What Salvation Really Is

Theological and rational concepts of salvation

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All religions have salvation as their goal for their followers. The human being as the creation of God should seek and attain salvation (liberation or deliverance). As Radhakrishnan, the Indian philosopher says in his book, An Idealist View of Life: “It is the moksha of the Hindus, the nirvana of the Buddhists, the kingdom of heaven of Christians.” And: “It is a supreme status of being in which the individual knows himself to be superior to time, to birth and death.”

According to the Indian mystic, Sadhguru, “Freedom- mukti or moksha- is seen as the natural longing in every human being and our ultimate destination.” The Sanskrit words moksha, nirvana, and mukti mean scriptural salvation. Hindu thinkers claim that it is the end of the human quest.

For the human being, salvation is the end of his suffering in his life and his past sin and the beginning of the life of infinite joy in the spiritual world. It means union of his soul or energy with the universal soul (called God), existence, universal consciousness or source, nature or energy, and so on or eternally blissful divine life in the heaven or the spiritual world of God.

But now more people are questioning and not admitting the concept of the religious or theological salvation: Has it any…