THEO 228 Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed Latest Update 2025-2026
Bhakti - Answers devotion to a deity or guru
Darshan - Answers seeing
Prasad - Answers blessed food
Arati - Answers worship with light
Arcavatra - Answers Image incarnation
Puja - Answers Worship performed at home, in a temple, at a place of pilgrimage
Cakras - Answers wheels or centers used in kundalini yoga
Kundalini - Answers In Hindu yogic thought, the life force that can be awakened from the base
of the spine and raised to illuminate the spiritual center at the top of the head
Lila - Answers God's play
Prakriti - Answers The material universe
Benares/Varanasi - Answers holiest place of pilgrimage for Hindus. City on the banks of the
Ganges river.
Sattva - Answers Purity
Rajas - Answers Activity
Tamas - Answers Inertia
Mahabharata - Answers the longest single poem in the world, about a war fought between two
branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC
Bhagavad Gita - Answers The most important work of Indian sacred literature, a dialogue
between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.
Vasudeva - Answers Name of the father of Krishna
Devaki - Answers mother of Krishna
Balarama - Answers older brother of krishna, raised by Rohini
Pandavas - Answers Five sons of king pandu
Arjuna - Answers the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature
of being and of God and how humans can come to know God
, Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita - Answers Arjuna's charioteer, also God
Kauravas - Answers 100 sons of the blind king Dhritarashtra
Braj - Answers Krishna spent his childhood and adolescence here
Mount Govardhana - Answers Krishna lifted this up to shelter a group of villagers from rain
invoked by Indra
Saguna Brahman - Answers Brahman with attributes
Vrindavan - Answers town Krishna was raised in; where the major Holi celebration took place
Nirguna Brahman - Answers God without attributes
Kaliya - Answers a poisonous snake that lived in the Yamuna river, that Krishna danced on and
subdued
Devi Mahatmya - Answers contains main legends of Devi/Durga/Kali
trimurti - Answers three forms (i.e. vishnu as Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva)
Vaikuntha - Answers Vishnu's heavenly realm
Gopi - Answers cowherd girls, ideal devotee of Krishna, ignorant, making their love for god more
pure
unmediated, emotional response to god
Radha - Answers gopi that krishna takes a liking to
Nirguna Bhakti - Answers Brahman beyond qualities
Sirguna Bhakti - Answers Brahman with qualities
Holi - Answers a Hindu spring festival celebrated in February or March in honor of Krishna
Caitanya - Answers founder of the gaudiya vaishnava movemebt
Gaudiya Vaishnavism - Answers the devotional worship of Radha and Krishna, and their many
divine incarnations, as the supreme forms of god
ISKCON - Answers International Society for Krishna Consciousness formed to spread the
practice of bhakti yoga
Mirabai - Answers 16th century bhakti poet, devotee of Krishna. Legend says she dranked
poison prasad from her inlaws, but was saved by Krishna. More devoted to god than husband,
family-destroying female figure.
Bhakti - Answers devotion to a deity or guru
Darshan - Answers seeing
Prasad - Answers blessed food
Arati - Answers worship with light
Arcavatra - Answers Image incarnation
Puja - Answers Worship performed at home, in a temple, at a place of pilgrimage
Cakras - Answers wheels or centers used in kundalini yoga
Kundalini - Answers In Hindu yogic thought, the life force that can be awakened from the base
of the spine and raised to illuminate the spiritual center at the top of the head
Lila - Answers God's play
Prakriti - Answers The material universe
Benares/Varanasi - Answers holiest place of pilgrimage for Hindus. City on the banks of the
Ganges river.
Sattva - Answers Purity
Rajas - Answers Activity
Tamas - Answers Inertia
Mahabharata - Answers the longest single poem in the world, about a war fought between two
branches of the same family. One of India's greatest epics written between 1000 and 700 BC
Bhagavad Gita - Answers The most important work of Indian sacred literature, a dialogue
between the great warrior Arjuna and the god Krishna on duty and the fate of the spirit.
Vasudeva - Answers Name of the father of Krishna
Devaki - Answers mother of Krishna
Balarama - Answers older brother of krishna, raised by Rohini
Pandavas - Answers Five sons of king pandu
Arjuna - Answers the warrior prince in the Bhagavad-Gita to whom Krishna explains the nature
of being and of God and how humans can come to know God
, Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita - Answers Arjuna's charioteer, also God
Kauravas - Answers 100 sons of the blind king Dhritarashtra
Braj - Answers Krishna spent his childhood and adolescence here
Mount Govardhana - Answers Krishna lifted this up to shelter a group of villagers from rain
invoked by Indra
Saguna Brahman - Answers Brahman with attributes
Vrindavan - Answers town Krishna was raised in; where the major Holi celebration took place
Nirguna Brahman - Answers God without attributes
Kaliya - Answers a poisonous snake that lived in the Yamuna river, that Krishna danced on and
subdued
Devi Mahatmya - Answers contains main legends of Devi/Durga/Kali
trimurti - Answers three forms (i.e. vishnu as Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva)
Vaikuntha - Answers Vishnu's heavenly realm
Gopi - Answers cowherd girls, ideal devotee of Krishna, ignorant, making their love for god more
pure
unmediated, emotional response to god
Radha - Answers gopi that krishna takes a liking to
Nirguna Bhakti - Answers Brahman beyond qualities
Sirguna Bhakti - Answers Brahman with qualities
Holi - Answers a Hindu spring festival celebrated in February or March in honor of Krishna
Caitanya - Answers founder of the gaudiya vaishnava movemebt
Gaudiya Vaishnavism - Answers the devotional worship of Radha and Krishna, and their many
divine incarnations, as the supreme forms of god
ISKCON - Answers International Society for Krishna Consciousness formed to spread the
practice of bhakti yoga
Mirabai - Answers 16th century bhakti poet, devotee of Krishna. Legend says she dranked
poison prasad from her inlaws, but was saved by Krishna. More devoted to god than husband,
family-destroying female figure.
