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Hinduism terms

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Ascetic   one who renounces physical pleasures and worldly attachments for the sake of spiritual advancement.  
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Atman   the eternal self or soul of an individual.  
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Brahman   the highest of the four classes of the caste system, made up of priests.  
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Avatar   an incarnation, or living embodiment, of a deity, usually vishnu, who is sent to earth to accomplish a diving purpose  
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Rig Veda   A collection of 1,017 Sanskrit hymns composed about 1500 B.C or earlier; Hinduism's oldest sacred text.  
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Maya   Cosmic illusion brought about by divine creative power  
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Caste System   Traditional division of Hindu society into various categories; brahmin, kshatriya, vaishya, and shudra each class contains numerous subgroups, resulting in more than three thousand categoreies.  
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Four Goals of Life   Sensual pleasure, Material Success, Harmony with Dharma, The bliss of Moksha.  
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Karma   The moral law of cause and effect of actions  
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Dharma   Ethical duty base on the divine order of reality  
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Moksha   Liberation or release of the individual self  
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Monism   The doctrine that reality is ultimately made up of only one essence  
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Upanishads   a collection of over two hundred texts composed between 900 and 200 B.C.  
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Samsara   Wheel of Rebirth.  
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Three Paths of Liberation   To be active, To gain knowledge, and to experience emotional attacmhent.  
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Four Stages of Life   1st- Student, 2nd- pursuing a career and raising a family. 3rd- birth of the first grandchild, forest dweller stage. 4th- wandering ascetic. stage for forest dwellers ready to return to society.  
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