Within Hindu philosophy, there is a solid and ancient tradition of philosophical speculation on the nature of the universe, of God ( termed " Brahman " in some schools of Hindu thought ) and of the Atman ( soul ).

These sacrifices are mainly done at mandirs following the Shakti school of Hinduism where the female nature of Brahman is worshipped in the form of Kali and Durga.

By the 8th century CE, the word came to be used to describe a group of philosophical traditions concerned with the self-realisation by which one understands the ultimate nature of reality ( Brahman ).

The youngster is taught during the ceremony the secret of life through Brahmopadesam ( revealing the nature of Brahman, the Ultimate Reality ) or the Gayatri mantra.

According to Sri Nisargadatta, our true nature is perpetually free peaceful awareness, in Hinduism referred to as Brahman.

The Bhāgavata frequently discusses the merging of the individual soul with the Absolute Brahman, or " the return of Brahman into His own true nature ", a distinctly advaitic or non-dualistic philosophy.

In the orthodox Hindu tradition, Mimāṃsā is divided into two systems, the Purva-Mimāṃsā by Jaimini which is concerned with the correct interpretation of the Vedic ritual and Uttara-Mimāṃsā by Badarayana which is called Brahma-Mimāṃsā or Sariraka-Mimāṃsā which deals chiefly with the nature of Brahman, the status of the world and the individual self.

VS 1. 1. 1 athāto brahma jijñāsā-Now: therefore the inquiry ( into the real nature ) of Brahman.

The expression is used in yoga and other schools of Indian philosophy to describe the nature of Brahman as experienced by a fully liberated yogi.

Being is understood as the inner source and true nature of reality, which is the focus of the great spiritual traditions of both East and West, and is known as Dharmakaya, Shunyata, Brahman or Tao.

It is found in the Upanishads and the Avadhuta Gita and constitutes an analytical meditation helping a person to understand the nature of Brahman by first understanding what is not Brahman.

The above verse describes the nature of the Absolute or Brahman which is infinite or full, i. e., it contains everything.

According to the gospel Ramakrishna discussed various topics including the world of duality and trascendental nature of Brahman, citing the parables of the salt doll, the wood cutter and the ant and the sugar hill, on discrimination between true and false knowledge, on different manifestations of God's power, on ego and suffering, on power of faith etc.

The nature of the opposition between liberals and Bourbons is too little understood in the North.

Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.

Though sex in some form or other enters into all human activity and it was a good thing that Freud emphasized this aspect of human nature, it is fantastic to explain everything in terms of sex.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

Whitehead is here questioning David Hume's understanding of the nature of experience ; ;

Hence the prime issue, as I see it, is whether a democratic or free society can master technology for the benefit of mankind, or whether technology will rule and develop its own society compatible with its own needs as a force of nature.

This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a `` locus of intelligible necessities ''.

For this love of the boy for his mother is a hopeless and forbidden love, doomed by its nature.

and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??

Within this frame of reference policies appropriate to claims advanced in the name of the Jews depend upon which Jewish identity is involved, as well as upon the nature of the claim, the characteristics of the claimant, the justifications proposed, and the predispositions of the community decision makers who are called upon to act.

A fourth view is the transformation of emotion, as in Housman's fine phrase on the arts: they `` transform and beautify our inner nature ''.

Outstanding among these is the idea of human nature itself, including the many definitions that have been advanced over the centuries ; ;

This prospect did not please Mrs. King any more than did the possibility that her daughter might marry a Bohemian, but she used it to suggest to Thompson that, `` It is not in her nature to love you ''.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

What is in doubt as the free Germans and their allies consider the voting trends is the nature of the coalition that will result.

Each one of these is, by its nature, a focal point or a point of natural congestion.

Pausing in the doorway he said: `` The form of the human female, unlike her mind and her spirit, is the most challenging loveliness in all nature ''.

