கவனிக்க: இந்த மின்னூலைத் தனிப்பட்ட வாசிப்பு, உசாத்துணைத் தேவைகளுக்கு மட்டுமே பயன்படுத்தலாம். வேறு பயன்பாடுகளுக்கு ஆசிரியரின்/பதிப்புரிமையாளரின் அனுமதி பெறப்பட வேண்டும்.
இது கூகிள் எழுத்துணரியால் தானியக்கமாக உருவாக்கப்பட்ட கோப்பு. இந்த மின்னூல் மெய்ப்புப் பார்க்கப்படவில்லை.
இந்தப் படைப்பின் நூலகப் பக்கத்தினை பார்வையிட பின்வரும் இணைப்புக்குச் செல்லவும்: தர்ம நெறி 2010.04

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What is the most established model for t ... What is said in Veda about the number 11. Can we belive in fate according to Veda' 12. What is karma and reincarnation. 13. What is Nirvana? 14. What is mentioned in Hinduism about u 15. Can you brief about yogi Paramahansa 16. What is Samadhi? 17. What is Rita with reference to Hinduism 18. What is the different between God and s 19. What are the names of twenty eight Siv 20. What is the meaning of the mantra of “s:
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Quatations
"Even as the embodied Selfpasses, inhis body, t old age,so does It pass into another body. Calm st
"Atman, smaller than the small, greater than the g creatures. A man who is free from desires behold the senses and the mind and becomes free from g
"If a man knows Atman here, he then attains the great destruction awaits him. Having realized the world and become immortal'.
“He who knows the Supreme Brahman verily bec ignorant of Brahman. He overcomes grief, he ove
he becomes immortal'.
“By knowing Him who alone pervades the unive
“As these flowing rivers, bound for the ocean, di their names and forms being destroyed, and are c. parts of the seer, whose goal is the Purusha,disap Him, their names and forms being destroyed, and of parts and immortal'
“The great, unborn Selfiscundecaying, immortal, Brahman(infinite).Brahman is indeed fearless.He Brahman''
"This body dies, bereft of the living self, but the
“Having realized Atman,which is soundless,intan tasteless,eternal and odourless;having realized.Th. the Great and unchanging-one is freed from the ji
“When all desires that dwell in the heart fall awa. attains Brahmano

hrough the stages of childhood, youth, and the auls are not bewildered by this”.
- Bhagavad Gita . II, 13.
great, is hidden in the hearts of all living s the majesty of the Selfthrough tranquility of rief’
- Kata Upanishad II .iii.. 20.
true goal of life. If he does not know I there, a
Self in every being, the wise relinquish the
- Kena Upanishad II. 5.
:omes Brahman. In his family no one is born arcomes evil; free from the fetters of the heart
- Mundaka Upanishad, III. ii. 9
rse, men become immortal”.
— Svetasvtara Upanishad, III, 7.
sappear into the ocean after having reached it, alled simply the ocean - even so,thses sixteen pear into the Purusha after having reached
are called simply the Purusha, He becomes free
- Prasna Upanishad.vi, 5
undying, fearless; It is
who knows It as such becomesthe fearless
— Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,IV,iv,25
Living self dies not”,
- Chandogya Upanishad VII, xi,3.
gible,formless,undecaying,and likewise at which is without beginning and end,beyond aws of death”
- Kata Upanishad, I .iii.15.
y,then the mortal becomes immortal and here
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1. What is Atma? Is it soul? Is Atma and
According to the context (circumstances/ situatic instance, when it is told that atma takes birth, at atma is Almighty and creates universe, then it m In Vedas, there are three eternal matters Almigh souls are alive matters whereas prakriti is nonuniverse are created. Soul can never be God beir being unchangeable. Soul due to the attraction to face the birth,death and rebirth again and again.(
2. What is the probability or chance of a
next birth
According to the Vedas, if a person carries outs acquires rebirth as human if he does not get salv righteous activities, he faces the consequence of deeds - good or bad, done in the present life will
3. When was original epic Ramayana w
Original Ramayana was written by Rishi Valmik In samvat 1631 Tulsiji started writing Ramayan to Swami Ramswarup
4. With how many shlokas was epic Mah
beginning?
Vyas Muni and his disciple Gemini originally w thousands shlokas. Nevertheless at the present ti there in Mahabharata. Hence one lakh, ten thous
S. What are the five basic matters menti come?
Five basic matters are namely;
1) Earth (prithivi) 2) Water (apas) 3) Fire (tejas) 4) Air (vayu) 5) Ether (akasha) These matters are made from non-alive prakritil mahat (mind) came and from mahat — ahankar c came and from panch tan matrayein- five matter is made from these five matters.

