ASIA 1111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Vedas
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Both ethnic and universal religion, territorial and doctrinal. Hind => came from persian; india => came from greek. hindu is applied as a foreign word. Hinduism is more an entrancing religion than universal because it is more bound to what they are born to (lineage, family trait, etc). => people are attracted to hindu religion; one who becomes a hindu in search for oneness. => when they first migrated to india, the aryans brought their religion and their holy stories of their god with them in. Belief in many gods but has a supreme god. The general name for the supreme god in hinduism is brahman. => brahman can be seen as vishnu, krishna, rama, shiva, etc. Hindu beliefs in samsara (the cycle of rebirth). => a soul is eternal and lives in one body to another. => a soul can be either reborn as a human or animal. The importance of karma in the cycle of rebirth.
