Meaning of life and Religion

This video session turned mostly around religion, we asked them several questions on this topic. I learned that the position of women in India was that women are not as important as men, men take every decision. Women leads the family but has to follow their husbands decisions, even though things are changing, men still relish on their domination.

Religion is strongly linked in Indians’ lives the 4 main religions in India are Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam.

In India, pupils learn about every other religion, so they can understand everybody’s differences, and by doing that, people are more tolerant.

The meaning of the red dot on women foreheads: It is named the tilaka, it describes the third eye of Shiva and it is placed on the 6^th chakra (named âjnâ-chakra) it underlines the spiritual dimension of the person wearing it. For women, it describes their marital status.

Women weren’t allowed to choose a career over their family, but now they can but it doesn’t depend only on her will.

In India, every morning is a blessing (when I heard that, I immediately thought about the song from the Monty Python’s in their movie The Life of Brian “: Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.

Their families are the most important in their lives, but when here in Europe we talk about families we only see the parents and the children, in India; a family is the grandparents, the parents, the children but also the relatives.

The students we talked with are all from different religious backgrounds, they have converted themselves to Christianity.