soul are one and the same?
on) Atma has two different meanings. For that instant it means soul and when it is said that eans Almighty God. ty God, prakriti and souls. Almighty God and alive matter. From Prakriti, all the matters of ng unchangeable and God can also never be soul )wards prakriti is indulged in illusion and has to god is never indulged in any type of illusion.
person taken the human body again in the
anctimonious activities in the current life,he ation.Conversely, if a person does not do selfprevious lives- deeds in present life and the have to be borne in the next birth.
*itten?
ki about 1 crore, 81 lakh, 49 thousand years ago. and in samvat 1633 it was completed according
abharata written by Vyas Muni in the
rote epic Mahabharata with only ten me, about one lakh twenty thousand shlokas are and shlokas are later additions.
oned in the Vedas and from where did these
by the power of Almighty God.From prakritiame and , from ahankar - panch tanmatrayein S came.The entire world including human bodies

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6. What is quintessence?
Quintessence, or the fifth essence, is a fifth elem of ancient chemistry. Steinhardt and colleagues 1 particular model for the vacuum energy which c.
7. What are the names of Sapta Rishis?
The names of Sapta Rishis are,
Atri,
Bhrigu,
Kutsa,
Vasishtha,
Gautama,
Kasyapa
Angirasa.
8. Is it possible to believe in good fortune
according to the Vedas?
According to the Vedas there is no reference or 1 dosha, etc. in life. Human beings face only ther lives' deeds in the nature of happiness and sorro
9. What is the most established model fo The most established model for the Universe is a expansion of the Universe is accelerating, and ac 13.7 billion years.
10. What is said in Veda about the numbe
The supposition that the 360 day year is a fundament is revealed, in the Rg Veda, which have been compo:
Twelve spokes, one wheel, navels th Who can comprehend this? On it are placed together three hundred and sixty like pegs. Theyshake not in the least. - (Di
A seven-named horse does draw this three-naved wheel... Seven steeds draw the seven-wheele Wise poets have spun a seven-strana around this heavenly calf, the Sun. -
the "navels three" must stand for the three mean mot precession of the equinoxes.

ent beyond the standard earth, air, fire and water have adopted quintessence as the name for a auses the accelerating expansion of the Universe.
, bad luck, chance, drishti dosha, etc. in life
trust in good fortune, bad luck, chance, drishti 2sult of the good or bad deeds of their previous wfulness, respectively.
r the Universe a flat ACDM Big Bang model where the
cording to this model the age of the Universe is
r of days in an year?
[al measurement of Hindu cosmological time cycles sed no later than 1000 B.C. shows that;
ree.
rghatama, Rg Veda 1.164.48)
d chariot. d tale (Dirghatama, Rg Veda 1.164.1-5)
ions of the Sun and "seven-wheeled chariot" for the

