Religions of the East A few years ago many well-known people came to the East to study the Asian reli- gions. They were curious about how the Asian people put peace, joy, happiness, even (1) ______ into their lives in terms of religious. (1) ______ It is said that Hinduism is one of the (2) ______ Asian religions. Hinduism teaches (2) ______ that men are not really happy with pleasure, success, power or fiches; what they really want is to be alive and to be (3) ______ of life as deeply as possible. Man has to over- (3) ______ come any (4) ______ in his life. (4) ______ Hinduism recognizes four ways to achieve this goal: --by (5)______ , attained by questioning and thinking. (5) ______ --through love and adoration. --through forgetting oneself. --through (6) ______ that tame both one’s body and one’s soul. (6) ______ The Buddhist religion has over 165 million (7) ______ . Like the Hindus, Buddha (7) ______ believed that one becomes (8) ______ when one is able to overcome selfishness, sor- (8) ______ row, and sin and is able to (9) ______ self-control, humility, generosity, mercy and (9) ______ love for all people. All of the Eastern religions believe in (10) ______ , which means the soul goes (10) ______ from one body to another until it is able to be united with God.