purushartha

Set against the standard four aims of life, the purusharthas, the Charvaka keeps the worldly ones, artha and kama , and is skeptical of moksha as a goal built on a fiction.

Hindu thought also files dharma as one of the four legitimate aims of human life, the purusharthas : dharma (righteousness), artha (wealth and means), kama (pleasure and desire), and moksha (liberation).

Rita (ritam) is the ancient Vedic principle of cosmic order: the truth-in-action by which the universe holds together rather than dissolving into chaos. In the…

They are called the purusharthas , the aims of a human being, and they are the tradition's quiet, worldly, deeply humane answer to the question of how to live.

The four ashramas are the classical stages of life in Hindu thought: brahmacharya, the celibate student; grihastha, the married householder; vanaprastha, the…

Ayurveda, literally 'the knowledge of life', is India's classical system of medicine, set out in three great Sanskrit compendia: the Charaka Samhita, the Sushruta…

The highest of the four aims Classical Hindu ethics frames a human life around four legitimate pursuits, the purusharthas .

It names four, the purusharthas : dharma , living rightly; artha , the pursuit of prosperity and security; kama , the enjoyment of pleasure and love; and moksha , the final liberation.