Vandna modul 2

In this module, Pandita Shukla discusses the ashram system in ancient Hindu laws of Manu. There are four stages of life: Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanprastha, and Sannyasa. Brahmacharya is the learning stage, Grihastha is the stage of marriage and action, Vanprastha is the retirement stage, and Sannyasa is the stage of total detachment from social life for spiritual development. Hello everyone. Myself Pandita Shukla. Welcome you all in the second module of our traditional basis of Indian Buddhism. In this module, we will be discussing about the ashram system. So, according to ancient Hindu laws of Manu, there are four stages or ashrams of life. The first stage is the Brahmacharya ashram. That is, students begin with a ceremony called Upnayan Sushkar. And it's a learning stage. Person is referred to as Brahmacharya in this stage and leave an unmarried celibate. Following it, the second stage, that is, the Grihastha ashram. After completing Brahmacharya, person enters into the second stage called the Grihastha ashram, where his marriage ceremony takes place. Since this is a stage where the basic trilogy of Dharma, Artha, Kama is translated into action, this stage is critically very important. Moving on to the third stage is the Vanprastha ashram, which is technically retirement stage. Here, person relinquish the household duties and goes into the forest for devotions and for religious purposes. And the last is the Sannyasa ashram, which is a state of total detachment from social life. The person leave all the worldly activity and engage the whole form of personality towards spiritual development. Thank you so much everyone for listening our module.