HINDUISM

Question 1

Hinduism

Answer 1

Used by outsiders to describe practice they saw but sanatana dharma is more accepted

Question 2

Traditions

Answer 2

Focus on purity and cleanliness 
Fetrility rituals
Mother goddess worship
The god Siva w male and female components and three faces
Yoga And meditation

Question 3

The Veda

Answer 3

Holy hindu text 
4 collections
Rig Veda is the oldest 
Believe veda existed before the world 
Eternal law
Too powerful for lower castes so only upper study it

Question 4

Aryan imports

Answer 4

Sanskrit language
The Veda
Many of the gods
Henotheism (worship of one god without denying existence of others)
Brahman 
Samsara
Atman 
Caste system

Question 5

Brahman

Answer 5

The power f all powers

Question 6

View on creation

Answer 6

All is a mystery, we will never know

Question 7

Caste system

Answer 7

Brahmins 
Ksatriyas 
Vaisyas
Sudras
Dalits or untouchables arent worthy of being in the system, not considered Hindus

Question 8

Aspects of thecaste system

Answer 8

Based on idea not all people are equal bc did not behave equally in previous lives
Karma follows into next life
People accept their caste bc of this
Litttle mobility bt castes 
Marry within own caste
"Maintains natural order" 
Each has own dharma (duty) to fill

Question 9

Men

Answer 9

Four stages lf life
Student stage
Householder stage
Forest dweller stage
Renunciation stage

Question 10

MOKSA

Answer 10

Liberstaion from rebirth
Leaves behind suffering and contiuous wandering of reincarnation
Distant objective takes may lifetimes

Question 11

Three Yogas to achieve moksa

Answer 11

Karma yoga
Jnana yoga
Bhakti yoga

Question 12

KARMA YOGA

Answer 12

The way of action, doing good karma generating actions
Generators of good karma 
-dharma (duty)
-Artha (pleasure)
-moksa (liberation)

Question 13

JNANA YOGA

Answer 13

The way of wisdom, dedicating life to understandingand awareness
To understand wisdom requires renunciation and giving up attachment to individuality
The true self is brahman
Truth is within
Detachment brings peace and clarity
Must look past maya the illusion of the world
The atman is beyond human comprehension and is imperceptible and immortal

Question 14

BHAKTI YOGA

Answer 14

The way of devotion- giving all lifes passion to worshipping a particular deity
Done with faith to the god

Question 15

Dharma

Answer 15

Duty
Includes 
Ritual purification
Rites of passage (samskara or sacraments)
Festivals
Pilgrimage

Question 16

Samskaras

Answer 16

Rites of passage

Question 17

Bhagavad-Gita

Answer 17

Song of the Lord, most well read of all hindu texts

Epic poem of the story of Krishna (one of vishnus avatars)

Question 18

Gods

Answer 18

330 million dieties, but all are one ultimate power, brahman
Images lf gods are shocking to remind they arent human
Do not worship all god equally, choose personal god

Question 19

Three major gods

Answer 19

Brahma-the creator
Vishnu- the maintainer
Siva- the destroyer

Question 20

Vishnu

Answer 20

Most commonly worshipped of three main gods
Most common avatars are Krishna and rama
Vaisnava is the worship of vishnu

Question 21

Siva

Answer 21

Saivism is worship of Siva,
Both male and female
Light and dark
Destroyer but creates new things thru destruction

Question 22

Devi

Answer 22

The great goddess

Scary and peaceful forms