Hinduism Is the Largest Religion Essay

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Both the Puranas and the Upanishads are important sources of information for the Hindus, with a large number of them having become better acquainted with God as a result of heavy learning.

It is not enough for one to have solid information in Hinduism for the respective person to successfully cross the path to afterlife. Hindus believe that only he that has experience both in knowledge and in ignorance is able to obtain immortality, with the particular person succeeding by crossing death through lack of knowledge and acquiring life after death through understanding. For the Hindus death is not a disaster, at it is only part of a much greater process named Jiva. Reincarnation is not something impossible in Hinduism, as it also is a part of Jiva. The soul is considered to leave the body after death and spend some time recharging its energy in a mysterious place of which people know little.
However, Hinduism attempt to shed light on the problem, with the help of the Bhagavad Gita. It explains that there are two paths for the soul to travel after death: the path of the sun and that of the moon. The path of the sun is considered to be the bright path, while that of the moon is considered to be the dark path. If the soul succeeds in reaching the path of the sun, it does not return on earth. In contrast, the path of the moon leads to souls returning on earth.

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