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Iqbal was aware of this and admitted that the word Khudi was chosen with great difficulty and most reluctantly because from a literary point of view it has many shortcomings and ethically it is generally used in a bad sense both in Urdu and Persian. Iqbal tells that he wanted a colorless word for self, having no ethical significance.
Given the busy lifestyles of today, another variation on the traditional 'book club' is the book reading club. In such a club, the group agrees on a specific book, and each week (or whatever frequency), one person in the group reads the book out loud while the rest of the group listens. The group can either allow interruptions for comments and ...
caitanya puruṣa - infinite divine self-awareness [8] sat puruṣa - state of pure divine existence; The first five of these are arranged according to the specification of the panchakosha from the second chapter of the Taittiriya Upanishad. The final three elements make up satcitananda, with cit being referred to as chaitanya.
In Buddhist philosophy, svasaṃvedana (also svasaṃvitti) is a term which refers to the self-reflexive nature of consciousness, [1] that is, the awareness of being aware. It was initially a theory of cognition held by the Mahasamghika and Sautrantika schools while the Sarvastivada - Vaibhasika school argued against it.
It may be 'awareness', or 'awareness of awareness', or self-awareness. [308] There might be different levels or orders of consciousness, [309] or different kinds of consciousness, or just one kind with different features. [310] The process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses is known as cognition ...
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The Quran enjoins the faithful "to hinder the nafs from lust", [Quran 79:40] and another traditional narration warns that "the worst enemy you have is [the nafs] between your sides." [ 16 ] Rumi warns of the nafs in its guise of religious hypocrisy, saying "the nafs has a rosary and a Koran in its right hand, and a scimitar and dagger in the ...
The word Self-consciousness in the Upanishads means the knowledge about the existence and nature of Brahman. It means the consciousness of our own real being, the primary reality. [4] Self-consciousness means Self-knowledge, the knowledge of Prajna i.e. of Prana which is Brahman. [5]