1.Kama (pleasure)

2.Artha (wealth, fame, power)

3.Dharma (duty)

4.Moksha (liberation)

Joy, knowledge, being (what we want)

Limitations on what we want: physical pain, frustration, boredom, disappointment; ignorance; restricted being.

Atman

Brahman

Yoga (paths)

Different personality types - different paths

1. The way to God through knowledge (jnana yoga

2. The way to God through love (bhakti yoga)

japam - repeating God's name

ista, istar - adopted form of the divine

3. the way to God through work (karma yoga)

4. The way to God through psychophysical exercises (raja yoga)

Hindu doctrine of the human self

Atman=Brahman

God with attributes; God without attributes

the world is lila

the world is maya (see Smith's discussion of the Hindu view of the world)