About the sources of Hinduism...?
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animism is still very much part of hinduism. we believe god is present everywhere. rishi kanad declared everying is made of atoms(kana). it also accepted that whole world is made of 5 elements (earth,water,fire,air and space). and \nevery element is a form of god.\n\ni do not know about Tantric rituals as such. but often a milder form of it is still practiced. even on internet. you will find tantrik raksha kavatch sold on line. there are yntras representing god and mantras to recite revering it in that form. \n\nmostly these pooja are more related with mother Kali or Kal Bhairav(a form of shiva, time personified). \n\n some tantrik sects still do exist. and I would not be surprised if there are some of them still following full fledged tantric rituals. some of these sects were not respected that much, you know why i guess. but people still believe in their powers. and were too afraid of them to criticize at their face. still are. \n\nbuddhist also had a tantric sect and goddess Tara was the chief goddess.\n\nshamans are still out there. mostly in tribal areas or villages but even in big cities tantrik have a good buissness. though most of them are frauds. even muslim shamans are present.\n\n\n\nregarding Ali's post:\n\nwell dear we do not need muslim scholar to tell what you are saying. we already know it. it is a long established fact; for some 3000 years now . i am surprised that only one muslim scholar was able to find that out! man! that is slow.
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I know that where I live in the Silicon Valley of California there's a lot of Hindus from India who work in the high tech industry. probably more than 60% of their restaurants are strictly vegetarian. I think it may depend also on what sect of Hinduism is most prominent in the specific region of India they come from.
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I believe Hinduism is true because a lot of it makes sense to me. \n\nBut even if it weren't I would still embrace it for its nonviolence, compassion, and tolerance.
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Hinduism (real name Sanatan Dharma or eternal religion) started with the humanity...it is the oldest and have all in its philosophy all what Pagans, christians, muslims, buddhists have...and more than that is its Philosophy which deals with the mysteries of Universe, life, death and God
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Not only I like Hinduism but love it.I feel great about it.\nIlove their spiritual values.U can know their way of life only from them.U will have to be very obsertavative to know \nabout real HINDUISM.
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Well i seriously  would have to argue the whole hinduism buddhism thing. But none the less... Christains spread there relegeon not only because  they feel the need to share the truth with people. but also scripture teachs that if you love Christ you will feed his sheep which is to say share his word with those who do not know him.I pray someday you too will come to know Jesus. May God bless you
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Hinduism.  Try www.wikipedia.com for more info.
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Deities/sons of deities believed to be products of virgin births:\nJesus Christ (Christian)\nLord Krishna (Hindu)\nLord Buddha (Buddhist)\nAhura Mazda (Zoroastrianism)\nQuetzalcoatl (Aztec/Mesoamerican)\nHorus-Re (also spelled Horus) (Ancient Egyptian)\n\nHope this is helpful!  :-)\n----\nIn regards to rian30's post,\n'One tradition states that Krishna was her (Devaki's) eighth child. Another states that it was a virgin birth: "In the context of myth and religion, the virgin birth is applied to any miraculous conception and birth. In this sense, whether the mother is technically a virgin is of secondary importance to the fact that she conceives and gives birth by some means other than the ordinary....the divine Vishnu himself descended into the womb of Devaki and was born as her son Krishna."'\nFrom:\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jckr1.htm\nSo I supoose there are two versions of Krishna's birth.
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1)Hinduism--Vedas, Baghavita(sp.), Upanishads Piranhas.\n\n 2)Zoroastrianism--Zend Avesta.\n\n 3)Judaism--Torah.\n\n 4)Buddhism--Tipakata\n\n 5)Chinese religion(Both Confucian & Taoist)--I Ching.\n\n 6) Christianity--Bible\n\n 7) Mandeanism--Book about St. John the Baptist(can't remember what it is called).\n\n 8)Islam--the Koran.\n\n 9) Sikhism--Guru Granth Sahib\n\n 10)Bahai--Kairatai(sp.)
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There are sevral Things abt Hindu religion. Actually its worlds third most popular religion in the world. They Beleive in universal soul and even though they beleive in many gods but still they think that there is one god in the world who has made this world and who is the creator,preserver and destroyer.They believ there is one religion in the world, A religion fill with fill,respect and care.\nIt beleives that the soul passes through a cycle of successive lives and its next incarnation is always dependent on how the previous life was lived.\n\nSo if you behave badly in this life, your next incarnation is likely to be more unpleasant than your current one—you reap what you sow.\n\nThe Hindu tradition encourages Hindus to seek spiritual and moral truth wherever it might be found, while acknowledging that no creed can contain such truth in its fullness and that each individual must realize this truth through his or her own systematic effort. Our experience, our reason, and our dialogue with others—especially with enlightened individuals—provide various means of testing our understanding of spiritual and moral truth. And Hindu scripture, based on the insights of Hindu sages and seers, serves primarily as a guidebook. But ultimately truth comes to us through direct consciousness of the divine or the ultimate reality.\n \nAnother great aspect of Hinduism is that it has promoted spirituality and recommended restraint in becoming overly materialistic. The knowledge gained by learned people, has been used for general good of the public (such as Ayurveda, Yoga etc). I believe, no other religion or religious literature has such copious mix of spiritualism and knowledge related to daily life applications.\n\nI hope this prove usefull, If You need any more question abt it or want to be more specifc than ask someone who is hindu or who knows abt it not just anyone who actually doesnt know at all but still make it a pleasure to have rude comments\n\nP.S. The answerer 16 Hindu's God is not dead and When You Say God that simply means eternity.Think Before you Comment on something u dont know
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Perhaps you could start here and look for suggestions:\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism.htm\nhttp://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/hinduism.html\nhttp://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_10003.html
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Hinduism does not follow any particular book, there is no book equivalent to the christian  bible or the islamic koran. But the bhagvadgita is a holy book, u should maybe read that but it isnt really about hinduism...But read it anyway, its a good thing to read and u will start to get an idea abt hinduism.
