scholarly journals Divine Light and Melodies Lead the Way: The Santmat Tradition of Bihar

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 230
Author(s):  
Veena Howard
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Moral Conduct ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Structural Principles ◽  
Bihar State

This paper focuses on the branch of Santmat (thus far, unstudied by scholars of Indian religions), prevalent in the rural areas of Bihar, India. Santmat—literally meaning “the Path of Sants” or “Point of View of the Sants”—of Bihar represents a unique synthesis of the elements of the Vedic traditions, rural Hindu practices, and esoteric experiences, as recorded in the poetry of the medieval Sant Tradition. I characterize this tradition as “Santmat of Bihar” to differentiate it from the other branches of Santmat. The tradition has spread to all parts of India, but its highest concentration remains in Bihar. Maharishi Mehi, a twentieth-century Sant from Bihar State, identifies Santmat’s goal as śānti. Maharishi Mehi defines Śānti as the state of deep stillness, equilibrium, and the unity with the Divine. He considers those individuals sants who are established in this state. The state of sublime peace is equally available to all human beings, irrespective of gender, religion, ethnicity, or status. However, it requires a systematic path. Drawing on the writings of the texts of Sanātana Dharma, teachings of the Sants and personal experiences, Maharishi Mehi lays out a systematic path that encompasses the moral observances and detailed esoteric experiences. He also provides an in-depth description of the esoteric practices of divine light (dṛṣti yoga) and sound (surat śabda yoga) in the inner meditation. After providing a brief overview of the history and distinctive features of Santmat of Bihar, this paper will focus on the specifics and unique interpretations of the four structural principles of the tradition: Guru (spiritual teacher), dhyān (inner path of mediation), satsaṅg (spiritual discourses or congregating practitioners for meditation or study), and sadācār (moral conduct). Through a close analysis of textual sources, Sants’ oral discourses that I translated, as well as insights from my participant-observant experiences, I will examine how the four elements reorient the practitioner from the mundane world to the sacred inner experience of śānti.

scholarly journals Neurophenomenology and Intersubjectivity: An Interdisciplinary Approach

Axiomathes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Di Bernardo
Keyword(s):  
Mirror Neurons ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Interpersonal Experience

AbstractThe article aims to provide the main conceptual coordinates in order to fully understand the state of the art of the most recent research in the field of neurobiology of interpersonal experience. The main purpose of this work is to analyze, at an anthropological, phenomenological and epistemological level, how the fundamental characteristics of the recognition of otherness and intercorporeity among human beings contribute to changing the image of nature in the light of a possible new relationship between living bodies, neurophysiological systems and empathy. From this point of view, the hypothesis to investigate is that neurophenomenology, understood as a new evolutionary, multidimensional and autopoietic approach, is capable of probing the preconditions of the possible delineation of a phenomenology of intersubjectivity shaped by the neuroscientific turning point, represented by the discovery of mirror neurons. At this level, the neuroscientific data are interpreted according to a specific interdisciplinary perspective, thus trying to offer a possible unitary and integrated theoretical framework.

scholarly journals Functioning and development of civil society under constitutional basis

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-83
Author(s):  
Danylo Akulenko
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Regulatory Function ◽  
Political Movements ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Low Level

This article was studied the сonstitutional norms for civil society, which, in the author's view, should be the doctrinal basis for its functioning. The question arises because of the critical need of society in legal and political movements for a European model of relations between the state and the citizen, the urgency is determined not only by the author’s personal convictions, but also by the unstable situation inside the Ukrainian politics, according to which only anti-democratic pseudosocial post-Soviet movements have unity and one point of view. In such conditions, the uncertainty of the Basic Law does not leave an opportunity to develop new, more effective legal norms that could increase the effectiveness of civil society. The scientific basis for this article were the works of V. Batanov, A. Krusyan, N. Onishchenko, T. Podorozhna, S. Petkov, O. Skripniuk, S. Sunegin, Y. Shemshuchenko. The aim of the work is to study the possible instruments of constitutional influence to achieve the ultimate goal of each democratic and legal state - building an effective civil society with a self-regulatory function. The analysis of the real situation inside the country shows that the level of efficiency of civil society is currently critically low. Indicators of this are the following negative socio-legal phenomena: - legal and political nihilism; - the dependence of the media on the so-called "tycoons"; - a small number of non-state entities of legal relations (organizations, foundations, unions, associations, federations, consumer societies, etc.) especially in sparsely populated rural areas; - low level of labor protection and social guarantees; - ineffective financing of political movements, parties and youth party cells; - low level of civil self-identification in certain regions of the country; - ineffective distribution of financial resources to state monopolies, which are unprofitable to preserve employment. This article provides possible ways of overcoming problems which can positively affect the further development of interaction between society and the state with an integrated approach to their implementation and strike a balance between state influence and civil pressure, the purpose of which is to ensure a decent level of protection of the rights, freedoms and interests of citizens.

