[Charlatan]

I have found this religion to be very varied, but have nailed down a few norms. Let's go through them, shall we?

(1) Kama - sensaul pleasure and enjoyment.
(2) Artha - material prosperity and success.
(3) Dharma - following the laws and rules that an individual lives under, being ethics and duties.
(4) Moksha - liberation from the cycle of action, reaction, birth, death, and rebirth.

Also included is yoga, a kind of meditation and stretching, and focusing on love devotion right action and wisdom. These yogas are regarded as leading to the spirtual goal of life. The practice includes prayer hymns and compassion for living things. A lesson learned here is that by working without attachment one attains the supreme.Posture is important, and the other goal is to realise you are one with God. You must discern what is real, chaste yourself from pleasures, bring yourself under control, and desire liberation.

I find this one to be very much like Buddhism, but it has a God, one that you strive to be with at all times. Meditation is required to get close to Him, so it is like my beliefs too, but it is more formal. That is the thing i do not like, formality. when things get formal, they get false. it is hard to remain true when you are with your God and reamin true as you are likely in awe of Him and want to please Him. I see they believe in rebirth too, with a God? So there is no stopping in nirvana, you go straight back down to be another thing then, reincarnated hey? Why would God want to reincarnate you? If you have lived your life then it is time to be with Him or with in torment, by most beliefs systems, so i reckon reincarnation is a hoot, a myth - really.

Reincarnation, picture if you will a soul. How developed is a soul, normally? Well it must start out somewhere, right? Once it has started, it cannot suddenly grow younger can it? So it ages, maybe dies, but does not gorw younger - that would be reversing the effects of time I think. So how does an aging soul - wherever it came from - pull a new host over it's 'area', infecting the new host? How does the soul enter the new body? Does it dissapear then reappear in the new body? I reall ymust ask questions of anyone who believes in reincarnation, but that is not the be all and end all of htis religion, there is much good here.

I see that it is the oldest religion in the world, with scriptures dating back to the beginning. Hopefully they are reliable. But with scriptures, you assume that God spoke to the people, and that means that God is seperate from nature. But Hindu's believe that they can become one with their God, how can this be if He is seperate from the world around them? He must be part of the world around them i think. In discerning what is real, surely they have found that God cannot speak but through the world around them and through their own mind. How does God enter their minds, does He force His way in? Does He just speak and you better listen? I think that people are deluded when they say they hear the voice of God in a voice that is spoken in words, as if God had a voice, then God would have a tone, and if God had a tone, then there would be character to Him. It is impossible to give these characteristics to a divine being, as he has no voice, tone, vocal chords, (or personality maybe) but does have morals. So scripture is not something I trust, but meditating will bring you clser to the force that is 'God', as He is all around you, as nature is all around you, in the air you breathe and stuff.

Otherwise I find the meditations very good at making people think about what is right and wrong, it could be good for philosophy. If you ironed these few diferences out, and evolution instead of creation, then we would be right on with our beliefs, but such is not the case.