RLG100Y1 Lecture : Hinduism

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Samhitas/mantras - composed around 1500 bce and 1200 bce. Brammanas ritualistic commentaries on the mantras. Aranyakas composed in the forest less concerned with ritual and literal enactment with sacrifice more concerned with philosophical. Upanishads sitting near secrecy sharing with the person sitting next to you. Knowledge that would be passed on by the master to the disciple when the disciple is fit. Aranyakas represent the early movement away from the ritualistic concerns with the vedic religions. By the time you get to the upanishads homeless wandering inspire that kind of pattern of living. Upanishads most important part of the vedas for hinduism. Evoking the end physical end and the final word. We find the basic philosophical underpinnings and presuppositions of hinduism. Content of the upanishads they are traditionally memorized. Vedic literature able to identify when there is some corruption in the material. Writing was seen as for the stupid who couldn t remember.

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