan, kulitan na parang magkaibigan lang, takutan na halos mapatay na kita, asaran kahit na minsan umaabot na sa pikunan! Away na umaabot sa iyakan pero isang akap, paghingi ng tawad at pagpapatawad lang ang katapat. Pero ang pinaka mahalaga yung pagmamahalan nating walang katulad. Hindi mo ba namimiss yun? Didn't you miss me? Kase ako I'm dying to see you and hug you tight so that you could feel how I really missed you! Kung pwede lang babatuhin kita ng bato ng may nakasulat na "I miss you" para malaman mo kung gano kasakit sa pakiramdam pag namimiss kita! Pero wala eh, kahit na gano kita ka miss, gaano ko kasabik na makita ka at maakap hindi na rin pwede! Wala na eh! Break na tayo! Wala nang dahilan para magkita pa tayo! Wala nang dahilan para magsama pa tayo! Sobrang layo mo na. You’re like a sun, hindi kita maabot, ni hindi kita kayang tignan ng deretso dahil nasasaktan ako! You know how much I love you. I did everything just to make you happy, even thou sometimes your happiness pains me a lot! Pero tiniis ko yung sakit, because I’m afraid to lose you! Kaya lang wala, nagsawa ka din. You leave me with a broken heart...
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...UNDERSTANDING THE ARYANS A roadmap for students and beginners Burjor Avari (Manchester Metropolitan University) It is a known fact of history that the British curiosity and interest in Indian cultures increased phenomenally after the East India Company came to acquire a territorial hold on Bengal from the late 1750s onwards. Their paramountcy over India’s millions depended upon their thorough understanding of the cultures of the sub-continent which required a mastery in its languages.[i] The small circle of dedicated and assiduous students of India’s languages included Sir William Jones, the eminent jurist and polymath who resided in India between 1783 and 1794.[ii] After studying Sanskrit for just under three years he observed, in 1786, that Sanskrit, Greek and Latin and Old Persian had all descended from an original speech. His observation has proved correct; and, since his time, most learned philological opinion has accepted that, in terms of language classifications, the common source of these tongues was what is now called proto-Indo-European. Its geographical focus was presumed to be the area around the Caspian Sea. It is also generally accepted that the eastern branch of the Indo-European family of languages is known as the Indo-Iranian whose first speakers called themselves Aryans. Whether the Aryans, speaking some variety of Indo-European languages, invaded or migrated into Iran and India from their original trans-Caspian homeland or had actually...
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...©Sachin Khandelwal Here is a Story about one of the greatest civilization that ever lived story. Our story.. The story of India India is the ancient land where wisdom made its home before it went to any other country. Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived. Here first sprang up inquiries into the internal world. Here first arose doctrines of Immortality of soul, the existence of supervising god, an imminent god in nature and in man itself. This is the land from where like the tidal waves, spirituality and philosophy have always rushed out and indulged the world. ©Sachin Khandelwal But do not forget!!! It is the same India which has withstood shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions, hundreds of upheavals of manner and customs. The same land which stand firmer than any rock of the world with its undying vigour and indestructible life. Life of India is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without an end.. Immortal. And we are children of such a country. Our story began when our first race... “Aryans” came to India. And here is the story of Aryans describing why we are the way we are: Three mountains stand as a typical of progress. The Himalayas of Indo-Aryans, Sinai of Hebrew and Olympus of Greek civilizations. When Aryans reached India they found that the climate was so hot that they could not work longer physically. So they started to think, thus they became introspective and...
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...The purpose of this essay is to describe the role of Atman/Brahman and how they are related to one another in the Upanishads and then later re-appropriated in the Bhagavad Gita through the teaching of Krishna to Arjuna. Chapter ten in the Patterns of Religion textbook describe Hinduism as a religion of “many layers” on page 308. This analogy is further described on page 304 by likening Hinduism to a maze. “There is not a single straight line, but everything is connected.” The word Brahman is used in different context throughout the text. It is mentioned during the era of Vedism, when the Aryan migrants introduced the term for the pinnacle of the hierarchy in the caste system. An interesting note here is that rulers are placed below the Brahmans in the caste hierarchy. Later in Upanishads, Brahman is defined as “the One, which existed before the gods.” The Upanishads term atman as a distinguished self that is rebirthed throughout the journey through reincarnation. While reading the texts, I keep attempting to collaborate the information into theories that I am familiar with. The closest I am able to reach towards understanding is to liken atman to the soul, and the Atman/Brahman relationship to the path towards enlightenment and self-discovery. In the Bhagavad Gita, Lord Krishna altered the relationship of Atman/Brahman from what was traditionally taught and established. Krishna taught that there is a path to moksha for everyone regardless of birth, caste, or gender...
