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30 Cards in this Set
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Pleasure
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"If pleasure is what you want, seek it intelligently"
Pleasure is viewed as a positive, legitimate desire in Hinduism, however, it does not satisfy completely because pleasure focuses on the self and man realizes that the self is too narrow and unfulfilling for a life goal. |
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Renunciation
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Leaving behind, restricting or abstaining from material possessions, physical pleasures, and emotional attachments.
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Duty
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Allows for respect and gratitude, however, it is also limited because community is finite, and no matter how dutiful you are, the community can never be perfected, duty can never be finally fulfilled or satisfied.
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Religion
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True religion does not have a self-god, but a value and god that goes beyond the selfish pursuits of the ego
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Being
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We don't want to die; we want life - to infinitely be.
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Knowledge
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Awareness, we want to have infinite knowledge.
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Joy
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the feeling of well-being; infinite joy.
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Moksha
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The complete release from the countless limitations and restrictions which impinge upon our existence. Liberation.
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Atman
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The infinite center of every life is the hidden self. The fount of being: SELF. Is no less than Brahman, the Godhead.
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Jnana Yoga
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For persons with an intellectual bent; the way of knowledge; the shortest route and the most difficult.
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Bhakti Yoga
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For persons of devotion, love, (the Christian way), most popular of the four ways.
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Karma Yoga
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The way through work for active persons. You can find God in the everyday world.
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Raja Yoga
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The royal road to re-integration by psychological experiment.
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Asanas
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Postures designed to cut out the intrusion of the muscular system to minimize the effects of the body and its intrusions and distractions.
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Lotus Position
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A cross-legged sitting asana in which the feet are placed on the opposing thighs, used for meditation, is said to resemble a lotus, to encourage breathing proper to associated meditative practice, and to foster physical stability.
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Samadhi
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Union with Atman. This is the point where all form falls away from the object, the mind thinks of no thing, but of everything, of being itself, and the mind is absorbed in god.
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Sannyasin
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One who neither loves not hates anything. Is the final stage of life where one is in a state of non-entity on the surface to become and to be the SELF where man is independent of consequence and economy and identified with the SELF.
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Brahmins
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The seers, the reflective ones, the priests. The intellectual and spiritual leaders.
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Shudras
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The unskilled laborers or laboring class.
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Nirguna Brahman
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To the thinking, the philosophic say that the ultimate God is the Nirguna Brahman~ without attributes.
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Saguna Brahman
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To the feeling and emotional, the ultimate God is Saguna Brahma ~ god with attributes.
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Samsara
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Reincarnation, the life and rebirth cycle.
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Karma
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The moral law of action and reaction. ( The present condition of your soul (confusion or serenity) is a product of your past decisions. You have made yourself what you are. Your present thoughts, decisions, and actions determine your future states. ("Unsettled state" = "bad karma.") Karma can be altered through natural and moral decision and action.)
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Maya
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Magic, illusion
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Lila
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A conceptualism of the universe as a playground of the gods.
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Kali
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The goddess associated with empowerment
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Shiva
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Destroyer
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Vishnu
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Preserver
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Brahma
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Creator
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Brahman
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The ultimate reality underlying all phenomena.
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