Explain Which religion explains aim of the life and type of the life in relation to Karma and happiness.?
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Hinduism and only Hinduism. Buddhism corrected the practices that went big time wrong in Hinduiam\n\nRead the Gita and you shall know
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Heaven and hell exist... the whole story!\n\n\nEvery Atman soul manifests a body ... On its journey towards Emancipation! If it were a plant it would do all within its means to become an animal (in next Life) ... the next higher of the species but would it swoop low (owing to bad Karma), it could regain the body of an insect or even an Amoebae in its next manifested Life. Who knows when ... the sword may fall! We pray and do Punya Karma (pious deeds not only in the physical frame but mentally also) ... We elevate ourselves to the higher planes of cosmic consciousness ... we inherit Paap Karma ... We are doomed to go to Hell ...\n\nYou are born a Human Being. You live a Life of content. One day hell breaks loose ... You fail to control your emotions and cause hurt to your fellow beings ... Earn Paap Karma. Ultimately hurtled into the dungeons of Hell in your next birth ... You are born a crawling insect to be trampled by one and all. What apathy .. nothing within your control you shall again have to take the cast of a Human body before you can atone for your sins and ask god for his Forgiveness!!\n\nEvery ‘Atman’ manifests initially on a Life supporting planet and then goes on Spiritually elevating itself to higher and higher planes. You go to ‘Swarg’ owing to your Punya Karma and ‘Narak’ owing to your Paap Karma. God never differentiates ... For him all are equal.\n\n\nBefore an Atman is allotted another body, it has merely to wait ... Where? Where else other than Swarga or Naraka depending upon the balance sheet of your previous Life! There is no waiting in Hell! So many species of insects plants and animals!\n\nWaiting for a proper birth is essential ... For the family in which you have to take birth may not yet exist. The complex theory of genes and chromosomes is to be understood well. The balance sheet of you and your would be parents must match ... Then only you inherit the womb of that Mother. Your Mother may be a she animal or a woman ... Is solely dependent on the balance Karma of your previous Life.\n\n‘Swarg’ is no where else but it is a X-dimension where only Atmans operate. We do not see an Atman or God but still we feel their presence ... Where? The travel of Atman is not limited by time or space. They travel on frequencies above the speed of light i.e. above 1,86,000 miles per sec. All thought waves without exception travel on frequencies above the speed of light. Traveling on different waves lengths in the X-dimension (i.e. speeds above 1,86,000 miles per sec) can one Atman meet another.\n\n\nEvery Human Being who has learnt to control his senses, can elevate his mental status to levels that he can seek blessings of one and all whom we consider as dead and liberated i.e. God realized! All purified Atmans are practically known as Human Gods like Mahavira, Jesus, Buddha and Mohammed of the earlier Ages and Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Ramanna Mahirshi of the recent ages reside in the X-dimension known to us as ‘Baikunth (abode of God). These purified Atmans are ever ready to bless us if we sincerely and with full devotion (i.e. through mantras) invoke their presence and blessings. Proper use of Mantras is essential for their invocation.\n\nIn ‘Hell’ which is nowhere else but exists on this planet itself can be found those poor Souls whose misdeeds landed them in Hell. You slowly through the evolutionary process elevated yourself to the level of a Human Being. Your works as a Human Being did not conform to the standards laid down by the scriptures! You failed yourself at all levels of Morality and Ethics. On the Earthly plane, the society may not spurn your advances, neither you may be ridiculed and pitied upon for you are the lord of great wealth and riches and none wants to face your wrath! More on god here- http://www.godrealized.org/swarga_naraka_and_dharti.html
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Karma is based on the principles of cause and effect. The belief is that one has to continually pay for one's wrongdoings through suffering until the debt for those wrongdoings are paid. According to this belief system, the individual may even have to pay over lifetimes for debts that cannot be consciously remembered from one lifetime to another. Of course, the belief in reincarnation has to be held in order to support this thinking.\n\nFate is a belief in a predetermined destiny that is inexplicably and inescapably yours. There is nothing you can do but to accept your fate in life. This fate is determined by a higher power or higher authority (most would say God) that has planned everything out for everyone.\n\nI do not believe in either of these ideas. I support the idea that we each determine our own destiny by recognizing what our individual beliefs are about any circumstance, condition, experience or aspect of our life. When we understand how we create our own destiny by our own conscious thinking, we free ourselves to experience what we choose, when we choose to, in the exact way that we choose. There is nothing to limit, bind or punish us except for beliefs in limited ideas or the belief in a power outside of ourselves, which capriciously blesses or curses us for a host of unknown reasons. I do believe in Cause and Effect to the extent that we (by our own thinking and beliefs) are Cause (the Creative Power) back of every Effect (condition, circumstance, or experience) in our lives.
