Religion

THE ENDURING INDIAN VALUES

INTRODUCTION
Upanishad Advice:
  
DA: DAMA…Meaning  -Restraint.

DA:  DATTA Meaning-Charity.

DA:   DAYATVA. Meaning.Merciful attitude towards.  

  • TATVAM ASI:  (That Thou Art.)… Meaning THE GOD WITH IN. 

  • EKAM SAT, VIPRAH BAHUDHA VADANTI: Meaning " God is one and the learned  may explain   from many angles.  

  • ADVAITA: Non-Duality. Meaning the " The oneness of God." 

  • ISAVASYAM IDAM SARVAM:  God is immanent an Omnipotent.   

  • ISVARA SARVA BHUTANAM:  Seek the presence of God in every living organism. 

  • DHARMO RAKSHANTHI RAKSHATA: Preserve Righteousness and  Righteousness  will preserve   (protect) you.  

  • ANU KRUTHA-O- BHADRANI PASHYANTHU VISWA THAH: Let Noble Thoughts come to us from all Directions. (Rig-Veda.) 

  • NISHKAMA KARMA: Dispassionate/ disinterested work/activity. 

  • AHIMSA PARAMO DHARMAHA: Non-violence is the greatest of all Faiths. 

  • MANAV SEVA MADHAVA SEVA: The service of man (kind,) is the Service of God. 

  • SARVO JANABHI SUKHINO BHAVANTH: The universal well being of all. 

  • SARVA MANAVA SAHODHARATVA: Universal Brotherhood.   VASUDAI KA KUTUMBAKAM: Family of mankind.

  • YADHUM OOREY YAVARUM KELIIR: Home everywhere and kinship with all.  

  • PAROPAKARAYA PUNYAYA, PAPAYA PARA PEEDANAM: To help others under all circumstances is the life without sinning. To hurt others always as a habit in fact is the life of sinning. 

  • YADBHAVAM TAD BHAVATI: As you think so you become. 

  • MANAH PRAGRAHAM EVACHA: Control of the Mind is the only important thing in life that matters 

  • HINDUISM IS A WAY OF LIFE. (DR.S.RADHA KRISHNAN.)It has very little room for intolerance and dogma. (India was yet to absorb its religions on a par with Indonesia, java or Philippines.)

  • Note: There can be no HINDU heretic as there are no dogmas from which one could deviate. it is a travesty of truth to attempt and reduce INDIANNESS to a sectarian notion of HINDUTTVA.

  • INDIA'S STRENGTH LIES IN ITS UNITY IN DIVERSITY. Billion people- 35 languages with scores of dialects, 80% subsists on farms.