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World religion
Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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ahimsa | Nonharm,nonviolence. |
ashram | a spirtual community |
atman | the spirtual essence of individual human beings. |
avatar | an earthly embodiment of a deity. |
bhagavad gita | a religious literary work about krishna. |
bhakti | devotion to a deity or guru. |
Bhakti yoga | the spirtual disciplines of devotion to a deity or guru. |
brahma | god of creation |
brahman | the spirtual essence of the universe. |
brahmin | member of the priestly caste. |
caste | one of the major social classes sanctioned by hinduism. |
devi | goddes, the divne feminine, also called the grea mother. |
dhyana | meditation. |
durga | "inspring, distant, a mother goddess a form of devi. |
gur | a spirtual teacher. |
hatha yoga | the spiritual discipline of postures and bodily exercises. |
jnana yoga | the spirtual discipline of knowledge and insight. |
kali | a goddess associated with destruction of rebirth. |
karma | the direction of rebirth |
karma yoga | selfless action |
krishna | a god associated with divine playfulness a form of vishnu |
kundalini yoga | individual energy state of joy. form of raja yoga |
mantra | a short sacred phrase, often chanted or used in meditation. |
maya | thwe world viewed inadequately. |
moksha | liberation from personal limitation, egotism, and rebirth. |
monism | god and universe are the same, that the universe is divine. |
puja | offering and ritual in honor of deity |
raja yoga | the royal of discipline of meditation |
rama | a god and mythical king a form of vishnu |
samadhi | a state of complete inner peace resulting from meditation. |
samsara | everyday world changing and suffering leading to rebirth. |
sannyasin | a wandering holy man |
shiva | a god associated with destruction and rebith |
trimurti | three forms, of divines the three gods, brahma, vishnu, and shiva |
upanishads | written meditations on the spirtual essence of the unverse and the self. |
vedas | four collection of ancient prayers and rituals. |
vishnu | a god assoicated with preservation and love. |
yoga | a spiritual discipline, a method for perfecting one's union with the divine. |