A report on Vedas
The Vedas (,, वेदः) are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.
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Pancharatra
1 linksReligious movement in Hinduism that originated in late 3rd-century BCE around the ideas of Narayana and the various avatars of Vishnu as their central deities.
Religious movement in Hinduism that originated in late 3rd-century BCE around the ideas of Narayana and the various avatars of Vishnu as their central deities.
Jiva Gosvami had stated in his Paramātma Sandārbha, forming part of six principal Sandārbhas, or philosophical treatises of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, that, "Seeing that the imperfect scriptures in the modes of passion and ignorance bring only a host of troubles, and also seeing that the original Vedas are very difficult to follow properly, and thus being very dissatisfied with both of these, the all-knowing scripture authors affirm the superiority of the Pancharatras, which describe the pure absolute truth, Narayana, and the worship of the Lord, which is very easy to perform."
Hindus
4 linksHindus are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.
Hindus are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism.
Their sacred texts are also the Vedas and the Upanishads.
Bhakti movement
3 linksSignificant religious movement in medieval Hinduism that sought to bring religious reforms to all strata of society by adopting the method of devotion to achieve salvation.
Significant religious movement in medieval Hinduism that sought to bring religious reforms to all strata of society by adopting the method of devotion to achieve salvation.
Madeleine Biardeau states, as does Jeanine Miller, that Bhakti movement was neither reform nor a sudden innovation, but the continuation and expression of ideas to be found in Vedas, Bhakti Marga teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, the Katha Upanishad and the Shvetashvatara Upanishad.
Natya Shastra
1 linksSanskrit treatise on the performing arts.
Sanskrit treatise on the performing arts.
The text re-asserts a similar message in the closing chapter, stating for example, in verses 36.20–21 that performance arts such as drama, songs, music, and dance with music are equal in importance as the exposition of the Vedic hymns, and that participating in vocal or instrumental music once is superior to bathing in river Ganges for a thousand days.
Vaishnava-Sahajiya
0 linksForm of Hindu tantric Vaishnavism focused on Radha Krishna worship that developed in the region of Greater Bengal .
Form of Hindu tantric Vaishnavism focused on Radha Krishna worship that developed in the region of Greater Bengal .
Get rid of the Vedas and never perform any Vedic rituals!