Hinduism

We all spent nine months in our mothers’ body, breathe the same air, drink the same water, and share the same feelings. The reason for that is that elderly people are usually the most experienced in a group of people; therefore, should bear the responsibility of teaching younger generations and make sure that their knowledge is not lost with time. nd what they both imply in the actions to be done during a life-time, and the social classes that result from this thinking. I also believe that we all are part of a family and a community in which we ought to participate in its prosperity. The fact that the two last stages of a Hindu’s life are spent wandering in the forest, and renouncing their attachment by becoming homeless nomads for the purpose of achieving mokhsa, is, in my view, not helping the achievement of the prosperity of the community. On the other hand, bhakti, which is loving devotion for a deity, is a lot more accessible to “ordinary “ people and that I think is what makes it more important than the other two. This social structure is what seems to be the ideal one for the Hindus because of the fact that their beliefs are so deeply anchored in their thinking that it allows them to look beyond what seems to be an unjust society and to focus on karma in order to succeed to a better next life.

Every Hindu believer must go through four stages of life, which are termed brahmacarine, grhashta, vanaprastha, and sannyasin. This concept justifies the existence of different social classes, which are determined from birth. With all that said, I respect the fact that people are ready to renounce every material possession along with the pleasure that this world can procure for the only purpose of achieving something they strongly believe in.

The other thing troubling for me is the social classes resulting from the belief in samsara. I think that every person have different goals throughout his (or her life), and that he (or she) must follow a path to fulfill those goals. Most importunately we mustn’t be pushed by this love and devotion for a higher being to committing crimes and atrocities in his name. Hindus believe that the soul of a person never dies, and that his (or her) past actions or karma are responsible for the next life to be had until there is no more upper classes to reach, and then the soul will be liberated through samsara.