RLG100Y1 Lecture Notes - Passover, Third Eye, Visu
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Getting from n to s is a choice - not necessary. One way we might think of it as a stage in our development, our way of thinking of things: not that objectively there is a god, but that my understanding is that there is a god. Eventually, will drop the concept of god: will come to a point that the deity that i worship/regard as love is ultimately none other than myself, no different from me, that we"re made of the same stuff. Hindu theism is quite diff from western theism - more complex. Emits varieties of personality in its conceptualization of what god looks like. Varieties of ways of interacting with god. This allow them to absorb different people"s practices all the way: when christianity became major source of encounter (missionaries, very easy for hinduism to accommodate christianity. Can understand why someone would worship jesus: understanding christianity within the hindu theme.
