World Religions

Chapter 3

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Ahisma
Nonharm, nonviolence
Ashram
A spiritual community
Atman
The spiritual essence of all individual human beings.
Avatar
An earthly embodiment of a deity.
Bhagavad Gita
A religious literary work about Krishna.
Bakti
Devotion to a deity or guru.
Bakti
Devotion to a deity or guru.
Bhakti yoga
The spiritual discipline of devotion to a deity or guru.
Brahma
God of creation.
Brahman
Teh spiritual essence of the universe.
Brahmin
The spiritual essence of the universe.
Caste
One of the major social classes sanctioned by Hinduism.
Devi
"Goddess"; the Divine Feminine, also called the Great Mother.
Dhyana
Medidtation
Durga
"Awe-inspiring," "distant"; a mother-goddess a form of Devi.