Dimensi Penanganan dalam Kasus Pengungsi Internasional; Teori dan Praktik

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanyan M Yani ◽  
Zulkarnain Zulkarnain
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
International System ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Social Community ◽  
State Management ◽  
Fundamental Reason ◽  
International Refugee Law

<p>Dealing with international refugees is actually a responsibility of the State and the global social community. It does not depend on whether the country concerned has ratified the 1951 refugee or not. Why, because the issue of international refugees is a matter of humanitarian universalism, including human rights. Therefore there is no fundamental reason for the State to ignore it. Isn't the state as well as a political unit that lives, grows and develops as a living creature. International refugees should be seen as an international system organ that contributes to the maturation of the State. Humanity values cannot be separated from the dimensions of State management. Emmanuel Kant said that human beings in essence have a behavior that respects and cares for each other. This kind of behavior makes a person called a human being. Likewise, the State, the State is an instrument managed by a number of people and of course based on common sense. For this reason, the action of handling refugees is something that is based on common sense. Treatment options may be chosen based on rules that are in accordance with international refugee law, however, they are not limited in nature, but may also be based on creativity in accordance with what develops in the field. The important thing is not contrary to the humanity's point of view.</p><p> </p><p>Keywords: Handling of Refugees, International Refugees, Protection, Humanity.</p>

scholarly journals L. KARSAVINO ISTORIOSOFINIS MESIANIZMAS IR EURAZIJOS IDĖJA

Problemos ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 73 ◽  
pp. 25-41
Author(s):  
Gintautas Mažeikis
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Religious Faith ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
State Culture ◽  
Old Believers ◽  
French School ◽  
The Individual

