The Tale of Two Mindsets - Power of the Hindu Good News

The Hindu God News should be shared (http://hindugoodnews.com) because the mindset that it brings can be life-changing.

Here are some thoughts contrasting the Hindu Good News with the Christian Good News.

Mindset and locus of control:

Locus of control refers to the extent to which individuals believe they can control events affecting them.  A person's "locus" is conceptualized as either internal (the person believes they can control their life) or external (meaning they believe their decisions and life are controlled by environmental factors which they cannot influence, or by chance or fate).  Individuals with a strong internal locus of control believe events in their life derive primarily from their own actions: for example, when receiving test results, people with an internal locus of control tend to praise or blame themselves and their abilities. People with strong external locus of control tend to express helplessness and blame external factors such as the country or the company.

Let us say that you have two choices in mindsets:

(1) Believe that you are a limited human being, a sinner.  That you cannot help yourself out of this sinful existence without the help of an external savior.

(2) Believe that you are an unlimited being as is everyone else around you.  The physical form and material endowments or lack of them do not define who you are.  There is no separate external savior.   As the unlimited being, you are the savior, the architect of your life.

What locus of control do each of these mindsets lead to?

Which mindset is likely to be enable one to move from an external to internal locus of control?

Which mindset is likely to be enable one to move from an internal to external locus of control?

Let us say that you have two choices in mindsets:

(1) Believe that you are a limited being, a sinner.  Sinful actions are committed because of a petty mindset that we are limited and innately sinful beings with plenty of shortages in life, a mindset of poverty.  Given that we are inherently limited and sinful, we cannot help doing sinful things.  That an external power will absolve you of all your sins in this life in exchange for believing that the external power has unlimited saving power.  

(2) Believe that everyone bears consequences to their sinful actions.  Recognizing that we are unlimited beings - non-separate from each other, the world, and the ultimate divine - is the way to avoid petty sins in life, is the way to overcome a mindset of poverty and replace it with a mindset of plentifulness and generosity, of compassion and forgiving nature with an understanding that others have petty nature with their mindsets of limited helpless beings.

Which mindset is likely to lead to a life of deliberate sin?  

Which mindset is likely to lead to compassion, caring, and forgiving nature?