01:840:211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rigveda, Upanishads, Vedas
Document Summary
Hymn that are meant to be prayers. Early people were trying to make sense of the cosmos. There has to be a truth or reality that ties everything together. It"s event is not on the cosmos, but how human society is structured and organize. A group of texts that was in existence until late 6th or 5th century. Question ritual centered world viewed, cosmology, spiritual life. These are the foundation of religious texts. Two types of knowledge a man should learn. Higher knowledge is the the ultimate reality bratva. An invisible reality, ranked higher than a materialistic world.