Straipsnyje analizuojamos Karsavino Eurazijos ir simfoninės asmenybės teorijos ir jų įtaka asmeniniam Karsavino likimui, jo sofiologinėms mesianistinėms nuostatoms. Aptariama svarbiausių filosofinių Karsavino idėjų genezė: gyvo religingumo ir bendrojo religinio fondo, gnostinės pleromos interpretacijos, Šv. Trejybės dialektika ir jos santykis su N. Kuziečio filosofija, simfoninės asmenybės teorija. Pagrindinis teiginys apie Karsavino ir Kuziečio filosofijų skirtumą yra pagrįstas kristologiniais Karsavino argumentais apie Kuziečio filosofijos nepakankamumą aiškinant Dievo kaip Possest eksplikacijos ir komplikacijos problematiką. Karsavinas, remdamasis ortodoksiniais kristologiniais teiginiais, simfoninės asmenybės bei ideokratijos teorija bei tipologine, istoriosofine civilizacijų klasifikacija, pagrindžia kairiąją Eurazijos sąjūdžio ideologiją, kuri išliko aktuali ir šiandienos Rusijos politinei situacijai. Straipsnyje parodomos lietuviškosios filosofijos ir Karsavino samprotavimų paralelės ir keliamas klausimas dėl Eurazijos ideologijos nesvarstymo tarpukario Lietuvoje. Straipsnio pabaigoje grįžtama prie filosofinio Karsavino apsisprendimo, saikingų, asmeninių mesianistinių jo nuostatų ir sokratiško likimo tardymų, įkalinimo Abezės lageryje laikotarpiu. Pagrindiniai žodžiai: gyvasis religingumas, simfoninė asmenybė, panteizmas, gnoticizmas, mesianizmas.Historiosophical Messianism of L. Karsavin and the Idea of Eurasia Gintautas Mažeikis SummaryThe historiosophical and messianistic ideas of L. Karsavin and his ideology of left Eurasia were based on the theological and gnostic symbolism of the early 20th century, F. Schelling’s philosophy of Myth and Universality, Vl. Solovjov’s Philosophy of Universality, Mystics of Christology, the Orthodox understanding of Saint Trinity, typological theory of civilizations. At the beginning of his mediaeval researches Karsavin investigated sacral events in rural areas in the 17th–18th centuries, especially in Italy, magic activities and popular beliefs in Christian Saints, based on uncritical, natural, live religious feelings and spontaneous faith. He maintained live religious faith to be the background for the significance and utility of all canonical religious rules and churches. These ideas are similar to the French school of Annales and to the M. Bakhtin’s theory of Carnival issues of the Mediaeval tradition of laughter. However, Karsavin re lated his consideration of spontaneous hierophany to the gnostic tradition of Divine Pleroma. It is important to them in order to interpret the philosophy of Nicolaus Cusanus, especially his conception of God as Possest and a permanent and contradictory process of explicatio and complicatio. On the basis of Cusanus’ philosophy, Karsavin developed his personal idea of dialectics of Saint Trinity as a union of Divine personalities. Karsavin maintained that the conception of Cusanus is insufficient because Cusanus didn’t explain the role of Christ in the full reunification of sinful human beings with God. By Karsavin, Cusanus avoided pantheistic tendencies and therefore couldn’t develop the theory of divination of personality. On the contrary, Karsavin develops the idea of divination of oneself in his theory of Symphonic personality. Every personality is a form of free solution and responsibility, love and self-sacrifice. Therefore, the personality develops itself from an autonomous individual into the personality as a family, the personality as a nation, as a state, and finally the personality transforms into a cosmic human being, or Adam Kadmon. The hierarchic growth of personality, his ontology presupposes his essential responsibility for the development of nation, state, culture and civilization. It was the basis of Karsavin’s messianism. The nation or culture couldn’t be developed in the necessary direction, towards divinity, without creative and self-sacrificing activity of the individual. The hierarchical conception of the world personality presupposes the ideocratic form of government. The idea of the ideocratic power makes Karsavin’s political considerations similar to the Soviet system of power. Karsavin from 1925 until 1929 was the leader of the left wing of the Eurasia movement which was located in Paris. He initiated and supported a dialog with Bolsheviks’ representatives. However, Karsavin strongly criticized communism and Bolsheviks from the Orthodox point of view. Karsavin was a deep believer and couldn’t support the destruction of churches by the Soviet regime. However, today it is possible to say that Karsavin’s political visions are very similar to the modern Vl. Putins’ regime in contemporary Russia. Eurasia and Symphonic Personality ideas became important motives for Karsavin’s coming to Lithuania in 1928. However, after arrival he didn’t participate in any political movement and developed his civilization ideas, the conception of ideocratic power and Symphonic Personality there. In the Lithuanian period, he becomes closer to the Russian Orthodox tradition of Old Believers and its ideas of self-sacrifice to populace. Karsavin didn’t emigrate from Lithuania in the threat of Soviet occupation. On the contrary, he spread his ideas of Symphonic Personality, dialectics of Trinity, self-sacrificing after the War and even in the concentration camp in Abeze until his death in 1952. Keywords: live religions, Symphonic Personality, pantheism, gnosticism, messianism.-size: 11pt;">   

scholarly journals Influenza viruses in adult dogs raised in rural and urban areas in the state of São Paulo, Brazil

2012 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 311-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalva Assunção Portari Mancini ◽  
Rita Maria Zucatelli Mendonça ◽  
Aparecida Santo Pietro Pereira ◽  
Adélia Hiroko Nagamori Kawamoto ◽  
Camila Infantosi Vannucchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Influenza A ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
The State ◽  
Influenza Viruses ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Influenza A H1n1 ◽  
The Mean

