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Question 1

Bhakti

Answer 1

refers to religious devotion of a devotee in the worship of the divine

Question 2

Puja

Answer 2

act of showing reverence to a god, a spirit, or another aspect of the divine through invocations, prayers, songs, and rituals

Question 3

Darsan

Answer 3

“auspicious sight” (in the sense of an instance of seeing or beholding and being seen or beheld at the same time

Question 4

Prasad

Answer 4

a material substance of food that is a religious offering in both Hinduism and Sikhism, which is consumed by worshippers. Literally, a gracious gift

Question 5

Upanishads

Answer 5

records of intensive question-and-answer sessions given by illumined sages to their students.

Question 6

Bhagavad Gita

Answer 6

The Gita is set in a narrative framework of a dialogue between Pandava prince Arjuna and his guide and charioteer Krishna.

Question 7

Kama

Answer 7

means desire, wish, longing in Indian literature. Kāma often connotes sexual desire and longing in contemporary literature, but the concept more broadly refers to any desire, wish, passion, longing, pleasure of the senses, the aesthetic enjoyment of life, affection, or love, with or without sexual connotations

Question 8

Artha

Answer 8

Wealth, one of the four goals of human life

Question 9

Shruti

Answer 9

(lit. anything heard) Revealed knowledge

Question 10

Mahavakyas

Answer 10

I am brahman, You are that, this indwelling self is brahman, supreme knowledge is brahman