RELI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Vedas, Sacred Language, Hinduism

• School: George Mason University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELI 100
• Professor: David Dakake

Document Summary

Making along the sind river (in the province of sind) India in english) form, ex. human or animal) of the vedas coming down from heaven and eventually wrote it down was a fallen angel) All human beings seek absolute meaning and worship, even if it is a god of your own. Hinduism: named after the hindu people in some sense. Aryan tribes living in the middle east moved down into what is today pakistan and settled. Greek historians mispronounced sind as hind; hind became indus in latin (meaning. Sacred text= vedas, written in sanskrit (a sacred language) Sanatana dharma: perennial principle; the destiny or duty that is constant through time. Avatars: incarnation of divinity in another place- there are 10 in hinduism (can be in any. Rishis: seers (people who have visions), said they heard the sounds/words (in sanskrit) Devi (sanskrit word): god or angel- the word devil in english comes from this (satan.