Know and spread

From an early age in our hindu families our parents and grand parents have told and scolded us for doing and not doing different works and rituals in the correct way.
Many of us don't know the reasons behind these rituals and cultures and start mocking and calling it as superstition.This gives some wierd one's the opportunity to defame our religion and our practices.

Hence the aim of this blog is to wake up the peoples of our Dharma.And protect it from being defamed.
Whether it be any hardcore leftist or non beleiver of religion just show them this blog and it may change their mind and views.Because our Sanatan Dharma is a scientific and planned way of living and each rituals and culture has a strong scientific reason behind it which is being practiced from thousands of years by our experienced and gyaani rishi's and saints.

JAI SATYA SANATAN DHARMA

Holy Texts in Sanatan Dharma

There are two historic classifications of Hindu texts: Shruti – that which is heard, and Smriti – that which is remembered.
The Shruti refers to the body of most authoritative, ancient religious texts, believed to be eternal knowledge authored neither by human nor divine agent but transmitted by sages (rishis).
The Smriti texts are a specific body of Hindu texts attributed to an author,as a derivative work they are considered less authoritative than Shruti in Hinduism.


    1.VEDAS:-
The primary sacred texts, known as the Vedas, were composed around 1500 B.C. This collection of verses and hymns was written in Sanskrit and contains revelations received by ancient saints and sages.

The Vedas are made up of:


Hindus believe that the Vedas transcend all time and don’t have a beginning or an end.

    2.UPANISHADS:-
The Upanishads are a collection of Hindu texts which contain some of the central philosophical concepts of Hinduism.
The name Upanishad is composed of the terms upa (near) and shad (to sit), meaning something like “sitting down near”. The name is inspired by the action of sitting at the feet of an illuminated teacher to engage in a session of spiritual instructions, as aspirants still do in India today.
They are the part of the oldest scriptures of Hinduism, the Vedas, that deal with meditation, philosophy, and spiritual knowledge; other parts of the Vedas deal with mantras, benedictions, rituals, ceremonies, and sacrifices.Among the most important literature in the history of Indian religions and culture, the Upanishads played an important role in the development of spiritual ideas in ancient India, marking a transition from Vedic ritualism to new ideas and institutions.Of all Vedic literature, the Upanishads alone are widely known, and their central ideas are at the spiritual core of Hinduism.


There are over 200 surviving Upanishads, only 14 are considered to be the most important. The names of these Upanishads are: Isa, Kena, Katha, Prasna, Mundaka, Mandukya, Taittiriya, Aitareya, Chandogya, Brhadaranyaka, Svetasvatara, Kausitaki, Mahanarayana and the Maitri.


    3.PURANS:-
The Puranas are a vast genre of Hindu texts that encyclopedically cover a wide range of topics, particularly myths, legends and other traditional lore.Composed primarily in Sanskrit, but also in regional languages,several of these texts are named after major Hindu deities such as Lord Vishnu, Lord Shiva and Goddess Devi.[

The Puranic literature is encyclopedic,and it includes diverse topics such as cosmogony, cosmology, genealogies of gods, goddesses, kings, heroes, sages, and demigods, folk tales, pilgrimages, temples, medicine, astronomy, grammar, mineralogy, humor, love stories, as well as theology and philosophy.The content is highly inconsistent across the Puranas, and each Purana has survived in numerous manuscripts which are themselves inconsistent.The Hindu Puranas are anonymous texts and likely the work of many authors over the centuries; in contrast, most Jaina Puranas can be dated and their authors assigned.

There are 18 Maha Puranas (Great Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas),with over 400,000 verses.The Puranas do not enjoy the authority of a scripture in Hinduism,but are considered a Smriti.These Hindu texts have been influential in the Hindu culture, inspiring major national and regional annual festivals of Hinduism.The Bhagavata Purana has been among the most celebrated and popular text in the Puranic genre.


    4.RAMAYANA:-
 Ramayana is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Mahābhārata. Along with the Mahābhārata, it forms the Hindu Itihasa.It was written by Maharishi Valmiki,which narrates the life of Rama, the legendary prince of the Kosala Kingdom. It follows his fourteen-year exile to the forest by his father King Dasharatha, on request of his step-mother Kaikeyi. His travels across forests in India with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana, the kidnapping of his wife by Ravana, the great king of Lanka, resulting in a war with him, and Ram's eventual return to Ayodhya to be crowned king.The whole epic is a history of one of the avatar of lord Vishnu in the Treta yuga.
 
 

    5.MAHABHARATA:-
The Mahabharata is one of the hindu epic which depicts the history of the Dwapara yuga. It narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pāṇḍava princes and their successors.
Krishna-Dwaipayan Vyasa, himself a character in the epic, composed it; as, according to tradition, he dictated the verses and Ganesha wrote them down. At 100,000 verses, it is the longest epic poem ever written. The events in the epic play out in the Indian subcontinent and surrounding areas. It was first narrated by a student of Vyasa at a snake-sacrifice of the great-grandson of one of the major characters of the story. Including within it the Bhagavad Gita, the Mahabharata is one of the most important texts of ancient Indian, indeed world, literature.

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