In plain words
experiencing — coming to terms with this in the present circumstance is itself a respite. Now, the thought that if we do good deeds we will attain a good, truly excellent birth — that thought is the very source of our enthusiasm and encouragement. It is only when we blend our life with these two notions that there is, for those who act on them, any room at all for ethics and rules. The power to carry out ethics and rules properly lies only in contentment, encouragement, and enthusiasm. As for religion — what is its beginning, and what its end? That is not something one can say. In just the same way, for the jīvas, one cannot say what their beginning is or what their end is. Not only that: according to the doctrine of the Hindu religion, the jīva is beginningless. What accounts for one's taking on the present birth is the pūrva-saṃskāra alone — never, the eternal Hindu religion keeps insisting, some whim of God's sport, or some outburst of divine wrath or grace; one must never suppose this birth was obtained that way.
One more point: among the puruṣārthas called Dharma, artha, kāma and Mokṣa, the one called Mokṣa is described by many religions in many different ways. But merely because some truth or doctrine found in other religions is also present within Hinduism, it is impossible to conclude that the two religions are therefore identical. A few doctrines may indeed appear across all religions; those particular points may coincide, but not all their doctrines coincide in the same way. Being both the origin and beginningless, Hinduism surpasses all the rest. It is from Hinduism alone that the other religions may well have drawn certain of their doctrines. Those within other faiths may, according to their own conditioning, have some truth within Hinduism dawn upon them, or they may simply accept that this or that teaching of it is good. But that alone does not make it possible to say that faith and this faith are one and the same. It is only in recognizing this truth that the Hindu tradition has continued on its course.