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a secret if mystical teaching handed down from a teacher to student |
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the last section of the Vedas, which are the most sacred scriptures |
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the Kena Upanishad teaches that traditional religious knolwedge is a hindrance to knowing the divine |
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the principle of appearance, illusion |
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an avatara of Vishnu, an incarnation of God, and a blue flute-playing deity |
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a mythical Hindu sage and disciple of Krishna who preaches gospel |
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a name used by the British for all Indians, which was derived from Greek & Persian words designating people who live on the other side of the Indus River |
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law, duty, truth, religion: that which holds all together - like the laws & mores of our society |
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the eternal or acient religion. Hinduism's formal name for itself |
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the religion based on the Veda |
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the so-called caste system The 4-fold divison of society |
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Kama, Artha, Dharma, Mokdha |
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priests and teachers of Veda |
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manual laborers, servants, & artisans |
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semi-retirement, forest-dweller |
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Monkhood, life of renunciation |
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occupational yoga; uses action to overcome samsara |
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comprehensive or internal yoga |
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Husband of Parvati; father of Ganesha |
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Wife of Shiva, mother of Ganesha |
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minor but universally popular god; a remover of difficulties. He has a human form with an elephant head & a trunk to remove obstacles |
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