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11. Can we belive in fate according to Ved:
According to Yajurveda mantra 7/48, the human karma)or sins (papa karma) and the result is awal person, is reborn, he is granted with the outcome the previous lives' to face which is called prarab has to face or countenance the results of the deed can be changed or nullified by performing pious
12. What is karma and reincarnation.
The origin of the word Karma is from the S “action - effect- fate’. Karma is the summati previous states of existence, analyzed as affe that the effects of a person's actions that determi
The origin of the word Reincarnation means “into” “flesh”. Reincarnation is the rebi a spirit embodied in a living human from.Re This is because incomplete chastisement for a pe future lives.
13. What is Nirvana
Nirvana is described as a transcendent state i no sense of self. The source of this term is means “be extinguished. An individual is rel reincarnation and suffering on attaining nirvan state of Nirvana or Nibbana.
14. What is mentioned in Hinduism about
The Hindu metrics of time (Kala Vyavahara) cou
Hindu units of time on a logarithmic scale.
Sidereal metrics
8 a paramanu is the normal interval of blinkin * a vighati is 6 paramaanus, (approximately 2. 8 a ghadiya is 60 vighatis, (approximately 24 8 a muhurta is equal to 2 ghadiyas,(approxim
* a nakshatra ahoratra Agama or sidereal da
considered to begin and end at Sunrise, not m
The Vishnu Purana describes another system of Time
I, Chapter III is as given below:
& 15 twinklings of the eye = 1 Káshthā « 30 Káshthás = 1 Kalá « 30 Kalás = 1 Muhúrtta 8- 30 Muhurttas = 1 day (24 hours) & 30 days = 1 month * 6 months = 1 Ayana
8- 2 Ayanas = 1 year or one day (day + night) o

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beings are at liberty to do good deeds (punya ded by natural laws of almighty God. When a of the consequence of good deeds and sins of dha karmas (fate). So in prarabdha (fate) man s of his own previous lives. However, the fate deeds according to Vedas.
anskrit language “karman' which means on of a person's dealings in this state and rting their future destinies. This briefly means ne his destiny in his next incarnation)
is from the Latin language in- carn- which rth of a soul in a new body. Incarnation is incarnation is a necessary adjunct to Karma. rson's evil deeds in this life will be completed in
in which there is no suffering or desire and from the Sanskrit nirvana word where nirva eased from the repeated cycles of a. Hindus as well as Buddhists believe in a
unit of time or time factor?
uld be outlined as follows;
g in humans, (approximately 4 seconds) 4 seconds)
minutes)
ately 48 minutes) y is exactly equal to 30 muhurtas (Note: A day is
idnight.)
measurement in section, of the Vishnu Purana Book
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Small units of time used in the Vedas
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a trasarenu is the combination of 6 celestial a truti is the time needed to integrate 3 trasa a vedha is 100 trutis. a lava is 3 vedhas. a nimesha is 3 lavas, or a blink. a kshanas is 3 nimeshas. a kashthas is 5 kshanas, or about 8 seconds. a laghu is 15 kashthas, or about 2 minutes. 15 laghus make one nadika, which is also ca (This equals the time before water overfl copper, in which a hole is bored with a g fingers long. The pot is then placed on w 8- 2 dandas make one muhurta. x 6 or 7 dandas make one yamah, or 1/4th of a * 4 praharas or 4 yamas are in each day or ea
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Lunar metrics
* a tithi (thithi ) or lunar day
(lunar dayis defined as the time it takes f sun to increase by 12. Tithis begin at va approximately 19 to approximately 26 ho a paksa (also paksha) or lunar fortnight cons a masa or lunar month (approximately 29.5 c (the one between new moon and full mc between full moon and new moon krishn * a ritu is 2 masa * an ayana Agamais 3 rituhs 8 a year is 2 Aayanas Tropical metrics
8- a yaama is 7% Ghatis 8 8 yaamas 1 half of the day(either day or nigh 8 an ahoratra Agamais a tropical day (Note: 1
midnight.) . Reckoning of time among other entities Reckoning of time amongst the pitrs.
x 1 human year = 1 day of the pitrs & 30 days of the pitrs = 1 month of the pitrs & 12 months of the pitrs = 1 year of the pitrs 8. The lifespan of the pitrs is 100 years of the p Reckoning of time amongst the Devas.
* 1 human year = 1 day of the Devas. × 30 days ofthe Devas = 1 month ofthe Devas ×* 12 months of the Devas = 1 year of the Deva
(
& The lifespan of the Devas is 100 years of the The Vishnu Purana Time measurement section of t above as follows:
8- 2 Ayanas (six month periods, see above) = 1 8- 4,000+400+400 = 4,800 divine years = 1 F & 3,000+300+300 = 3,600 divine years = 1 . & 2,000 + 200 + 200 = 2,400 divine years = 1 I 8 1,000 + 100 + 100 = 1,200 divine years = 1 * 12,000 divine year = 4 Yugas = 1 Mahayuga Reckoning of time for Brahma.
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ditOmS. renus, or 1/1687.5th of a second.
lled a danda. ows in a six-pala-weight fourteen ounce pot of old probe weighing four masha and measuring four ater for calculation).
day or night. ch night.
or the longitudinal angle between the moon and the rying times of day and vary in duration from
Durs).
ists of 15 tithis
lays) is divided into 2 pakshas on is called gaura (bright) or shukla paksha; the one 'a (dark) paksha).
it)
A day is considered to begin and end at Sunrise, not
itrs (F36,000 human years)
s = 1 divine year.
Devas (= 36,000 human years) he Vishnu Purana Book I Chapter III explains the
human year or 1 day of the devas Krita Yuga
Dreta Yuga
Dwapara Yuga
Kali Yuga (also called divine yuga)

