RLGA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fire Worship, Sannyasa, Kama Sutra
Lec 5:
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- yoga: postures, meditative perception
- Sanskrit: Dhyana (highly focused concentration) –Buddhism
- Travels east Chinese –> Chan Buddhists
- Japanese -> Zen - > just sitting
Upansihads / liberation -> moksha / freedom from rebirth and wheel of life
Liberarion <-> slavery, oppression, confinement
Buddha – enlightened / awakened one
= Walking (Buddha) <-> sleeping (we are asleep to our real identity and truth of the
world
= our state as human beings – heaven (salvation – god pilot of our lives) <-> hell
(damnation)
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- Epics - stories, myths
- Perhanas – addition tales, prequils, make tradition richer
- Law books – manu = class system, goals / stages of life
o Brahmans
o Nobility / warriors
o Merchants / farming
o Servants
o Untouchables – excrement (sewage), handling corpses
▪ Karmic disease if you come in contact
- Class of brahma, Cast = subgroupings (jhati)
o Born into
o Plumbers...
o Hereditary, job, family, income
o Inter marriage
o Go up, karma – next life
- Elite class of brahmans new vetas
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- male goes through stages of life
o student – learn vetas, train to be brahman
o get married, children – householder
o retire – retiree / forest dweller – retire away from society, in forest to
engage in contrmplation, meditation , study Upanishads
o wandering ascetic – ceremony wher your old self dies, seek liberation
for the remainder of your life; symbolic death
- upper class
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- 4 main goals of life
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o dharma – social duty
o artha – political / economic activity
o kama – pleasure (kamasutra)
o moksha – liberation
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- dharma – duty based on context, gita – different paths of yoga
- Vedic religion/ philosophy – Brahman - preform / warrior - educated
- Both documents -> Puranas – additional tales, dharma-sastras – law
book/rules
- Hinduism - Umbrella term, hyper diverse collection – practices, belifs, gods,
celebrates its own diversity
- Hinduism vs Buddhism
o Enlightenment, samsara – illusion of the world
o Duty, role in life, karma
o Sitting close to the teacher, aban = Brahman, Buddhism revises
understanding
o Monk priest, fire behind – fire ritual
o Stages of life
Side 1:
- Sramana / Sannyasin tradition - cultural phenomenon, wondering people
seeking liberation, not following / quit normal lives to seek liberation
- Not historical fact, impossible to confirm events of his life – sources are from
apart of Buddhist tradition itself; not historically recorded, story to make
sense of his life :. Sneak in Buddhist ideas & doctrines. = Sacred biography
o Ex: Gospels in Christianity - not historical or eye witness
o Objective - To celebrate person in context of doctorine
- Suffering – early Buddhist doctrine
- path - last noble truth - how you got to go about liberation
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- other people are bhaving in similar ways
- mahavira – founder of jane tradition
- Buddha - additional stories tell about past lives, preparing for this life
- 4 sights
o old man
o Sickness, injury, disease, pain
o Death
o Holy man
- Depressed going back to castle, saw holy man – living in poverty - seeking
liberation; ristrokecy symbol – act of ascetism = saved of hair
- Living a sheltered life as a prince, positive / fun, perusing pleasure – extreme
to luxury
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Document Summary
Japanese -> zen - > just sitting (damnation) = walking (buddha) sleeping (we are asleep to our real identity and truth of the world. Upansihads / liberation -> moksha / freedom from rebirth and wheel of life. = our state as human beings heaven (salvation god pilot of our lives) hell. Perhanas addition tales, prequils, make tradition richer. Class of brahma, cast = subgroupings (jhati) for the remainder of your life; symbolic death. Upper class: brahmans, nobility / warriors, merchants / farming, servants. Male goes through stages of life engage in contrmplation, meditation , study upanishads. 4 main goals of life: dharma social duty, artha political / economic activity, kama pleasure (kamasutra, moksha liberation. Dharma duty based on context, gita different paths of yoga. Vedic religion/ philosophy brahman - preform / warrior - educated. Both documents -> puranas additional tales, dharma-sastras law. Hinduism - umbrella term, hyper diverse collection practices, belifs, gods, celebrates its own diversity.