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That question cannot be answered fully in a few sentences. So please visit the following pages to read the entire thing:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu_philosophy\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jainism
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Hinduism.  Try www.wikipedia.com for more info.
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Just think my dear freind, why does a just born die, why does a bad person live long, why does some ppl die young and some get tourtured thro out life and why does some get all good things in life, what decides who should be born where & why, how should he/she live. Can we  just say its God who decides it? But what makes him to decide? How can that happen. If there is no concept of rebirth and Karma, why does God gives life to a baby and takes back its life in a day or two, for some its 10-20 yrs, and for some who live 100 yrs, whats the core of this?Its Karma and rebirth which explains the logic of this.
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Well...Check out;\n\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=Ais_0_mi7bIuM8xOSMy8RRYezKIX?p=What+is+the+meaning+of+life
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You can't, cause veggies aren't considered as living life forms in buddhism. And if your karma is good enough, you won't be reincarnated, but will go to the nirvana (equivalent of heaven for budhist)
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Rebirth is a truth...and we reap what we sow.  Karma is main factor in our birth, not God\n\nGod do not interfer in the law of Karma because he himself made it
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http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=Akfr80MntBhXsBS9XjJMd2QezKIX?p=meaning+of+life
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What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives. Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:\n\nSurvival and temporal success\n\n    * ...to accumulate wealth and increase social status\n    * ...to compete or co-operate with others\n    * ...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance\n    * ...to protect one's family, no matter the cost\n    * ...to gain and exercise power\n    * ...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book\n    * ...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction\n    * ...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially\n    * ...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate\n    * ...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)\n\nWisdom and knowledge\n\n    * ...to be without question, or to keep asking questions\n    * ...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers\n    * ...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes\n    * ...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom\n    * ...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life\n    * ...to experience anything if not something in this world\n\nEthical\n\n    * ...to express compassion\n    * ...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)\n    * ...to give and receive love\n    * ...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life\n    * ...to serve others, or do good deeds\n    * ...to work for justice and democracy\n\nReligious, spiritual and esoteric\n\n    * ...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context\n    * ...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace\n    * ...to become God, or God-like\n    * ...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there is (i.e. God)\n    * ...to follow the "Golden Rule"\n    * ...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)\n    * ...to reach Heaven in the afterlife\n    * ...to understand and follow the "Word of God"\n    * ...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God\n\nOther\n\n    * ...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race\n    * ...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human\n    * ...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")\n    * ...to die, or become a martyr\n    * ...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even life in general\n    * ...to live, and enjoy the passage of time\n    * ...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment\n    * ...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny\n    * ...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others\n    * ...to seek and find beauty\n    * ...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)\n    * ...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever
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Dharma is the path of righteousness and living one's life according to the codes of conduct as described by the Vedas and Upanishads. Dharma means "that which holds" the people of this world and the whole creation. It refers to the religious ethics as propounded by Hindu gurus in ancient Indian scriptures. Tulsidas, author of Ramcharitmanas, has defined the root of dharma as compassion. This principle was taken up by Lord Buddha in his immortal book of great wisdom, Dhammapada.\n\nHinduism describes dharma as the natural universal laws whose observance enables humans to be contented and happy, and to save himself from degradation and suffering. Dharma is the moral law combined with spiritual discipline that guides one's life. Hindus consider dharma the very foundation of life. Atharva Veda describes dharma symbolically: Prithivim dharmana dhritam, that is, "this world is upheld by dharma".\n\nHinduism accepts the concept of reincarnation, and what determines the state of an individual in the next existence is karma which refers to the actions undertaken by the body and the mind. In order to achieve good karma it is important to live life according to dharma, what is right. This involves doing what is right for the individual, the family, the class or caste and also for the universe itself.