Hinduism
BeginnerA temple brings together a sacred image, a carefully organised place and a continuing pattern of worship.
Learning outcome: Recognise the main spaces of a temple, distinguish darshan, arati, naivedya and prasad, and explain a worship sequence through scripture and the example of Tirumala.
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IntermediatePatanjali's Yoga Sutra connects conduct, bodily steadiness, attention and insight.
Learning outcome: Explain the role of each limb, apply two specific Yoga Sutra teachings to ordinary conduct and distinguish a beginner's exercise from the text's advanced spiritual attainments.
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IntermediateThe Upanishads ask what makes a life meaningful and what remains fundamental beneath changing experience.
Learning outcome: Explain three Upanishadic teachings without confusing their comparisons with literal descriptions, and distinguish self-inquiry from merely improving one's public image.
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IntermediateStudy the connected argument of Chandogya Upanishad 6: what a learned student still needs to know, how effects depend on their source, and why an unseen ground can be present throughout life.
Learning outcome: Reconstruct the dialogue, locate clay at 6.1.4, the seed at 6.12 and salt at 6.13, and explain both the force and limits of each analogy.
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BeginnerHindu sacred literature teaches through hymns, dialogue, disciplined inquiry and the lives of revered figures.
Learning outcome: Identify the main scriptural families and explain Uddalaka’s salt analogy, Nachiketa’s choice, Bharata’s trusteeship and three practical teachings from the Gita.
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IntermediateFollow the inquiry in Brihadaranyaka 2.4 alongside its fuller telling in 4.5.
Learning outcome: Distinguish the two tellings, explain Maitreyi’s objection about consciousness, and reconstruct the argument without turning self-knowledge into selfishness or annihilation.
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