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I think this is a question from a very confused mind. Brahma jnana is jnana(knowledge) of Brahma. A step before attaining Moksha. After Brahma jnana (seeing the true form of what appaers as infinite world) he will come to know what his goal of life is. That is the unification of self with Brahma.This unification is called as attaining Moksha.
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Does suffering make it impossible to believe in God?
We can't believe in Brahman, like we believe in other Hindu gods. We have to become one with Brahman. 'I' and the supreme god Brahman should become indistinguishable and inseparable.Thus, the question actually means whether evil prevents us from attaining Moksha and becoming one with Brahman. The answer is a bit complicated.The true meaning of Moksha:Moksha is a highly misunderstood concept. It is universally believed that we have to be good, become better every day and we attain Moksha the day we become the best citizen of the society. This is absurd because the society would not be foolish to liberate and ignore its most useful citizen. Similarly, the society can't ignore a bad man because he can be dangerous to the society. The society can ignore a man who is half good and half bad. Thus, we can attain Moksha by becoming half good and half bad.The social way of attaining Moksha:If we are bad then we can attain Moksha by adding some goodness to what we are doing, to attain Moksha. The main advantage of this method is that even if fail to attain Moksha we at least would end up becoming good citizens. This is the only way of attaining Moksha that is acceptable to the society.The evil way of attaining Moksha:If we are good to start with, we can attain Moksha by adding evil to what we are doing. In fact, we can be pure evil and yet attain Moksha.When Dharma (discipline) starts making the life of its followers miserable it lets Adharma (indiscipline) to take command. It is at this stage that we can attain Moksha through Adharma or evil. However, we would be called as demons if we attain Moksha this way. However, the society would be helpless in doing in anything to us.It is at this stage that Vishnu reincarnates to destroy Demons, who attain Moksha through Adharma, and thus reestablish Dharma. However, the new Dharma (code of conduct) would be different from the old. Thus, in Hinduism even Adharma serves a useful purpose.Thus, evil can't prevent us from becoming one with Brahman. In fact, we can attain Moksha through evil. However, the society would retaliate sooner or later.
Can you be bad and yet attain Moksha?
The meaning of Moksha:Moksha is nothing but leading a normal life with pure involuntary force. The Involuntary force is also what we call Brahman. Thus, Moksha means becoming one with Brahman.Moksha means liberation. In layman's terms Moksha is liberation from social control. It is actually liberation from or getting rid of our Voluntary force.We need Voluntary force to make changes in our life.Brahman is unchanging because it is pure Involuntary force, without any voluntary force.Good Behavior and Moksha:When our behavior is perfectly acceptable to our society we don't need to be cautious and therefore we don't need voluntary force. Thus, sooner than later, we can discard the traces of Voluntary force we have and thus attain Moksha.Bad Behavior and Moksha:If we are bad then we must always be on guard and therefore we must always have lot of voluntary force. Thus, we can't attain Moksha because Moksha is nothing but getting rid of our Voluntary force.However, Hinduism is nothing but opposing forces in equilibrium. If most people are extremely good then Hinduism would automatically encourage some people to be bad. If one of the bad man can keep that Hindu society in equilibrium under varying conditions then he would have all the privileges a good man would have.If such a bad man is in equilibrium with his society under all conditions automatically then it means that he has attained Moksha.Thus, even a bad man can attain Moksha through Jnana Marga.
What is the link between afterlife and moksha?
Afterlife and Moksha are the two options we have after we finish one chapter of the book called life. We are living and the body will die. The name will finish its journey. But the one who was alive has two options. The first option is an afterlife. The body dies but the mind and ego ME comes back in a new life, in a new body to settle the deeds that are unsettled. But the second opportunity, which is the ultimate goal of life, is to attain Moskha, Nirvana, Enlightenment, Liberation, Salvation, whatever you call it. When we realize we are not the body that dies, we are not even the mind and ego ME, then we realize we are the Divine Soul, and we are liberated and united with the Divine. That is Moksha. Therefore, the difference is either we come back in an afterlife or we attain Moksha.
