History of India
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- What are the 4 aims of life?
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Kama - enjoyment
Artha - money making (Material end of life) make money for family
Dharma - Good Conduct, living according to the law and, having a moral conscience.
Moksha - Spiritual emacipation. The awareness - What are the 4 stages of life?
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4 Asramas (stages)
Brahmacharya - student. (literally means celibacy)
Grhastha - The married state (the domestic life). Have a family
-Vanaprastha - slowly begin to detach yourself form social and family situations
-Sannyasa - Dedicate yourself to the purpose of God and truth. Renouncing life - What are the 4 Vedas?
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Rig
Yajur
Sama
Atharva - What are the 4 castes?
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Brahmins - priests. In charge of the religious functions of life (Spiritual power)
Kshatryas - a person who is in charge of running the kingdom/government (Temporal Power)
Vaishyas - Merchants, Workers, wealthy farmers
-Sudras - The people who do the jobs that no one wants to do. Landless peasants, sharecroppers, etc. Potters, people who work with leather.
Dalits - The untouchables - Indian Scriptures are based on what 2 categories?
- Sruti (revealed text) and Smriti (remembered)
- Varna/Jati
- A word used to describe the castes in India
- What was early Indian religion called?
- Brahminism
- What came after metaphysics in the timeline of religion?
- practical morality
- Monism
- Makes a split between the monks and the laity (other people)
- What are the 4 noble truths of Buddhism?
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-All existence is suffering (Dukha)
-The cause of suffering is ignorance (Avidya)
-If there is a cause, there has to be a cure for suffering
-The 8 fold path is the cure - What did the Buddha believe about the Upanishads?
- The Upanishads were too abstract and metaphysical. They cannot be applied to everyday life.
- What is Buddhism based on?
- 8 fold path
- Name 4 of the 8 fold paths.
- right speech, conduct, mode of livelihood, right effort (means count more than the end), right-mindedness, right meditations
- Who was Mahivira?
- Mahivira was the founder of Jainism
- What to Jains believe about God?
- There is no God because there is no way to prove it
- Who was the Indian ruler who fought alexander?
- Porus