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Hinduism - Coggle Diagram
Hinduism
Human Rights
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Daan and Punya: Compassion and help for others is highly cherished in Hinduism. This emulates from the Vedic phase Daan (charity) and is recognised as the most obvious way to earn Punya (merit). Karma underpins this; one accumulates good Karma by gaining merit.
Ultimate moral test in Hinduism: The promotion of welfare for all people (aligns with the ethical framework of teleology - consequences of actions instead of duty).
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Ethics
Aim of Hindu ethics: maintain order, balance, tolerance, purity and restraint.
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Humans are understood in a complex social matrix: involving class, caste, and gender. All of which will dictate how one is to behave.
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Sacred texts
Focus on Sacred Texts
Moksha
Means salvation or liberation, to be released from Samsara and unite with Brahman.
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Karma
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Moral energy of a particular moral act bears fruit automatically in next life, manifested in one's class, disposition, and character
Bad karma is accumulated by wrong actions and bind's a person's soul (atman) to the cycle of rebirth (samsara), leading misfortune in this life and poor conditions in the next.
Samsara
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The atman is carried into a new physical body, which can be human or non-human
reincarnation
The idea that people are reborn as either a human or another animal depending on one's Karma in the previous life.
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Rituals
Funeral (Death ritual)
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Purpose: Assist in religious beliefs, to honour the deceased, support the family and assist with grieving
Step 1: The body is bathed and re-clothed in new garments by a relative. The corpse is placed on a Pyre made of sandalwood, saffron, musk, and camphor beside a river.
Step 2: The body is cremated, the flames purify the atman before it moves to next life. Reduction of the body to ash is symbolic of the transience of life. Ashes are collected and scatter into a river.
Antyesti: Funeral rites for the dead, meaning 'last sacrifice'
Core beliefs: The body is cremated, linking to reincarnation as the atman is passed form one body to the next
Cyclical Worldview: Samsara relates to the Hindu funeral as afterlife, the person experiences death and the Atman is re-entered into the Samsara cycle.