On Religion and Hindu Mithology

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Hindu mythology

Namaste (nah mahs day) is used for both hello and goodbye and means, “the god in me greets the god in you.” I am as firm in my faith today as in my younger

years growing up, but I could at least have opened my mind to research other

religions or their faith. So I think that made me have a narrow mind of my

surroundings. Just because I did not get out of my comfort zone to learn about

other’s faith it did not mean they didn’t exist. It should not have taken me over

twenty years to open up and start excepting there are others that may say they

believe in the same God I do or other gods that I think do not exist.

But nevertheless that does not make them any more different than I am, they

are still human, still make mistakes, and still sin. The Hindu stories ancient and

post/modern tells the stories of how nowadays, not all Indians are Hindus, and a

growing number of Hindus are born outside India. Notably in the UK and North

America. Clearly, it cannot be the birthplace alone that determines a person’s

religion. Being born into a particular family, however, does remain important. This

seems to the same in all religions: the young ones grow up absorbing, more or less

completely in traditional societies, the value-system of their families, and thus

become almost automatically adherents of the religion of their ancestors, elders

and peers ( Ethical Issues in Six Religions Traditions pg. 1).

In researching the Hinduism religion the definition for the word Hinduism is a

term for a wide variety of related religious traditions native to India. Historically,

it encompasses the development of Religion in India since the Iron Age...

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... would not want to take the lives of others because that

is not what all of his leaders believed in I am sure. There had to be some that was

against violence, and if that was our cosmic vision that whatever we did bad or

good it would come back to us in another life then I would really think on that.

Even though now in my life I think about that at all times, it may not be right

before I do whatever I am thinking about but it is right after especially if it is

wrong.

Gandhi did not believe in violence he believed in helping others no matter

what the person did to another. Gandhi found truth in all the religions and that

truth always drove him back deeper into his own tradition, even as it opened

his communities and ashrams not only to all castes and outcastes but also to

persons of every religion and culture (Comparative Religious Ethics pg. 157).

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