AAS 256 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Shaivism, Puranas, Vaishnavism

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Asian & Asian American Studies
• Course: AAS 256
• Professor: Andrew Nicholson

Document Summary

A: after chopping off the 5th head of brahma he had to wander as penance. B: puranic saivism is for everyone, irrespective of caste of gender. B: communist anti-superstition clubs harass and persecute tantric priests. Daksinacara right hand use of pure substances. Satya narayan now considered a siddha (accomplished one) Ram nath he is visiting his family (not supposed to have connection with your family). Hinduism tends to be more orthopraxy (more about what you practice) than orthodoxy (more about what your opinion or belief) 6 astika systems (affirmer of the authority of the vedas) 3 sets of 2 astika"s (connected) ** page 231 & 232 in flood ** [samkhya enumeration & yoga mental discipline ] [mimamsa vedic exogenesis & vedanta end of the veda school ] [nyaya logic & vaisesika atomist school ] Yoga is the cessation of the turning of the mind. Samkhya (you think and read a lot of texts and analyze texts makes you achieve aloneness.