Hindu Salvation Essay

Hindu salvation is a very strange and easy concept to understand. There are a lot of people in the world today that want things easy. From fast food to shopping on line. Not that these things are bad, they are just easy. Salvation is easy when you do not have to work for it and the Hindu form of salvation is one of them. I'm not sure if we can choose all of it or some of it; it all seems too "wishy washy.” Many do believe in something like this, but like I stated, it is easy. The Hindu form of salvation is found in the doctrine of reincarnation or transmigration of the soul. “Reincarnation, a major tenet of Hinduism, is when the soul, which is seen as eternal and part of a spiritual realm, returns to the physical realm in a new body. A soul will complete this cycle many times, learning new things each time and working through its karma. This cycle of reincarnation is called samsara” (Kowalczyk). According to Robert Stapleton's class notes on World Religions, "Salvation is the release from the wheel of life, the cycle of rebirths, through which we must work to better ourselves, and realize our oneness with Brahman. It must be worked out through …show more content…
The Wheel of Rebirth to which all living beings are bound is called “Samsara.” The Law of Karma determines the form or state of life that one will have in the next life. “Karma” means “action” and refers to one’s deeds and their consequences. If one’s good deeds outweigh his bad, he will be born in the next life in a higher form or station. If one’s bad deeds outweigh his good, he will be born into a lower form or station. Every living being is bound to Samsara until finally his good karma is enough to release him. One may be born endlessly as animals or insects or humans. One’s karma goes with him from one existence to the next (Rutherford, Survey of World