What does the conceptual framework of Hinduism have to offer us?
Part I of II
1. Hinduism:
a. Implicitly monotheistic, it is the message of the Upanishads that the indwelling, all–pervading Supreme Being, or Brahman, is identical with the individual self, or Atman.
b. Hindu six systems of philosophy:
1–2: nine substances (the four atoms, and space, time, ether, mind, and soul) created the world by fashioning the nine substances into an ordered universe;
3–4: two basic categories. . .eternal spirits and natural order. . .periodically dissolving the cosmos and reinitiating the process;
5–6: held the entire world to be an illusion and Brahman to be the sole reality; held the world to be the appearance whose reality is Brahman. Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion, William L. Reese, p. 302
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