Reflection Of Religion

When this class started you asked us to define religion in our own words, write it in our notebook and pass them to the person to the left of us for them to read it to the class if called on. Everyone had scattered responses of what religion is. Some of the answers was that religion is groups of people that worship God in different ways or worship other gods differently with the traditions they follow, that religion is a belief in a higher power. What I wrote down was that religion is a form of believes on how one thinks the earth and humans came into existence. It is a list of moral things between right and wrong. In short it is a code and it can be how someone defines himself or herself. When one looks up the definition of religion in a dictionary it says “the belief in a god or in a group of gods; an organized system of beliefs, ceremonies, and rules used to worship a god or a group of gods; an interest, a belief or an activity that is very important to t a person or group.” Through out this class I have had the opportunity to read new material and learn many different things about other cultures and what they consider religion to be.

In the first book we read the Bhavagad Gita it comes from India and is apart of the religion of Hinduism. Sri Swami Sivananda helped translate the version of the Bhavagad Gita that I read. Along with translating the Bhavagad Gita

Those who view it is a dream that is not real, those who view it as a lie that humans have made up to make their lives easier, something that makes a conflict of ethics beautiful, and even the meditation with loving and serving others. There can be many different ways to explain religion, but there is no set in stone explanation for why they people do what they do under this outrageous thing called