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...The Dhammapada: The Path of Perfection The Dhammapada, comes from the “Pali word Dhamma and the Pali and Sanskrit word, Pada (9). Dhamma corresponds to the Sanskrit Dharma, the first word of the Bhagavad Gita when the field of Dharma, the field of Truth, is mentioned” (Mascaro 9). The word Dhamma carries the meaning ‘to support, to remain’ and thus of “law, a moral law, a spiritual law of righteousness, and the eternal law of the Universal, Truth” and in Christianity, it corresponds to “the will of God” (Mascaro 9). The word Pada, means “foot, step, and thence has the meaning of a path” (Mascaro 9). Juan Mascaro writes, “Thus Dhammapada suggests the Path of Dhamma, the right path of life in which we make with our own footsteps, our own actions, and which leads us to the supreme Truth” (9). The Dhammapada, represents the path of Truth, the path of love, the path of light, the path of life, and the path of Nirvana or in Christian terms the path of God (9). The Dhammapada, to me represents verses that can be used as a guide for life. These could help build and teach morals and help create a foundation for a person’s individual life. Such topics as, contrary ways, the mind, the fool, good and evil, joy, forsake anger, and craving can help guide an individual through life. I do understand that these verses encompass the struggles towards Nirvana, which is the supreme goal for the Buddhist, and point out the narrow Path of Perfection that leads to it. These verses are probably...
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...STUDIES IN TAMIL LITERATURE AND HISTORY WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR; 1. 2. 3. Hindu Administrative The Mauryan Polity. Institutions. 4. 5. Some Aspects of the Vayu Purana. The Matsya Purana: A Study. Silappadikaram (in the Press). First Published .. .. J930 MUHTED AT TE ICADIAS LAW JOUNAL MESS, icYLAfOUi MAOA PREFACE. 'Studies in Tamil Literature and History* was first published in 1930 by Messrs. Luzac & Co., London. The book went out of print in the beginning of In view of this and also of the fact that it is prescribed for study by candidates taking Tamil at the Intermediate Arts examination at the University of London, the Secretary, External Department, University of London, wrote to me asking whether I am reprinting this year. the book. made me approach JMis and the increasing demand for the book the University of Madras with the to help me in the request publication of a second of the book. And the University has been kind edition enough to undertake to reprint it, for which I express my grateful thanks. In this edition I have added in an Appendix some notes which are the results of further studies on the subjects discussed in the book. V. R. RAMACHANDRA DIKSHITAR, UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS, 14th December, 1936 PREFATORY NOTE TO THE FIRST EDITION. To the earnest student of Indian History and particularly of South Indian History, a deep and critical study of ancient Tamil literature...
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...week 3 essay Hindus is a combination of religious, philosophical and cultural practices that originated in India. In is unable to be traced to just one person but it is believed to have been around for thousands of years. Hindus is a way of life not just something to believe in. The two main beliefs that Hinduism is known for are incarnation also known as Samsara and what goes around comes around also known as Karma. The main beliefs are in penance, prayer, non-violence, honesty, truth, celibacy, contentment and cleanliness. The collection of spiritual laws came from different point in its history from saints. They were stories past from one generation to the next until they were able to be written. Some of the main texts are Bhagavad Gita, the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata. Their god is Brahman, the one absolute. There are many god and goddess that represent different parts of Brahman. It is not pushed to worship any one deity. Spirits, trees, animals and planets are some of the other things worshiped by the Hindus. During the eighteenth century after the Mogual empire collapsed Christian missionaries moved into India tried to get rid of Hindus. Gandhi tried to counteract the influences of the west by teaching that strength lay in spiritual truth and in nonviolent resistance against the oppression. He taught that the qualities were the essence of the religions. One of the ways Hinduism has made it to different parts of the world is from self proclaimed...
