Learn the basics

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Durga
Kali
Ganesha

• Hinduism 101

• Learn the basics!

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• Agenda

• Hinduism basics
• Karma
• Caste System
• Challenge!
• Critical Thinking
• Explanation of Hinduism
• HW None LRC tomorrow

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RELIGIONS
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Durga
Kali
Ganesha

• Hinduism 101

• What is Hinduism?

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• Hinduism

• No known founder
• Origin 1500 BC or earlier
• 3rd largest religion in world (900,000,000)
• Main location India
• Original language Sanskrit
• Holy Books Vedas, Upanishads, Sutras, Bhagavad
  Gita
• Pantheism with polytheistic elements millions
  of gods

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• Hinduism

• Spiritual leader guru, sage
• House of worship temple, shrine
• Human nature in bondage to ignorance and
  illusion, but able to escape
• Purpose of life to attain liberation (moksa)
  from the cycle of reincarnation
• How to live dharma (moral code of conduct)

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• Re-incarnation

• When you die, you are re-born as another
  life-form.
• Each time your soul enters a new life, you learn
  and grow.
• Depending on your good deeds, you are
  re-incarnated into something better or worse
  (karma)

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• Caste System

• 1) Brahmins Priests and Teachers
• 2) Warriors Warriors and Rulers
• 3) Merchants Farmers, Merchants, Artisans
• 4) Laborers Working class
• 5) Untouchables Dalits, Polluted Laborers

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• Hinduism

• Life is centered on
• Fulfilling duties relative to one's social
  position and stage of life pass through four
  stages in lifetime
• 1 - School years
• focused on acquiring knowledge and developing
  character
• 2 - Middle years
• focused on worldly pursuits and pleasures such as
  marriage, family and career
• 3 - Empty-nester (kids are adults)
• time of increased focus on spiritual things and
• 4 - Last years of life
• one may abandon the world entirely for a life of
  contemplation.

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• Karma

• What goes around, comes around.
• Karma can be either good or bad.
• What you do in this life determines reward or
  punishment in the next.
• Leopold has bad karma

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Reincarnation
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Moksha Liberation

• One can be liberated from re-incarnation (Moksha)
  through realizing Self-Identity or living a
  good life as a Brahmin.
• Once, liberated you become one with the Universal
  Mind that inhabits all things Brahman
• Pantheism (Eastern Religions)

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Brahman
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• Caste System

• 1) Brahmins Priests and Teachers
• 2) Warriors Warriors and Rulers
• 3) Merchants Farmers, Merchants, Artisans
• 4) Laborers Working class
• 5) Untouchables Dalits, Polluted Laborers

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• Hinduism Challenge

• Guess the Caste of each person
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• Hinduism Challenge

• Guess the Caste of each person

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• Brahmins

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• Merchants

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• Untouchables

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• Warriors

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• Laborers

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Untouchables
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• Untouchables

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• Untouchables

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• Untouchables

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• Untouchables

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• Untouchables

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• Untouchables

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• Merchants

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• Untouchables

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• Hinduism Challenge

• Guess the Caste of each person
• 0 Untouchable in every way
• 1 4 Did you do something bad today?
• 5 8 Good karma coming your way!
• 9 13 You are quite the guru
• 14 Well call you Moksha for short

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• Equality??

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• Can you move up a Caste?

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• Questions

• Do you believe that there is equality amongst
  classes?
• Discrimination?
• What would that discrimination look like?
• Can you tell what class someone is in by visibly
  looking at them?
• Does occupation always mean caste?
• Can a country progress with such a religion
  dominating the country?
• Is India theocratic?

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• Summarize Hinduism