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Hinduism
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
07/11/2013

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Ahimsa

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Nonharm, nonviolence
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ashram
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A spiritual community.
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Atman
Definition
A spiritual essence of all individual human beings.
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Avatar
Definition
An earthly embodiment of a deity.
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Bhagavad gita
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A religious literart work about Krishna.
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Bhakti
Definition
devotion to a deity or guru.
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Bhakti yoga
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The Spiritual discipline of devotion to a deity or guru.
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Brahma
Definition
god of creation
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Brahman
Definition
the spiritual essence of the universe.
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Brahmin
Definition
member of the priestly caste.
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caste
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A major social class sanctioned by hinduism
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Devi
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Goddess; the divine feminine, also called the great mother.
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dhyana
Definition
meditation
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Durga
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awe-inspiring, distant, a mother-goddess; a form of devi
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guru
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a spiritual teacher.
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hatha yoga
Definition
the spiritual discipline of knowledge and insight
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jnana yoga
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the spiritual discipline of knowledge and insight
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kali
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Dark, a form of devi; a goddess associated with destruction and rebirth.
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Karma
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the moral law of cause and effect that determines the direction of rebirth.
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karma yoga
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the sprirtual disipline of selfless action.
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Krishna
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A god associated with devine playfulness; a form of vishnu.
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Kundalini yoga
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a form of raja yoga that envisions the individuals energy as a force that is capable of being raised from the center of the body to heal the head, producing a state of joy.
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Mantra
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A short sacred phrase, often chanted or used in meditation.
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maya
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illusion; what keeps is from seeing reality correctly; the world, viewed inadequately.
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Moksha
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liberation from personal limitation, egotism, and rebirth.

 

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monism
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the philosophical position that all apparently separate realities are ultimately one; the belief that god and the universe are the same, that the universe is divine.
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puja
Definition
offering and ritual in honor of a deity
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raja yoga
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the royal discipline of meditation.
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Rama
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A god and mythical king, a form of vishnu
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samadhi-
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a state of complete inner peace resulting from meditation.
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samsara
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the everyday world of change and suffering leading to rebirth.
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sannyasin
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A wandering holy man.
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shiva
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a god associated with destruction and rebirth
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trumurti
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three forms of the divine, the three gods brahma, vishnu, and shiva.
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