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  2. Directive Principles - Wikipedia

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    Directive Principles of State Policy aim to create social and economic conditions under which the citizens can lead a good life. They also aim to establish social and economic democracy through a welfare state. Though the Directive Principles are non-justiciable rights of the people but fundamental in the governance of the country, it shall be ...

  3. Mahāvākyas - Wikipedia

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    Meaning: Most interpretations state: "Prajñānam (noun) is Brahman (adjective)". Some translations give a reverse order, stating "Brahman is Prajñānam", [web 2] specifically "Brahman (noun) is Prajñānam (adjective)": "The Ultimate Reality is wisdom (or consciousness)".

  4. Karma in Hinduism - Wikipedia

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    Karma is a concept of Hinduism which describes a system in which beneficial effects are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful effects from past harmful actions, creating a system of actions and reactions throughout a soul's ( jivatman's) reincarnated lives, [1] forming a cycle of rebirth. The causality is said to apply not only to ...

  5. Ahimsa - Wikipedia

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    Lord Mahavira, the torch-bearer of ahimsa. Ahimsa ( Sanskrit: अहिंसा, IAST: ahiṃsā, lit. 'nonviolence' [1]) is the ancient Indian principle of nonviolence which applies to actions towards all living beings. It is a key virtue in Indian religions like Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism.

  6. Brahman - Wikipedia

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    Sanskrit (ब्रह्मन्) Brahman (an n -stem, nominative bráhma, from a root bṛh- "to swell, expand, grow, enlarge") is a neuter noun to be distinguished from the masculine brahmán —denoting a person associated with Brahman, and from Brahmā, the creator God in the Hindu Trinity, the Trimurti. Brahman is thus a gender-neutral ...

  7. Nai Talim - Wikipedia

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    Nai Talim, or Basic Education, is a principle which states that knowledge and work are not separate. Mahatma Gandhi promoted an educational curriculum with the same name based on this pedagogical principle. [2] It can be translated with the phrase 'Basic Education for all'. [3] However, the concept has several layers of meaning.

  8. Vidya (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    Vidya ( Sanskrit: विद्या, IAST: vidyā) figures prominently in all texts pertaining to Indian philosophy – meaning science, learning, knowledge, and scholarship. Most importantly, it refers to valid knowledge, which cannot be contradicted, and true knowledge, which is the intuitively -gained knowledge of the self.

  9. Anekantavada - Wikipedia

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    The optative tense in Sanskrit (formerly known as the 'potential') has the same meaning as the present tense of the subjunctive mood in most Indo-European languages, including Hindi, Latin, Russian, French, etc. It is used when there is uncertainty in a statement; not 'it is', but 'it may be', 'one might', etc.