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Rig Veda--mantras to the gods
Atharva Veda--magical chants, spells, incantations
Yajur Veda--sacrificial formulae
Sama Veda--priest's chants -
Chapter 1: The creation of the world
Chapter 2-6: Regulation of life; conduct of Brahmins
Chapters 7: Life of Kings
Chapter 8-10: Customs and laws
Chapter 11: Penance for Misdeeds
Chapter 12: Karma -
This most important part of the Mahabharata is the most famous of Hindu scriptures. The problem of renouncing the world is examined.
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Upanishads are a clarification of the Vedas. They are revealed scriptures of high importance.
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As a founder of an important school of Vedanta thought, he taught that Brahman is the whole. Change is Maya.
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Bhakti Yoga is the last step toward salvation. Soul and God are distinguished. If maya exists in Brahman, the basis of all being, then maya is real.
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Gandhi's campaigns for national independence were based on satyagraha techniques to awaken the inner voice of the oppressors to the truth and rightness of their own heart.
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Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated January 30th by Nathuram Godse, 35,
editor-publisher of a Hindu Mahasabha weekly in Poona, in retaliation for Gandhi's
concessions to Muslim demands and agreeing to partition 27% of India to create the
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Indian government reorganizes states according to linguistic principles and
inaugurates second Five-Year Plan. -
The British Indian Empire was partitioned into two sovereign dominion states, the Union of India (later the Republic of India) and the Dominion of Pakistan
