HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pandava, Shudra, Vaishya
Document Summary
Concept of time - contrast hindu ideas about time and souls with other religions. God - one god - and he exists eternally, he created the world at a specific point in time. They tried to determine using religious texts what point in time this was. They determined the world must have been created in 4000 bce. Afterlife reflects the type of life you lead on earth. Many christians believed that their world wouldn"t exist forever. Time is cyclical - the basic unit of time, the day of brahma. 4,320,000,000 days our time is one day of brahma. The sou inhabits a body, when it dies, the soul moves to another body. Until the soul reaches a divine state it reincarnates - not the correct terms. Below the lowest caste, the people who are not in a caste as even lower.
