Curiously, the more the core beliefs of Hinduism left almost all decisions to the individual—after all, even atheists could technically be Hindu—the more many people found their understanding to be hazy and undefined. Instead of seeing the undefined as liberty, we had begun to see it as faith unresolved and unsubstantial. It was almost like we were asking for the responsibility of spiritual choice to be taken away from us, or at least not left to us to this vague extent.