How do hindus believe to get to heaven?
do you duties in life and you will be free from the cycle of rebirth then you become one with godHinduism and Moksha:Moksha:Moksha means liberation or freedom.It means liberation from change or Voluntary force and leading of a normal life with pure Involuntary force. The pure Involuntary force is what we call Brahman. Thus, Meditation is becoming one with Brahman.The worth of Moksha:It must be realized that Hindus used to attain Moksha about 3, 000 years back and now it is of historical importance only. Moksha makes us, what modern people call, 'Jack of all trades and master of none'. Thus, in the modern world it is not worth the effort and risk it takes.Beliefs necessary to attain absolute Moksha:1. Brahman is the supreme god and Moksha is becoming one with Brahman.2. Brahman controls just 50% of our life. Thus, we are equal to Brahman.3. Under Brahman are seven basic Hindu gods viz. Indra, Shakti, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Shani and Yama. All these gods are equal.4. There is no heaven or hell.5. All the four Varnas viz. Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra are equal and interchangeable.The four historical ways to attain Moksha:1. Bhakti marga2. Karma marga3. jnana marga4. Raja margaModern way of attaining Moksha:In the past three thousand years many sacred people have claimed to have attained Moksha. However, they attained Moksha through just one god, either Krishna or Shiva. They also believed that Krishna/ Shiva is the supreme Hindu god. Moksha through one god would not give Brahma Jnana, which is the most salient feature of Moksha.Original meditation - the only path to Moksha:The most reliable way to attain absolute Moksha is through Original meditation. In this one can walk through all the four paths during meditation itself.Since Voluntary and Involuntary forces control skeletal muscles getting rid of the Voluntary component directly would be the simplest, easiest, fastest and the most perfect way.
What is Moksha and how do you attain it?
MOKSHA AND KARMA:Moksha is defined as freedom from unending cycles of reincarnation.Karma is the cause for the unending cycles of reincarnations.These Hindu beliefs about Karma and Moksha are useless for attaining Moksha. This is because Moksha leads to Brahman, which is nothing but absolute fact. Therefore, our definitions of Karma and Moksha should be based on facts and not on beliefs.We can't attain Moksha through good deeds.We can't attain Moksha by supposing that god is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. God has to be within us and dormant.CONVENTIONAL WAYS OF ATTAINING MOKSHA:Life today is extremely complicated. Therefore, we can't attain Moksha through Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga and Raja Yoga.BRAHMAJNANA CONCEPT OF MOKSHA AND KARMA:To attain Moksha we need definitions of Moksha and Karma based on Brahmajnana.According to Brahmajnana,1. Moksha is separation of facilitating force (Saguna Brahman) and retarding force (Nirguna Brahman).2. Karma is variations in facilitating/ retarding forces, which causes transformation of an activity every time it is re executed.Lesser the Karma, lesser would be transformation of activities and greater would be the Moksha.ATTAINING MOKSHA:All the skeletal muscles of our body can isometrically contract and relax (harden and soften temporarily) as a single unit called Purusha.1. Saguna Brahman - isometric contraction of Purusha2. Nirguna Brahman - isometric relaxation of Purusha.THE SEVEN MANIFESTATIONS OF BRAHMAN:Brahman manifests as seven basic Hindu gods viz. Indra, Shakti, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Shani and Yama.All the seven basic Hindu gods are made of a Saguna component and a Nirguna component. They differ from each other in the gap between the arrival of the Nirguna component after the arrival of the Saguna component.In Indra the Nirguna component comes simultaneously, in Vishnu in the middle and in Yama in the end. Therefore, Indra just enables us to dream and Yama makes us compulsive.The Peripheral pair of gods Indra and Yama cause maximum Karma. The more central gods cause less Karma.THE VARNAS:1. Shudra Varna - no limits for our actions2. Vaishya Varna - just a lower limit3. Kshatriya Varna - an upper and a lower limit4. Brahmana Varna - upper and lower limits are the same.A higher Varna makes us more disciplined, reduces fluctuations in facilitating/ retarding forces, reduces Karma and enhances Moksha.THE FOUR TYPES OF TIME:1. Transient time - by separating life into infinite activities, each having a different status.2. Virtual time - by having a minimum duration for completion of