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* 1000 Mahayugas = 1 kalpa = 1 day (day only (Two kalpas constitute a day and nig 8- 30 days of Brahma = 1 month of Brahma (25 8- 12 months of Brahma = 1 year of Brahma (3, * 50 years of Brahma = 1 Pararddha
& 2 parardhas = 100 years of Brahma = 1 Para = (the lifespan of Brahma)(311,040,00( One day of Brahma is divided into 10000 parts called The charanas are divided as follows:
The Four Yugas
8 4 charanas (1,728,000 solar years) Sath 8- 3 charanas(1,296,000 solar years) Tret 8- 2 charanas(864,000 solar years) Dwa 8 l charanas(432,000 solar years) Kali
The cycle repeats itself so altogether there are 1000c 8. One cycle of the above four yugas is one ma 8 as is confirmed by the Gita statement "sahasr meaning, a day of brahma is of 1000 mahayu 4.32 billion solar years. Two kalpas constitut * A manvanthara consists of 71 mahayugas (
(Each Manvanthara is ruled by a Mal & After each manvanthara follows one Sandhi
(1,728,000 = 4 Charana).
(It is said that during a Sandhi Kala, 1 8. A kalpa consists of a period of 1,728,000 sol
manvantharas and Sandhi Kalas. 8. A day of Brahma equals
(14 times 71 mahayugas) + (15 x 4 Charan = 994 mahayugas + (60 Charanas) = 994 mahayugas + (6 x 10) Charanas = 994 mahayugas + 6 mahayugas = 1000 mahayugas The present date We are currently in the 28th kaliyuga of the first day second parardha of Brahma in the reign of the 7th Ma present Brahma and so about 155 trillion years have ( The current Kali Yuga (Iron Age) began atmidnight proleptic Julian calendar.
15. Can you brief about yogi Paramahansa
Mukunda Lal Ghosh was the original name Par sh January 1893 in the northern Indian city ( March 1952 at Los Angeles, USA. Yogananc the age of seventeen, by Swami Sri Yuktesw gurus as avataras. Paramahansa Yogananda V after graduating from the University of Calcu boys where spiritual - yoga training was comb founded a society called Self-Realization Fell settled in Los Angeles five years later. Kriya Paramahansa Yogananda. An English translatio of a Yogi (Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramah

