Hinduism/Christy Robinson

What is the human condition?

The human condition in life is to have what one wants in life. Hinduism believe that there are four basic wants in life; pleasure, worldly success, responsible discharge of duty, and liberation. While on this journey of life, Hindu’s believe there are four stages of life; student, household, retirement, and sannyasin. As long as one is happy and truly know what they want then one should focus all their time and energy in maturing and trying to cleanse one’s self so their infinite center can be fully displayed. Hindu’s will spend a life time of trying to achieve their ultimate goal – Atman.

What is the solution to this condition?

The solution to the human condition can be found in one of the four yoga’s; karma, bhakti, jnana, and raja. Through devotion and practicing the yoga that best suits your life, one hopes to achieve joy- liberation (mosksha) in life. Through long terms of practice and meditation can one person be enlightened to Karma of their life and the person will strive and work to be the more selfless or devoted depending on the enlightenment. Obtaining Bhakti comes with actions or deeds of ones life to be able to sustain from immoral benefits but to show their submission to their god. With the Bhakti and Karma leads to the Jnana the wisdom of your god and with it comes another divine enlightenment from more meditation and practice of the Hindu religious beliefs. Even though there are the four yoga’s only through life with all four co-existing and practiced in ones life will raja have a divine and positive effect on the soul of the person. Allowing them to transcend into the next life or being that Karma and the god of their beliefs grants them to become.

How do we move from Problem to Solution?

The four Yoga’s: Karma, Bhakti, Jnana, Raja grants the person to be able to show their enlightenment to the gods of their choosing and be able to serve, live, love, and breathe the life they deem worthy to their gods believing in turn the gods will grant them with a continual bliss life and be able to be reincarnated or transform into a being of higher value or spiritual-ness then the human form. These are the goals or Atman each Hindu’s desire to achieve in the life time they live and will strive to achieve at all costs like all others who believe in higher beings.

How best to live the Solution in our own lives?

Being Christian, karma or the golden rule has the same respect meaning treating others as I would like to be treated. To be holy, is to be set apart from the world and its attitude. Not to give into the temptations or pleasures of the world. Growing in any religion is similar in the sense seeking the truth and not being able to comprehend the magnitude of the god or Idols we worship, but yet to still be like them and be a divine spiritual being.