actions but no maximum duration3. Natural time - by having a minimum and maximum duration for completion of every action.4. Eternal time - by making the status of all actions the same. This would merge all activities into a single giant activity called life. Then no activity would have a beginning and no activity would have and end.Transient time results in maximum Karma. Eternal mode of time result in Moksha.BRAHMANDA:After appeasing the seven gods, having all the four Varnas and the four kinds of time, by default we would be having1. Vishnu2. Lower limit for status of all activities3. Minimum duration needed for execution of actions.This state is Brahmanda. We would have 50% tone and 50% control over all activities of our life.ABSOLUTE MOKSHA:From here we can have 0% or 100% control. From this state we can appease any god, have any Varna and use any mode of time. This freedom is what we call absolute Moksha.ORIGINAL MEDITATION - THE BEST WAY TO ATTAIN MOKSHA:The best way of achieving all these is Original Meditation, the kind of Meditation Vedic people practiced. This is just a set of isometric exercises. We can't understand the Vedas without mastering Original Meditation.The name 'Vedic Meditation' means something else. Therefore that name is not used here.
How does one end the cycle of rebirth?
As far as Buddhist philosophy is concerned it would depend on your concept of 'you'. If you mean the collection of thoughts, complexes and personality traits that you have built up during your many lives, well that is finite and will therfore cease to be. For a better understanding it would be best to read something like 'The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying' by Sogyal Rinpoche.
How do Hindus achive moksha?
The two primary forces of Human beings:To know what Moksha is, we must know that we have,1. A mighty, inexhaustible and uncontrollable Involuntary force2. A small, transient and easily controllable Voluntary force.Brahman is Involuntary force in the purest form. All other Hindu gods are a blend of Involuntary and Voluntary forces. Thus, we can attain Moksha easily through a Hindu god by getting rid of the voluntary component of that god. Shiva and Krishna are best suited for this purpose.Voluntary/ Manual force - the double edged sword:The Voluntary force is the shockabsorber of our life, as it enables us to change with great ease. However, its over use makes our life unstable, chaotic and also abolishes thinking. It is at this stage that we must attain Moksha.This involves getting rid of,1. Differences among the various activities of our life2. Our ability to change.Advantages of Involuntary/ Automatic force:Leading a life with pure involuntary force would,1. Make our life effortless and stress free2. Get rid of our acquired knowledge and enable us to use pure Inborn knowledge called Brahma Jnana.The Hindu paths to Moksha:The transient, manual force is necessary to deal with a change and thus whenever we become helpless we have a tendency to use it and thus make our life stressful and tiring.There are four ways of avoiding use of voluntary force and getting rid of it from our life.1. Bhakti Marga:In this we develop faith in the involuntary force and keep using it even if it leads to repeated disasters, until the involuntary force, 1. Finds similarities among all the activities of our life 2. Gets rid of activities that are grossly dissimilar2. Karma Marga:The Karma acts as a band filter, filtering off activities producing both positive and negative emotions and allowing just unemotional activites. Cycles of rebirth doesn't mean that we are born again and again. It is just symbolic of repeated starting of a new ways of life whenever our life is ruined.3. Jnana Marga:In this we try to find out similarities among all activities of our life and ways to discard or ignore differences among them.4. Raja Marga: Since the Involuntary force is mightier, in this approach we use it with Kingly authority, with the hope that voluntary activities surrender, thus enabling us to execute all the activities with the Involuntary force only.Original Meditation - the easiest and the most reliable way to attain Moksha:In this, we sit motionless and keep generating involuntary force, by Isometrically contracting (hardening) the lower end of the band like Hyoglossus muscles, that extend from the sides of our tongue downwards to the U-shaped hyoid bone above our Adam's apple. This would filter off all Voluntary activities and thus enable us to attain Moksha.This is the final common pathway to Moksha even when we use any one of the Margas to attain Moksha.Original Meditation was the first choice of all sages, who attained Moksha.
