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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