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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