This article is part of the opinion column –
Beyond Occident – where we explore a native perspective on the Indian diaspora.
With over one billion followers worldwide, Hinduism, also known as the Sanatan Dharma, is the third-largest faith tradition globally. It is also the oldest tradition with an unbroken and recorded history of over 5,000 years. Hinduism is also the only significant faith tradition that recognizes and then manifests through various rituals and worship, the divine form of feminine. In Hindu cosmology, both feminine and masculine forms are accorded equal status.
Womanhood is generally associated with the notions of fertility, benevolence, and bestower in most indigenous traditions. As symbolic of life and fecundity, motherhood is viewed and celebrated, both conceptually at an abstract level and manifest, in fertility rites throughout the indigenous ‘pagan’ cultures. Hinduism being one of them, is not different in this aspect.
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Sannyasa in its true essence!
Chetan Prabhakar
Is it important to become an ordained monk or formal Sannyasi to tread on the path of spirituality or Sannyasa? Let us understand what is Sannyasa as per the Bhagavad Gita. Verse 18.3 of the Bhagavad Gita provides as follows:
‘The giving up of activities that are based on material desire is what great learned men call the renounced order of life (Sannyasa). And giving up the results of all activities is what the wise call renunciation (tyaga)’
As per the above verse, leaving one’s family and going to a secluded place or joining a formal sannyasi organization is not what Sannyasa means. What it truly means is; giving up the activities that are based on material desires.