Hinduism is the Myth of God Playing Hide-and-Seek with It...

Fundamental to the life and thought of India from the very earliest times is the great mythological theme of atma-ya;na-the act of "self-sacrifice" whereby God gives birth to the world, and whereby men, following the divine pattern, reintegrate themselves with God. The act by which the world is created is the same act by which it is consummated-the giving up of one's lifeas if the whole process of the universe were the type of game in which it is necessary to pass on the ball as soon as it is...