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Hinduism. Aim: How do Hindu values work in understanding a person’s role in life?. Do Now: Read Comic. Identify the four stages of life. How do these stages tie in with a person’s role in life? HW: Read pages 76-80 questions 4&5 Outline the section. Hinduism. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Hinduism
Aim: How do Hindu values work in understanding a person’s role in
life?
• Do Now: Read Comic. Identify the four stages of life.
• How do these stages tie in with a person’s role in life?
• HW: Read pages 76-80 questions 4&5
• Outline the section.
Hinduism
• Ancient religion with no founder or known date of origin.
• Term "Hinduism" derives from the word "India"
• Most Hindus worship one or more deities, believe in reincarnation, value the practice of meditation, and observe festive holidays like Diwali and Holi
Polytheistic or Henotheistic?
• What is it called when you worship one god in many forms?
What are the three basic teachings of Hinduism?
• Karma- refers to all of the actions of a person’s life that affects his role in the next life
• Dharma – religious and moral duties of an individual –escape the wheel of faith
• Reincarnation- rebirth of the soul in another bodily form
Reincarnation
• As a person puts on new clothes and discards old and torn clothes, similarly an embodied soul enters new material bodies, leaving the old bodies.(B.G. 2:22)
What is Brahman?
• The whole universe is part of the unchanging , all-powerful spirit called Brahman.
• Too complex to understand
• Broken up the concept into a variety of gods which give a concrete form to Brahman
• Name some of these Gods. On your comic.
Classical Hindu thought accepts the following objectives of human life, known as the puruṣārthas:
• Dharma ("righteousness)
• Artha ("livelihood, wealth")
• Kāma ("sensual pleasure")
• Mokṣa ("liberation, freedom (from samsara)
Goals in Life
• Every person has an essential self called
Atman –(soul)
Ultimate goal - Achieve Moksha – union with Brahman
Can you achieve Moksha in one lifetime?
Four Stages of Life
• Dharma
• Artha
• Kama
• Moksha - can you be allowed release from the cycle of Reincarnation - Samsara
Other beliefs
• Hindus advocate the practice of ahiṃsā (non-violence) and respect for all life because divinity is believed to permeate all beings, including plants and non-human animals
• In accordance with ahiṃsā, many Hindus embrace vegetarianism to respect higher forms of life