Early Mornings at the Hindu Temple

To be given a chance to experience another belief, thought, or religion is a chance to transform your whole perspective on life in general. It offers you the chance to break away from once bounded thought and realize positive points, though maybe challenging to understand, within another person’s belief.

When first coming in to the temple you are given a whole new feeling of how they respect their holy ground, as the shoes you have on your feet need to be taken off, revealing that the floor upon which you will step, is holy and needs not the sanitation of one’s shoes. Against the deep wall when you walk in you see beautiful statues, and these very masterfully crafted as they displayed their divine trinity and others of their holy belief.

Visiting the Hindu temple, although made at a much earlier time than a trip I would make to church, left a revitalizing feeling within me. I learned today, for one, myself, as a Christian, believe that misguidance and lack of repentance can lead you to a place that Hindu people don’t believe in. This is new, because as both religions seek to have a great relationship with the highest being, for a Christian, lifestyle is based on not ending up in the dark land below. I respect the fact of a higher being neither man nor woman, because that forfeits all passes for this deity to be inhuman, or beyond human doing.

One of the questions, however few in the Q&A session, that stood out to me was the one about the caste system and being a Hindu and probable expectations. That is one to think about, because you imagine, if one was an untouchable, although politically the caste system has been disbanded they are still lively within the people. The question does raise one to think, do you have to be more pleasing, or “work harder” because of your placement. Does the only time you have to make a true upgrade up the ladder of placement happen only after you pass away? Is your reincarnation affected by the level of life you once lived in you first life. Like to say, you don’t have much to give, so giving is a rare occasion for you, are you punished in your afterlife for not giving even when expectation has to do such?

The Hindu temple was an experience one should have to further broad the ideas they have. I am still unsure of the entirety of the religion, of course, but what questions me is: are the Vedas, their chronicles, teachings, and testaments, are they too much different than of the other major religions of the world. I do know we have the same aim, of achieving an everlasting relationship with our god, but I know the ways to reach this spiritual relationship cannot be too far differing.

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