Hindu, I believe in it because it actually makes sense. I know there is a lot of nonsense in Hinduism like it’s there in every religion. Because religions are ultimately jsut tools to power. But i like Hinduism for some of the core beliefs. Some of the important things I like to believe.
Change is the only constant in the universe, nothing else stays conatsnt.
God is a construct that is unknowable by definition, it’s larger than the largest thing, and it’s smaller than the smallest thing. It’s infinitly big and infinitesimally small at the same time.
The morals of how to live life is not something that is defined by God, and God doesn’t care one way or the other if someone follows any.
That being said I understand this is not traditional Hinduism. But I find this to the core with anyone that is willing to discuss Hinduism at length will reach at.
None. I just believe whatever god is, it exists. But it can be useful for me.
But Hinduism believes that whatever you do, be it a good deed or be it a bad deed. Submit it to God, and submit here doesn’t mean that you got rid of your deeds, we believe in karma, it’ll stay with us.
But the point of submit here is that you detach yourself from expectations of outcomes from those deeds. So if you do good karma with expectation of good rewards, it’s not best karma. It is still good karma but keeps you selfish. Instead you do karma, you submit it to the god that is apathetic so you also don’t expect rewards. That allows you to be in a state where you can truly choose to do what’s right or wrong.
To me in atheism, there is no god and your own morals are something you make entirely.
In Hinduism, for me, above still remains true, but I can use the construct of a god, as a help to check, if my morals are good enough, even if after I submit all my karma to god, and I don’t expect anything in return, I still can choose to do good karma and that’s what’s important to me, because then I can personally feel, I’m a good person truly.
Nor am I a good person because I’m afraid of consequences of being bad neither am I a good person because I’m expecting rewards. I can feel good about myself because I am trying to he just good.
Tldr; difference existence of God makes for me, is it helps me isolate my fears and expectations, and strive to be good regardless of either.
I get it I think. It would definitely be a better world if everyone lived according to this. Its difficult for people to give up on their personal wealth and abundance of material possessions to improve the lives of others. Trying to find happiness in non material things has always been something I respected and thought was very much needid in our consumerist society.
Hindu, I believe in it because it actually makes sense. I know there is a lot of nonsense in Hinduism like it’s there in every religion. Because religions are ultimately jsut tools to power. But i like Hinduism for some of the core beliefs. Some of the important things I like to believe.
That being said I understand this is not traditional Hinduism. But I find this to the core with anyone that is willing to discuss Hinduism at length will reach at.
Very interesting. If God is incomprehensible for us and apathetic towards us what difference does it make whether he exists or not?
None. I just believe whatever god is, it exists. But it can be useful for me. But Hinduism believes that whatever you do, be it a good deed or be it a bad deed. Submit it to God, and submit here doesn’t mean that you got rid of your deeds, we believe in karma, it’ll stay with us. But the point of submit here is that you detach yourself from expectations of outcomes from those deeds. So if you do good karma with expectation of good rewards, it’s not best karma. It is still good karma but keeps you selfish. Instead you do karma, you submit it to the god that is apathetic so you also don’t expect rewards. That allows you to be in a state where you can truly choose to do what’s right or wrong.
To me in atheism, there is no god and your own morals are something you make entirely. In Hinduism, for me, above still remains true, but I can use the construct of a god, as a help to check, if my morals are good enough, even if after I submit all my karma to god, and I don’t expect anything in return, I still can choose to do good karma and that’s what’s important to me, because then I can personally feel, I’m a good person truly.
Nor am I a good person because I’m afraid of consequences of being bad neither am I a good person because I’m expecting rewards. I can feel good about myself because I am trying to he just good.
Tldr; difference existence of God makes for me, is it helps me isolate my fears and expectations, and strive to be good regardless of either.
I get it I think. It would definitely be a better world if everyone lived according to this. Its difficult for people to give up on their personal wealth and abundance of material possessions to improve the lives of others. Trying to find happiness in non material things has always been something I respected and thought was very much needid in our consumerist society.