Believing that life is a constant process of lessons to learn, Hindus seek understanding that will give them the eyes and heart to see clearly. They search for experiences that will lead them from the unreal to the real, from the temporal to the eternal, from that which appears to be false toward that which is ultimately true. The practices of Hinduism revolve around creating possibilities through which a person slowly, slowly awakens.
— Priya Hemenway, Hindu Gods