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REL100 Exam Study Terms with Complete SolutionsKarma - ANSWER Vedic
For every action-there is a reaction
It is impersonal (similar to the law of gravity)
Karmic seeds-actions-seed of new circumstances
Sacrifice - ANSWER Vedic
To give something to the Gods
An offering/gift to UR
Sometimes Hallucinogenic drugs were taken and given
Pantheon - ANSWER Grouping of Gods
Polytheistic
All have different roles
Agni (Uni) - ANSWER Vedic Religion
God of fire
Ignite
Messenger of the fire sacrifice
Tad Ekam - ANSWER Vedic Religion
,The One
The ultimate creator
"it" impersonal and no face
Source/foundation for everything
Upanishades - ANSWER Hinduism
Last section of the Vedas-philosophical
not based solely on the fire sacrifice
Jnana (yana) - ANSWER Hinduism
Wisdom, experiential knowledge, true knowledge
Rule of substitution - ANSWER Hinduism
Once you have seen/felt/discovered one thing, you can now identify that thing (wisdom)
Atman - ANSWER Hinduism
Basic quality/material at the root of everything
TRUE SELF
This is what is reborn
Atman never changed
Brahman - ANSWER Hinduism
The One
From one came many
Emitted food, heat, water, eggs, deities
Rivers are to H2O as Atman is to Brahman
, Nagababa - ANSWER Hinduism
Ascetic, Wilderness, renounce society/clothing
Get rid of your ego self
Maya (2 definitions) - ANSWER Hinduism
1) Illusions-thinking we are all different identities, but in reality, we are all the same
2) Creativity- We came from one, turned into many, then will return to
one Multiplicity/paradoxical
Asceticism - ANSWER Religious path of renunciation
Giving things up/self denial
Samsara - ANSWER Cyclic existence (prison)
Moksha - ANSWER Liberation/ release/freedom/escape from Redeath/Rebirth
Yoga - ANSWER The firm restraint from the senses
Yogi - ANSWER Practitioner of yoga/ascetic
Devotional Hinduism - ANSWER Interacting with multiplicity
Devotion - ANSWER intense, personal feelings
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