Spiritual aspects of human self-identification in the context of the puranic vedic treatises

Abstract

Spiritual comprehension of one’s own place in this world, awareness of oneself, one’s own mission
by the human community and an individual human unit in particular, is of everlasting importance. Since
the presence of self-identification is a kind of acquisition of the frame of the personality, the value guideline,
the personality should first of all find answers to these questions and only then live in this world.
But the rapid course of daily events, the existence in the plane of consumer values, constantly changing
events does not allow a person to acquire a conscious state in the development of this issue.
The article aims to expand the boundaries of self-awareness as a person through the ancient Indian
knowledge of man, his spiritual component, in terms of the ancient Puranas, Srimad-Bhagavatam – the
quintessence of Vedic knowledge.
The study of the topic of self-identification of the human person in the spiritual aspect through the
prism of ancient Eastern philosophical sources, since the truth should be sought in antiquity, contains the
scientific significance of the work. It is obvious that the research and inventions of subsequent generations
of philosophers formed the state of the worldview crisis of modern society. Any stable worldview
presupposes the presence of a clear position on the issue of a person’s self-identification; accordingly,
the root of the problems should be sought in who the person believes himself to be. The Puranic scriptures
consider the answer to this question to be meaningful, since depending on this, a life paradigm, a
worldview perspective will be built.
The value of this study consists in studying the topic of self-identification, which is manifested in
the modern world extremely vaguely or not at all studied, which gives rise to spiritual, personal and
ideological crises. The special value of the work in the application of ancient oriental sacred texts for
solving modern problems, this testifies to the practicality of the ancient texts of the ancient civilization
of Bharata-Varsha.
The study of Puranic texts will allow us to correlate modern paradigms of the worldview with other
points of view and take into account the importance of the spiritual platform of human nature, which
means awareness of oneself as a soul.
Key words: self-identification, spirituality, Vedas, ancient Indian philosophy, worldview.