Understanding Hinduism and Creation

A lot of people don't understand Hinduism,

and I don't know why. It's mainly Christians and Westerners.

Why don't they understand this?

If you are God, if you are the creator,

the creation has to be part of you.

It absolutely has to be.

You cannot be omnipresent, omnipotent, know everything and be everywhere,

and create something that isn't part of you.

We are not created in God's image, as Christians say.

Hinduism is closer to the truth than anything else,

I imagine, because Hinduism says this.

Hinduism says that the creation is the creator.

It's mainly Christians and Westerners who don't understand the ego,

and that the ego gives the illusion of separation.

We're not truly separate from what's going on around us.

Hinduism understands this.

We're not separate from what's going on around us.

We're not even separate from our physical environment.

Have you ever seen a person walk without a ground?

Have you ever seen a bird fly without a sky? No.

Our environment is absolutely crucial to what's going on here.

Hinduism knew this thousands of years ago.

And some people might say, well, that just sounds like spiritual,

interconnected nonsense. No, it's very scientific.

We didn't come into this world, we grew out of it,

like a leaf on a tree.

And the leaf might fall off the tree, and even disintegrate.

But the truth is, is that for that leaf,

the origin of that leaf was always the tree. And it can't change that fact.

And some people might say, well, now that that leaf is gone, it's

dead. And so it's not God.

But that's not true. That's not even scientific.

Science tells us that nothing is truly destroyed.

It just changes form.

And so ultimately, when the universe ends, in Hinduism, that leaf will ultimately go back to its original state as the Brahman.

It is very scientific. And Hindus knew this thousands of years ago.

And I think it's closer to the truth than anything else.