Hinduist Concepts Explained

Moksha Moksha has different connotations and different ways to “achieve” it according to traditions or mārga. Each tradition (Advaita Vedanta, Vishistadvaita and Dvaita) has its own Yog and we could summarise all of them in 4 main categories: Bhakti, Karma, Jnana, Raja. Non-dualistic view - Advaita Vedanta - Jnana Yog. To understand moksha one should first ask to himself: “What is liberation?” Of course the most common answer would be “Liberation is being freed by dukkha and samsara, cycles of death and births”...

Mahāvākyas literally means “The Great Sayings” of the Upanishads The post-Śaṅkara writers on Advaita Vedānta have mentioned four sentences taken from four Upaniṣads and belonging to the four Vedas which teach the unity of the ātman and Brahman as four ‘mahāvākyas’ or great sentences. They are: Mahāvākyas Tat Tvam Asi (तत् त्वम् असि) - traditionally rendered as “That Thou Art” (that you are), (Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7 of the Sama Veda, with tat in Ch....

Introduction One of the questions that usually pops in our mind is concerning death. Recently thanks to many improvements done by science we are actually witnessing something new that has never happened in the whole history: we are able to monitor what happens to a body that is dying. Many people suggest they had a so-called “NDE”; Near-Death Experience. What does it mean? The NDEs There is verifiable evidence of people during brain surgeries being closely monitored and having no electrical or chemical activity in the brain and still regaining consciousness and telling tales of ‘being’ there all along, from popping out of their bodies and witnessing what the surgeons were doing and talking about it, to being led by other beings into heavenly realms where they were privy to knowledge and understanding that wasn’t accessible in our world....