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Exam2
Chapters2,3,4
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 2
03/27/2011

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Veda
Definition
Scared Knowledge
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Vedic Age
Definition
Following the spread of Sanskrit between 1500-1000 BCE
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Rig Veda
Definition
Earliest collection of the Vedas of hymns and chants associated with sacrifices to the various gods
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Suktas
Definition
Hymns
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Mandalas
Definition
megasections of suktas to aid to memorizing
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Sama Veda
Definition
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Sama Veda
Definition
Verses of the Rig Veda arranged for chanting in the form of song
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Yajur Veda
Definition
Collections of formulas spells and instructions concering rituals
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Rita
Definition
Natural Law
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Shruit
Definition
Sacred Knowledge
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Brahmanas
Definition
Following the Vedas, concerning matters of ritual brought up in the Vedas
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Aranyakas
Definition
Concered with proper ritual actions
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Upanishads
Definition
form the final part of shruti, further commentaries to the Vedas but goes deep into philosophical thought of the Vedas
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Vendta
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Term for Upanishads "End of Veda"
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Darshanas
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Differing schools of thought within he Vedanta
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Samkya
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Darshanas of Upanishads
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Rishi
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Person devoted to search of transcendent knowledge
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Sadhus
Definition
Men that gave up everything for spritual enlightenment
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Sannyasin
Definition
disciple of a particular guru
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Guru
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Holy man who attracts a following of disciples
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Ashrama
Definition
a tightknit spritural community made of guru and his discples or sishyas
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Deer do not give birth to baby ducks, and falling apples do not fall upward
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law of nature..everything has a cause and effect
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Brahman
Definition
The beginning of and end of everything
Ultimate inner essences of all things
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Self"
Definition
Brahman is often described by this
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"self"
Definition
The ego-idenfication
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The Supreme Self is beyond name and form
Beyond the senses inexhaustible
Without beginning and without end
Beyond time and space and causality eternal immutable
Definition
Katha Upanishad about Brahman
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Him our eyes cannot see, nor words express He cannot be grasped even by the mind We do not know we cannot understand because he is different from the known and he is different from the unknown thus have we heard from the illumited ones
Definition
Upanishas
Term
neti neti neti
Definition
not that not that not that
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Nirguana Brahman
Definition
the pure unmoving essential without attributes
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Saguna Brahman
Definition
Active creative sources with attributes
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As the web isses out of the spides and is withdrawn as plants sprout from the earth as hair grows from the body Even so, the sages say This universe springs fromm the deathless Self The source of life
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Upanishads
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Maya
Definition
(Vedic times referred to magical powers of the gods) Maya is the totality of everything that makes up the universe the form of "matter" is made into
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Prakriti
Definition
"matter" which every form or maya is made up of
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Tamas
Definition
inertia passivity guna
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rajas
Definition
energy actvity dynamism
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sattva
Definition
balance and hormany
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Brahman is fire and the sun and the moon and the stars He is the air and the sea Brahman is this boy he is that girl He is this man he is that woman and he is this old man too tottering on his staff His face is every where
Definition
"HE" Brahman Upanishads
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Lila
Definition
the play of brahman
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Dharma
Definition
Inner law which upholds the Order of Nature / Balance of Nature
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pursha
Definition
consciousness
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Atman
Definition
indwelling in a sentient being consiousness
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Avidya
Definition
Mistaking the ego "self" for "Self" atman
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Vidya
Definition
To see through the illusion of the separate self and to comes to know the real self
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Samsara
Definition
rebirth of the Atman the turning wheel Brahmans long quest for ultimately perfect rediscovery of Self
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Moksha
Definition
final awakening
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As river flowing east and west Merge in the sea and become one with it Forgetting they were ever separate rivers so do all creatures lose their separateness when they merge at last into pure being There is nothing that does not come from him Of everything he is the inmost Self. He is the truth he is the Self supreme and you are that Shevataketu, you are that
Definition
Upanishad
Term
Tat tsvam asi
Definition
You are that
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Mahabharata
Definition
Work contaning the Bhagavad Gita
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