Write 5 pages thesis on the topic learning about hinduism. To divulge more into this matter and to enhance the understanding of the religion in a better manner than the paper takes into accord an interview conducted upon a person who is a spiritual aspirant in this direction.

The interview in this direction is taken online through chat with a person who is an engineer by profession and is aged around 47 years. He resides in Bangalore and is a staunch believer of Advaita Vedanta Philosophy. This person agreed to share his own personal views about the practices and rituals of Vedanta Religion on being contacted through the online sphere. Questions that were asked to him concerned mainly with understanding the religious framework of the Vedanta religion along with the doctrines and practices ingrained in such.

The first question that was asked to the interviewee was concerned with understanding and identifying the philosophy of Vedanta as a religious philosophy practiced in India. The focus of the question was directly placed to know whether Vedanta is truly a religion or just a set of dogmas and preset ideologies. To this end, the interviewee acclaimed that Vedanta is a scientific and intellectual religion. The interviewee stated that Vedanta as a religion renders focus on a universal God which the Vedantists of the followers of such religion regard as the Omnipresent Power of Supreme or Absolute Consciousness. He stated that the religion of Vedanta goes further in understanding the realms of sublime consciousness ingrained in the physical system, which is regarded as the Universal Truth. The interviewee also stated that the religion of Vedanta is a more refined understanding of the Hindu philosophy or religion. He stated that Vedanta acts as a backbone to the Hindu religion. The Vedanta religion according to him stands on three main pillars viz. Existence, Knowledge, and Supreme Bliss, which is also maintained in the Hindu religion as Sat, Chit, and Ananda respectively. The interviewee also acclaimed that through Vedanta one can easily approach higher states of consciousness which transcends the body and mind to a Supreme and Unified state thus bringing peace and enlightenment. (Vedanta).

Write 5 pages with APA style on The Feeding of the Multitude. The variations in the descriptions of this event in four books of the Bible shall form the subject of this discussion. It shall argue that this was due to varying degrees of censorship owing to increasing political power for the Christians in the later centuries. It shall also argue that other factors such as the unavailability of documents and losses during translation that the Bible went through.

According to Richard A. Horsley, Christ’s contribution to the precipitation of resistance movements against Roman imperial rule cannot be overlooked. The community that Christ was a part of was involved mostly in agriculture for survival and livelihood. Horsley argues that at the point of time that Jesus lived, religion was an intrinsic part of the socio-political life that was led by the Judean and Galilean peasantry (1202). Christ’s protest against the Temple was, thus, equally a protest against the religious and political structures of the time. It is in this context that one needs to read the miracle that Jesus performed in the desert. It is an acceptance of the fact that religious reform needed to be accompanied by economic and social welfare as well. Even while Christ’s disciples speak of the constraints of feeding the multitudes, he insists on it. Another aspect of this miracle lies in the indications that it gives of the constitution of the multitude that followed Jesus. They are poor and follow Jesus also because of the reformist nature of his cause. Religion, at that time, had drained people of their resources without possessing any spiritual value and this causes them to follow him.

Unlike the other miracles that result in metaphysical events such as curing the sick, keeping the faith, and repelling the advances of the devil, this miracle results in people’s hunger being satisfied. Despite this, it is no less important. In fact, it emphasizes the communal nature of Jesus’s mission. This is often obscured owing to the individualistic nature of many theological arguments that took shape in Early Christian movements.