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...little Little Things – One Direction [Zayn] Your hand fits in mine Like it’s made just for me But bear this in mind It was meant to be And I’m joining up the dots with the freckles on your cheeks And it all makes sense to me [Liam] I know you’ve never loved The crinkles by your eyes When you smile You’ve never loved Your stomach or your thighs, The dimples in your back at the bottom of your spine But I’ll love them endlessly [Zayn&Liam] I won’t let these little things slip out of my mouth But if I do It’s you Oh, it’s you they add up to I’m in love with you And all these little things [Louis] You can’t go to bed without a cup of tea And maybe that’s the reason that you talk in your sleep And all those conversations are the secrets that I keep Though it makes no sense to me [Harry] I know you’ve never loved The sound of your voice on tape You never want To know how much you weigh You still have to squeeze into your jeans But you’re perfect to me [Harry&Niall] I won’t let these little things slip out of my mouth But if it’s true It’s you, It’s you they add up to I’m in love with you And all these little things [Niall] You’ll never love yourself half as much as I love you And you’ll never treat yourself right, darling, but I want you to. If I let you know I’m here for you Maybe you’ll love yourself like I love you, oh. [Harry] And I’ve just let these little things slip out of my mouth ‘Cause it’s you, Oh, it’s you, It’s you...
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...Dear Kamille Apolinar, Hello sa aking napakapaka gandang mommy! Natutuwa ako na ikaw yung naging katabi ko. Hindi ko maalala yung unang beses tayo nagusap. I introduced myself ata to you basta ayun, super blessed ako na ikaw yung pinili talaga ni Lord para maging seatmate ko. Alam mo bang sobrang hiyang hiya ako sayo nung una kasi grabe, you’re so smart and parang easy easy lang sayo yung stress ng school. You’re really confident and well-built na yung flexible mo na personality. Parang hindi ka na nga nag-adjust eh kasi pagkaapak mo palang sa room natin, at home ka na. Tsaka feeling ko hindi tayo magiging close kasi ang hyper mo and shy ako so parang malabo ata yun pero omg naging mommy pa kita! How’s that possible!? You know that you inspired me a lot. Na push rin naman ako magaral kasi nakakahiya sa katabi ko na matalino. Sobrang sweet mo and talking with you is like talking to someone I’ve known for ages! Parang dati pa tayong magkakilala na ngayon lang nag-usap ulit! Sobrang bilis mo makagaanan ng loob and sobrang thankful ako dahil nakilala kita. You don’t know how grateful I am. 5 months may be early to say this pero isa ka talaga sa pinaka-nilolook up ko and I really admire your confidence. I wish you could donate some of yours to me! I love you mommy! There are countless memories of us that are yet to happen. I am definitely glad that we are still classmates for this sem and I hope and I pray that we will be classmates until we graduate (cross fingers)! Ikaw ang isa...
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...be as thriving and properous as locAs a matter of fact, everything we create today is based on the knowledge that we obtain throughout our life by way of education. This assists scientists in inventing equipment and devices, resulting in a high technology nowadays. The more developed life becomes, the more necessary education is for everyone. Education is where there is a high standard for education. Women are an integral part of a family, a culture, a society and most importantly, a nation. In order for a woman to excel in all these spheres, she needs to be backed by quality education. This, sadly to say, in many countries, is not being carried out. Why is this so, when so much emphasis on education is being placed nowadays? An ancient Sanskrit saying says, woman is the home and the home is the basis of society. It is as we build our homes that we can build our country. If the home is inadequate, either inadequate in material goods and necessities...
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...3.0 Discovery of Sanskrit Sanskrit can be defined as an ancient, classical language of India that was historically used to write scriptures and poems. However, it was mainly utilised in matters related to religion and science. The term ‘Sanskrit’ alone means “complete or perfect” (Robertson & O’Connor, 2000). Many Indian grammarians studied the language but the most prominent of them all was Panini. His works consisted of comprehensive notations in the areas of phonetics, phonology, and morphology. His major work, Astadhyayi contained basic rules and definitions that described Sanskrit grammar. Sanskrit itself was not exposed to the linguistic world until the 16th century as according to Rocher (2014), the first recorded comment known regarding...
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