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Hinduism Beliefs And Teachings Flashcards

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Indus civilisation

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The Indus Valley was a Bronze Age civilisation in South Asia

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River Ganges

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Sacred river of the Hindus

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Shruti texts

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Texts that have come from god, the ones that have been heard

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Smriti texts

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Texts that have been changed over the years, that have been remembered

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Brahman

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Hindu beliefs about god

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Aum symbol

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Symbolises the universe and Brahman

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Monotheism

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Belief that there is only one god

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Nirguna brahman

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The belief that Brahman is beyond time and space

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Saguna Brahman

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The belief that Brahman has a form and qualities

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Deities

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A god or goddess/ manifestation of Brahma

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Bhagavan

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Known as the ultimate reality

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Antaryami

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The power of god residing in each humans soul

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Ganesha

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Lord of people/ a deity

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Hanuman

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God of wisdom, strength, courage/ a deity

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Parvati

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Daughter of the mountains, god of motherhood/ a deity

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Saraswati

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Goddess of learning and music/ a deity

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Lakshmi

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Goddess of wealth, luxury/ a deity

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The Trimurti

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The three main deities

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Brahma

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The creator god

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Shiva

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The destroyer god

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Maya

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Life, a great illusion

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Ascetic

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Someone that rejects wealth, lives very simply

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Shaivism

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One of the largest denominations, worships shiva

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Vishnu

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God of preservation

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Vaishnavism

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Hindu denomination for those who worship Vishnu

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Avatar

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The protector and preserved of the universe, different forms of a deity

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Dharma

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Meaning good

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Adharma

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Meaning evil

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Rama

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Avatar of Vishnu

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The Ramayana

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Ramas progress a smriti text

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Ravana

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King of lanka/ demon

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Sita

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The wife of Rama

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Krishna

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Avatar of Vishnu/ teaches love

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The Kurukshetra war

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An Indian poem that describes the war

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The 4 aims of life

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Dharma, artha, Kama, moksha

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Kama

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Enjoying a responsible positive life

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Artha

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Earning a lawful life through honest means

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Moksha

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When the atman is freed from the samsara cycle and joins with Brahman

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Dharma

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Duties you should do to reach moksha

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Sanatarma dharma

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Spiritual duties that apply to everyone

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Varnashrama dharma

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The duty that is assigned to your station in life

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Varna

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Divides Hindu society into 4 varnas

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Free will

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The choice to do what’s right or wrong

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The 6 personal virtues

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Love, empathy, humility, control, ahimsa, respect

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Ahimsa

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Non harming any living thing

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Atman

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Transmigration

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The movement of the atman from one body to another

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Samsara cycle

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The continuous cycle of birth - death - rebirth that the atman goes through

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Law of karma

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Good actions = good consequences
Bad actions = bad consequences

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Reincarnation

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The atman taking on a new physical body

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Punya

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Good actions

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Papa

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Bad actions

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Pakriti

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Physical matter

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Purusa

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Atman spirit

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Jiva

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A living being

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Maya

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Distractions from our soul

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Cosmology

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Ideas and beliefs about the universe

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The cycle of 4 ages

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Hindu beliefs about that time and the universe is split into 4 stages before it’s destroyed and starts over

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Yuga

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Hindu word for period of time. A year

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Golden yuga

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Time of perfection 1.7 million years

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Silver yuga

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Human qualities start to decline. 1.2 million years

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Copper yuga

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Humans become distant and war begins. 300000 years

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Iron yuga

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Era of ignorance and hatred, the last era. 400,000 years

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Kalki

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An avatar of Vishnu that comes at the end of the 4 stages to destroy the universe

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Tri - guna

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3 stages of matter goes through, creation, maintenance, destruction

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