1. The Power of Myth on World Culture

3. and Myth

4. Karen Armstrong

5. “We have imagination, a faculty that enables us to think of something that is not immediately present, and that, when we first conceive it, has no objective existence. The imagination is the faculty that produces religion and mythology.”

6. When Cities are Sacred, Conflicts Between them Mean Holy War Fights to the Finish!

7. Lewis Mumford

8. “Even when it is disguised by seemingly hardheaded economic demands, uniformly turns into a religious performance; nothing less than a wholesale ritual sacrifice.”

9. Hindu Vedic Myth

10. Aryan Vedic Culture Harappan Culture Hindu Culture “Hinduism” Cultural Syncretism

11. The Rigveda

12. “Who really knows? Who shall here proclaim it? Whence things come to be, whether it was made or not—he who is its overseer in the highest heaven, her surely knows. Rigveda

16. Upanishads

18. 6/27/2016 BRAHMAN: “UNIVERSAL SPIRIT atman: “soul” Moksha: “union of atman and BRAHMAN” samsara: “Reincarnation” Life Stages

19. As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death Bhagavad-Gita

20. The Nature of God: Trinity

21. HinduTrimurti: Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva

22. Christian Trinity: The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

23. Vishnu: Avatar

24. Jesus: “The Messiah”

25. “Do your allotted work, for action is superior to nonaction. Even the normal functioning of your body cannot accomplish through actionlessness.”

26. 6/27/2016 DHARMA Religious and Ethical Duties

27. “GOOD AND BAD KARMA”

28. Caste Dharma Karma Samsara Moksha

29. Hinduism: Allows Individual Sense of Spirituality

30. Mahabharata: Bhagavad-Gita

31. “As a man discards worn-out clothes to put on new and different ones, so the disembodied self discards its worn-out bodies to take on other new ones.”

32. “Death is certain for anyone born, and birth is certain for the dead; since the cycle is inevitable, you have no cause to grieve!”