Task 3

 Religion And Spiritual Belief Evidences 

I went to Hindu temple which is located in Mt Albert with my friend. He showed me around the temple. Here it is:

here is the car park place:

and here it is the booklet that similar to bible....

This is the way that they are doing worship:

This is called Ladoo as known the most popular dessert in India. The taste is very sweet that made out of flour, butter,egg,cream and condense milk. you only allow to eat two or three per day otherwise it will be irritate your stomach and it is obvious you will gain weight. I like it but it was too sweet for me.

Reflective writing

For task 3 is bout Spiritual belief which made me really enjoyable and cheerful as I can observe the general knowledge in various about religions.  It is obvious that all the religion guide people trustworthy and understand with respect each other. First  I Wanted to research about Christian which is my best friend's religion, but at that time she was gone oversea. Alternatively, I decide to research Hinduism religion instead of Christianity.


 I have chosen this religion , because my workmate Abhi whose religion is Hinduism and he always explain his rich cultural to me, so it will be easier to choose this religion for my topic. My peer is such a religious person as he strongly believe and tough god follower. He goes to temple regularly and never breaks religion's rules . This is the only reason that make me very hard to eat lunch with him, because he is from India and he does not eat beef, pork, egg and some days of the months he does not eat meat  at all or something contain salt at all beside vegetable and plain yoghurt. This is called fasting. On that day they are not going to eat anything for full day, because they doing for some requirement particular lord.The reason for fasting on a day is usually traced back to a particular incident in one of the Hindu or folk tradition. There are numerous myths associated with a particular fast. The stories vary from region to region and from community to community. 

I have recorded the conservation between Abhi and I as an evidence. During the interview , we kept laughing a lot. Therefore, i had constantly recorded until we 

satisfied  with the video. For this research, it leaded me to go to the temple, walked around took some nice pictures and talked to other people that came from India.  i found out a bit strange and nervous when i first step in to the temple, forty or fifty pairs of eyes was astonishing stared at me , because i was the only Asian girl attended to the worship as it is hardly any other nationalities join this temple before. It was so ridiculous for the eating part. Honestly, i am fully a meat eater as I eat less amount of vegetable. So i had to eat vegetarian food at the temple. My friend gave me a piece of Samosa and some sweet as it was so delicious, but i couldn't eat much as their dessert too sweet which is called Ladoo(round yellow ball that made out of flour, egg and condense milk .

Whenever I looked at the video, it made me really disappointed as I spoke not fluent enough not like my partner does. I was so panic and shy at the same time. My words kept repeating again and again with the grammar mistakes. Although I prepared the question, the conservation was not smooth that I had wished. i enjoyed every part of my research. Speaking in front of camera is not easy as I though. Next time I have to make sure my speaking will improve better than this.I found this task is the most interesting topic all among other topics, because it allows me to know more about other nationality's religion and how this religion guide people in a good way. Apparently I found that Hinduism is similar to Buddhism, we have the same pray , but we can  eat everything that we want and we don't need to do fasting. I am looking forward to do next task and hoping that i build up more confident to talk.

Video between me and Abhi

please click this link to follow my interview between me and Abhinav Gupta.
Hinduism is the world's third largest religion . some of this religion follower do not allow to eat beef, pork and even egg. It is depending on people whose cast they are follow. Hinduism has no single founder, no single scripture, and no commonly agreed set of teachings. 

Below is some link about my research: 

http://hinduismfacts.org/fasting-in-hinduism/

http://www.hindu-blog.com/2008/02/somvar-vrat-monday-fasting-dedicated-to.html

http://1stholistic.com/prayer/hindu/hol_hindu-worship.htm 

http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/religionet/er/hinduism/htime.htm 

If you want to find out more about Hinduism , you can get books from the library. i found one book that made me interested in .

By Thomas Hopkins 

it was called " Hindu religious tradition". Part of the Religious Life of Man series, this book provides a comprehensive chronological survey of development of Hinduism from the Indus civilization to the present in seven chapters. Also includes an outline of the development of Vedic writings, and a schematic diagram of this religious tradition of India

or " Am i a Hindu" Hinduism primer

By Ed Viswanathan

This is another book in the question-and-answer format between father and son. Its title - Am I A Hindu? - was the vital question its author was chasing before finally deciding to write this primer in 1988, and publish it with his own money. It is now a famous book on Hinduism basics that answers all your fundamental questions, including such questions as "Why do Hindu women wear a red dot on their forehead?" and so on...