PURUSHAARTHAS
PURUSHAARTHAS : THE GOALS OF LIFE While we study the discourse of Vedanta, one of the Shadarshanas, it is very important for one to inculcate the concepts associated with this school of thought. Hence Adi Shankaracharya Bhagavatapada’s treatise , Tattvabodha itself is a very good introductory text to understand the basic paradigms of Vedanata during one’s adhyaya of other seminal texts of the Prasanthatrayi namely the Bhagavad Githa , Upanishads and the Brahma Sutras. Hence in the series of many articles we will be exploring the basic terminologies associated with the text in specific and Santhana Dharma in general and the first term we will be looking at is Purushaarthas ETYMOLOGY The word “Purushaartha” means the goals of human life (both male and female inclusive) and hence can be interchanged with the term Manushyaartha too. However , the word Artha has many different connotations in the Sanskrit Language. It could mean wealth or meaning of a word etc however in t...