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Āśrama (Sanskrit: आश्रम) is a system of stages of life discussed in Hindu texts of the ancient and medieval eras. [1] The four asramas are: Brahmacharya (student), Gṛhastha (householder), Vanaprastha (forest walker/forest dweller), and Sannyasa (renunciate). [2] The Asrama system is one facet of the Dharma concept in Hinduism. [3]
The Vedas discuss brahmacharya, both in the context of lifestyle and as a stage of one's life. Rig Veda, for example, in Mandala 10, Sukta 136, mentions knowledge seekers as those kesin (long-haired) and with soil-colored clothes (yellow, orange, saffron) engaged in the affairs of mananat (mind, meditation). [13]
The Sri Venkateswara Temple, Pittsburgh, inaugurated on June 8, 1977, and the Hindu Temple Society of North America in New York, consecrated on July 4, 1977, became the first Hindu temples in the U.S. built by Indian immigrants. In the 1980s and 1990s, temples were built in nearly all major metropolitan areas.
The oldest part of the Rig Veda Samhita was orally composed in north-western India between c. 1500 and 1200 BCE, [note 1] while book 10 of the Rig Veda, and the other Samhitas were composed between 1200 and 900 BCE more eastward, between the Yamuna and the Ganges rivers, the heartland of Aryavarta and the Kuru Kingdom (c. 1200 – c. 900 BCE).
Adi Shankara, founder of Advaita Vedanta, with disciples, by Raja Ravi Varma (1904). Sannyasa (Sanskrit: संन्यास, romanized: saṃnyāsa), sometimes spelled sanyasa, is the fourth stage within the Hindu system of four life stages known as ashramas, the first three being brahmacharya (celibate student), grihastha (householder) and vanaprastha (forest dweller, retired). [1]
Kund at Maharshi Sandipani Ashram at Ujjain Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Sanskrit Shiksha Board ( MSRVSSB ), which literally means the Saint Sandipani National Vedic Sanskrit Education Board , is a national-level school education board which grants the Veda Bhushan (10th) and Veda Vibhushan (12th) certificates.
Vānaprastha (Sanskrit: वानप्रस्थ) literally meaning 'way of the forest' or 'forest road', is the third stage in the 'Chaturasrama' [1] system of Hinduism. It represents the third of the four ashramas (stages) of human life, the other three being Brahmacharya (bachelor student, 1st stage), Grihastha (married householder, 2nd ...
Veda Sampradaya Present Shankaracharya Padmapāda: East Puri Govardhanmaṭha Pīṭhaṃ: Prajñānam brahma (Consciousness is Brahman) Rig Veda: Bhogavala Swami Nischalananda Saraswati: Sureśvara: South Sringeri Śārada Pīṭhaṃ: Aham brahmāsmi (I am Brahman) Yajur Veda: Bhurivala Sri Bharati Tirtha: Hastāmalakācārya: West Dvāraka ...