# Religion

religion culture

Shortest distance between two people is a story Building bridges Comedy acts like a wodden sword, hits the point without harming anyone

# Hinduism

The goal is to attain self realization through deep mediation experience that god and me are the same being

Not even a religion, its a way of life
Sanatan Dharma
Worlds oldest religion, around 1500 BC (as recorded)
India and hindu came from the same world SINDHU
Sanskrit is the ancient languague of Indus Valley civilization
One universal soul, formless, genderless source of reality
- everything is a part of ocean, drops propelling out
immortal souls, ATMA -> Transmigration via Karma (Action)
Moksha - free from cycle of life and death
Time has no beginning and end - it has cycles
- 1 epoch 4.32 million years
  - Krita Yuga
  - Treta Yuga
  - Dvapara Yuga
  - Kalyug
Dharma - each being has theor own dharms
- lions dharm is to kill and eat deer
- kings dharma is to rule well
No prophets, no sigle religious book, instead vedas -> Upanishads(800-500 BC)
- Rig vedas
  - Truth, reality, universe
  - war, wedding and rituals
- Yajur vedas
  - sacrifisial rituals
- Sama veda
  - sweet song that destroys sorrow
- Atharva veda
  - curse enemies, charm your loved one
  - learn to invoke rain, herbal tip
  - warfare, how to make poison arrows

Hinduism

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Upanishads and Puranas, philosophical texts
Mahabharata longest poem in the world, 5 times length of bible
- Dharma must be followed for society to function
- There is no knowledge like sankhya and no power like yoga
4 goals person should aim for to have a good life
- Dharms
- Artha
- Kama - pleasure of body and mind
  - avoid materialism
  - krodha
  - Lobha
  - Moha - attachment to power
  - mada - excessive pride
  - Matsarya - jealousy
- Moksha - break the cycle and merge with the source of creation
Shiva - Tandava dance destroyed the world after the epoch end
If scale of dharma are tipping and externa, intervention is required, a AVATAR (descent) is sent
- to restore dharma
Caste System - based on their abilities, not by their birth
- Manusmrity careated some hard rules around it
  - Bhramins lords of all casts
  - Forbid movement among casts

# Dharma

Hinduism gunas or tendencies

carries a lot of weight
- Dhriti
- Kshama
- Dama
- Asteya - theft
- Shauch
- Dhi
- Vidya
- Satya
- Akhrod - absence of anger
Everyone has mix of 3 tendencies Gunas = tendencies
- Sattva - tendencies towards purity and truth
- Rajas - towards action and activity
- Tamas - tendency towards inaction
  - All 3 together affects persons thoughts, behavious and personality

Dharma

Natural order for natural law

# Buddhism

Indian sage
2500 years ago
4th largest religion in world
Born to a royal family
- mother died when he was young - 7days after birth
- lived inside palace
- trained by vishwamitra
- swan shot by arrows
- Fight b/w weak and strong
- Son - Rahul
THere is no knowledge without sacrifise
In order to gain anything, first you must loose everything
The world is filled with pain and sorrow, but we can find serenity
- No matter what your circumstances, you will end up loosing everything, end up aging, end up ill
- Figure out how to make it all right
- How to deal with all this?
Promise of story is relevant and its treaching
- He who sees me, see the teaching. And he who sees the teachings, sees me
Path of seeker, he doesnt have a solution yet, but he recognizes the problem
- Why the human beings suffer? Is there any escape?
Gods became less important than the rituals themselves
Trans-state - rigrous yogic practises
Budda did it All, all to the utmost
- eat one grain per day
- sleep on nails
- standing on one foot
- drink his own urine
We are all in it together, everything is connected
Grace of accepting the life - when buddha accepted rice from a young girl, decision towards life
- you cannot do it completely from your own
- wash himself, strengthened and then sat for mediation
He had 2 gurus, which did not help him, following ritual almost broke his body and mind
- Trust himself now
Batteled with the god of desire, with all temptations
cosmic vision of the workings of the entire universe in 6 years
- his past lives, evolution
- capacity to attain Nirvana is within us.
- Just this, just this, the quality of this moment
How to teach the path of spirituality?
Its not the path of Asceticism, or sensory indulgance, its the middle way
- example to extra tight, loose string to produce sound. THere is a middle way
Problem of suffering? And What to do about it? Everything else is beside the point, creation etc
He established a community who could live together and help each other - sangha
Pay attention to your own thoughts
One time you are angry, one time you are calm and happy, who are you?
- one thing today and another thing tomorrw, water in glass, next day in air or human
- Causality, everything is connected to everything else
We are burning with Desires all of us
Miracle - something unexpected, hard to explain
Unknown is unspeakably more than know, and it will always be there.
Always reason before accepting
He too was helpless sometimes, how own kingdom was massacared, even he failed to perform a miracle
Change has to come from within
Let the dharma and the discipline be your teacher and died peacefully
Remember me as the one who woke up

# Jainism

Jain tradition is older than Buddhism
Adinath - first yogi of hatha yoga

# Four Noble Truths

Buddha four noble truth
Humans are the specie where new born require nurturing
- evolve human circuits of generosity, empathy, humbleness, humility

There is suffering/ dis-satisfaction in this world
1. It doesnt arises by itself, it has causes. Our own mind can cause it.
Suffering has a cause
1. could be Desire
2. Be smart about desire
Make an astonishing claim, Truth of end of suffering - Nirhodha
Noble eightfold paths
1. Right view
  1. Actions have Consequences
2. Right Resolve / intention
  1. no ill-will
3. Right speech
4. Right Action
5. Right Livelyhood
6. Right Effort
7. Right Mindfulness
8. Right Samadhi
  1. Vipassana Mediation

recipies to life, as to which one makes the best soupe
Liberation from Samsara

# Story of Buddha

Born around 6th centuary BC in foothills of himalayas
If you below mind you are buddhu, above buddha
What is taht man? old
Will it happen to me too?
What is he doing? sick person
What are they doing? at a funeral
1800 different varieties of doing yoga, like how medical sciences are becoming today
Take away the barriers, which are not allowing me to experience it
He sat with a resolve to find out the nature of existence
Buddhist pilgrimage sites
Buddha attained Bliss of liberation state - Anand nugget samadhi

# Islam

Mecca Kabba
- built by Abhrahim
- white stone which turned black
- black stone said to date back as adam and eve
- was robbed by Abu Tahir al-Qarmati once
  - now only fragments remains
- Stone is not a meteorite, possibly a Agate

# Paganism

Wiccan

# Christianity

Church Tax for 30,000 euros annum income

started in germanya round 4th centuary
The four largest branches of Christianity are the
- Catholic Church (1.3 billion/50.1%)
- Protestantism (920 million/36.7%)
- the Eastern Orthodox Church (230 million)
- Oriental Orthodoxy (62 million/Orthodoxy combined at 11.9%),
1/3 of total global popullation
Church tax 8-9% in germany if you are a part of state reognized Church
- easy to marry
- Renovating churches, salary
A protestant church started because a king wanted a divource
Period of Reformation 16thC Europe
- church was a very powerful institute, they own 1/3rf of european land
- they marry, confessions, death rituals, read bible (latin)
- sola fide
- Martin Luther
  - churches rituals did not have the power to save souls
  - alligations that preist were not doing rituals properly and none of them had any spiritual power
  - new translation of bible into german
  - landlords vs clergymen, biggest german peasent revolt before french revolution
    - was supressed with crushing brutality 100,000 people were killed

Indulgences: In the teaching of the Catholic Church, an indulgence is "a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins"
congregation: a group of people assembled for religious worship.

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