Hinduism

25 important questions on Hinduism

Scriptures for Early Aryan religion

Vedas and Vedic corpus

Within the Vedas and the Vedic Corpus is

Rig Veda and Hymns to Indra and Rudra

The forest ascetics movement falls under __

Upanishadic religion
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To the Upanishads, __ is the fate of the dead

Reincarnation

Aryan religion's god

Indra and Rudra

Early development of Hinduism includes

Indus River Valley
Early Aryan
Upanishads (Vedas)

Voluntary, on-going self-denial in pursuit of religious goals

Asceticism

Dialogues between forest ascetics

Upanishad

India's great contribution to the world's religions

Forest ascetics, Buddhism, and Hinduism

A path to spiritual salvation

Yoga

View of suffering expressed in the concept of Shiva

Hindu Theism

Shiva creates and destroys the world through __

Yogic dancing

Direct experience of the atman; mystical altered state of consciousness

Samadhi

__ wrote about his samadhi experience

Yogananda

Escape from the world of suffering

Moksha

Aryan view of afterlife; new doctrine of __ and __

reincarnation and karma

Reincarnation; constant rebirth =

bad news, no bueno

First to introduce reincarnation

Upanishads/ Aryans

Both good and  bad karma imprisons atman. Goal =

no karma

Different levels of constant rebirth

Heaven
Human
Animal
Ghost
Hell

Upanishads salvation is realizing the false self is __

false

Conceptual response to suffering

changes nothing in objective world

India's oldest scriptures; Aryan ritual instruction

Vedas

Written instructions from Aryan god

Vedic Corpus

Hymns to Aryan gods

Rig Veda

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