Reflection on Eastern Religion

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Subject Area:Religion

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From the interviews done for a sect of the individuals who subscribe to these religions, an accurate understanding can be extracted from the facts that are revealed from the subjects. For this discussion, we will look at two interviews on individuals who subscribe to the eastern religion, Henry Koral who is a practitioner of meditation and Gazi Sangani who is a lover of Sufi and Yogi. There are several concepts that I find useful in the interviews, first in the Gazi’s interview he majors more on the religious aspect of the human life. The concept of religious institutionalism is one the remains fresh in my brain. According to Gazi (20), the institutionalization of religion is one that does not yield as much fruit as expected.

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Additionally, the religion that is propagated in these cases is not easily integrated into the improvement of the individual’s values. As such knowing these effects which make individuals to be more cautious while approaching any religious practices helping them to embrace the practices while not wholly but partially, picking up the important portions while leaving out the seemingly non-beneficial parts. Henry Koral while stressing on the importance of mediation tries to outline the reasons why he seems to be very skeptical about Christianity. He gives out insights on the difference between knowledge and wisdom. According to Henry (29), wisdom is much more important than knowledge. Through Yogi, the people would shun from positive talks as they didn’t want people to too much of positive images that it would again turn into a limitation for them to discover other things.

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The yogi would then assist the individuals in maintaining the negative image of what happens around them most of the time. In similar basis from the interviews, we realize the Hindu's belief in Sufi is one of the central beliefs in the Hindu religion is everything as it expresses a varied range of characteristics. On the same basis, Shiva is expressed from the religious fundamentals as a great teacher a great yogi and also in the capacity contrarily the great destroyer. The Shiva was meant to destroy the belief that an individual holds to achieve the success that is needed in the process. Chicago. Retrieved from https://encountersofwisdom. com//?s=Henry+Koral&search=Go Novak, Philip.  The world's wisdom: Sacred texts of the world's religions.

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