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For Hindus and Sikhs, birth, and death repeat for every single person in a continuous cycle. The main idea is that each person repeatedly undergoes birth, and death in order his or her soul may be completely purified to join the divine cosmic consciousness (Harold, 2000).
A typical example of Indian religions is the Hinduism and Sikhism. These two religions share in the same core beliefs. Their way of worship and rituals, citing their communal origin, traits, and literary pieces are similar. The ultimate common belief found in Hinduism and Sikhism is the Moksha. Moksha stands for deliverance from the life cycle, the frustrations, and torments from the physical life. In Indian religion, Moksha is equivalent to the deliverance from sin in the Christian religion. Moksha perceives liberation as the separation, or rather the disintegration from the sense of self as an excessively conceit individual with which hinders the pure amaranthine spirit. As such, there exist a similarity on this path of Moksha, but the application of these religious traditions may vary.
The two traditions share a belief that the way a person lives and their deeds in each life influences the circumstances, and ways that the person experienced in the future lives. In essence, all actions or thoughts, whether good or bad leaves a mark in the unconscious that carries it forward into the next life. In case of similarity in these...
The impulse must not have to compel the person to repeat the action or thought. The person has the sole authority. One can decide whether to nurture or uproot the already laid actions and thoughts that exist in the unconsciousness. Therefore, everyone thinks and acts on town free will.
Karma theory does not accommodate any absolute beginning rather it creates an assumption that life whether in the beginning or not, has always been there. In addition, there is a thought that people store memory from the earlier lives, and from birth, and that, including the various additions and deletions of memory made through free choice in the present life have a hand in influencing rebirth, in the next life. From such a view, the beginning of conception is the born again, or rebirth of a fully person who has lived many years (Harold, 2000).
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