| Hinduism Doctrine And Way Of Life |
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| Books By Rajaji |
ANCIENT YET MODERN |
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sacred or secular, must be juxtaposed with the real life of the place and period before it can be rightly understood. We should throw our minds back thousands of years, and try to re create by an effort of imagination the world of the Upanishadic period-the way in which men lived and thought, and the way they disciplined themselves-so that we may understand and appreciate what was said by the rishis or seers. The principal teaching of all the Upanishads is this: Man cannot achieve happiness through mere physical enjoyment obtained through wealth or the goods of the world or even through the pleasures attainable by elevation to the happy realms above through the performance of the sacrifices prescribed in the Vedas. The potency of these sacrifices was a matter of implicit belief in those times. Yet, the attainment of these worlds of pleasures through Vedic sacrifices is not the object of the Upanishad teaching. In fact, pleasures in super-terrestrial worlds were regarded as hardly higher in real value than sensual enjoyment on earth. |
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