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... hell , but not of rebirth . It is only when we come to the Upanisads that we meet with this doctrine of rebirth which was to become so central to Hinduism . The Vedas believe that after death the spirit of man is sent to heaven or hell ...
... hell , but not of rebirth . It is only when we come to the Upanisads that we meet with this doctrine of rebirth which was to become so central to Hinduism . The Vedas believe that after death the spirit of man is sent to heaven or hell ...
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... hell . The doctrine of rebirth can be met with for the first time in the Hindu tradition in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka ... hell are also present and it is not very clear how the Hindus relate the ideas of heaven and hell with the idea of rebirth ...
... hell . The doctrine of rebirth can be met with for the first time in the Hindu tradition in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka ... hell are also present and it is not very clear how the Hindus relate the ideas of heaven and hell with the idea of rebirth ...
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... Hell as the final abode of man is not totally absent from it . By attaining Moksha , man becomes free from the cycle of birth and death and attains a purely spiritual status . Moksha means re- lease or liberation which is opposed to ...
... Hell as the final abode of man is not totally absent from it . By attaining Moksha , man becomes free from the cycle of birth and death and attains a purely spiritual status . Moksha means re- lease or liberation which is opposed to ...
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Contents
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Ultimate destiny | 36 |
BUDDHISM | 43 |
Life after death | 57 |
Principal sects | 67 |
Life after death | 99 |
CHRISTIANITY | 130 |
ISLAM | 153 |
SIKHISM | 173 |
COMPARISON AND APPRAISAL | 191 |
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Page 136 - So the Father is God, the Son is God : and the Holy Ghost is God. And yet they are not three Gods : but one God.
Page 105 - I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments...
Page 17 - THEN was not non-existent nor existent: there was no realm of air, no sky beyond it. What covered in, and where ? and what gave shelter ? Was water there, unfathomed depth of water? Death was not then, nor was there aught immortal: no sign was there, the day's and night's divider. That one thing, breathless, breathed by its own nature : apart from it was nothing whatsoever.
Page 136 - So there is one Father, not three Fathers ; one Son, not three Sons ; one Holy Ghost, not three Holy Ghosts, And in this Trinity none is afore or after other, none is greater or less than another) but the whole three persons are co-eternal together, and co-equaL So that in all things, as is aforesaid, the Unity in Trinity and the Trinity in Unity is to be worshipped.
Page 136 - The Father incomprehensible, the Son incomprehensible, and the Holy Ghost incomprehensible. The Father eternal, the Son eternal, and the Holy Ghost eternal. And yet they are not three eternals, but one eternal.