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Yes Hinduism.  It still has early elements of Sun worship, mother goddess worship, nature worship even shamans surviving in its folds. It is a tradition which never rejects older theories. But at the same time it is progressive. \n\nNot to forget that Hindus never tried to fix a date and limit the origin of life in time period of a few thosand years ever. It always been aware  of its tradition as being very ancient. Thats because of its continuity.\n\nThere have been many recent archeological discoveries which only indicate the Hindu civilisation is much older that previous scholars wanted to believe. \n\nMostly they were western researchers who tried to fit Harrapa and vedic tradition in Biblic time line. But discoveries like \n\n1. A City Dating Back to 7500 BC, Krishna's city Dwarka \n\n 2. Satelite discovery of disappeared River Saraswati\n\n 3. Satellite Photos of the Ancient (17,50,000 years )\nBridge Between Ramesvaram and Sri Lanka, mentioned in Ramayana and said to be constructed by his army.\n\n4. A 40,000 Year Old Cave Painting South of New Delhi,\n\n5. Ancient City Found Off the Coast of Mamallapuram, \n\ntake it to very long back.\n\nDwarka:\n"Samples collected include artefacts, wood pieces, pottery materials, hearth pieces, animal bones. They were sent to Manipur University, Oxford University, London, Institute of Earth Sciences, Hanover, Germany for analysis and dating. The results were astonishing. It was found beyond doubt that the samples belonged to a period going upto7800 years (BP) Before Present !"\n\nThough Archeologiccal research is a costly affair and heavy population + Loads of sedimentation in Indian basins does not help either. Harrappa itself has 7 layers-Minimum. It wasnt possible to dig more and see if there were still more layers burried under. But other excavations around India definitely enough to prove that it was a widely spread civilisation and not a localised one.\n\nDiscovery of SARASWATI again by NASA and researches in south India also prove that ARYAN Immigration theory is fake:\n\n"strong evidence that the Neolithic people of Tamil Nadu and the Indus Valley people "shared the same language, which can only be Dravidian and not Indo-Aryan." He added that before this discovery, the southernmost occurrence of the Indus script was at Daimabad, Maharashtra on the Pravara River in the Godavari Valley."\nhttp://www.hindu.com/2006/05/01/stories/2006050112670100.htm\n\nCheck out the sources given below for details and images of some of discoveries.
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One ...there is no modern Hinduism. Two there is no difference between any religion and Hinduism.  Hinduism is the mother of all religions.  Bhakti yoga of hinduism can be found in Christians, Karma Yoga is Muslims and Sankhya Philosophy in Buddhism.\n\nQuantum physics can be better understood by Tantra !\n\nBudhism is an off-shoot of Hinduism...there is nothing new which Hindus did not know!\n\nAnd yes tell all that Hindus do believe in One God with different manifestation, as liked by individual as per his mental status.\n\nAnd yes we do not reject any belief...we accept all !!
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your question is answered to an extent by PUMA. \n\nthere are questions about hinduism too. Some of your answerers to this question have also been asking about it.\n\nOften they use quite insulting things or just ignorant like that seeker above. \n\nhinduism is a collection of various kind of philosophies. It is neither as well defined doctrine as christianity nor as politically determined as islam.tolerance is its fundamental quality. The result is that askers do not get much furl to go on.\n\n hinduism is around since the first harrapan civilization came up. its roots go even beyond it. Such an old tradition is more like a grandpa. let the children argue and fight. grandpa has got more matured for that.\n\nRegarding seeker's post:\n\nwell I usually try to use nice language but... the seeker above is an idiot.\n\nhindus are not only free to ask questions, they are free to choose doctrines or parts of it. open debates were encouraged even in vedic times. if i believe in god i am hindu. if i do not even them i am hindu. \n\nnobody is ever condemn to hell and hindus never percecuted anybody for theiur religious beliefs. buddhism, jainism , sikhism all are off shoots of himnduism. it is always ready to accept new theories which have logical proofs. it never challanged any scientific theory.\n\nAnd no cow is not a god.
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Hinduism is very diverse and has many different groups. It is not organized into a central body, thus there are millions of leaders in Hinduism. Every individual Math, Ashram, Temple, etc has its own leaders. Hinduism isn't concerned about 'power' or 'authority'.
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Lots. A whole lot. Very very many. Hinduism alone recognizes a few million--they may actually have one of the more accurate numbers, as Hinduism recognizes gods of other religions as well.