The main difference between the Hinduism and Buddhism is their view about the soul, atman in Hinduism, the highers self, whereas traditional Buddhism calls it unatman or no soul, meaning that there is no soul in the place called duka, unaligned from the Divine centre, but only the ego that is experiencing the suffering of being out of balance. In the essence both religions are in agreement only there is confusion about the terms. The Hindus call the Atman as the ultimate manifestation of the Divine Self and that all being is brought to life by it with humans having the consciousness and awareness of it, with millions of gods representing different states of existence.

The Buddhists deny the existence of the soul in the place called duka, often translated as suffering, since the whole metaphor is referring to the ego formed away from the centre of the Divine Being where the actual soul or Atman resides. Hence Buddhists were more concerned how to get back and stay in the golden middle path of balance rather than about the rhetoric if there is a soul of gods/God, meaning that duka is the place of their own delusions and creation.