THEO-001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jnana Yoga, Vedas, Upanishads

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The four vedas and their upanishads are the social, philosophical and spiritual dna of. Indic cultures in a broad geographic area including persia and india. Four vedas: rig-veda, sama-veda, yajur-veda and the atharva-veda. The upanishads, the earliest dating from about 3,000 years ago, are philosophical and spiritual discourses on self-realization. At the time of adi-shankara"s birth (8th century ce), vedic traditions had fallen into decline with currents of atheism and dualistic vedanta. Hastamalaka was a 7 year old boy who shankara took as his student. In the first six verses of hastamalaka, the author has revealed the self as the eternal, self-evident and self-effulgent consciousness, which enlivens the body-mind complex and in whose presence the sense organs and the mind function. Name of a god shivar and karma - auspicious maker. Adi - original; because he was an originator of a certain interpretation of vedas. He represents a particular understanding of the vedas.

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