How does hinduism tackle good and bad? For instance Islam/Xtianity has satan/devil/ibliss that is evil or bad, dirty etc. God/Allah has an angel gone rogue in Western religions, how does the bad part workout in Hinduism/Buddhism or in Eastern religions.
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what goes comes around..jaisa karogey vaisa bharogay..social darwanism combined with the drive towards attainment of profundity through doing good deeds in life.
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Mods please move this to religion, my apologies. Never really noticed that world affairs was a subheading under "Politics & Religion". Thank you.
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Extrapolate. So there is no devil/evil, it is man’s actions?
Satan not required? Evil associated with makind and its actions? Would the two statements be true in eastern religions?
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I don't think "evil" is embodied in any particular being, or symbolized by a being as it is in Western religions (satan, waghera).
Not sure though.
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sure it is, "evil" is embodied as satan/shaitan. As far as "symbolizing by a being" angels are beings as well; satan was an angel gone rogue.
Speaking of beings, is God a being? hence physical?
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dont they incarnate into some "lesser being" (like an animal or lower caste) if they are being evil/bad in hinduism?
off topic: how many times can one incarnate in hinduism?
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His status was elevated to an angel but he wasn’t the angel. He was a Jinn.
18:50 Behold! We said to the angels, “Bow down to Adam”: They bowed down except Iblis. He was one of the Jinns, and he broke the Command of his Lord. Will ye then take him and his progeny as protectors rather than Me? And they are enemies to you! Evil would be the exchange for the wrong-doers!
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I don't think the Hindus believe in a devil. But then again, I have met lots of Hindus, and they each give me a different explanation of their religion. I have yet to figure out if they believe in 1 God or in many different ones, or 1 God in the form of many different faces.
I've never heard a Hindu talking about the Devil. Like as in the Devil Muslims,Christians, and Jews believe (although not worship).
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so what does the goddess 'kali' represents?
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AQ - that doesn't make sense - the verse is saying that God commanded the Angels to bow down - and one didn't who was Iblis. Which means that Iblis was an Angel. Unless there is some issue with the distinction between and Angel and a Jinn.
Is a Jinn a lower form of an Angel?
I have looked it up in my books, but the footnotes for that verse point to some other book that I don't have.
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Actually it is the Raawan who is the bad figure i think (with 8 heads)...
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So is that where they get “kali” as being bad???
And that’s why darker girls have a hard time in our society. Saalay Hindus.
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let’s carry on in a different thread 
shall we?
open up a thread and we will talk there.
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nevermind, I just googled it - found some things that make sense. So he was a Jinn.
Funny, in Islamic school they teach us that he was an Angel :o
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PCG: I think that is a Christian point of faith I guess.. but he really was a Jinn and it is categorically told to us in Quran.
According to ahaadeeth, Iblis(as is addressed in Quran meaning the cursed one) has a name too. Azaazeel
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Azaazeel...
Hm, any parallel to that in any other faiths? The name that is?
Is it like the Arabic version of the name Lucifer?