I have a question for everyone (salvation, hell, atheist, catholic)

[elina]

Hi everyone!
My name's Elina and i'm from Belgium. I'm a non-active roman catholic.
I have a favour to ask from all of you.
I'm working on a project for school. i'm trying to gather as many opinions on religion as possible, and i was hoping that you guys would want to help me by sending me your views on life and religion. (my e-mail is elinagatto@gmail.com) anything you have to say will do. if you send me something, please add your country and your religion, and if you want to also your name and age. thanks in advance!
greets and kisses
Elina

[Ody]

Welcome to RF i'll help as best as i can, but why post this on the jainism forum?

[Buttercup]

I would be happy to help but do you have specific questions that you want answered? I would prefer to post answers on here. Could you please give a bit more detail on what you need for your report?

[finalfrogo]

Will opinions really be beneficial to your project?

[qwert18]

how are you verifying where the opinions are coming from?

[qwert18]

i'll try to help if i can. what are your questions?

[Aupmanyav]

Wish you had a few questions to begin with. However, here is my view of the problem:

I am an atheist hindu, a strict advaitist and a Brahmavadi. There is no death for me, no atma, no rebirth, only recycling, so no heaven or hell. Karma to me is responsibilty to my society in particular and to nature in general, karma does not transfer to anything, not even something as hazily explained as Buddhist karma. Percieved is illusion. Nirvana, nibbana, moksha, deliverance, salvation, realization is understanding the world in this way.

The only problem in my theory is the nature of Brahman, the first statement in Badarayana's Brahma Sutra - 'Athato Brahma Jignasa' (This, then, the enquiry into Brahman). Is it one great quantum field constituting the whole universe, or how many forces act in the universe, or there are nine or twenty-seven strings, how many dimensions are there at the atomic level (I do understand about four in our level of the world), are there multiple universes, what existed before the big-bang and where is it going to lead the universe? The answers to these questions are not available now, rather than jump to a conclusion, I wait. Perhaps the answers would be avaialble in my life-time, or perhaps not. So what (Tatah kim?)? This is the best that can be guessed at the moment.