6. 1st wave Sanatan Dharma - Vedic
Worldview: Sacrifice of the Divine Purusha. One spirit
becoming infinite manifestation
Goal: Invocation of gods through sacrifice (ritual) and
attainment of heaven
7. 1st wave Sanatan Dharma - Vedic
This first wave Vedic Hinduism was revived by
Swami Dayananda Sarasvati when he founded the
Arya Samaj
9. 2nd wave Sanatan Dharma - Vedantic
Worldview: World and works (Sansara and Karma) product of
Maya or Mara i.e. force of IGNORANCE / AVIDYA.
Goal: The one absolute, unchanging truth (SAT). Transient
world is a temporary illusion (ASAT) not permanent fact
10. 2nd wave Sanatan Dharma - Vedantic
This second wave Vedantic Hinduism was revived by
Vivekananda for modern times as a universal religion
12. 3nd wave Sanatan Dharma - Pauranic
Central focus – Archana / Aradhana / Prarthana (Bhakti) of
pauranic gods
13. 3nd wave Sanatan Dharma - Pauranic
Worldview: LEELA (play) for the delight of god/goddess and his/her
devotees
Goal: The delight of god through love and aspiration to god
14. 3nd wave Sanatan Dharma - Pauranic
This is the Hinduism we all practice today and which we generally
associate with the name and where it is most popular and dynamic
16. What’s next for Dharma?
1st wave – Vedic – Yagna - Karma
2nd wave – Vedantic – Jnana - Sanyasa
3nd wave – Pauranic – Aradhana - Bhakti
4th wave - ??
Is there something that ties all of these and
yet is greater than all of them put together?
17. The great secret
• What is the one connecting thread through all of
these?
• There is one power that runs through all these
• Without it
– Yagna (Karma) is empty ritual
– Jnana is mere philosophy
– Bhakti is superficial religion
• The word that denotes this power is frequently
attached to the end of all three
19. What does Sri Krishna ask Arjuna
to become?
Answer: A YOGI
20. Why Yoga?
• There are many types of yogas and many types of yogis
• Each yoga consists of sadhana aiming at one or many
siddhis or supernormal powers
• The Gita’s yoga is to attain the highest siddhi –
union with the Divine within oneself and in all
21. Yoga ties Karma, Jnana and Bhakti
Gita itself brings out the yogic essence of all
three and integrates them all into one YOGA
26. What is missing? Yogic world-view
But all life, when we
look behind its
appearances, is a vast
Yoga of Nature who
attempts to realise her
perfection in an everincreasing expression of
her potentialities and to
unite herself with her
own divine reality.
27. Yogic worldview: Evolution as yoga
• All of creation is a great yoga of nature
• All life is nothing but the yoga of god seeking to manifest
his own perfection
28. Life evolving is god growing
Yoga is conscious evolution from man
human to man divine or super-man
29. Life evolving is god growing
“The animal is a living laboratory in which Nature has, it is said,
worked out man. Man himself may well be a thinking and living
laboratory in whom and with whose conscious co-operation she
wills to work out the superman, the god. Or shall we not say,
rather, to manifest God?”
30. Sri Aurobindo – 4th wave dharma
sansthapana
Recovered the complete
yoga of the Gita
integrating karma, jnana
and bhakti
31. Sri Aurobindo – 4th wave dharma
sansthapana
Discovered the secret
yoga of the rishis in the
Veda
32. Sri Aurobindo – 4th wave dharma
sansthapana
Developed a new
synthesis of vedic,
vedantic and tantric
yogas called the PURNA
YOGA or the Yoga of
Integral Transformation
33. Sri Aurobindo – 4th wave dharma
sansthapana
A revolutionary new
orientation:
• Moksha is no longer the
final goal, not just escape
from life on earth but only
the first step to a new
divine life on earth
• Veda-anta for man is
veda-arambha for superman
34. Sri Aurobindo – 4th wave dharma
sansthapana
Revelation of parashakti as the yogashakti that
descends from
above when called
Yoga not just for
ascent of soul but
for descent of God
35. The goal
Take up yoga for self-perfection and world
transformation
Find out thy soul, recover thy hid self,
In silence seek God's meaning in thy depths,
Then mortal nature change to the divine.
Notas do Editor
Many say because India has something eternal in its core – after all it is called the Sanatana dharma
Others say that Hindus have fought
Also often leads to confusion – What really is hinduism?
In Gita Jnana Yoga is identified with the path of the Sankhya yogins. The characteristic of the Sankhya or Jnana yoga is sanyas or renunciation.
Sanyasis and Sadhus
Save souls, abandon the world. Gives rise to nastika religions that even reject the veda and yagnas
Establishment of monastic order – emphasis on renunciation
Gita: Sarvam Karmakhilam partha jnane
This is the Hinduism we all practice and which we generally associate with the name
God Goddess – bhagavan / bhagavati, devotees bhaktas
What we do today – going to temple, derasar or gurudwara. One could even include in this worship offered in non-Hindu religions like Islam and Christianity
Left out many, for e.g. saints like Kabir and Mira-bai
Knowledge is now something that is given by the grace of god
Karma also is now the service of god in the world and even rituals take on a devotional aspect
It must respond to the needs of the modern world and present times?
Ramakrishna as the true Purohita – brahmana
The bhagawad siddhi of the bhagavad yoga
It must respond to the needs of the modern world and present times?
Vivekananda: “Yoga is the compression of all evolution into one lifetime”
Shankara and all those who followed him emphasized the Jnana yoga of the Gita
Similarly others such as Madhvacharya and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu emphasized the Bhakti aspect of the Gita
Lokmanya Tilak is the only one who chose to highlight the Karma aspect of the Gita
Ascent as the great paradigm guiding Indian spirituality and world religions.
Descent of god is the new paradigm given by Sri Aurobindo.
This is what was missing in Hinduism.
Vivekananda as forerunner.
This is the message and the work of Mother India, it is the work of the evolution, the work of the universe and the work of god. The greatest work. Does America feel that democracy is meant only for America? Does Europe think that science and technology are meant only for Europe?