RLGA01H3 Study Guide - Nonviolence
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People who have supernatural powers to connect to the spiritual world. Considered as medical doctors at the time. Found in different society: connecting to the cosmos. Form unity w/underlying reality being connected to cosmos. Cosmic person perusha: temple religion. Development of priestly class with unusual power, prestige and wealth: judaism, chinese religion and hinduism, prophetic religion. Concerns the nature of the divine and where it comes from: it suggests that the divine is neither a sky-father nor an earth-mother but a force, an energy, that is found by looking within. Upanishadic master telling his son that god is an energy within, the ultimate reality, that is you: purity and monasticism. Intense bodily discipline: non-violence towards all living creatures, and their goal was to perfect human potential for the purity of mind. People were considered to follow order and if they violate the order it is sinful. Become alienated: god on earth. Avatar coming down to earth in human form.
