Hinduism

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Hindu beliefs in stages of life are more religious then the western philosophies of life stages. Hindu’s believe that the earliest stage of life begins around eight years old and last till around twenty, in this time period the person is “laying the religious foundation for life” (Malloy 72). Just about the same time as the ending of the Hindu’s first stage, the next begins with a prearranged marriage and ends with the “person fulfilling the demands of society by raising children” (Malloy 72). By the time a person is a grandparent the third stage begins by retiring from ordinary life in order to “spend time once again on religious matters” (Malloy 73). The fourth and final stage of a Hindu is the renunciate stage that begins after retirement in which the person is to live as a homeless nomad in order to “hasten mystical insight, to free oneself, of all attachments, to end rebirth, and to attain moksa” (Molloy 73). Throughout these stages in a Hindu’s life, it can be easily ...

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