\n\nDharma is like a cosmic norm and if one goes against the norm it can result in bad karma. So, dharma affects the future according to the karma accumulated. Therefore one's dharmic path in the next life is the one necessary to bring to fruition all the results of past karma.\n\nThe term dharma can best be explained as the "law of being" without which things cannot exist, just as the essential factor in human being is life - the atman without which he cannot exist. Therefore the dharma of human being is atman. And hence any good atmic quality is dharmic. Dharma therefore implies duty - a course of conduct. For example, Hinduism endorses the idea that it is one's dharma to marry, raise a family and provide for that family in whatever way is necessary.\n\nAnything that helps human being to reach god is dharma and anything that hinders human being from reaching god is adharma. For instance, in the epic poem Mahabharata, the Pandavas represent dharma in life and the Kauravas represent adharma.\n\nThe essence of dharma lies in possessing a certain ability, power and spiritual strength. Vedic Dharma is always truthful because its basis is the unique combination of spiritual brilliance and physical prowess.\n\nHindu saints have classified all human aspirations under four broad categories: dharma, kama (desire), artha (money) and moksha (liberation from the cycle of birth and death). The practice of dharma gives an experience of peace, joy, strength and tranquillity within one's self and makes life disciplined. Of these four values the majority of human beings pursue artha and kama, and the more sensitive individual pursue dharma, while very few are conscious if the moksha - ideal spiritual aspiration.\n\nAccording to the Bhagavat Purana, righteous living or life on a dharmic path has four aspects: austerity (tap), purity (shauch), compassion (daya) and truthfulness (satya); and adharmic or unrighteous life has three vices: pride (ahankar), contact (sangh), and intoxication (madya).\n\nManusmriti written by the ancient sage Manu, prescribes ten essential rules for the observance of dharma: Patience (dhriti), forgiveness (kshama), piety or self control (dama), honesty (asteya), sanctity (shauch), control of senses (indraiya-nigrah), reason (dhi), knowledge or learning (vidya), truthfulness (satya) and absence of anger (krodha). Manu further writes, "Non-violence, truth, non-coveting, purity of body and mind, control of senses are the essence of dharma". Therefore dharmic laws govern not only the individual but all in society.\n\nThe purpose of dharma is not only to attain a union of the sou
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they are NOT COMPATABLE!!!!\n\nbuddhism: believe in Karma and reincarnation\n\nchristianity: Believe in only one life, rarely believe in karma even though you reap what you sow is karma.\n\nbuddhism: respects all life\n\nchristianity: respects only christian humans, only within thier sects.
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I asked this same question here and didn't have very much luck on finding a reasonable answer.  So after much thought and reaserch, I have formulated the following religion-free theory.\n\nThere are many different views on this topic and most of them relate to religious perspectives.\nFrom a Christian standpoint the purpose of life would of course be to serve the lord and spread his word.\n\nThen there are the typical evolutionist \ntheories on how we are here to further the evolutionary chain and have man-kind evolve into whatever it is that humans are destined to become.\n\nThere are so many other views that I couldn't possibly go into them here but to just quickly name a few; buddhism, hinduism, muslim, hebrew, mormon, taoism, and the list goes on.\n\nMy theory on the purpose of life isn't so complex as many religions make it to be.  To me, THE REAL MEANING AND PURPOSE OF LIFE, is just to be happy, believe in a higher being than yourself, and teach all of this to future generations...everything else is secondary.  Like buddhists I think that being happy and having peace between all the different faiths is the key to all of us co-existing in harmony. I believe that being happy and not as a result of someone else's unhappiness is the easiest way to live a fulfilled life.\n\nBeing positive, spreading joy, having faith in humanity, and trusting in a higher being (whoever that might be based on your faith) is really the only way man-kind will ever survive. So sticking to these simple guidelines, I have managed to keep stress to a minimum and live a full, healthy, happy, and productive life.  That, I think is the real purpose of life....hope it helps.
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Karma is actually simple and vast at the same time.\nSimply put - As you may well know, is the law of cause and effect, that's it, that is all.\n\nDharma:  \n\nIn Dharma it is also based on a very objective definition.... \nFirst what it is not:\n\nIt is not a response based on Right and wrong\nIt is not based on Will per say.\nIt is not necessarily based on Intention.\n\nDharma is action (or non action) yes, however it is action aligned with a pulse, it is a JUST action. The intention is aligned with the Will which is aligned with the inner pulse that some would identify as Gods Will. They say that when we are in Dharma, the Supreme Will is no different than our own.\n\nSo Dharma can care less about Truth, Truth is man made and it can be twisted to be framed in all directions. Dharma is in touch with REALITY.\n\nHope it helped !
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well, the main focus is on attaining enlightenment. it involves finding the "clear mind" state. the ultimate goal is to attain buddah status and freeing yourself from the cycle of dying and being reborn. karma plays a role, and any action has either positive or negative karma. karma decides what you will come back as and how good of a life you will have. the more good you do the closer to enlightenment you will come. rituals include meditation.\n\ni just read a really good book on buddhism that i would reccommend and it is called "how to practice" by the Dalai Lama. excellent read and very informative.
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What is the meaning of life?