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... Veda and Upanishads , 2 vols.-A.B. Keith Religion and Rational Outlook - S.N . Dasgupta Religious Institutions and Cults in the Deccan -R.N. Nandi MOTILAL BANARSIDASS Delhi Varanasi Patna Madras the use of Honours and Post - graduate ...
... Veda and Upanishads , 2 vols.-A.B. Keith Religion and Rational Outlook - S.N . Dasgupta Religious Institutions and Cults in the Deccan -R.N. Nandi MOTILAL BANARSIDASS Delhi Varanasi Patna Madras the use of Honours and Post - graduate ...
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... Some of the important religious texts of Hinduism are the Vedas , the Upanisads , the Purāņas , the 1. K. M. Sen , Hinduism , ( Penguin Books ) , pp . 14-15 . Dharma Sūtras and Dharma - Śāstras , the Rāmāyaṇa , : HINDUISM Introductory.
... Some of the important religious texts of Hinduism are the Vedas , the Upanisads , the Purāņas , the 1. K. M. Sen , Hinduism , ( Penguin Books ) , pp . 14-15 . Dharma Sūtras and Dharma - Śāstras , the Rāmāyaṇa , : HINDUISM Introductory.
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... Vedas are the oldest , rather they are regarded by the Hindu tradition as beginningless ( Anādi ) and in a way exert the highest authority . Nevertheless , other texts also are regarded as no less sacred . Not only it is that Hinduism ...
... Vedas are the oldest , rather they are regarded by the Hindu tradition as beginningless ( Anādi ) and in a way exert the highest authority . Nevertheless , other texts also are regarded as no less sacred . Not only it is that Hinduism ...
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... together as one religious group inspite of their differences in beliefs and practices can be said to be their faith in the supremacy of the Vedas as well as their regard and respect for some other religious 10 Comparative Religion.
... together as one religious group inspite of their differences in beliefs and practices can be said to be their faith in the supremacy of the Vedas as well as their regard and respect for some other religious 10 Comparative Religion.
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... Vedas and belongingness to one of the four varnas are more or less essential marks of anyone being a Hindu . Besides the Vedas , an average Hindu takes the Rāmāyaṇa , the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgită as revered sacred texts and so ...
... Vedas and belongingness to one of the four varnas are more or less essential marks of anyone being a Hindu . Besides the Vedas , an average Hindu takes the Rāmāyaṇa , the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgită as revered sacred texts and so ...
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BUDDHISM | 43 |
Life after death | 57 |
Ultimate destiny | 59 |
Principal sects | 67 |
ZOROASTRIANISM | 73 |
Life after death | 99 |
CHRISTIANITY | 130 |
ISLAM | 153 |
SIKHISM | 173 |
COMPARISON AND APPRAISAL | 191 |
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Page 136 - So the Father is God, the Son is God : and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods : but one God.
Page 105 - I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments...
Page 17 - THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where ? and what gave shelter ? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water? Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That one thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature : apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
Page 136 - So there is one Father, not three Fathers ; one Son, not three Sons ; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts, And in this Trinity none is afore or after other, none is greater or less than another) but the whole three persons are co-eternal together, and co-equaL So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
Page 136 - The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal.