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Won't get reach, but for whoever needs to see this :All religions are an attempt to explain the unexplainable. The beginning of the Bible and ending of the Mahabharata convey the same message. Yudhishthira is the only one allowed to enter Indralok with his bodily form since...
Bhim has to die(gluttony), Arjuna (pride), Nakul and Sahadev (vanity), Draupadi (partiality towards Arjuna though she promised to love all her husbands equally) and when Yudhisthira does get there, he is shocked to see the Pandavas suffering in 'hell' and the Kauravas in..
'heaven'. For Yudhishthira, a man with self-righteousness like no other, this is a shock and also an epiphany: the illusion of good and evil that he had based his life on, disappears, and he sees the ultimate reality for what it is. Beyond good and evil as my good friend..
Nietzsche would say. Attains liberation from feeling of self righteousness and reaches moksha. The genesis part of the Bible, when Adam and Eve are allowed to eat from the Tree of Life but not the Tree of Knowledge is a similar allegory. When 'Satan', decieves Adam and Eve to...
Eat from the Tree of Knowledge, that brought alongwith it the idea of 'good and evil', and thereby they lost 'paradise'. Here, paradise signifies not a physical place but a state of mind equated with tranquility, akin to the moksha concept of Hinduism. schopenhauer, Nietzsche..
All came close but never took it to the logical end. God is an anthropocentric concept. A death of an ant and the birth of a baby is the same thing from this POV. The only saving grace of Islam is the Sufi thought that ..
'Allah and I are one ' (blasphemy to orthodox types) similar to the atman-brahman concept of Hinduism or with Christ saying 'I and the father are one. As pedantic as it sounds, all rivers lead to the same ocean and man-made language can't come close to..
Explaining reality. The Taoist of the ancient Chinese Principle is exactly the same, with the way of the Tao signifying the ultimate reality or absolute consciousness. Confucius
is a bit uptight. The message remains the same, truth is the truth, belief in..
Good and evil are incompatible with the path to reach 'God'. They are man-made concepts. All these texts refer to the same oneness within us(both animate and inanimate) all.

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