Story of Bali, Indonesia

The Vedic deities, in most cases personifications of natural personifications, had to give way to Brahman, the One, Unchanged, Absolute and Attribute less Being. If this absolute being is regarded as tile metaphysical background of all that exists, and of all individual living beings, then it is termed Atman. From ingenious theological speculations about the relationship between the self - atman- and tile divine universe - brahman - whereby tile question arises to what extent the soul of the individual has an existence district from Brahman, there developed the doctrine of tile transmigration of souls, samsara.

This forms the nucleus of the Hindu and Buddhist outlook on life and the world in general.

The excessive power of the priests, based upon a barren ritualism, eventually called forth strong forces of reaction. A religious crisis ensued, and many sects sprang up with their own conceptions of doctrine, which inter alia contested the meaning of tile sacrificial ritual and rejected the authority of the priests. Two of these developed into independent religions: Buddhism and Jainism. Buddhism has become one of the great world religions, and has exerted a strong influence upon Indonesia.

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