This prompted the creation of an ultimate goal: to overcome all limitations of the earth by realizing the divinity within. ... Your reincarnation, as anything on earth, will be based on the balance sheet of your karma. Hinduism defines a set of human milestones, or good karma, that if achieved could eventually lead to life's purpose, through moksha. ... The reward for sticking to one's duties is good karma, as it is an aim of the dharma. ... This is extended further by the fact that there is little association between classes - having a good karma is seen to have its true rewards...

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The Third Noble Truth, the truth of the end of suffering, has dual meaning, suggesting either the end of suffering in this life, on this earth, through achieving the Nirvana. ... In short, suffering exists everywhere on Earth. ... Karma refers to a good or bad action a person takes during his/ her lifetime. ... The mind of each person is the source of all deeds, whether good or evil. ... Good people can be suffering, too. ...

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Muslims believe that heaven or paradise is for people who live a good life. ... A literal interpretation of the bible shows that 4 important events are predicted: The millennium (interval where christ rules), the tribulation (Interval when the antichrist takes power), Armageddon (war provoked by the antichrist) and the rapture (miraculous event when christ will descend from the heaven to earth). ... These secular beliefs can be broken into three categories; the end of the world, the end of the universe, the end of life on earth. ... Frazer Cain talks about his view on eschatology and claims ...

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Because of this people on Earth who have devoted themselves to the beliefs of a religion have found explanations as to why these forces exist. ... Since God is good and loving, we can trust that God creates and sustains the best possible world.' ... " (When Bad Things Happen to Good People p.25) This paragraph explains that suffering maybe a good sign that God knows that you are a strong being and you can withstand it. ... When one willingly gives up creature comforts and commits to the regimen of the Torah, one's suffering is a mitzvah (good deed) and is duly rewarded. ... &q...

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The Vedic hymns emphasize the need to control the body and actions to achieve matierial good and happiness through sacred fire rituals. ... One can see that the Upanishadic teachers preached a spiritual and inner sacrifice rather than a material and external sacrifice: "The fools who delight in this sacrificial rituals as the highest spiritual good go again and again through the cycle of old age and death" (31 Sources of Indian Tradition). ... According to Jain doctrine, the whole cosmos is alive and every grain and rock on the earth, a fire-being, every drop of rain has a soul attached ...

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Taken from a selection of Confucian analects, "13:29 The Master said, "Let a good man teach the people seven years, and they may then likewise be employed in war.... The first of these documents originate from verses taken from Hindu scripture Bhagavad gita 2.37, "If thou fallest in battle, thou shalt obtain heaven; if thou conquerest, thou shalt enjoy the earth. ... " This verse is very encouraging of warfare by claiming those who die will go to heaven, and those who win will be rewarded on earth. ... He says, "The good man wins a victory and then stops; he will not ...

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" What Tri is trying to show here is that the diversity on Earth is not by accident, but has been purposefully. ... In Karma, if you do good, then you will receive good consequences such as better afterlives. ... We all want to strive to do good to get good consequences, and those who do not, will be punished one way or the other. ... You do not receive good karma by just doing something good just wanting to receive good Karma. ... You can call it whatever you want, but at the end of the day, we should all do good to be good, whether a better life or Heaven is our reward. ...

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He was born as humans, divinities, and even animals in his previous lives and in each life he became better and wiser, accumulating good karma, while fulfilling the pre-requisites needed to become a Buddha. ... Bodhisattva then reached down and touched the ground with his right hand and called upon the earth to stand as his witness. It is believed that, at that moment the earth shuddered and Mara and his army of demons were defeated. ...

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The earliest showing of Christian art was found in the catacombs (burial chambers benith the earth, outside the city of Rome). ... Muslims believe that both men and women are equal before God, but in the Quran it says that men have that higher authority on earth. ...

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How you are in life determines whether you move on after death or remain on earth to suffer is determined by how well you treat your neighbor and whether or not you committed crimes towards humanity. ... A person must maintain good karma throughout the majority of his lifetime to be able to move on after death. ... Mentions of good/bad karma will be taught to the populace in order to maintain some type of order. ... Children will not be brainwashed but instead lectured and taught the simple ways of good karma. ... Simple guidelines must be followed in order to maintain good karma and avoid h...

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Bill and Melinda, two of the most giving human beings on earth, are agnostic; they don't practice religious guidelines, and from observation, just do good things. ... This is proof, hard fact that one doesn't have to believe in God to be a good person; one can see a need, and address it because they innately know that it is the right thing to do. ...

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Hindus believe that as all streams and rivers lead to the same ocean, all genuine religious (spiritual) paths lead to the same goal; worship of every form of "GOD" and celestial forces leads to the same good. ... Every individual soul returns to earth several times by rebirth to perform proper Karma to purify itself. Once purified by good karma, the soul reaches liberation with no-rebirth. ... A goal of Hindus is to achieve Moksha, to be freed from the cycle of birth and death (when the "good" and the "bad" karmas balance.) or reach Swarga, the abode of the Divine Soul or Paramatma [God] to se...

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Although it was good of him that he attempted to spread his music throughout the world his motives were wrong. Although he was spreading spiritual music that would help people become in touch with god, he was not doing it for the good of people, but rather in order to make money. ... When in reality the good professor is right for what the narrator does not realize is that there is nothing on earth that is more divine than humans and the atman they contain. ...

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In Hinduism the most important celestial deities are Varuna the sky god, Mitra the sun god and Vishnu that encompasses the earth, atmosphere and paradise. ... Basically with karma the Hindus believe that if you do good things, good things will happen to you, By the same token if you do negative things, negative things will happen to you. ... The Buddhists also believe in Karma as an intentional good or bad action or every action causes an effect. ...

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More specifically, the earth (and all beings on it) is embodied in these religions as a living being that deserves respect just as a human would, and is passed down from one generation to another (Nath, 2010). ... On the opposing side of the argument, there is a the idea that vegetarianism lacks a good cause. ...

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The gods themselves also give birth to the idea of avatars, or the form of the god when he or she comes to earth. ... It consists of generally good acts like charity, honoring the gods, telling the truth, and not causing injury. ...

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They lie down and touch the ground with their foreheads in every five or ten steps, in order to measure the length of their journeys and feel the power of the earth. ... In my opinion, religions are practiced that often because they really influence lives in a good way. Doctrines of every religion tend to admonish people to do good things instead of bad ones. These words will change how we behave unconsciously and we tend to do good things without even noticing. ...

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One branch, Pure Land Buddhism, is the belief in which if one prays to the Amitabha Buddha and leads a good life, one will be born into the Pure Land instead back into earth. ... The sixth one is the "right effort", where one tries to remove evil that has happened, prevent evil, and develop and promote good. ...

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Instead it states that the way to true happiness is to follow a certain set of rules over and over again until you have built up enough good karma to be reincarnated as an Indra or a Brahma. ... If the amount of time that we spend here on earth is so short, then why would we complain about how bad things are? ...

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