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GCSE Religious Studies · key term
Seeing a deity through its sacred image, or seeing a holy person, as a religious encounter through which a worshipper may receive a blessing.
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Paper 1
Seeing and being seen by the divine, often through viewing a murti during worship.
Revise: Places of WorshipWorshippers seek darshan: seeing and being seen by the divine through the murti. This makes a temple more than a meeting place or an attractive building.
Seeing and being seen by the deity, or receiving an audience with a holy person, to receive blessings.
Paper 3
Seeing and being seen by the deity during worship.
Revise: Places of WorshipAn important purpose is darshan: seeing and being seen by the deity. This makes visiting the mandir an encounter with the divine, rather than simply looking at a statue.
Seeing and being seen by the deity, understood as an encounter with the divine presence and a means of receiving blessing.
Seeing a deity’s sacred image, understood by devotees as an encounter with the deity and an opportunity to receive blessing.
Seeing a deity through a sacred image, or seeing a holy person, as an encounter with the sacred.
Distinguish puja, arati and darshan: worship with offerings, a lamp ritual, and seeing and being seen by the deity. They can occur within the same act of worship.
Use the prescribed Bhagavad Gita passages accurately. Verse 9.26 concerns loving offerings; it does not directly define darshan.
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