CH 1: Who is a Hindu?
The original name of the Hindu religion, which means "that which has no beginning or end."
What is Sanatana Dharma?
Shriji Maharaj told Vikamshi Khachar about his past life in this village.
What is Kariyani?
Ghanshyam Maharaj grew up in this town.
What is Chhapaiya?
When he was five, Ghanshyam moved from Chhapaiya to this city.
What is Ayodhya?
When Ghanshyam left home for his pilgrimage, he took this name.
Who is Nilkanth Varni?
The riverbank where the knowledge of the Vedas first spread and gave us the name "Hindu."
What is the River Sindhu?
After giving the money to his mother from his past life, Vikamshi realized he felt this way towards her.
What is no attachment (or he did not feel like her son)?
Ghanshyam Maharaj went to play at this lake.
What is Meen Lake?
Ghanshyam’s elder brother, who went looking for him at the mandirs.
Who is Rampratapbhai?
Nilkanth Varni tamed this wild animal outside the ashram.
What is a lion?
This is what we call the belief that the soul (atma) is born again and again in different bodies.
What is Rebirth (or Punarjanma)?
To prove the story was true, Maharaj revealed that...
Vikamshi's father had hidden this 500 rupees in a beam.
Ghanshyam revived these animals to save them from a fisherman.
What are fish?
Ghanshyam would call these animals by name and feed them in the river.
What are turtles?
The Mahant invited Nilkanth to sleep inside because he was afraid of this.
What is the lion (or death)?
The number of Vedas & their names in the Hindu religion.
What is four, Rig, Yajur, Sama, Atharva?
This story teaches us about the Hindu belief that the soul takes many bodies, known as this term.
What is Rebirth (or Punarjanma)?
This is the Sanskrit word for "non-violence," which Ghanshyam taught the fisherman.
What is Ahimsa?
The three mandirs Ghanshyam visited were...
Ramji Mandir, Radha-Krishna Mandir, and Hanuman Gadhi
This was the name of the ashram where the Mahant lived.
What is Kamleshwar Math?
To be a Hindu, one must believe in Karma, Rebirth, Avatarvad, and this practice of worshipping images. What is that called?
What is Murti-puja?
Our shastras say a soul usually goes through this many births before becoming human.
What is 8,400,000 (or 84 lakhs)?
What did Ghanshyam Maharaj show to the fisherman?
Showed him a vision of Yamaraj taking him into Narak him getting tortured by animals.
Ghanshyam was seen in this many mandirs at the exact same time.
What is three?
The Mahant offered Nilkanth this position, which came with a yearly income of 1 lakh rupees.
What is Mahant (or Head of the Ashram)?