ANTARYAMIN: THE INNER SPIRIT

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Authors

  • Augustine Thottakara Chief Editor of Journal of Dharma

Keywords:

ANTARYAMIN, INNER SPIRIT

Abstract

Upanisadic literature [800-300 BeE] is very often characterized as a powerful expression of revolt against and a refusal of .Brahmanic ritualism. It, in no uncertain terms, condemned the stereotyped, and very often meaningless, rituals and sacrifices, and loudly proclaimed that the ultimate liberation from embodied existence cannot be realized through these external expressions of religiosity and spirituality. Instead, it championed the intuitive, experiential and mystical knowledge of Brahman, which is the ultimate cause of everything, the unifying force of the universe and the supreme goal of all lives, as the only and sure means to break the inexorable cycle of births, deaths and rebirths.

Author Biography

Augustine Thottakara, Chief Editor of Journal of Dharma

Augustine Thottakara is the Chief Editor of Journal of Dharma

References

K.Narayana Aiyer, The thirty-two Vidyas, Madras: The Adyar Library and Research Centre, 1975, pA.

Mahabharata, Moksadharmaparva, 182.14-19 in O.P.Dwivedi & B.N.Tiwari, Environmental Crisis and Hindu Religion, New Delhi: Gitanjali Publishing House, 1987, p.126.

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Published

1998-09-30

How to Cite

Thottakara, A. (1998). ANTARYAMIN: THE INNER SPIRIT: . Journal of Dharma, 23(3), 341–359. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/jd/article/view/971