Indian Journal of Positive Psychology

S. K. Srivastava ¹, Kailash Chandra Barm ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Gurukul Kangri University, Haridwar, U.K., GB

Abstract

The present study is an attempt to know the importance of rituals of Hindu's in spirituality. Spiritual psychology is the study of the unity of the spirit, the mind and the body manifest in the human context. It serves as the bridge to connect the otherwise disparate realms of personal and transpersonal, the secular and the sacred, the normal and the paranormal. Hinduism is a collective term applied to the many philosophical and religious traditions native to India. Hinduism has neither a specific moment of origin nor a specific founder. Rather, the tradition understands itself to be timeless, having always existed. Indeed, its collection of sacred texts is known, as a whole, as Sanatana Dharma, The Eternal Teaching. It is thus a complex tradition that encompasses numerous interrelated religious doctrines and practices that have some common characteristics but which lack any unified system of beliefs and practices. A ritual is a set of actions, performed mainly for their symbolic value. It may be prescribed by a religion or by the traditions of a community. The aim of this study is to analyse the effect of rituals of Hindu's in relation to spirituality. This is done through analysis of various studies and articles on present study. At last this study concludes that rituals which are followed by Hindu's lead to spirituality and how it may help to adjust and transform of the ego, understand psychic phenomena, maintain health and wellness, the effect of distant prayer and relation between science and Spirituality. It may be applied to different mental disorder like schizophrenia, depression, mania, anxiety and personality disorder etc.

Keywords

Rituals, Hinduism, Spirituality

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Naveen Pant ¹, S. K. Srivastava ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Psychology, Gurukula Kangri University, Haridwar, IN

Abstract

The present study is conducted on 300 PG level college students in Haridwar, Uttarakhand (India). The aim of the present study is to examine the level of spiritual intelligence and quality of life (QoL), to observe relationship between these two variables and also to identify the difference in QoL across gender and educational background (arts and science). The purposive sampling technique is used to select 300 college students of both disciplines of arts and science from the four different government degree colleges/ campuses m Haridwar Integrated Spiritual Intelligence scale (ISIS) and WHOQOL-BREF are used to observe the level of these variables among college students. In the present study correlational design is employed. All the statistical analysis is done with the help of computer software SPSS. To observe relationship Pearson correlation and to identify the difference t- test is used Findings of the study revealed that spiritual intelligence and QoL relates significantly among art students, male and female art students separately have significant relationship between spiritual intelligence and QoL. Spiritual intelligence and QoL relates significantly among science students, male and female science students separately have significant relationship between spiritual intelligence and QoL. No significant difference is found between male and female students in terms of QoL. No significant difference is found between art and science students in terms of QoL.

Keywords

Spiritual Intelligence, Quality of Life, Gender, Educational Background.

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