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Name the five castes in India

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Brahmins
Ksatryia
Vaisya
Sudra
Harijans
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What is Moksha?

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Heaven

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The priestly group

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Brahmins

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Chiefly, noble, warrior group

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Ksatryia

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Commoners, farmers, and merchants

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Vaisya

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Peasants

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Sudra

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The untouchables or everyone outside the first four Varnas

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Harijans

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The divine social order

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Dharma

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While many gods exist, you choose one to be your patron deity

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Henotheism

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Why is water symbolized as a purifying object

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Washes away bad Karma

Ganges river is conceived as a goddess

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Why are cows considered holy

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Incarnation of Shakti

Promote survival; associated with fertility and agriculture

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Anyone who gives up everything for a journey to find spiritual liberation

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Sadhus

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Very first scriptures from oral tradition that are a bunch of prayers and offers explanations of the beginning of reality

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The Vedas

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Scriptures teaching wisdom or knowing oneself and a universal soul

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The Upanishads

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700 verses that present other options to find release from rebirth and find deliverance through; deeds, knowledge, yoga, and love.

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Bhagavad Gita

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One whose thoughts are illuminated by God

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Guru

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Everything is a god

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Pantheism

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A class system

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Caste

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Name five possible approaches to witnessing to Hindus

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The Simple Gospel Approach
The Pentecostal Power Approach
The Apologetic Approach
Worldview Confrontation Approach
The Holistic Contextualization Approach
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This approach preaches the gospel because it’s the same in all of the world and they say not to get bogged down by complex Hindu Philosophies

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Simple Gospel Approach

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An approach to the resistant Hindu world using a revival model of “breaking down strongholds”. Use prayer bands.

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The Pentecostal Power Approach

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The approach by saying Christ is the fulfillment of Hinduism or Christ is foreshadowed in Hindu scripture

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Apologetic Approach

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This approach contrasts monsoon and theism

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Worldview Confrontation Approach

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This approach witnesses within the caste system for the Gospel to be incarnational and recognize the importance of community identity.

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The Holistic Contextualization Approach

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The state of absolutely transcending all conditioned reality

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Nirvana

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What are the two major traditions of Buddhism?

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Theravada and Mahayana

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This tradition of Buddhism focuses on the immaterial, Nirvana, and to not live in a worldly manner

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Theravada

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This tradition of Buddhism focused on the consciousness or mind only, and we are all Buddhas but don’t realize it yet.

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Mahayana

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