Hinduism
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katerohr93 on April 3, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
dharma | a person's social order, determined by gender, caste and stage of life |
karma | the moral law of cause and effect, based in dharma and ethical duty |
priests, warriors and administrators, producers, and servants and laborers | the four original classes of the caste |
outcastes | those considered to be outside of society altogether |
caste system | rigidly based on heredity, supposedly determined by karma |
moksha | final release from the realm of earth |
nirvana | to be reborn and merged with Brahman |
reflective, emotional, active, and experimental | four kinds of people |
types of yoga | four ways to reach the ultimate goal of moksha |
knowledge, love, work, psychological experience | pathways to Brahman through... (4) |
learner, householder, hermit, wandering ascetic | four stages of life |
intense study | duties of the learner |
family, vocation, and community | duties of the householder (3) |
abstinence and retirement into solitude for the spiritual quest | duties of the hermit |
a return to society but detached, one who neither hates nor desires | duties of the wandering ascetic |
lotus | represents beauty and non-attachment to one's surroundings |
om | (aum) the most sacred sound in Hinduism, created the world |
Brahman | the ultimate reality, the ground of being, the source and essence of the universe |
Brahma | the creator |
Vishnu | upholds order |
Shiva | the destroyer |
monism | the belief that everything is one in Brahman |
Atman | the eternal self, the ultimate reality within |
ahimsa | Hindu belief of non-violence, flows from monism |
samsara | process of rebirth, 'wheel of rebirth' |
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