World Religions

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  1. 3. pleasure, especially sensual love, one of the four goals of life
  2. 5. path of devotion
  3. 6. one who renounces physical pleasures and worldly attachments for the sake of spiritual advancement
  4. 9. material success, social prestige, one of the four goals of life
  5. 10. the eternal self
  6. 11. Hinduism's most popular sacred text, section of the epic poem Mahabharata
  7. 12. liberation
  8. 13. trancelike state in which self-consciousness is lost, the mind is absorbed into the ultimate reality
  9. 16. eternal essence of reality, source of the universe
  10. 17. system of Hindu philosophy, seeking to free the eternal self from the bondage of personhood
  11. 19. system of Hindu philosophy, teaches that reality comprises two distinct categories, one matter, two eternal selves
  12. 20. lowest class within the Hindu caste system, servants and laborers
  13. 22. traditional practice of burning a widow on her husband's funeral pyre
  14. 23. path of works
  15. 24. a school of philosophy, one approach within jnana marga
  16. 25. ancient philosophical texts, basis of Hindu doctrine
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  1. 1. reincarnation, wheel of rebirth
  2. 2. highest class within the Hindu caste system, priests
  3. 3. second class within the Hindu caste system, warriors and administrators
  4. 4. moral law of cause and effect of actions, determines the nature of one's reincarnation
  5. 7. wandering ascetic, advanced to the fourth and highest stage of life
  6. 8. third class within the Hindu caste system, farmers, merchants, artisans
  7. 12. reality is one essence
  8. 14. cosmic illusion brought about by divine creative power the world and all finite beings within it
  9. 15. path of knowledge
  10. 18. an incarnation of a deity
  11. 21. ethical duty