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Originally Posted by brag

Jesus said He did not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Indeed, nothing can be destroyed, and only be fulfilled in a journey that often fragments into hate, jealousy, greed, etc., that must end in the unity of love. Everything is indeed a journey from Brahman (God) through Karma (effort) and Dharma (right conduct) back to Brahman, also appearing as a journey of dualities or individualities back to non dualism or oneness in love with Godhead.

Karma simply means action through thought, then word and finally deed, a circular journey from beginning to end, and a return to the beginning from where thought emerged. It evolved through many steps, shapes, beliefs, stages, and concepts, etc., back from where it originated to fulfil itself by discovering its purpose as only love that is the One in the appearances of the many.

The essence or core of Hindu spirituality is the journey of the so called good conquering the so called evil. We are unknowingly steeped in perceptions of dualism since the original story of monism that became dualism in the Garden of Eden. The same story is dramatized and orchestrated throughout life everywhere, and remains true in all ancient and modern religions as their very essence.

There is never good without evil. They are pairs of opposites which give superficial and false meaning to all activities which are only delusionally real. It means that they do not last and are only temporary, but may be attractive to many as real when such illusory real do not last. It keeps the search for the real in motions of happiness that are only intervals between two pains.

What may be bad for one on at a particular time and day may be be good for another on another day. One cannot exist without the other in the delusional, material world. It is the means by which bondage to the material world seems real, and clouds the highest Truth that all is Brahman, God.

Only when the three gunas or qualities of Karma, namely, satwa or serentity, rajas or activity and tamas or passivity are in perfect harmony that the delusion or maya of the world is removed, and Brahman is revealed in all its perfection, glory and balance as one perfect functioning, and when liberation or Moksha is truly realized.

Spirituality is at its peak or at the post PhD level with the understanding of Advaitha or non-dualism, like the message of Jesus who grew from separation with the Father as the servant or messenger, through closeness as the Son, and finally One with the Father.

Advaitha is about the removal of Maya or the delusion that keeps the oneness of God unclear or and un-appreciated. God exists as the substratum of everything, with an imposition of the so called imperfect on the perfect, like the moving streams of light or picture on the unmoving screen. It is also called Karma or God's functioning, as the Cosmos, from creation to Moksha or oneness in love with God.

The delusions of imperfection require a clearing away by strict, disciplinary, virtuous living and the constant integrated awareness that all is God, arrived at through self inquiry, self awareness and knowing thyself.

The struggles of life are like the ancient battles between the Devas or gods of order and righteousness and the Asuras or demons who were the power seekers by any means. The defeated Asuras moved to lands adjoining India, and both the good and the evil among the Asuras formed new religions elsewhere. They carried with them modified concepts of good and evil, because they were as much God loving as the Devas, but their means in seeking power were ruthless and by any means, characteristic of today's forms of proselytizing.

The ancient Asuras learned well from their defeat by the Devas and developed new concepts and thinking, and created religions out of the spirituality they once knew in India. They gave it new names, like Christianity and Islam. They also built on the old Roman religions which never truly disappeared or died, but formed the support of religious beliefs into the new religious movements of the day.

New layers of Hindu spirituality, often called religions, remained as pockets of Hindu spirituality everywhere, and shown as Judaism, modified to suit language, people, time and place. From Judaism later emerged Christianity and Islam as adaptations and sub-divisions, respectively, for proselytizing and destroying, by any means, the old spirituality from which they emerged, and upon which they built their new religions.

While Truth is never modified, it is arrived at equally by the Daivic and Asuric religions, nevertheless, regardless of time and place, and they often meet the needs of those seeking spiritual advancements as they deem them necessary in their particular stream of spiritual evolution.