ce in life.
             A Hindu is not required to seek the highest goals of relief in this lifetime. Hinduism permits four major goals: karma, artha, dharma, and moksha. If a person chooses a life in search of pleasures, they would be considered following the path of karma. Those who seek the pleasure of the literary arts can turn to the Natyasastras for guidance. The Kamasutra can guide the more suggestive pleasure of making love. Pursuing politics or the materialism of commercial competition is the goal of artha. All Hindus are expected to follow the goal of dharma and live according to the duties of their caste. Moksha, release, is the goal of those who have grown tired of the other pursuits in previous lifetimes and now seek release from the wheel of rebirth. The Law of Karma is intricately bound with samsara, the wheel of rebirth, and the caste.
             There are many documents and laws that Hindus seem to read and follow: the Veda, known as the old scriptures of knowledge and wisdom, and the Bhagavad Gita, which consists of 700 verses and presents a variety of options for those who would find a release from rebirth. Hindu philosophers follow the Gita to provide spiritual insight. The whole idea of life after death is stated in this quote from the Gita:
             He who thinks this self a killer and he who thinks it killed, both fail to understand;
             it does not kill, nor is it killed. (19) It is not born, it does not die; having been, it will not be; unborn, enduring, constant, and primordial, it is not killed when
             the body is killed. (20) Arjuna, when a man knows the self to be indestructible,
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