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Identify and briefly describe each of the four goals of Hindu life.

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What did the Laws of Manu represent?

A) an ideal code of behavior
B) the eight steps of women's role in society
C) the forms of yoga
D) the beliefs of all the gods

E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

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The goal of Raja Yoga is to train the body to free the soul.

Briefly describe Advaita Vedanta.

Which dualistic philosophical system explains the universe without employing gods?

The phrase, "You reap what you sow," can summarize

The yoke of work in Hinduism is bhakti.

Spiritual leaders composed Vedas in oral form because they feared giving too many personalities to individual gods.

"Whatever being he remembers when he abandons the body at death, he enters, Arjuna, always existing in that being." Reflect on the above quote from the Bhagavad Gita and explain what Hindu concept Lord Krishna is referring to.

Gandhi helped India gain independence from Great Britain.

The Sankhya system is strictly monistic.

Sannyasin is the same is rajah, a ruler of the people of India.

Since India welcomes all faiths, there are no conflicts among the many different religious groups living there.

A Hindu who chooses a life goal of Kama is in seek of

Match each definition to the corresponding term.

In Hinduism, jnana means "ignorance."

During the earliest times (1000 B.C.E.) why did varna play a part in making the Aryans superior to the natives of India?

At which stage of life is a Hindu expected to experience vivaha?

Which is considered the most drastic stage in the Hindu belief of the four stages of a man's life?

For Hindus, the law of karma is more central than belief in reincarnation.