REL 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Yamuna, Cultural Appropriation, Samkhya
Document Summary
Beings are reincarnated or reborn into the world of suffering over and over again (samsara) Karma action fuel for rebirth, the law of cause and effect, governs reincarnation. Freedom from cyclic existence can be attained through spiritual knowledge (jnana); to escape from samsara (reincarnation) is to achieve. Moksha" liberation from limitations of space time and matter through realization of the immortal absolute. Jnana can be achieved through spiritual disciplines of asceticism (renunciation of pleasure through fasting, celibacy, poverty, seclusion, and self-mortification) and yoga: yoga means yoke or unite. 1st appears in katha upanishad where it is defined as the control of the senses and the cessation of mental activity that leads to liberation. Covers a range of mental and physical practices designed to transform consciousness: tension. Renouncers, how do they relate to society and how does society relate to them.