More than that, Sam Rayburn is the very living symbol of an iron-clad integrity so powerful in his nature and so constantly demonstrated that he can count some of his best friends in the opposition.

Upon receipt of an application which the Export-Import Bank is prepared to consider, the Export-Import Bank will inform the Department of Economic Affairs of the identity of the applicant, the nature of the proposed business, the amount of the proposed loan, and the general purposes for which the loan proceeds would be expended.

There is little evidence that they are giving any systematic thought to a general theory of the optimum scope and nature of their part in government.

True, a Mason watercolor is unmistakably a synthesis of nature rather than a detailed inventory.

Romantics focused attention on the individual and described nature as a spiritual force.

The nature of these services is described in ARIN's mission statement:

16th century technical writers such as Biringuccio, Ercker and Agricola described a variety of cementation brass making techniques and came closer to understanding the true nature of the process noting that copper became heavier as it changed to brass and that it became more golden as additional calamine was added.

The disorder has been subdivided into bipolar I, bipolar II, cyclothymia, and other types, based on the nature and severity of mood episodes experienced ; the range is often described as the bipolar spectrum.

Connections with the Pentagon and lobbyists in Washington are described by critics as more important than actual competition, due to the political and secretive nature of defense contracts.

Due to its somewhat concealed, but very potent nature, this hypothetical idea is described by some experts as " banal imperialism.

The diarrhea is frequently described as " rice water " in nature and may have a fishy odor.

Rather, evil spirits described in various faiths ' traditions, such as Satan, fallen angels, demons, and jinns, are metaphors for the base character traits a human being may acquire and manifest when he turns away from God and follows his lower nature.

Early conceptions of ecology, such as a balance and regulation in nature can be traced to Herodotus ( died c. 425 BC ), who described one of the earliest accounts of mutualism in his observation of " natural dentistry ".

The Chief of Staff of the Guatemalan army described his actions as an “ act of warning throughout the Republic for any disorders of this nature .”

, there is still no hard evidence that nature is described by a Grand Unified Theory.

In addition, the nature of the proposed mixture would have been radically different from the siphon-projected substance described by Byzantine sources.

Based on Aristotelian physics, Scholastic physics described things as moving according to their essential nature.

The fathers of Christianity included those who had been disciples of Jesus such as Peter, Matthew, James and John, as well as others who may never have met him but were either influenced by accounts of his teachings such as the Gospel writers Mark and Luke, or described having spiritual revelations of his divine nature, such as Paul of Tarsus who actively encouraged the founding of Christian communities or " churches " after his conversion.

Other holidays are described by various terms, depending on their source and their nature:

" Following in 1959, John Beer described the complex nature of the poem: " Kubla Khan the poem is not a meaningless reverie, but a poem so packed with meaning as to render detailed elucidation extremely difficult.

Trotsky described the vaccillating Stalinist policy as a symptom of the undemocratic nature of a ruling bureaucracy.

The meme is thus described in memetics as a sign lacking a triadic nature.

Among the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy, the ultimate nature of the world is described as emptiness, which is inseparable from sensorial objects or anything else.

Other distinctions between the various sub-disciplines of mechanics, concern the nature of the bodies being described.

They have occasionally been described as seeming confused by the nature of everyday items such as pens, eating utensils or food, as well as using outdated slang, vintage automobiles or outmoded styles of clothing.

In the 1960s, the chaotic nature of the atmosphere was first observed and mathematically described by Edward Lorenz, founding the field of chaos theory.

Spirits were described to be the preexisting primal spirits of nature, or the souls of humans who had died.

The two operas of Schoenberg's pupil Alban Berg, Wozzeck ( 1925 ) and Lulu ( incomplete at his death in 1935 ) share many of the same characteristics as described above, though Berg combined his highly personal interpretation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique with melodic passages of a more traditionally tonal nature ( quite Mahlerian in character ) which perhaps partially explains why his operas have remained in standard repertory, despite their controversial music and plots.