The Srivaisnava Way of Life: Daily Religious Duties and Their Foundation

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10.2991/iccessh-19.2019.430How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Indian religion; Indian philosophy; srivaisnavism; Pancaratra; pancakala; aradhana; prapatti; Visnu-Narayana; yoga; mantra; ethics; Vedanta Desika (Venkatanatha)

Abstract

This article continues the study of the srivaisnava way of life — one of the most famous and wide spread religious and philosophical tradition of India which formalized in a more explicit form in the 12th-14th centuries. The texts of Pancaratra tradition and visistadvaita-vedanta, as well as some other features of Indian religion played a significant role in the formation of the ritual system, daily duties of the adepts, way of worship and ethics. The first part of the study was dedicated to initiation rituals (pancasamskara). The next step after initiation towards liberation from the wheel of rebirth and attainment of the grace of Visnu-Narayana is the daily worship, performed in the self-surrender act (prapatti). The paper deals with the fivefold division of the day (pancakala-prakriya), described in many texts of the vaisnava tantric tradition of Pancaratra, where every period has its own prescribed practice. Religious and philosophical foundations of these duties, prescriptions for chanting mantras, participation in festivals and holidays, as well as the ethics of srivaisnavism and related duties are also considered in this work.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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