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I started as a Christian, I discovered I was a Hindu and returned as a Buddhist without having ceased to be a Christian.
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The speaker describes religious identity as something that can grow rather than replace what came before. Christianity remains part of the self while Hinduism becomes a discovery and Buddhism becomes a return. The statement presents these traditions as connected stages of understanding, not as choices that require rejecting an earlier faith.
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