Identity, individuality

[Aupmanyav]

But, in the end, both yours and mine are faith statements.

They are not. My belief is based on the finding of science that at the time of 'inflation', the universe contained plasma at high pressure and temperature. Of course, the view is flexible. It can change according to what science finds.
You have a fixed belief. God clicking his fingers for no reason and us, as your book describes it.

 

[Aupmanyav]

He said:
"People hanker after individuality, thinking that it will escape death. That is why we fear death.."

Aupmanyav sticks to what he said. It is not only at the 75 years of age that we start thinking about death. (I am 83+)
We think about it even when we are young. Of pleasure and displeasure of God. Of riches in heaven and torture in God's heaven if we go against what our book or prophet says.