Living a Hindu life: Beliefs and actions
What does this picture Aim: suggest Copy: about the To explore how to live a good life? Why does Brahman want • soul? me to live like this? Hindus call the soul, the Atman
Starter:is (The Soul? ) and Hinduism teaches that each 1.What living being has a soul. The Atman it?1. Close you eyes and with your finger point to where your mind is,
is part of Brahman. (Our point to your heart, and pointindividual to your soul. soul is part of a 2.What universal soul.) does it
The brain is a complex mass; 1.5kg of blood and nerve cells, that your do? is a muscular pump the same size as your fist. heart ….so where is your ‘self’, what makes us unique? 3.How Some scientists argue that we are nothing but a mix of chemicals, shouldmuscles we and organs. bones, treat it? However, both religious and non-religious people believe that humans are much more than the physical body and that we have something special….a spirit, soul or self. Our soul is our self.