Vedas Jump to: navigation‚ search "Veda" redirects here. For other uses‚ see Veda (disambiguation). The Vedas (Sanskrit वेदाः véda‚ "knowledge") are a large body of texts originating in ancient India. Composed in Vedic Sanskrit‚ the texts constitute the oldest layer ofSanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism.[1][2] The Vedas are apauruṣeya ("not of human agency").[3][4][5] They are supposed to have been directly revealed‚ and thus are called śruti ("what is heard")‚[6][7] distinguishing
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United States during the World’s Parliament of Religion in Chicago. This event took place in 1893 where Swami Vivekananda came to talk about Hinduism‚ as an uninvited guest. He made a speech which had increased the popularity of Hinduism and the Vedanta Society (created by Vivekananda in 1896) in the United States. Later in the early 1900s a master of hindu philosophy named Paramahansa Yogananda arrived in the United States. He used the practice Yoga to “free the self from mind and body and to redirect
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verses. On the battle-field of Kurukshetra‚ Lord Krishna‚ during the course of His most interesting and instructive talk with Arjuna‚ revealed the profound‚ sublime and soul-stirring spiritual truths‚ and expounded to him the rare secrets of Yoga‚ Vedanta‚ Bhakti and Karma. All the teachings of Lord Krishna were subsequently recorded as the Song Celestial or the Bhagavad Gita by Sri Bhagavan Vyasa for the benefit of humanity at large. The world is under a great debt of gratitude to Sri Vyasa who has
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• In the India of Kabir’s day the Moslem influence was predominantly in the form of Siifism‚ and the poetry and philosophy of the Persian mystics such as ’Attir‚ Rinmi‚ Sidi‚ and Hifiz inspired Kabir. • From the Hindu side‚ Kabir was a product of the bhakti movement of devotional theism which represented a reaction against a decadent Buddhism and the intellectualism of the Advaitist Vedinta philosophy. • This move-ment had its philosophical expression in the eleventh century in the theistic Vaisnavism
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“Come out in the universe of light‚ everything in the universe is yours. Stretch out your arms and embrace it with love. If you ever felt you wanted to do that‚ you have felt God.” Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge and only by knowing it we can know God. It is also the fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge and only by knowing God we can understand human nature. Swamijijs teachings and words of wisdom about religion‚ culture‚ education and peace are the four
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Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4 PREFACE 5 Aluminium as Commodity 5 INTRODUCTION 6 Contribution to GDP 7 Employment Generation 7 ALUMINIUM PRODUCTION 8 Process Flow 8 Inputs of Production 9 Bauxite 9 Power 12 Other Raw Materials used 12 Production Method 12 Aluminium- Products 14 GOVERNMENT POLICIES 15 MAJOR PLAYERS 16 National AluminiumCompany (NALCO) 16 HINDALCO Industries 16 Sterlite Industries 17 INDUSTRY
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was secular public administration.[7] He wandered around the Himalayas and went to Tibet. Early political and religious career (1792–1820) Raja Rammohan Roy ’s impact on modern Indian history concerned a revival of the ethics principles of the Vedanta school of philosophy as found in the Upanishads. He preached about the unity of God‚ made early translations of Vedic scriptures into English‚ co-founded the Calcutta Unitarian Society‚ founded the Brahmo Samaj‚ and campaigned against sati. He sought
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1965 until his death in 2010‚ he wrote prolifically. In the bunker where he installed himself was a safe full of manuscripts; this was said to contain the complete chronicles of the Caulfield and Glass families‚ other novels‚ short stories‚ and a Vedanta manual. Claims hold that Salinger “left instructions authorizing a specific timetable” that these works be published between 2015 and
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Supreme Court ’s Central Empowered Committee (2005) Report in IA No. 1324. The alumina refinery plant being set up by M/S Vedanta Alumina Limited at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi District‚ Orissa. Sahu‚ G.‚ 2008. Mining in the Niyamgiri Hills and Tribal Rights. Economic & Political Weekly‚ [online] Available at: [Accessed 7 Special Correspondent‚ 2010. Environment Ministry stalls Vedanta ’s Niyamgiri project in Orissa.
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monitors or mechanisms to detect valve failure‚ which may have prevented the employees’ exposure. Accidents in Thermal Power Generation Plants: October 2013 Four labourers died when a pulley’s wire broke up at the 1980 MW power plant being set up by Vedanta Inc’s subsidiary Sterlite energy at Mansa Rajasthan July 2013 three labourers and two Chinese supervisors were killed on the spot when heavy iron plates fell on them due to some technical snag in the machine at the Rajiv Gandhi Thermal Power
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