Chapter 6 Self Quiz - Fill ins

. Religion in South Asia is the most _______ and least centrally organized in the world.

. A spiritual guide or teacher is called a _______.

. _______ yoga regards the body as a microcosm of the universe, and the bodily energies can be harnessed and focused to achieve a transformative religious experience.

. Around 1500, Guru Nanak founded the last great religious tradition, called _______, to originate in India.

. The language of the Vedic hymns and which is considered sacred is _______.

. The Upanishads introduced the idea of the world, or _______, in which all phenomena are secondary appearances.

. To realize the atman within, Hinduism teaches that the best practice is _______.

. The most important spiritual force in the universe and the natural law affected by and inscribed within the atman is called _______.

. The Mahabharata is the longer of the two great Hindu _______ that inform the majority of Hindus on Hindu ideals and universal laws.

. The puranas attribute to ______ the periodic cosmic upheavals that return the universe to a formless, empty resting state.

. The predominant religious institution of Hinduism is the _______.

. It was Ramakrishna's disciple Vivekananda who envisioned an ecumenical Hinduism as being the savior of the world and therefore became the first great _______ Hindu organizer.

. The founder of Sikhism, Nanak, taught that revelation of the divine Sat Guru within occurs through the effect of divine _______ on one's consciousness.

. All the fine arts of South Asia developed as offerings made to the _______.

. _______ was the most significant leader to guide South Asia to independence.

. Hindu nationalists want to end India's postindependence character as a _______ state.

. A rise of karma _______ is associated with the increasing importance of Indian workers and entrepreneurs in the global marketplace.

. The name the Upanishads gave to the unchanging spirit that underlies reality is _______.

. Water from the _______ is seen as the best source for purifying a ritual space.

. Across Hindu South Asia today, the immanence of _______ is respected and the "gods live next door."

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