) of Brahma (4320,000,000 human years). ht of Brahma) 9,200,000,000 human years) 110,400,000,000 human years)
= 1 Mahakalpa ),000,000 human years)
charanas.
ya Yuga ha Yuga para Yuga
Yuga
ycles of mahayugas in one day of Brahma. hayuga (4.32 million solar years) a-yuga paryanta Agamaahar-yad brahmano viduЊ", gas. Thus a day of Brahma, kalpa, is of duration: e a day and night of Brahma 306,720,000 solar years).
հu).
Kala of the same duration as a Krihta Yuga
the entire earth is submerged in water.) ar years called Adi Sandhi, followed by 14
as)
of the 1st year of the shvetavaraha kalpa of the unu, Manu Vaivasvata. This is the 51st year of the alapsed since he took over as Brahma. 17 February / 18 February in 3102 BC in the
l Yogananda ?
amahansa Yogananda at birth who was born on of Gorakhpur. Yogi Yogananda died on 7" la was trained in the yoga discipline from 'ar for ten years. Paramahansa considered his was conferred with the Swami order in 1915, Itta. He founded a “how to live' school for bined with modern educational methods. He owship in 1920 at United States. Yogananda Yoga is a form of yoga popularized by in of “The Bhagavad Gita” and Autobiography ansa Yogananda published by Self-Realization

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16. What is Samadhi?
The derivation of this word Samadhi is from “contemplation'.
Samadhi is a state of powerful concentrati also been expressed as a state in which one atman.
Yogis express samadhi as a state of absolut can arrive at samadhi by meditating and look realize'. The mediator is required to disciple Nirvana after many years of meditation.
By the process of Yoga - meditation, the his ego driven desires, reason and logic. The submissive following of a Yogi, he can achi potential).
17. What is Rita with reference to Hinduism
Rta (or Rita) is a dynamic principle of order, ma enables natural bodies to move rhythmically and disorganizing and destructive effect otherwise ir
Because of rta we have a cosmos, an ordered ur chaos. "All natural actions in this three-layered called rta .
Because of adhering to the dynamic principle o rising again and continuing to Support the World beings, order prevails and there is peace among possible in the actions of all living beings. In hu dealings it is justice.
In veneration, rta is the pattern of correct perfor between humanity and nature, and one human b the Vedic deity Varuna, the custodian of the coSI believed that Varuna, penalizes those who do no actions.Rta is a theoretical principle, an enormo commencement was independent of theology.
18. What is the different between God and so
Atharvaveda mantra 10/8/25 confirms that, soul
minutest than the tip of hair and also is immorta also endorses this fact.

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Sanskrit samādhi which means
on attained through meditation. Samadhi has 's consciousness becomes in unity with the
e happiness. Hindus accept as true that they ing within themselves in order to “self
himself to a guru (yogi) and move closer to
mediator attempts to empty himself of all a mediator trusts that through practice and eve self realization (fulfillment of one's own
nifesting itself in change, not in rigidity. Rita
in balance without undergoing the nplicit in motion.
liverse that undergoes change without becoming universe are governed by an impersonal principle
frta the sun follows its daily path, setting, but with its light.When rta is observed by human individuals.In social affairs, makes harmony man speech rta means truth, and in human
mance. Right ritual maintains synchronization eing and another. According to Hindu mythology nic order, is the special guardian of rta. It is it speak the truth or who commit inappropriate usly ancient Hindu abstract idea that from the
ul with reference to Hindu Veda?
is a living (alive) matter which (who) is even l. Shwetashwtaropnishad chapter 5, shloka 9,

