Law of karma In Hinduism your perpetual soul’s future and the quality of your rebirth and progress towards liberation depend on your actions in life. The law of karma states that every event has a cause and effect, and every cause has a destiny. It signifies the interplay between fate and free will. Hindus are not fatalists who believe that humans have no freedom, are subject to preordained for...

Subjects were presented with videotaped expressions of 10 classic Hindu emotions. The 10 emotions were (in rough translation from Sanskrit) anger, disgust, fear, heroism, humor-amusement, love, peace, sadness, shame-embarrassment, and wonder. These emotions (except for shame) and their portrayal were described about 2,000 years ago in the Natyasastra, and are enacted in the contemporary Hindu c...

This article examines how Indian Americans’ religious organizations send not only financial remittances to India, but also social remittances that shape development ideologies. Comparing Indian-American Hindu and Muslim organizations, I find both groups draw from their socioeconomic experiences in India and use their position as elite immigrants in the United States to identify and empower thei...

Hindu Kush subduction zone produces large intermediate-depth earthquakes within a small volume every 10–15 years. Here we study the last three M ≥ 7 events within the cluster and find complex and diverse rupture processes. However, their main subevents appear to recur on the same fault patch, dipping 70° to the south. This recurrence requires an average of 9.6 cm/yr slip rate on the patch, much...

Case 1.?H. S., a Hindu male child of 11 years, while playing in the field was struck by a pebble in the eye. The result was a corneal ulcer and inflammation. The boy was brought to me by his father after he had been under several forms of treatment without any effect. He was given 10 injections of 5 c.c. each of Aolan twice a week. By the time the 10 injections were finished the boy was complet...

UNLABELLED Religion and spiritual practices are among the resources used by patients to cope with chronic pain. The major concepts of Hinduism that are related to pain and suffering are presented. Ways that Hindu traditions deal with pain and suffering are reviewed, including the concept of acceptance, which has been studied in the pain medicine literature. By becoming more familiar with Hindu ...

there might be diverse modern schools of reform in any religion. this paper categorizes modern hindu and muslim religious thinkers into three groups based on their traditionalist and modernistic concerns. first group are those with futuristic modern thoughts who give more weight to the future and attempt to make old religions compatible to the modern world and present modern religion deserving ...

Syncretism puts the fusion of two religious teachings/beliefs into one unit which makes it have its own peculiarities. This idea shows that syncriticalism Hindu-Confucian beliefs found in Penyagjagan Temple Bangli Regency is a long history trade relations or other expansions between Balinese (Hindu) and Chinese (Confucian) are inherited system worship social relations. as union sign different t...

This essay is the fruit of author’s long experience in Hindu-Christian studies. The intent it to describe something that learning, and then extend it, by way friendly suggestion, offer advice for readers engaged Hindu-Jewish