How was the Hindu religion to the other religions?
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Not sure what you mean, but Siddhartha (Buddha) was raised in the Hindu faith. A lot of the concepts of Hinduism have thus found their way into Buddhism.
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Not in particular Order: Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism. \n\nSome minor religions( in terms of followers) would be : Jainism, Sikhism (2 offshoots of Hinduism along with Buddhism), Shintoism.\n\nMy knowledge here isn't vast, so if somebody has more ideas, do add them!
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Yes, it gets as close as possible. \nGo to amazon.com and buy a book called "Chariots of God" \nNext, to know more on Hindu philosophy, go to blog of Harshad Joshi at agneya2.blogspot.com to know about Hinduism. It contains mysterious hymns from ancient Indian culture.
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Hinduism. It still has all the ancient features- shamans, mother goddess, annimism, sun worship..... \n\nIt is not an organised religion but an eternal one --Sanatan. it has developed all through civilisation and still keeps modifing , without negating its older versions. Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism all the paths are its branches.\n\nIt is monothesit religion which allows worship of god in the form of your choice. From formless Nirgun Brahm to local deities all are viewd as aspects of one devine gem.
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yes it should evry one respect the others religions...bcs all the religions came from ONE GOD
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well i am hindu. so i am always free to change my view.\n\n i worship god in abstract form and also believe in his so many other symbolic forms. a hindu never feels 100% out of place in any kind of relegious place or ceremony. so i can live with that. it will be only one of my beliefs cancelled.:)
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The eastern religions are Buddism and Hinduim.  \nJudaism, Christianity, and Islam are western religions.\n\nJust to make that clear :)
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Hinduism has many gods and goddess. Do your homework...
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Hindu's does not believes in converting other people to Hinduism because as per Hindu belief, whatever religion or belief you may belong to, we are all in the cycle of birth and death, and once our good deeds exceeds the bad deeds, we shall cease to exist anymore and be re-united with the supreme soul, call it God, Allah or Ishwar...anything.\n\nIsn't it a beautiful and selfless concept ?
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oh no, there were the canaanite religions.\nthey worshiped various gods like ishtar and baal. \nthey believed in the story of gilgamesh.\nthey built step-like temples. \nits not as popular as the egyptian religion, but they did have lots in common.
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Hinduism and Judaism looks like they generated around the same time.\nFor more info;\n\nhttp://ask.yahoo.com/20011106.html
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I changed my faith to Hinduism from what I was brought up with, after YEARS of studying all I could about various religions, the Bible, and other Scriptures, ancient and world history, archaeology, etc.  I also "studied" myself.  I prayed a lot and came to understood that Hinduism is the religion of my soul, the religion I was when I was a child, before I was told what to believe.
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There is a reasonable amount of eastern philosophy in London. I know of Buddhist monasaries around London (I used to go to the monastary in Wimbledon when I could) and judging by the number of people from the subcontinent, I would guess that hinduism is fairly common. You could be correct though, about some of the lesser known teligions.
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To put it simply, Hinduism has no defined beginning. The people who lived near the River Indus in N. India were the original Hindus, I suppose. When the Aryans invaded their home about 5000 years ago, they called the river the "Hindu River" and called the land "Hindustan." From there, the people that lived there were known as "Hindus" \n\nThere was no one founder.\n\nHinduism today is a life style based on the lives of these ancient "Hindus." Basically, it's a list of instructions to make you a perfect person. Discipline, kindness, certain rituals...anything that the ancient Hindus thought would make them batter people. \n\nHindus today practice things like yoga, and worship various gods and goddesses. Each Hindu, however, has a slightly different belief system. It's sort of like they take the things they find most important from some massive ancient list of "good things" and adopt them as a belief system. They believe that following this list of selected beliefs will bring them absolute peace and happiness (like nirvana).\n\nOh, and Hinduism became popular throughout Asia between 2500 and 1500 years ago, but it only became popular in the western world in the last 200 years. It was spread mostly by traders who traveled across Asia.
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Hinduism is the head. No one knows who "invented" hinduism. From there Buddha invented buddism and jainism sort of evolved from that.
