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The Upanayana: The Hindu Ceremonies of the Sacred Thread - Softcover

Prasad, Dr. R.C.

 
9789395458146: The Upanayana: The Hindu Ceremonies of the Sacred Thread
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9395458143 ISBN 13: 9789395458146
Verlag: Motilal Banarsidass Publications, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

In days gone by every Hindu was socially and religiously required to have a family priest, a brahmana, who was revered and admired for his scholarship, especially for his vast knowledge of the Vedas and the Hindu samskaras. He functioned as a family preceptor and spiritual guide, not as a casual brahmana visitor whose services are solicited only on certain festive occasions by the needy when no other priest is available. The work of such roving vendors of ceremonial decrees is more business oriented than in keeping with the sacred laws. It is surely difficult today to come across a guru who models his living on that of the rsis dedicated to the performance of self-purifying penance and sacrifice. The seers in days of yore were mostly enlightened men who had realized during their studentship that were they to guide to laity and be called Acaryas or Panditas the sobriquets which are often attached to their names, they must renounce all sensual pleasures.

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Verlag
Motilal Banarsidass Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9395458143
ISBN 13 
9789395458146
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
191
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