Documentary, Part 1. host: Lord Robert Winston
LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING
[tags: Caves, Babylonian, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrian]
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1525227/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=518650186849943758
CAVES - First churches of humans.
"Awareness of death is another by-product of our consciousness."
"One of the mankind's fundamental religious beliefs
is that everything shares a common soul
animals, trees, even the rocks.
Humans also share this soul,
but somewhere along the line we lost
the contact with devine spark within.
"Farming hasn't just given us food,
it may also given us the building block
of organised religion."
The farmers relationship with nature is more complicated
than hunters. And so is the relationship with gods.
The hunter prays for the luck of day's hunt,
but farmers is in a long hold, untile the harvest is safely gathered in,
...
Farming forges a long term contact,
between men and the gods.
PRAY NOW EAT LATER.
Aztec were giving human sacrifices, by taking his heart out alive.
"But human sacrifices are common in many religions."
The Aztec's practices human sacrifice almost at industrial scale.
HINDU
The asnwer to that question takes you to fascinationg paradox
that lies into the very heart of Hinduism,
the more gods you have,
the less they acutally mean.
According to some hindu traditions
the total number of gods is
330 million.
The number is so vast, its almost impossible to grasp,
which is the whole point.
Like the sun reflecting the countless glimps of lights from the surface of the sea.
One extreme of hindu thought even argues that
human soul and Barhaman are the same.
and ultimate religious truth is this, we are all gods.
BUDDHA
"The Buddha didn't denied the existance of gods
he just thought they are irrelavant to the problems of humanity
trapped in the wheel of life."
"To be FREE from the PASSIONS is the most excellent WAY." Buddha
"(Buddha) he concluded this, all creation is trapped in the wheel of life
a life means suffering, in-escapeable suffering, and thanks to reincarnation
endlessly repeated suffering.
But the gods were no real help, they too were trapped in the weheel of life.
and so it is upto every individual to achieve Nirvana - the ultimate reality.
LIFE IS SUFFERING
DESIRE CAUSES SUFFERING
NIRVANA OFFERS AN END TO SUFFERING
IT IS POSSIBLE TO ACHIEVE NIRVANA BY FOLLOWIN THE BUDDHA'S WAY.
When Enlighted died, he never born agian, end of suffering.
ZOROASTRIAN
Iran
When Zoroastrian died, they could not be buried or comitted,
as this could defy the sacred elements of earth and fire,
so they left the dead in hill toping enclosre called
Tsar of Silence.
Zorostrain in Iran don't expose their dead anymore.
Islam insists its own rules on how the dead should be treated.
Zoroastra taught that
the life is preparation for death.
a bliefe that become the corner stone
of many monotheistic religions.
One God, One Life, One Judgement Day.
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