The large majority of people who practice Hinduism submit to a supreme being called Vishnu or Shiva.

What is the meaning of sacred texts. So when the Chinese wrote the Confu texts they were trying to explain to themselves what they were seeing with their eyes and what they believed they were witnessing with their minds. What makes the Bible sacred is a complex ecosystem of church legitimacy power canonization time ritual and other contributing factors. The Vedas are further divided into four sections.

Rigveda Yajurveda Samaveda and Artharvaveda. When the sacredness of the Bible or the Koran is questioned great bodies of people and institutions will rush to defend them. Sacred text - writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity religious text religious writing sacred writing piece of writing written material writing - the work of a writer.

Significant Religious Texts of Major Religions. On his sixty-eighth page near the beginning of Book VI we meet with the following sentence having every appearance of being translated from the Chinese text--God is a principle which exists by virtue of its own intrinsicality and operates without self-manifestation By an inadvertence he has introduced his own definition of God as if it were Kwang-dzes. 1939 attempts todemonstrate that Masonry has a deeper meaning.

A sacred text revealed to Joseph Smith in 1830 by an ancient prophet Mormon. Torah study and here Torah is defined in its broadest sense to include all of the conversation that study of the written Torah has generated is. Studying Torah is a slow process that can involve tracking the thread of ideas across and back through generations of texts as if the footnotes and connections can retrace and uncover the sanctity of Gods own speech in the text.

Anything expressed in letters of the alphabet especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect. This premise is obviously quite different from traditional ideas of engaging with sacred texts. The Mimamsa school claimed that the relevant question is the meaning of the Sruti values appropriate for human beings in it and the commitment to it.

Scripture teaches nothing but charity nor condemns anything but cupidity. The author Walter Leslie Wilmshurst b. Most Hindu sacred texts do not have definite timelines or known authors.