Axia College Material
Appendix E
Hindu Terms Map
What is your personal
Word understanding of each of these
terms?
The principle of retribution
justice determining a person’s
state of life and the state of
Karma
their reincarnation as the effect
of their past deeds.
(freedictionary.com)
The belief that on the death of
Reincarnatio the body the soul
n transmigrates to another body.
(freedictionary.com)
A discipline aimed at training
the consciousness for a state
Yoga
of perfect spiritual insight and
tranquility.(freedictionary.com)
Guru A mentor or teacher in
philosophical matters.
(freedictionary.com)
After reading the text, how
would you redefine each of
them?
A Hindu and Buddhist term
describing the affects of a
person’s actions, basically
states that the persons fate is
all determined by their
actions.
The idea that if a person
passes away, their soul will
move on to another body,
usually one that is soon to be
born.
A traditional source of mental
and physical spiritual
exercise.
Someone who guides another
in the teachings of different
types of matters pertaining to
What differences did you find
between the popular usage
and actual definitions?
The difference between the
two is that my definition, or
the definition more commonly
known is a simple definition of
the written.
The fact that the soul may
enter any body, and from the
reading it seemed as though it
may only enter a body that is
not yet on earth.
Yoga in the reading seems to
be not as much of a spiritual
matter, it is more of an
exercise used by many and
not just with the same beliefs
or even same religions.
Basically the same meaning in
both
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philosophy.
A term used for any of the
Chakras seven major energy centers in
the body. SAME

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