By: Natalie Smoot

Will KirvenAndy Horne

Casey Barfell

Hinduism

• Hinduism believes in idol worship, casteism, reincarnation, 'karma', 'dharma' and 'moksha'.

Customs

• To greet someone you need to bow down with palms together and say Namaste.

• The coming together of hands means, the joining of two people.

Science• Yoga adds its eight limbs to the

Sankhya system. These are: right attitudes, right observances, yogic postures, breath-control, control of the senses, attention, meditation, and absorption.

• Ayurveda, “Science of Life,” is the science of Indian medicine. Indian medicines builds upon the tripartite Vedic approach to the world.

• Hindus would do rituals that represented the way the sky looked. i.e. Third millennium BCE, they represented the stars with pebbles to see the sky.

Scriptures

• Religious literatures : primary literature and secondary literature.

• Primary literature (Sruti) are of divine origin, whose truths were directly revealed to ancient sages in their deep meditations.

• Secondary literature (Smriti) of human origin and were written to explain the Sruti writings.

Reincarnation

• In the sixth century BC, the idea of reincarnation had appeared.

• Reincarnation is the belief that the individual soul is reborn in a different form of death.

• Karma was the importance to reincarnation.

Karma

• An action that brings back results in the present life, or in the next life.

• “What goes around, comes around.”

• If you do something good, you will be rewarded, if you do something bad, you will be punished. Whether if you get caught or not.

Liberation

• The highest goal in human life, in which everything is accomplished.

• Also called, nirvana, kaivalya, mukti, and moksha.• It can only be brought about through self knowledge.

• beyond all states of body and mind and not limited by them. • A liberated soul possesses divine qualities such as purity,

omnipresence, omnipotence, and is beyond limitations.

Yoga

• practices certain disciplines to achieve freedom from the limitations of the flesh and lead to the fulfillment of knowledge.

• self-control, religious observance, postures, regulation of the breath, restraint of the senses, steadying of the mind, meditation, and profound contemplation.

Dharma Philosophy

• The divine law

• Requires all people to their duty

• The peoples duties vary from their status in society.

Worship

• Involves images of gods and goddesses and prayers and chanting.• Worship can either take place in the home, or in the temple. • It is an individual act, involves making personal offers to deity• Worship involves repeating the names of the gods and goddesses• Water, flowers, and fruit were offered as sacrifices/gifts to the gods.• Hindu worship can be placed into three categories

NityaNaimittikaKamya

Nitya

• There rituals are performed daily• Sometimes performed three times a day• Consists of offerings made at the home shrine • Performing puja to the family deities.

Naimittika

• Only occur at certain times of the year• Celebrating of the festivals

Kamya

• This type of religion is optional, but desirable.• example: pilgrimage • Pilgrimage allows a devotee to be see and be seen by the deity.

Moksha

• liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth and all the suffering and limitation entailed in embodied worldly existence.

Gods and Goddesses• Annapurna- Hindu goddess of food and cooking

Ganesha-the Lord of all existing beings, elephant-headed godMaya-creates the ignorance of the individual selfBalrama-the protector of desiresGaruda-the king of the birds, and often acts as the messenger between the gods and men. Ram-the complete guide to God-realizationBhuvanesharwi-the Queen of the phenomenal worldHanuman-the monkey deity renowned for his courage, power and faithful, selfless serviceSaraswati-the goddess of knowledge, music and all the creative artsBrahma-the creatorIndra-king of the gods and ruler of the heavensShakti-the divine forceBuddha-the ninth incarnation of VishnuKali-a ferocious form of the Divine MotherShiva-the destroyer of the worldDhanwantari-the physician of the gods

Gods and Goddesses Cont.

Kartikay-symbolizes spirtual attitude, is actually the scientist of the gods

Sita-married Ram.

Dhumavati-the smoky form of Shakti, the eternal widow

Krishna-eighth incarnation of Vishnu

Vamana-fifth incarnation of Vishnu. Born as a dwarf.

Durga-an incarnation of Devi or the Mother Goddess

Kurma-second turtoise-incarnation of lord Vishnu

Vishnu-the preserver and protector of creation

Ganga-came from the Ganges River. “The Life of Ganga”

Lakshmi-the goddess of light, beauty, good fortune and wealth

Matanqi-the Dark One

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