1. Namaste

2. Ganesh

3. Indus Valley Civilization [2500-1500 BCE] Key web site: http://www.harappa.com/har/har0.html

4. Hydraulic civilization based on agriculture and trade that reached Persia and the Mediterranean

20. Himalayan Note: Based on analysis of stone beads traded, recent research has discovered that trade in the Indus Valley Civilization stretched up into the western Himalayas and the Hindu Kush.

21. Vedic Civilization ≠Invasion Slow waves of migration by horse/chariot using nomadic peoples Early and profoundly significant interactions with already settled peoples

28. Hinduism I: Hinduism I: Vedic Ritualism

29. Zeus and Indra: warrior gods who are thunderbolt-wielders

31. Agni: the fire god who “marches ahead” of Aryan warriors, clearing the forest for settlement Later Hindu holy men also perform this service for humanity.

36. Beyond Ritual Manipulation of gods and cosmos, new Spiritual Experiments: Psychotropic Plants, Upanishads, Asceticism, Yoga

37. 800 BCE: The Rise of Sanyassins, Sadhus: Wandering ascetics

38. A traditional religious role that continues until today

41. Microcosm ≈ Macrocosm

42. Hinduism II: Mysticism and YOGA Yoking the energies of the body to realize ultimate truth

47. Normal Waking Consciousness

48. Samadhi: the goal of Yoga spiritual attainment [“trance”] Direct, clear, awareness of divine within: ATMAN = BRAHMAN [Tat Tvam Asi]

49.  key primordial sound that opens the mind to spiritual understanding. OM/ AUM:

50. KARMA Deed Effect of deed, a natural law of cause and effect Deposited in the soul [atman], leading to future fruition: good→good, bad→bad This life and future lifetimes….

51. CASTE [varna and jati] The most notable example of karma fruition is in next life rebirth and in those conditions…. This spiritual understanding of soul, rebirth, retribution in karma formed the foundation of and justification for a hierarchical social order

53. DHARMA A human’s birth-defined caste and gender-defined “DUTY”

61. An individual who does his/her proper duty creates the karma to move up in the varna system Eventually reaching moksha “release” MOKSHA Atman merges with brahman

62. PHASE III. BHAKTI Devotional refuge in the gods [devata]

63. Bhakti principle of ista deva [personal god] Matched to individual’s karma

64. The great gods have the power to add karmic grace, and change individual destiny

72. Vishnu or Narayan

76. Vishnu Avatara theology [incarnation]

81. Rama

86. Krishna avatara

87. Krishna as divine child

88. Krishna as divine lover

91. Krishna as Sage-Hero of Mahabharata, second great Hindu epic

92. Speaks to Arjuna when he loses faith in doing his dharma and reveals ultimate reality of multiple forms of yoga, and his own divinity:

94. DEVI: The Goddess

95. Lakshmi and Sarasvati Wealth Learning and arts

96. Devi incarnations as Personifications of Woman’s virtue

97. Durga and Kali: Incarnation of Feminine Power [shakti]

102. Hinduism in Practice: Bhakti ritual [PUJA]

103. Darshan

104. Prostration

105. Puja

113. Tilaka/tika

118. Prasad: Material Blessing infused with divine power

120. Temples

128. Festivals

135. The Himalayas in the Indic Imagination