Tag Archives: vedanta

Principles of Hinduism

Posted on February 19, 2008 by gokulmuthu

Recently on a mailing list a person posted the basic tenets of Jainism and Buddhism. He stated that Hinduism is too complex to have a distilled list of basic principles. Here is the list of the basic principles of Hinduism. … Continue reading →

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Identity

Posted on October 14, 2007 by gokulmuthu

I saw the movie “Bourne Ultimatum” a few days back. It was a good action movie. The core of the movie was about the identity of a person changed for military intelligence purposes and a lot of noise in the … Continue reading →

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Drg-Drsya-Viveka

Posted on August 13, 2007 by gokulmuthu

Drg-Drsya-Viveka I read a book on Advaita Vedanta named Drg-Drsya-Viveka a few months back. It is one of the most clear and straight forward logical framework to present Advaita Vedanta I have come across so far. The language is also … Continue reading →

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What is Maya?

Posted on April 12, 2007 by gokulmuthu

Maya is not a fictitious theory. Maya is just a name given to a natural phenomenon. It occurs when we try to analyze and understand the concept of infinity in any field. Let us consider mathematics. We have the numbers … Continue reading →

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In Quest Of Reality

Posted on March 26, 2007 by gokulmuthu

Model 1 There are some scientific theories that are being proposed that this world is primarily physical. They say that all mental processes and even the feeling of ‘I’ are the result of chemical and electrical activity in the brain. … Continue reading →

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