To quickly explain how I will go about writing this essay I will dedicate the first couple lines in doing so. Since there is so much to write about I will pretend I'm a member of one of the religions in question and flip through the book and pick at random a passage or two. Then I will write about how I feel about that passage as if I was a member of that religion as I stated above. This is generally how I will be answering the two questions asked of us in a single bodied essay. Also whenever I am quoting passages of the Gita, they will all be from the Barbara Stoler Miller translation. Now I will begin.
             Quickly flipping through the Gita I come to the opening verses of the seventh teaching which is entitled knowledge and judgment. The verses I would like to focus on are 7.6-7.7, which go like this.
             Learn that this is the womb Nothing is higher than I am;
             of all creatures; Arjuna, all that exists
             I am the source of all the universe, is woven on me,
             just as I am its dissolution like a web of pearls on thread
             If I was a Vedic Brahmin priest from the 6th century BCE I would quickly recognize that the first set of lines are very similar to what the Rg Veda 10.90 is talking
             about. In the Rg Veda 10.90 it talks about Purusha the cosmic being, which is where all men came from. Being a Vedic Priest I would recognize this through the lines "I am the source of all the universe". Also when the lines talk about "the womb", it just makes me think about a human body or Purusha. The connection of the two would just be too easy for me to connect with each other.
             Still speaking as a Vedic Priest, the next passage of lines already stated above would remind me of the age old dharma of Atman = Brahman. To quickly explain, Atman is the individual soul, and Brahman is the cosmic soul. I would gather this understanding from the lines "Arjuna, all that exists is woven on me, like a web of p...