Religious concepts Flashcards
Beliefs about God
Jaeneane Fowler
“This Absolute is called Brahman and everything in life, whether living or not comes from Brahman”
Beliefs about God
Bhagavad Gita
“Everything in the universe is strung
on Brahman like jewels on the thread
of a necklace”
Relationship between Brahman and Atman- monistic
Chandogya Upanishad
Tat tvam asi- that art thou- you (the atman) are that (brahman)
Relationship between Brahman and Atman- monistic
“That the indwelling Atman is the same as Brahman”
Relationship between Brahman and Atman- Uddalaka and Svetaketu example
“It is a subtle essence. The whole universe is identified with it, and it is none other than itself.”
“Although he cannot see Brahman he should know that Brahman is there in every aspect in the world”
Brahman and Atman
Katha Upanishad
“the self is hidden in all beings and does not shine forth”
The Trimurti
H.P Blavatsky
“The trimurti are simply the three qualificative gunas ir attributes of the universe of differentiates spirit matter”
The Trimurti- Brahma
“there must be some doubt as to whether the Hindu tradition has ever recognised Brahma as the supreme deity”
The Trimurti- Vishnu
“Vishnu us the Preserver and guardian of men, he protects the order of things”
The Trimurti-Shiva
“To his devotees, he is seen as Brahman, the Absolute and it is not difficult to see why because just as all opposites are united in the unmanifest Absolute so also are the united in the manifest Shiva”
Shaivaism
Fritjof Capra
“Shiva, the cosmic dancer, is perhaps the most perfect personification of the dynamic univrse”
“Shiva sustains the universe, unifying all things by immersing them in his rhythm”
Vaishnavism
Emily Baker
“An important aspect of vaishnaivis, is that it emphasises God as someone you can have a personal relationship with”
Karma
John M. Koller
“Karma is not a system of rewards and punishments arbitrarily imposed but a natural law of moral cause and effect”
Prarabdha Karma
Tulsidas
“our destiny was shaped long before
the body came into being”
Karma
K. M. Sen
“The law of karma insists that every action has a reaction, and this reaction governs the present and future states of the individual”
Karma-problem of evil
Ian Jamison
“The system of dharma and karma is not decided by the devas: they do not sit in judgement on human actions”
Karma- Intentions
Joseph Castro
“If someone commits a good deed for the wrong reasons… the action could still be immoral and produce bad karma”
The cycle of samsara
Bhagavad Gita 2:13
“As the embodied soul continually passes in this body from boyhood to oyuth to old age, the soul similarly passes into a new body at death”
Punya and papa
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
“Good deeds purify those who perform them; bad deeds pollute those who perform them”
Karma
Wendy Doniger
“Karma forms the ethical basis of samsara, the cycle of rebirth. Ones actions in this life accumulate merit or demerit, influencing future births”
Karma
Rajneesh
“For him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. THe secret key, and the only key, is awareness”
