RELI 2732 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Trie, Yama (Hinduism), Bhagavad Gita
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Familiar resemblances among both easter and monotheistic traditions. Having a de nitive beginning with the creation by god: beginning of time. Proceeding through ought history, each historical even being a unique moment in time, never happened before and never will happen again. Time having a de nitive end in the resurrection and last judgement of god. Understood that the universe and all life in it, goes through great periods of evolution and dissolution of creation and destruction. Creation -> time -> destruction -> period of nothing -> creation . Can"r really speak about the creation but a creation, one of countless creations and destructions. Kalpah"s: great periods of dissolution and evolution. Indian traditions even have name for a period of time 4,320,000,000 years is called a. All great mythic events in hinduism are considered to take place again and again every 4,320,000,000 years. Our view of time is related to our view of the person.