Chapter 6 Self Quiz - True/False

. The unchanging spirit, or ultimate reality of the world, as put forth by the Upanishads, is called brahmin.

. The only river in India that has spiritual significance is the Ganges.

. Proponents of Hindu nationalism want to maintain India as a secular state.

. There are two classic Hindu social classes, upper and lower.

. Tantric teachings are given openly or universally.

. The Bhagavad Gita is an excerpt from the Upanishads.

. All Hindus complete all four stages of life in every lifetime.

. The word that means release from the cycle of birth and death is moksha.

. Gandhi originated the doctrine of nonviolence, or ahimsa.

. Sikhism never grew beyond a small number of adherents, making its present numbers smaller than the number of Buddhists.

. The powerful energy that travels up the spine through the chakras is called solar plexus.

. The Upanishads asserted that repeating the sound of OM is key to meditation that leads to moksha.

. Hindus have adopted non-Hindu ideas primarily in their social institutions.

. In the Hindu world today there is a relationship between politics and religion.

. Sikhs rejected the norms of caste society and affirmed social equality.

. One possibility for the reason that cows are considered holy in South Asia is because the cow actually promotes survival for the people.

. The heterodox religions of India, or those that do not accept the authority of the Vedas, include Buddhism and Jainism.

. Hinduism is the second largest of the world religions.

. With many recent court decisions coming down on the side of maintaining India as a secular state, the Hindu-India movement is now all but defunct.

. Religion in South Asia has been the least pluralistic in the world.

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