Hinduism

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Hinduism
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Aim How do Hindu values work in understanding a
persons role in life?

• Do Now Read Comic. Identify the four stages of
  life.
• How do these stages tie in with a persons role
  in life?
• HW Read pages 76-80 questions 45
• Outline the section.

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Hinduism

• Ancient religion with no founder or known date of
  origin.
• Term "Hinduism" derives from the word "India"
• Most Hindus worship one or more deities, believe
  in reincarnation, value the practice of
  meditation, and observe festive holidays like
  Diwali and Holi

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Polytheistic or Henotheistic?

• What is it called when you worship one god in
  many forms?

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What are the three basic teachings of Hinduism?

• Karma- refers to all of the actions of a persons
  life that affects his role in the next life
• Dharma religious and moral duties of an
  individual escape the wheel of faith
• Reincarnation- rebirth of the soul in another
  bodily form

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Reincarnation

• As a person puts on new clothes and discards old
  and torn clothes, similarly an embodied soul
  enters new material bodies, leaving the old
  bodies.(B.G. 222)

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What is Brahman?

• The whole universe is part of the unchanging ,
  all-powerful spirit called Brahman.
• Too complex to understand
• Broken up the concept into a variety of gods
  which give a concrete form to Brahman

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• Name some of these Gods. On your comic.

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• Classical Hindu thought accepts the following
  objectives of human life, known as the
  puru?arthas
• Dharma ("righteousness)
• Artha ("livelihood, wealth")
• Kama ("sensual pleasure")
• Mok?a ("liberation, freedom (from samsara)

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Goals in Life

• Every person has an essential self called
• Atman (soul)
• Ultimate goal - Achieve Moksha union with
  Brahman
• Can you achieve Moksha in one lifetime?

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Four Stages of Life

• Dharma
• Artha
• Kama
• Moksha - can you be allowed release from the
  cycle of Reincarnation - Samsara

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Other beliefs

• Hindus advocate the practice of ahi?sa
  (non-violence) and respect for all life because
  divinity is believed to permeate all beings,
  including plants and non-human animals
• In accordance with ahi?sa, many Hindus embrace
  vegetarianism to respect higher forms of life

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