hinduism

• Hindu epics set an example for people to follow and emerge during the classical period of Hinduism, roughly around the Upanishad period.
• Liberation can be achieved through devotion to Shiva, symbolized by standing on Shiva.
• Gods represent an inner idea or concept or essence.
• Goddesses represent outer activity.
• If you need help, call for the goddesses.
• Most Hindu epics are about Vishnu, the sustainer god, who occasionally appears on earth as an Avatar to make sure everything is flowing smoothly.
• Krishna is an avatar of Vishnu, the 8th avatar of Vishnu, and his uncle sees a prophecy that his nephew will murder him, leading Krishna's parents to send him to Vrindivan.
• Radha and Krishna feel an irresistible attraction to one another, despite all the gopis wanting to be with Krishna, because he was a handsome manifestation of the god, Vishnu.
• Radha and Krishna meet again and get together, and they fuck.
• Radha was so devoted to Krishna that it originally served as her liberation from desires.
• Having absolute devotion or love for a god or goddess can lead to liberation from Samsara (moksha).
• Puja is a way of showing Bhakti in Hinduism, which involves building shrines and giving offerings.
• Swamanarium was the first representative of Hinduism in the 1890s in Chicago, a student of shriramakrishna who was an absolute devotee of Kali.
• Atman is the soul that wants to join Brahman to achieve Moksha (liberation).
• Samsara is the idea that there is a cycle of death and rebirth.
• Karma determines where we end up and is a type of energy that doesn’t go away when we die and carries us to our next life.
• Maya is the cycle of reincarnation.
• Moksha is the ultimate salvation goal and the escape from the cycle of death and rebirth.
• Dharma is the concept that there is a soul within us known as Atman and it travels from one life to the next in a cycle.
• Brahman is the ultimate nature of reality.
• Kali represents the outer activity of Shiva, because she is a form of his consort Shakti.
• Nudity in Kali represents her transcendence of cloaking or mystery.
• Four arms in Kali represent creation and destruction.
• Extended hand in Kali means don’t fear, you can come towards me don’t be afraid.
• Sword in Kali represents the severance of ignorance and ego.
• Severed head in Kali represents ignorance and ego.
• Long unkempt hair in Kali represents unbound power.
• Garland of severed heads in Kali represents negative qualities to eliminate, or Sanskrit alphabet.
• Each of these heads in Kali’s garland can represent negative qualities that as her devotee she will sever from them.
• Skirt of severed arms in Kali represents the karma of her devotees.
• Devotion to Kali will help you eliminate negative qualities and karma.
• No more karma means no more soul going through cycle of rebirth.
• Vishnu creates Rama to defeat the evil supposedly immortal king Ravana.
• Linguistic similarities and the widespread presence of the trifunctional system indicate the existence of a social class system in Europe and south Asia.
• Each social group in Proto-Indo-European society had its own god or family of gods to represent it and the function of the god/gods matched the function of the group.
• Hindu religion underwent a revolution that changed how we think about Hinduism.
• The Vedas, which are the foundation of Hinduism, were collected between 1500 BCE and 600 BCE according to some scholars.
• The Vedas are divided into four collections of hymns: Rig, Sama, Yajur, and Atharva.
• The Vedas are known as shruti, which means “that which was heard,” based on the oral traditions of the rishis or the “seers” who transmitted them to their disciples continuing into the present.
• Vedic rituals were often violent and led to a cultural change.