While traversing along with its ritual, religious and spiritual landscape, we discover on top of it quite a meaningful spectrum of Hinduism’s multi-disciplinary diversity.
Its curriculum includes specialized and acknowledged studies and practices in arts, music, and yoga that have earned global fascination. Moreover, the Hindu institution offers an expansive range of inceptive and revealing courses in most pure and applied sciences and social sciences.
All these disciplines are part of the Hindu literature and traditions involving imaginative, investigative, intellectual and cultural pursuits.
In Hinduism, ‘shastras’ refer to various schools of knowledge and learning covering most facets of human life and its environments. The word shastra is a suffix attached to a subject of study. For example, Jeeva shastra is a study in biology. Rasayana shastra refers to chemistry, Bhautika shastra for physics, Vastu for architecture, Artha for economics and Neeti Shastra deals with political science.
In the Hindu iconography deity, goddess Saraswati assumes the dedicated portfolio of arts, music and knowledge. This symbolic representation emphasizes the significance and consequence of all disciplines in life, from spirituality to shastras.
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