Hindu basics
There is no founder of Hinduism.
Who is the founder of Hinduism?
What in Hinduism is a person’s lifelong task or duty. The cosmic law by which all creations governed.
What is Dharma?
Who is Hinduism’s creator God?
Who is Brahman?
The word Shruti primarily refers to what four texts?
What are the four Vedas?
What event had the most impact on the perception of Hinduism in the 20th century?
What was the Indian diaspora?
This river is most sacred to Hindu and is also a lifeline for millions of Indians, who live along that course and depend on it for their daily needs. It is worshiped as a goddess Ganga in Hinduism.
What is the Ganges river?
what is an expression chanted repeatedly as a focus of concentration and meditation, such as “om”?
What is Mantra?
List the Hindu Trinity.
Who is Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Shiva the destroyer?
WHAT Veda is taught in homes and includes hymns, incantations, magic, and charms to ward away evil?
What is Atharva Veda?
What is Hinduism‘s classical language?
What is Sanskrit?
In Hinduism, this animal is revered as a source of food and symbol of life and may never be killed. Hindus do not worship it , however, and it is more accurate to say that this animal is taboo in Hinduism rather than sacred.
what is cow?
What is the release from the cycle of time( birth, death and rebirth) to eternity?
What is moksha(or Nirvana)?
What is the festival of colors and spring, dedicated to Krishna, the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu?
What is holi and what deity is worship during the holi festival?
WHAT is the central selection of Mahabharata. in it, Krishna and Arjuna have a conversation prior to battle.
What is the Bhagavad Gita?
In what period of Hindu history did Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva and the divine incarnations, Rama and Krishna, become the main deities of Hinduism?
What is the Classic Period?
Dharma, righteous living, and the fulfillment of duties is the only way to progress in what?
What is the caste system?
WHAT is an individual’s soul or self? The ultimate goal in Hinduism is to achieve moksha through the realization that ones WHAT and Brahman are the same thing. This is accomplished through different types of yoga.
What is Atman?
Name the god of war, wind and rain.
Who is Indra?
In the WHAT does Krishna explain to Arjuna the most profound things about man and god: lshvara(The supreme Controller). Jiva(living beings/the individualized soul). Prakrti(nature/matter). Dharma(duty in accordance with divine law). Kaala( time).
What does the Bahagavad Gita teach, and what are the five basic concepts or truths?
In what period of Hindu history did the Aryans come to India?
What is the Vedic period?
Brahmin-priests, scholars, and philosophers Kshatriya -Warriors, Nobles, rulers, and defense people. Vaishya -traders, merchants and agricultural people. Sudra -laborers and servants. Harijahn -outcasts, people that dealt with the dead.
what is caste system?
WHAT refers to the idea of the transmigration of an individual’s soul? it is also called reincarnation. This is the notion that after death, a person’s soul is born again into another individual human, animal etc.
What is samsara or transmigration?
Name the god most often seen sitting on a lotus flower or a swan, and who’s wife’s name is Sarasvati?
Who is Brahma?
WHAT Book records the sayings of Brahman and describes societal code which later evolved into the Indian caste system?
What is the Law of Manu?
What period in Hindu history was the beginning of Tantra?
What is the Bhakti movement?