The ultimate goal of Hindus was?
The goal was to get to moksha. If you were at the bottom of the caste system you would have to be reincarnated and keep working your way up the caste system and when you got to priest or pharaoh you would get to moksha (die without being reincarnated)
What is moksha?
To understand Moksha we must first understand Reincarnation.THE CONVENTIONAL CONCEPT OF REINCARNATION:Reincarnation means entry of our soul into the body of an animal or a human being after our death. Good deeds enable to be born into higher caste family and bad deeds make us to be born into a lower caste family.THE CONVENTIONAL CONCEPT OF MOKSHA:Moksha is defined as liberation from unending cycles of Reincarnation.Moksha makes us one with Brahman and enables us to have Brahmajnana, the supreme Hindu knowledge.The conventional Hindu concept of Moksha may be confusing because we would be getting Brahmajnana after our death or more probably, after many deaths.REINCARNATION ACCORDING TO BRAHMAJNANA:Reincarnation means transformation of an activity every time it is repeated. It is this transformation that we have to prevent to attain Moksha. However, we have to prevent transformation of every activity of our life. Fortunately, we would be attaining Moksha in the present life only.MOKSHA ACCORDING TO BRAHMAJNANA:Moksha means abolition of transformation of an activity every time it is repeated. The aim is to execute the activity with pure facilitating force (Saguna Brahman). During rest we would have pure retarding force (Nirguna Brahman) Thus, Moksha would enable us to become one with Brahman, the supreme Hindu god.FACTORS THAT CAUSE TRANSFORMATION OF ACTIVITIES WHEN THEY ARE REPEATED:1. TIME:Increase or decrease of time available for the execution of the activity2. THE MODES:The modes cause the activity to interact with other activities1. Shudra/ chaotic mode - No interaction with other activities2. Vaishya/ tolerable mode - Interaction through a lower limit3. Kshatriya/ normal mode- Through an upper and a lower limit4. Brahmana/ ideal mode - Upper and lower limit is the same and interaction with all the activities of life.It is obvious that in the Shudra mode there would be chaotic changes and in the Brahmana mode, no change at all.3. THE GODS:There are seven basic Hindu gods.They are,1. Indra - god of dreaming2. Shakti - god of illusion3. Brahma - god of creativity4. Vishnu - god of stabilization5. Shiva - god of determination6. Shani - god of status alteration7. Yama - god of compulsionUnintentional change of god before re execution would result in transformation of the activity.The seven basic Hindu gods are derived from Brahman. Conversely, the seven gods put together form Brahman.Thus, to attain Moksha we must always use the seven gods together as a single unit. However, for simplicity we use just one god, either Shiva or Krishna incarnation of Vishnu to attain Moksha.
Who is Hinduism's patriarch?
I think you are talking about the Godhead and that would be Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma.
What effect do you think believing in karma would have on the life of a Hindu?
The effect of belief in Karma on the life of a Hindu would depend on what he means by Karma.1. The Conventional Karma:A Hindu would believe that Karma means deed and good Karma means good deed. Good deed means a deed acceptable to people with higher Varnas. If he can do good deeds without ever doing a bad deed till his death, his next generation would be entitled to use a higher Varna.2. The Original Karma:A Hindu may realize the origianl meaning of Karma. He may start believing that Karma actually means the way in which Moving and Braking forces of thoughts and activities can be linked.Then he would know that there are four different ways in which the two can be linked. Then, he would be able to attain Original Moksha and have all the four Varnas and thus have Brahma Jnana, the supreme knowledge a human being can have.
Which is the highest title in chess that a chess player can attain?
i would say the title is called a grand master. And these type of people can attain 2000+ ratings
