What does Hinduism reinforce about the significance of existence, life?
Part II of II
Religions that evolved after Hinduism: Judaism (1000’s BC), Buddhism (500’s BC), Christianity (0’s BC), and Islam (500’s AD) ignored the Hindu premise that the Causative Force and the soul, the essence of the human being, are identical or directly connected.
Western religions following Hinduism rejected the premise that you are a piece of the Causative Force.
Just as a heart can be human but not be “a” human, you can be part of the Causative Force but not be “the” Causative Force.
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How did western religions manage to rationalize this lack of connection between the Causative Force and soul?
The western religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam were unable to overcome what they saw to be the hard side of the Causative Force: the misery, the suffering, the loneliness, the loss of loved ones, the despair, the lack of hope, the lack of meaning, the pain, the hatred, the envy, the greed.
There seemed to be no logical explanation to it all.
And so western religions refused to accept the connection between the soul and the Causative Force that the Hindus offered us.
Religions could not rationalize the concept that if we were pieces of the Causative Force, connected to the Causative Force, then how could we do these things to each other, how could the Causative Force do these things to us?
And so western religion moved on, accepting only a part of the picture.
Western religions accepted only the part of the picture they could understand regarding the connectedness between the Causative Force and ourselves.
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