Hinduism :) Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
What is Hinduism's oldest sacred text? | Rig Veda |
What is the Hindu term for liberation? | Moksha |
What is the doctrine that all reality is unlimately one? | monism |
Hindu's believe that the eternal essence of reality and the source of the universe are called _______________________. | Brahman |
What is Atman? | The ultimate reality within, the eternal self |
What is the doctrine of samsara? | the wheel of reincarnation |
What is Hinduism's most popular sacred text? | Bhagabad-Gita |
Traditionally there are ________________ gods and goddesses in Hindusim? | 330 million |
What Hindu principle that literally means "action" or "deeds"? | Karma |
What Hindu principle holds people accountable for their actions? | Karma |
What is the standard of ethical duty based on the divine order of reality? | Dharma |
What are the 4 traditional divisions in the caste system? | Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, Shudra |
What is the additional category of the caste system, otherwise or the outcastes in society? | Untouchables |
Term: "nonviolence," both the avoidance of violence toward other life-forms and an active sense of compassion towards them | Ahisma |
Hinduism may be the world's ___________ religion. | oldest |
Who is the founder of Hinduism? | there isn't one *trick question* |
What is the ultimate goal in Hinduism | to achieve purity and merge with Atman |
Term: the goal of desire. | Kama |
Term: the goal of worldly success. | Artha |
Term: the goal of duty. | Dharma |
Term: the supreme and final goal-merge with Atman and have consciousness and joy | Moksha |
What are the 4 stages of life? | 1) student, 2) householder, 3) forest dweller, 4) sannyasin |
What are the philosophical commentary of the Rig Veda | Upanishads |
What are the three paths to Liberation? | Karma Marga, Jnana Marga, and Bhakti Marga |
Term: one of the three paths to Liberation-- "The Path of Works" | Karma Marga |
Term: one of the three paths to Liberation-- "The Path of Knowledge" | Jnana Marga |
Term: one of the three paths to Liberation-- "The Path of Devotion" | Bhakti Marga |
Term: understanding the nature of the Universe | Cosmology |
Term: an incarnation, or living embodiment of a diety who is sent to Earth to accomplish a divine purpose | Avatar |
Term: the comsic illusion brought about by the divine creative power | Maya |
Term: a trancelike state in which self-consciousnees is lost, and the mind is absorbed into the ultimate reality; the culmination of the eight steps of Yoga | Samadhi |
Term: a wandering ascetic who has advanced to the 4th and highest stage in Hindu Life | Sannyasin |
Term: the traditional practive of buring a widow on her husband's funeral pyre; outlawed in 1829- though still rarely occurs | Sati |
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