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Art & Science of Meditation
Yoga and Meditation
3 YOGA AND MEDITATION Ancient saints in India were introverts. They had rejected material world, the worldly affairs and relations, and lived a simple life with high thinking. There were many such philosophers who derived thorough knowledge of the self through meditation and prayers.
Hindu philosophy is traditionally divided into six astika (Sanskrit: 3T3TB BHT Worthodox") schools of thought, or darsanas, which accept the Vedas as supreme revealed scriptures. Three other nastika (376WBTBT "heterodox") schools don't draw upon the Vedas as the sole primary authoritative text, but may emphasize other traditions of thought. The āstika schools are: Samkhya an atheistic and strongly dualist
theoretical exposition of consciousness
and matter. Yoga
a school emphasizing meditation,
contemplation and liberation. Nyaya or logic explores sources of knowledge. Nyaya
Sutras. Vaisheshika an empiricist school of atomism Mimansaa
an anti-ascetic and anti- mysticist school
of orthopraxy Vedanta
the last segment of knowledge in the Vedas, or the 'gnan' (knowledge) 'Kanda' (section). Vedanta came to be the dominant current of Hinduism in the postmedieval period.
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