1. the spiritual expressions of hinduism range from extreme asceticism to extreme sensuality, from the heights of personal devotion to a deity to the heights of abstract philosophy, from metaphysical proclamations of the oneness behind the material world to the worship of images representing a multiplicity of deities. explain these seeming dichotomies in hinduism. why are there so many variations in this tradition? what connects the elements of the tradition over time?

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