A3. While other religions depend on the higher being to dispense whatever he pleases on them whether it were greatness and nobility, fortune and fame, a good harvest or a child, right down to thunder and lighting, a burning bush or a plague, or even cancer and aids; the Buddha teaches us we have all been born every being possible throughout the millenniums by conditions: brahma gods and hell bounds, deva and animals, as results of good and bad deeds.  Endlessly we have existed and created more conditions and lived throughout infinite results, and we have returned for more. For forty-five years, he also taught us how to deliver ourselves from this never-ending carousel and find the ultimate happiness of Nirvana.