HUMA 1865 Lecture 2: Hinduism 2

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1865
• Professor: Gordon Anderson

Document Summary

Three paths to liberation (moksha): jnana knowledge, bhakti devotion, karma action. Four sections of each collection of vedas: samhitas (hymns, brahmanas, aranyakas, upanishads. There are six schools of philosophy in the hindu tradition: samkhya, nyaya, vaisheshika, mimamsa, yoga, vedanta. These orthodox systems accept the vedas as eternal truth. Jainism and buddhism are the heterodox, or unorthodox systems in. Indian philosophy; that is, they do not uphold the eternal truth of the. End of the vedas philosophy of the upanishads. The upanishads emphasize knowledge as the path to liberation (moksha) from the cycle of birth, death, and re-birth. Specifically, the knowledge of the identity of atman and brahman. It is the illusion that there is a self that persists independently of. Vedanta is traditionally denoted to upanishads, in popular usage it more often refers to systems of thought based on a coherent interpretation of the upanishads, bhagavad gita, and brahma sutras. Atman and brahman are not separate realities, but one.