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Hinduism or Sanatana Dharma (Eternal Path) is the oldest religion and it originated in the Indian subcontinent (current day India-Pakistan-Bangladesh-Afghanistan-Nepal-Bhutan). It is a sum total of various Indic philosophies and ways of life of the people in the Indian subcontinent. Even though the cultural values vary among different traditions within Hinduism, the common threads of four values binds all the traditions together:
Dharma: The law of the cosmos/true path. On an individual level, one’s personal duty.
Karma: Action (Papa and Punya)
Sansara: Cycle of life (birth-death-rebirth)
Moksha: Liberation of the soul (Atma) from Sansara (the cycle of life and death)
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