Identify the term of the third male Asramas, the retirement stage. Starts after the youngest son has a son. Begin to withdraw from the world and live in the forest with or without your wife.

Identify the term used for the stage of life of the householder when he marries and raises a family. The second stage of life (householder)

Name the term used for celibacy, limit sexual desire, respect wife, family planning, didn't want sexual desires to run life, self restraint (which leads to flourishing) appetite steed.

Define the religious experience where your soul leaves your body and joins the God Brahma for a short period of time. A system of exercises practiced as part of the Hindu discipline to promote control of the body and mind.

Identify this part of India's social rule system. This name was given to warriors/rulers.

Name one of Hinduism's philosophical schools where the emphasis is on the oneness of reality. The goal is release from the illusion of a self or "I" and the union with Infinite without individual consciousness.

Identify the name given to the repetition of mystic incantations in Hinduism and Buddhism.

Name the term used for "one who strives"; A wandering monk in certain ascetic traditions of ancient India including Buddhism and Jainism.

Define the term which emphasize the 'immemorial way of right living'—an expression used to refer to the way of life of a Hindu. Also known as the eternal law or dharma. The term comes from Sanskrit.

Identify the Hindu holy book which is a collection of Aryan hymns that were transmitted orally before being written down in the 6th century BCE.

Identify the longest single poem in the world, about a war fought between two branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC.

Identify the term used for a group of writings sacred in Hinduism concerning the relations of humans, God, and the universe.

Define the term used for the Hinduism rules, legal texts, law code of Manu.

Name the term used for the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgences who abandons the material world and pleasure for enlightenment.

Name given to the Hindu concept of the spirit's 'liberation' from the endless cycle of rebirths. This is the Hindu concept of the salvation of the soul.

In Hindu belief, identify a person's essential self or individual soul.

Define the Incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu made famous in the Ramayana.

Define the term used for the four stages in the life of an upper class male: student; householder; forest-dweller, and ascetic.

Name the most important work of Indian sacred literature, a dialogue between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.

Identify the term used for the chief deity of the Aryans; depicted as a colossal, hard-drinking warrior.

Identify the first scripture in Hindu Vedas which has information about spiritual, scientific, and philosophy.

During the early Aryans of India caste systems, he was identified as the chieftain who ruled a village and the land around it.

In your reading; Sacrifices to the Gods: Thaipusam Hindu Festival, who is also known as Lord Subramanya, the universal dispenser of favors.

Identify the nomadic warriors from Central Asia who migrated into India around 1500 BCE. They are responsible for many aspects of current Indian culture including their language, sacred texts called the Vedas, and a system of government that later evolved into the caste system.

Name the section of chant knowledge, a handbook of musical elaborations of Vedic chants in the Vedas.

Name the section of Brahmanic ritual poetry dedicated to meeting practical needs: healing illness, casting spells to win a lover, averting bad luck, or expiating sins in the Vedas.

Name the Vedas are a collection of hymns and other ancient religious texts written in India between about 1500 and 1000 BCE. It includes elements such as liturgical material as well as mythological accounts, poems, prayers, and formulas considered to be sacred by the Vedic religion.

In ancient India, name the unidentified plant the juice of which was a fundamental offering of the Vedic sacrifices.

Name the Hindu devotional movement that flourished in the early modern era, emphasizing music, dance, poetry, and rituals as means by which to achieve direct union with the divine.

Identify the term used for the "Three forms" of the divine; the three gods Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.

In Hindu belief, what is the term used for a person's religious and moral duties?

Name the rules and regulations of Hindu social order authorized by the first human being. It defined work of Hindu law and ancient Indian society, written c.200 in India. It is one of the eighteen Smritis of the Dharma Sastra (or "laws of righteous conduct");

Name the writing at the end of the Vedas which sets the principle of reincarnation.

Name the early civilization, known for its advanced culture, that developed in the Indus River valley in India.

Name the section of instructions for priests regarding sacrifices in the Vedas.

Identify the religion that developed in early Persia and stressed the fight between the forces of good and the forces of evil and how eventually the forces of good would prevail.

Name the first God of the Hindu Trimurti?

Define the word for the social classes in the Caste system that ranked people from high to low with

each of the four Hindu castes named, Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra.

What is the term used for a Hindu when they devote themselves to the study of the Vedas, practices of their teachings, perform their faithful duties, and move gradually through the system, incarnation by incarnation?

Gandhi’s work of boycott, protest and fasting led India to...

Name the Hindu caste of cultivators, artisans, and merchants.

What is not one of the three gods of the Trimurti?

Identify the God of the Hindu Trimurti whose role is to destroy in order to recreate.

In the Veda, what is the earliest, most revered holy scriptures of Hinduism which are a collection of hymns associated with the Aryan warrior aristocracy and Indian valley tradition.

Identify the term used to describe the condition of one's present life in Hinduism which are accumulated good or bad behavior from past lives.

Name the Religious teachings, Indian life during 300 b.c.e. and 300 c.e, ethical and social standards, social and religious traditions of modern Hinduism.

The Mahabharata, which is 1.8 million words long, is defined as the largest what in the world.

Where is the Angkor Wat, the largest Hindu structure in the world located?

Define the term used by Hinduism to accept a man's right to end one's life through the non-violent practice of fasting to death.

In your reading; Sacrifices to the Gods: Thaipusam Hindu Festival, identify the name of the 10th month in the Tamil calendar.

Name the people which brought the original ideas for Hinduism to India.

What was Gandhi's first job?

Name the southern Indian devotee of Shiva who was active during the early ninth century, took it upon himself to digest all sacred consistent system of thought. Closely resembles Plato.

Who was inspired by the nonviolence philosophy of Gandhi to make changes in civil rights and social injustices?

Nelson Mandela All of the above

In your reading; Sacrifices to the Gods: Thaipusam Hindu Festival, define the meaning "when the moon is at its brightest"

Where in the Hindu text die it contains the prohibitions that one would expect against murder, theft and sexual morality?