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Samadhi is also the Hindi word for a structure commemorating the dead. Samkhya A school of philosophy emphasising a dualism between Purusha and Prakrti. Samsara Refers to the concept of reincarnation or rebirth in Indian philosophical traditions. Samudra Manthana The legend of the churning of the ocean. Sanatana Dharma
Compound verbs, a highly visible feature of Hindi–Urdu grammar, consist of a verbal stem plus a light verb. The light verb (also called "subsidiary", "explicator verb", and "vector" [ 55 ] ) loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [ 56 ] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of ...
In its epistemological and psychological senses, moksha is freedom from ignorance: self-realization, self-actualization and self-knowledge. [ 5 ] In Hindu traditions, moksha is a central concept [ 6 ] and the utmost aim of human life; the other three aims are dharma (virtuous, proper, moral life), artha (material prosperity, income security ...
Svādhyāya (Devanagari: स्वाध्याय) is a Sanskrit term which means self-study and especially the recitation of the Vedas and other sacred texts. [1] [2] [3] It is also a broader concept with several meanings. In various schools of Hinduism, Svadhyaya is a Niyama (virtuous observance) connoting introspection and "study of self ...
In higher Hindu philosophy, it is seen as a transcendence of phenomenal being, of any sense of consciousness of time, space, and causation . It is not seen as a soteriological goal in the same sense as in, say, a Christian context, but signifies dissolution of the sense of self, or ego, and the overall breakdown of nama-roopa (name-form
Wisdom is self-knowledge, detachment, integration, and self-transcendence. [30] Wisdom the part of personality that uses cognition, self-reflection, and compassion. [31] Wisdom is critical thinking, emotional regulation, self-reflection, openness to experience, and humor. [32]
An original long vowel lost to coalescence is sometimes marked with a double avagraha: सदाऽऽत्मा sadā'tmā ( ← सदा sadā + आत्मा ātmā) "always, the self". [50] In Hindi, Snell (2000 :77) states that its "main function is to show that a vowel is sustained in a cry or a shout": आईऽऽऽ! āīīī! .
Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [ 2 ]