“Bapu Gandhi said, ‘All religions are true’. I just want to love God”, I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.” (Martel 76). Pi bumps into his Imam, Pandit and Priest where they criticize the faults of the opposing religion and force their own religion upon him. Out of frustration, Pi blurts out the famous Mahatma Gandhi (who was also a follower of the Hinduism religion) quote, which explains that every religion is true; it is just the way one understands and believes in it. I chose this quote because I can connect with Gandhi’s beliefs through what Pi is saying.
The Hindu religion itself has over hundreds of thousands of Gods, which divide into smaller beliefs/practices such as Sikh, Jainism etc. Pi’s lines also allows me to reflect how people in society have become so diverse in what they believe in that they blind themselves in their own beliefs/values disregarding the religious views of others. Ever since the day I was born, I was raised in a Hindu family following the morals and values that were passed on from my ancestors to my parents. As a young child, I always had a belief that that the Hindu religion is the superior of all religion since it is the third largest religion and has over one billion adherents (Religion Facts). I resided in Toronto in my early childhood where I interacted with people from different cultures and religion. I always looked at them in a different way comparing them to the values and morals that I was taught. This part of my life represents the first three stages of the heroic quest pattern. At the age of 6, I was introduced to a Pandit (defined as priest in India) who came from India to preach Hindu values and beliefs. One very important message that I had learned from him and stayed with me all these years is that everyone has his or her own beliefs and no religion is superior. This influenced my perception of other