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Soul is the minutest matter and cannot be seen w equipments like electron microscopes therefore, like an amoeba. As mentioned in above Atharvaveda mantra 10/8 Almighty God, Who is also formless and immort and Almighty.
Atharvaveda mantra 10/8/26 states that soul is that means, immortal and resides in the body oft further clarifies that body of human being is "Ma
Atharvaveda mantra 10/8/27 affirms that soul wh like woman or man or young boy/girl but soul its
As enlightened above soul resides in the bodybu human body but it applies to all living beings. Fo fish and if in the body of dog, it looks like a dog. always unchangeable. But soul changes body of lives. When the soul come in to the body thenbo then body becomes dead. Hence body becomes d when the previous body dies away. As explained above, God has indefinite, diverse omniscient, almighty, creates, nurses and destroy be attained by soul. Soul faces the end-results of body of living being, but not the God. God is Almighty which means, He has unlimited "Padasaya abhavatpunaha' which means that, ol and controls the whole universe. So, there is nor birth etc. Shwetashwataropnishad sloka 6/8 also states that that, divine knowledge, deeds and power to cont
19. What are the names of twenty eight S
The names of twenty eight Siva Agama (Siva-gr
1) Kamika Agama 2) Yagaja Agama 3) Sindhiya Agama 4) Karana Agama 5) Ajitha Agama 6) Dheeptham 7) shuushma Agama 8) Sahaskara Agama 9) Amshuma Agama 10) Suprabhedham 11) Vijhaya Agama 12) Nishvasa Agama 13) Swaayambhuva Agama 14) Anala Agama

ith naked eyes or with any instruments or and taken for granted that soul to be shapeless
/25 though the soul is immortal, similar to al. But Almighty is omnipresent, omniscient
AJARA which means, changeless and Amrita' he human being. Same Atharvaveda mantra rtayasa', that is destructible.
tile residing in the body of human being looks self is not man, woman, girl, boy etc.
t soul is not the body.Not only the case of ir example- in the body of fish, it looks like a
But see the soul is not a fish, a dog etc. Soul is living-beings based on his deeds of the previous dy acts and when the soul go away out of body, lead and not soul. Soul enters another body
qualities, from soul. God is omnipresent, 's the universe while such characteristics cannot its (his)deeds of previous lives, in the present
powers and Yajurveda mantra 31/4 states that nly a part of this divine power creates, nurses eason for Almighty God would require to take
[, ‘Swabhaviki gyan balkriya cha " which means rol the universe is automatic.
iva Agama ?
hanams) are namely:
15) Veera Agama 16) Rowrava Agama 17)Makuta Agama 18) Vimala Agama 19) Chandragnana Agama 20) Bhimbha Agama 21) Purothkeetha Agama 22) Lalitha Agama 23) Sdhdha Agama 24) Sandhana Agama 25) Savoaktha Agama 26) Parameswara Agama 27) Kirana Agama 28) Vathulam Agama
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20. What is the meaning of the mantra of
The meaning of the mantra of “saha naavavatu...
Aum saha naavavatu Saha nau bhunaktu Saha viiryan karavaavahai Tejasvi naavadhiitamastu Maa vidvishhaavahai
May we be protected together. May we be nourished together. May we work together with great vigour May our study be enlightening May no obstacle arise between us.
Quatations
Only the bodies, of which this eternalimperishab said to have an end'.
It is never born, not does It never die.nor,having c be. Unborn,eternalpermanent,and primeval,It is
This self is said to be unmenifestincomprehensit So,you should not grieve,”
It is that which transcends hunger and thirst, grief
“It is the Self-free from sin, free from old age, free hunger, free from thirst;Its desires come true,Its t
 

saha maavavatu...” ?
is as follows:
leincomprehensible Selfis the indweller,are
- Bhagavad Gita, II, 18.
once been, does It again cease to not slain when the body is slain.”.
- Bhagavad Gita, II,.20.
ble,and unchangeable.Therefore,knowing It to be
-- Bhagavad Gita . II, 25.
delusion,old age,and death'.-
-Brihadaranyaka Upanishad,III,v,,1
2 from death, free from grief.free from houghts come true”
- Chandogya Upanishad VIII, i,5.
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