1. What are the Upanishads?
2. In what ways is brahman understood in the Upanishads?
3. What is the goal of Upanishadic Hinduism?
4. In what senses is this equation (atman = brahman) true?
5. What were some of the characteristics of Pre-Aryan (Pre-Vedic) India?
6. Who were the Aryans and what did they bring to India?
7. What is the Rig-Veda?
8. What were the Aryan (Vedic) rites/rituals like?
9. What was the role of the Brahmin? What differences among these words: Brahma, Brahman, Brahmin?
10. Describe the Vedic deities Agni and Soma. How do practitioners use them?
11. Why do you think that the Caste system arose? What are its roots in India and what is it's present status? Who are Brahmins and who are Shudras?
12. How do the Upanishads differ from the Rig Veda?
13. What is Samsara? How does one experience it?
14. What is Karma? How does one experience it?
15. What is Moksha? How does one experience it?
16. What is a Yaksha, what is a Yakshi? Where are they found and why?
17. Describe the "Hindu Trinity".
18. Describe Hatha Yoga, Bhakti Yoga and Raja Yoga. What does "yoga" mean and why is it practiced?
19. In the Bhagavad Gita, who are Arjuna and Krishna? What do they do?
20. Who is the founder of Hinduism?
21. Is Hinduism monotheistic or polytheistic? How?
22. According to the Upanishads, what is reality and what is the basic problem for people?
23. In the Bhagavad Gita, of whom or what is Krishna an incarnation? Why is he shown to be an incarnation?
24. Define these terms: Guru, namaste, chakra, Shiva lingam, swastika, Hindu.