The document discusses the spiritual journeys of Abraham and Prince Siddhartha in ancient times in the East. It describes how Abraham and his tribe journeyed west from Ur in search of the promised land, while Prince Siddhartha left his family and wealth to join forest ashrams of sages, as was the cultural tradition in ancient India. The document contrasts their journeys, noting that Abraham's was to find land for his tribe, while Siddhartha's individual journey in the tradition of Indian sages was for spiritual knowledge.

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3. In the East, in that time frame of Patriarch Abraham, Hinduism
existed in historic India. When Abraham and his tribal family
set out on their spiritual journey west from City of Ur, in search
of the promised land, tribes of so called Indo-Europeans known
as the Arya people had already entered North India for centuries
earlier through the mountains pass in the Western border of
historic India. These Arya people created kingdoms dominating
over the native tribes they found living in India.
Topic: Life As A
Spiritual Journey
_A Cultural Perspective
East
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4. Prince Siddhartha Journey to Forest For Spiritual Knowledge
Thus a millennium past, and another 5 centuries to about 500 BC,
when Prince Sidhartha existed in one such princely Saka kingdom
in the Himalayas near the border of modern India and Nepal.
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Spiritual Journey
_A Cultural Perspective
East
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5. Topic: Life As A
Spiritual Journey
_A Cultural Perspective
East
Unlike the journey of Abraham in search of the promised land
for his tribal family, in the tradition of the ancient sages
of historic India, Prince Siddartha left his family
and his inherited princely life of wealth and power. In fact,
such forest ashrams of respected sages were
part of that ancient cultural tradition centuries
before and since to now.
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12. So that is the spiritual journey of the east. It was most often an
individual one. Today sometimes it is as a small group, to the
forest or along the Himalayas where spiritual journeys are made
to holi places along rivers, mountains and sometime to sea.
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_A Cultural Perspective
East
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