ABSTRACT
Hinduism and Judaism have given rise to humanity's most universal religions: Buddhism with its various cults, from the Chan to Tantrism, and then Jainism came from Hinduism. And from the second came Christianity and its churches, Islam and its Shia and Sunni traditions and then the mystical rise of Sufism. Hinduism and Judaism represent, therefore, two radically different conceptions of the world but their points of contact deserve to be looked into to discover what they have in common. Hindu reality is infinitely more complex. It is pertinent to remember that whatever one's religion or ideology, a Westerner must have spent years in an ashram to understand Hinduism. Hinduism can reasonably be considered the most successful attempt at interrogation into the meaning of the world and human life, inseparable from a transcendental reality. The importance of the erotic in both Judaism and Hinduism deserves a little more attention.
