Hinduism: Beliefs about God Aim: Who is God? What is the Trimurti? What do Hindus know about God? Tasks: Create an Ideas bank – describing words, imagery, experience, knowledge, feeling.
What is God?
What is God like?
COPY: Brahman (God) most commonly refers to an unchanging ultimate reality which many Hindus believe exists beyond the always-changing, everyday world. Brahman (God) is described firstly through the Trimurti – The Hindu Trinity. Task: Stick in your Hindu Gods images
BRAHMA
SHIVA
VISHNU COPY: This is the Hindu Trinity (Trimurti) They are the three Faces of God, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva. They have three Cosmic Functions and they work together in a never-ending pattern. • Creation + Preservation+ Dissolution
Legend has it that a wise man taught his son about Brahman by asking him first to put some salt in water and then to take it out again. • Of course, the salt dissolved and the son could not take it out. His father told him that the presence of Brahman in the world is like the salt in the water; invisible but everywhere. Task: Brahman is likened to salt dissolving in water; Q1: Why do you think this is a particularly useful Hindu beliefs about God - Movie illustration?
Task: Draw and copy this symbol and information •
This is the sacred (Holy) symbol and sound “Aum” or “Om” which is Brahman.
Task:
The perfect Garden storyboard - Draw and describe. Imagine such a beautiful garden place, use each of the Trimurti gods and explain how the garden comes into being and regenerates, how it is tended to and all that dies and extinguishes is destroyed to keep the garden perfect. Plenary: Q: Explain how the three gods work together? Q: Explain why Hindus say that the different gods are ways of describing Brahman? Q: How can our ideas about God be so different and so similar?