In 1970, searching for the interspecies transmission of influenza viruses led to the first study on influenza viruses in domestic animals. Birds and mammals, including human beings, are their natural hosts; however, other animals may also play a role in the virus epidemiology. The objective was to investigate the incidence of influenza viruses in adult dogs raised in rural (9, 19.56%) and urban (37, 80.43%) areas in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Dog serum samples were examined for antibodies to influenza viruses by the hemagglutination inhibition (HI) test using the corresponding antigens from the circulating viruses in Brazil. Dogs from rural areas presented antibodies to influenza A H3N2, and influenza A H7N7 and H3N8. In rural areas, dog sera displayed mean titers as 94.37, 227.88, 168.14, 189.62 HIU/25 µL for subtypes H1N1, H3N2, H7N7, H3N8, respectively. About 84% and 92% of dogs from urban areas exhibited antibodies to human influenza A H1N1 and H3N2, respectively, with statistical difference at p < 0.05 between the mean titers of antibodies to H1N1 and H3N2. About 92% and 100% were positive for H7N7 and H3N8, respectively. In dogs from urban areas, the mean titers of antibodies against influenza A H1N1, H3N2, H7N7 and H3N8, were 213.96, 179.42, 231.76, 231.35 HIU/25 µL respectively. The difference among them was not statistically significant at p > 0.05. In conclusion, these dogs were positive for both human and equine influenza viruses. The present study suggests the first evidence that influenza viruses circulate among dogs in Brazil.

scholarly journals URDU: رہائشی علاقوں کی انتظامی منصوبہ بندی: سیرت طیبہ کی روشنی میں تجزیاتی مطالعہ

ĪQĀN ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (03) ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Mansha Tayyab ◽  
Yasir Farooq
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Management System ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Strong Recommendation ◽  
The Government ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Day By Day

 In the modern era, where the population is increasing day by day, many problems regarding cleanliness and Residential areas management system are growing accordingly. In which a significant amount of these problems are related to the management of better facilities of living, providing best necessities to human beings, creating and extending reliable infrastructure and better environment for growing. It is very sad to know that, in third world countries these problems are worst then other developed countries. Pakistan is among those countries which are facing a large number of these kind of problems. According to a survey, the ratio of population increasing has been doubled due to migration from rural areas to big cities. There is a huge need to solve these problems in appropriate way, with consistency and basic management. The government should have to pay a great attention toward these problems with a devoted management system in the light of Islamic teachings. The topic of this study is selected for this kind of signification. Author(s) selected many teachings through the Seerat Perspectives and as Islamic point of view. In the light of that teaching, number of suggestion have been given and strong recommendation has been made for the development of better infrastructure and management system to resolve these problems. 

DEFINSI AKUNTANSI DALAM BINGKAI MAQOSHID SYARIAH

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yopi Yudha Utama
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Important Thing ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of

The main concern of maqoshid shariah is to creating the benefit of the people or creating the benefit for all off the creatures . This concept is very appropriate in the world of accounting, because modern accounting is full of materialistic matters, which will create capitalistic life. capitalism causes the stronger party to get stronger, and the smaller parties suffer even more. Capitalistm is inhuman, because it can lead to exploitation either from human to other human beings, or the state to other countries. So, modern accounting must be changed, starting from the definition. Definition is an important thing, because of this definition will form the mindset to the practice. The writer uses qualitative research and uses a postmodern paradigm approach in the point of view of maqoshid shariah. Maqoshid syariah consists of three categories among them are like dharuriyyat, hajiyyat, and tahsiniyyat. The purpose of this research is to make a new definition of accounting based on maqoshid shariah. The results of this research is new accounting definition based on maqoshid syariah. The definition off accounting based on maqoshid syariah is a science that have to provide information to stakeholders and shareholders about the operational and the condition of the company both quantitatively and qualitatively without any engineering conditions in order to help create a harmonious life in all lining.Keywords: definiton, accounting, capitalism, maqoshid shariah and harmonious life

Internal colonisation in rural Romania: the sale of the state-owned estates at the end of the nineteenth century

Rural History ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-113
Author(s):  
Theodor Cepraga ◽  
Bogdan Suditu
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Newly Married ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Right

