There are a plethora of social divisions within the Eastern Religions. The idea that an ordinary human being is someone who has fallen short of his or her full potential gives each human being a placement into these divisions. Since the Vedic theorists taught that given the proper rituals, a human being had the potential to turn into a deva, humans have slipped to a superior position. The symbolic structures of this unrealized human potential are analyzed in great detail.
Human beings are rewarded and punished according to the merits and demerits of their behavior and various actions. One is never reborn and never dies; one attains immortality, or without death. The rebirths and reincarnations, along with liberation from the cycle o
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