1. Warm Up # 5
What is “karma” and how does it affect the life of a Hindu person?

2. Mr. Mathews Website

3. Today’s Goals Learn basic beliefs of Hinduism.
Practice developing questions.

4. Hinduism Notes

5. Essential Question
What are the ‘core principles” that Hinduism is based on?

6. Samsara Cycle/wheel of life Time is cyclical, not linear-
cycles of creation and destruction in the universe

7. Reincarnation
Series of lifetimes needed to achieve the goal of liberation/release from this world
Usually cannot remember past lives
Reborn as: people, animals, gods and goddesses in many heavens, demons in many hells other steps in between
Even gods are reincarnated

8. Moksha Liberation or release from the cycle of reincarnation
characterized by union with the divine, awareness, bliss- a mystical state of being

9. Brahman The shared divine essence of all things
The god in you, you should meditate to get in touch with it

10. Halftime
Draw pictures or symbols that help you to remember what each word means.
Samsara
Reincarnation
Moksha
Braham

11. Polytheistic
Over 330 million gods, all faces of the one, points of contact with the divine
Animism: Aspects of nature

12. Karma Moral law of cause and effect Souls record of good and bad deeds
Determines your next reincarnation as good or bad, close or far to realizing moksha
Only humans can change their karma by doing deeds that produce merit
Bad things happen to good people because those good people were bad in a past life

13. Dharma Your role in life The standards on which to judge karma
Complete rule of life, not just right vs wrong, but compassion or golden rule
Determined by gender, caste, stage of life
Supports caste system- you are in a lower class because you did not follow your dharma and accumulated bad karma

14. Essential Question
What are the ‘core principles” that Hinduism is based on?

15. Story of India: Hinduism start at 59:09 - 106

16. Unit Overview Work time