AbstractIn the second half of the nineteenth century, the Romanian provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia experienced a series of modernising reforms, some of them concerning the agrarian regime. The enforcement of the Organic Statues in the 1830s attempted to reform the political and economic life of the principalities, but it favoured the big landowners, at the expense of the peasantry. The agrarian reform enacted in 1864 put an end to serfdom and granted the right to own land to former corvée peasants. It was soon followed by the appropriation for the newlyweds, a law that offered land to newly married peasants in order to settle them in low populated rural areas. Population growth triggered a new demand for agricultural land because the big landowners still controlled approximately two thirds of the arable land. As a result, in 1881 and 1889 the state passed two laws concerning the sale of public domains to the peasantry, attempting to improve their standard of living. This article focuses on the process of rural colonisation, which took place at the end of the nineteenth century after the sale of state-owned estates to the peasants. Using data extracted from official statistics the article analyses, from a spatial point of view, the creation of a series of new settlements in low populated but fertile regions of the country. Finally, the article investigates how, at that time, this rural colonisation was perceived by peasants, politicians and rural sociologists.

Analysis of complex methods of industry assessment of tourist-recreational potential of territories of the republic of Belarus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Kolesnikovich
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Natural Habitats ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Specific Species ◽  
The Impact

The subject of the research is a set of relations that are formed in the process of improving the national system and program of environmental monitoring in the Republic of Belarus. A set of indicators is presented on the basis of which it is possible to com- prehensively assess the state of the ecosystem of any territory in terms of the impact of tourism on the ecosystem. The purpose of the article is to develop scientific, methodological and practical proposals for the applied support of the mechanism for regulating the development of bio-ecotourism in order to develop sectoral conditions for the development of tourism in rural areas as well as the organization of a modern developed infrastructure of sectoral eco-oriented tourism. Methodology of the work. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is a system of both general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge, the fundamental provisions of modern economic and environmental theory and practice. In the scientific research, the following methods were used: monographic, in the formation of approaches, on the use of a set of indicators, on the basis of which it is possible to comprehensively assess the state of ecosystems of any territory from the point of view of tourism to the ecosystem. Results of the work – the applied use of scientific results of improved approaches for the development of the economy of the Republic of Belarus through the implementation of a mechanism for regulating the development of bio-ecotourism is proposed in order to develop sectoral conditions for the development of tourism in rural areas, as well as the organization of a modern developed infrastructure of sectoral eco-oriented tourism. Conclusions. These forecasting methods are most often used in carrying out normative forecasting, which is most important in today's changed conditions, with travel restrictions and delimitations. This scientific approach generalizes and is intended to formalize both bioecological design objects of research and the prospects for creating natural and artificial decorations using the features of reliefs and water areas. Both national systems and programs of environmental monitoring and international programs and research within the framework of the activities of large international organizations are based on the principles listed above (the Berne Convention is an international agreement that contains a provision on the protection of both natural habitats (biotopes) and and specific species of flora and fauna). Key words. Prognostics, Forecasting Subject (JV), Forecasting Object (EP), Formation Patterns, State, Development

scholarly journals Universities and Wineries: Supporting Sustainable Development in Disadvantaged Rural Areas

Agriculture ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 378
Author(s):  
Chiara Aleffi ◽  
Sabrina Tomasi ◽  
Concetta Ferrara ◽  
Cristina Santini ◽  
Gigliola Paviotti ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
The University

This exploratory study focuses on the role of the university in supporting sustainable development in rural areas, focusing on small wine producers, particularly those located in remote and disadvantaged areas. Disadvantaged areas have distinctive features. Firstly, they are fragile areas from a sociodemographic point of view because of population ageing. Secondly, they are unstable from an environmental (physical, eco-systemic) point of view, as a consequence of insufficient maintenance of their seminatural capital. University–business cooperation with companies located in those areas thus needs to be designed by considering the specific characteristic of the place. Therefore, this exploratory study sought to understand how the university can work with small wineries and support them and their rural area to face inequalities and low growth, and foster social innovation. We present a case study based on field research in Italy. The results—based on the analysis of 26 semistructured interviews with small wine producers—are discussed by exploring the potential form of cooperation between rural stakeholders and universities, beyond the concept of knowledge transfer. Conclusions highlight the need for the university to act as a facilitator of dialogue at a territorial level, as a first step toward to formulation of shared sustainable goals.

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