Tilak Religion Chapter 8 Summary

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Chapter eight was about mystic servants and Jesus people in the Hindu world. Tilak Groaned and his wife were Brahmins, they were the highest caste. But because Tilak followed believe and follower Jesus he talked with all kinds of people. The first page of the chapter talked about “who are Christian” and all the different diversity dazzles in the land of India. I learned that there are languages and tribes and castes by the numbers. I learned that there are a lot of religion of Hinduism, Sikhism which is a monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 15th century by Gura Nanak, and Buddhism is a religion in India, but it is spreading out throughout China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and Asia. India have one of the biggest Muslim population …show more content…
After he learned the Hindu scriptures he wanted to experience the God he had learned about so what he did was as a young men he followed in the footsteps of many other sincere seekers. Another worlds to put that is many other believers. After he follower the footsteps of other sincere seekers he wrapped himself in a simple cloth, walking sticks, and a food bowl, and leaving his home to wander as an ascetic. To me that shows how much Narayan Vaman Tilak wanted to know about God so he took every chance he had. If I was in Narayan Vaman Tilak position I could have done the same thing as a young kid because all he learned was Hindu scriptures he didn’t learned the full lesson on who God is and what he did. And that what Narayan Vaman Tilak did as a little kid. He didn’t feel like he got the full experience about the God he had studied about so he went out and find the missing pieces he didn’t get with some other sincere seekers. Is kind of like me if didn’t get the experience I wanted from the things I got thought about God as a young child I could of gone out and try to learned more things about him from someone that have the better understanding of who he is and what he did for

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