A Brief Discussion of Hinduism and the Hindu Religious Book 'The Bhagavad-Gita'

The Bhagavad-Gita is a Hindu religious book. The ideas in it are simple and few, just like Hinduism seems to be. The overriding idea is that nothing exists but Brahman, the essence of life. Everything else exists only as a dream, not reality. We are but dream figures. Brahman, which is pure awareness, when seen through fear, ignorance and desire is what creates this dream world. There are three gunas, or strands of being. The …

…eternal life. Those are just my beliefs. I think that the beliefs of Hinduism have a lot of merit to them, and in a lot of ways parallel those of Christianity. All of it is based on living a righteous life and finding your way to the one end where peace and happiness exist. As it says in the Bhagavad-Gita, all roads lead to the same end; there are just different ways of getting there.