The need for meaning in life eventually leads to religion, a response to

the human search for ultimate meaning and purpose. There are many
forms of religion’.
(Lovat, McGrath, Fletcher and Follers, 2000).

By referring to the source and your own knowledge, outline the purpose
of religion and describe your understanding of the Indian religious
worldview.
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1. Broadly
Human beings have a natural human instinct to search for the
answer the
question underyling truth and meaning in life. Religion provides humankind with a
2. Define
meanings and set of beliefs that allow them to discover the meaning of life by
terminology worshiping a supernatural power or powers, which they believe control
3. Expand on
the key terms their destiny (Collins Australian English Dictionary). The Indian religious
4. Provide
worldview accounts for both the Buddhist and Hindu traditions and both
example
5. Coherent maintain a belief in a divine being or powers that dwell within the
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explain it individual. Similarly, the Buddhist and Hindu traditions find their ultimate
meaning in the notion of spiritual salvation that is found through wisdom
which leads to deliverence from suffering and death in the physical
world. In addition, the Indian religions are spiral in nature; through birth,
life, death and rebirth the individuals wisdom grows until one reaches
the ultimate spiritual plane.
For example Hindus and Buddhists believe that after they die they are
re-incarnated. That is that they take the form of a new human body, or,
in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant. They
maintain that they continue on the 'spiral' of birth, death and re-birth,
until they are freed. For adherents of Buddhism the enlightened person
attains Nirvana. The Indian religious worldview response to death and
afterlife helps the adherents to live with the mystery of existence and to
give concrete meaning to their lives.