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As a Hindu I believe that all religions are valid paths to God and that even those who may not belong to a religion, that they can also find the same ultimate truth hidden within the nature of their inner self. Hindus often point to various people in different religions who wrote about their experiences and show that they all, ultimately, had the same experiences of God and then explained to the best of their ability those experiences within the context of the religion they are in. Since God is so big and vast and infinite, no one person can ever know all of God and since each of us are unique and individuals and thus have different experiences in life, this leads us to approach and touch God differently.\n\nA few examples of those from different faiths discovering the same truth:\nSt. Terese of Liseaux in Christianity\nRumi in Islam\nRamakrishna in Hinduism\n\n"Truth is one, though humanity calls it by different names." Rig Veda.
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CONCEPT OF GOD IN HINDUISM\nby Dr. Zakir Naik\n \n1.   \nCommon Concept of God in Hinduism:\n \n Hinduism is commonly perceived as a polytheistic religion. Indeed, most Hindus would attest to this, by professing belief in multiple Gods. While some Hindus believe in the existence of three gods, some believe in thousands of gods, and some others in thirty three crore i.e. 330 million Gods. However, learned Hindus, who are well versed in their scriptures, insist that a Hindu should believe in and worship only one God.\n\nThe major difference between the Hindu and the Muslim perception of God is the common Hindus’ belief in the philosophy of Pantheism. Pantheism considers everything, living and non-living, to be Divine and Sacred. The common Hindu, therefore, considers everything as God. He considers the trees as God, the sun as God, the moon as God, the monkey as God, the snake as God and even human beings as manifestations of God!\n\nIslam, on the contrary, exhorts man to consider himself and his surroundings as examples of Divine Creation rather than as divinity itself. Muslims therefore believe that everything is God’s i.e. the word ‘God’ with an apostrophe ‘s’. In other words the Muslims believe that everything belongs to God. The trees belong to God, the sun belongs to God, the moon belongs to God, the monkey belongs to God, the snake belongs to God, the human beings belong to God and everything in this universe belongs to God.\n\nThus the major difference between the Hindu and the Muslim beliefs is the difference of the apostrophe ‘s’. The Hindu says everything is God. The Muslim says everything is God’s.\n \n \n2.   \n  \nConcept of God according to Hindu Scriptures:\n \n We can gain a better understanding of the concept of God in Hinduism by analysing Hindu scriptures. \n\nBHAGAVAD GITA\n\nThe most popular amongst all the Hindu scriptures is the Bhagavad Gita. \n\nConsider the following verse from the Gita:\n\n"Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures."\n                   [Bhagavad Gita 7:20]\n\nThe Gita states that people who are materialistic worship demigods i.e. ‘gods’ besides the True God.\n \n \nUPANISHADS:\n\nThe Upanishads are considered sacred scriptures by the Hindus. \n\nThe following verses from the Upanishads refer to the Concept of God:\n\n"Ekam evadvitiyam"\n"He is One only without a second."\n        [Chandogya Upanishad 6:2:1]1\n\n"Na casya kascij janita na cadhipah."\n"Of Him there are neither parents nor lord."\n         [Svetasvatara Upanishad 6:9]2\n\n"Na tasya pratima asti"\n"There is no likeness of Him."\n        [Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:19]3\n\nThe following verses from the Upanishad allude to the inability of man to imagine God in a particular form:\n\n"Na samdrse tisthati rupam asya, na caksusa pasyati kas canainam."\n\n"His form is not to be seen; no one sees Him with the eye."\n        [Svetasvatara Upanishad 4:20]4\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n1[The Principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan page 447 and 448]\n[Sacred Books of the East, volume 1 ‘The Upanishads part I’ page 93]\n\n2[The Principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan page 745]\n[Sacred Books of the East, volume 15, ‘The Upanishads part II’ page 263.]\n\n3[The Principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan page 736 & 737]\n[Sacred Books of the East, volume 15, ‘The Upanishads part II’ page no 253]\n\n4[The Principal Upanishad by S. Radhakrishnan page 737]\n[Sacred Books of the East, volume 15, ‘The Upanishads part II’ page no 253]\n \n \n \n  \n\nTHE VEDAS\nVedas are considered the most sacred of all the Hindu scriptures. There are four principal Vedas: Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samveda and Atharvaveda.\n\n\n \n Yajurveda\nThe follow