What are some of the beliefs of the Hindu religion?
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Hindus believe in a variety of things, such that it is hard to classify Hindu beliefs.  But in general, Hindus believe that there is one God, but that this One God has made Himself/Herself known in many ways, through various forms and names.\nGod is believed to be in all things, although not the same as material objects.  He is IN all, but he is not ALL.  (so it's not really pantheism).\n\nSince God is in all, this is why many Hindus believe that God can be worshiped by means of murtis, or images.  God is present within the image, though not the same as the image itself.\n\nHindus believe in reincarnation, and that salvation from the cycle of rebirths (samsara) is possible.  There are many paths to salvation in Hinduism.  There is the path of knowledge, where one learns the scriptures and the philosophy as a means to breaking free from the constraints of human existence.  There is the path of devotion, which is just living a life of devotion to God, where one considers God as his close companion and friend.\nThere is a path of work, where one offers all his actions to God.  He does what is right, works hard, and is not himself attached to the results.  In other words, he does not work just to gain money or prestige, but only for the sake of following God.\nThere are also methods such as meditation, and yoga and other spiritual practices.
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The Hindu religion is base on:\n\nUpanishads.\n\nVedas.\n\n............\n\nThey have three Main God, that were created by God.\n\nShiva.\nVishnu.\nBrahma.\n\nThey have 1001 name for their Gods.\n\nGreek and Romans also had many Gods.\n\nVishnu is a preserver of universe.\nShiva is a destructer of Evil and protector of good.\nBrahma is a Creator of this earth and things in it.\n\nAll other gods are just the Avatar or reincarnation of mainly Vishnu or Shiva.\n\nThe deference between the Christianity and the Hindu is, in your religion God sends his only son, to earth. The Hindu believe that from time to time Vishnu or Shiva were send to this earth or they decided to visit the earth to create order of a kind. They took the shape or form or Avatar of Rama(Vishnu) or Krishna(Shiva). These are the two main Avatar of the the God.\n\nIf you ask any Hindu he may have slightly different twist on the events. But most will have same gereral info, along the above line of thinking and some will disagree completely.\n**************************************************************\nMy answer is based on my interpretation of the Q?, If you did not get the Q? answered please do re-phase it and I will try and answer it or others will.\n******************************************************************\nThis is for the people who have grilled you over, for your, English.\n\nMost of the people who write poor English, are attempting to write a foreign language for the first time. They are like baby learning to speak, but they have to write in this forum, so we should give them credit for trying. \n\nOnly way you can learn and master the language is to try, so please do not give up.\n\nBy all means correct them, instruct them, but do not discourage them with harsh comments.\n\nExample: (this was one of the "q?" from a second grader).\n\nMy 'grandpa' told me that does'nt disclose u r secret with any females why? please give me explanation for it\n\nYou should have broken this up in to small manageable sentences.\n\nMy 'grandpa' told me that, do not disclose your secret to any female. Can you please explain me why?\n\nDo you understand it batter? First thing I did was to type this in word. In word you can check spellings and grammar. Then I took it to the answer block.\n\nOn the top right corner, there is a "Check spelling" you can use that too, but it will not correct grammar.
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It is .\n\nAccording to Hindu doctrine, The world is called Maya. An illusion.\n\nWhen the soul understands it and is able to see beyond Maya it joins God. Becuase only one thing which exists for real is God.\n\nI guess You do not know what you said but you pointed to a basic belief of Hinduism.
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Religion is the relationship between me and myself......\n(me and god) (atman and paramatman,as in hinduism)(son and The father, as in bible) so on......\n\nThe goal of all religions is unity......\n\nAdvita vedanta(hindu school of thought) says \n\n"tat tvam asi" ( I am He)\n\nThe Bible says  (I and my Father are the same/one ???)\n\nso on......\n\nThe other way I look at it, is .....\n\nReligions were created so as to answer mankinds greatest questions\n\nwho am I ???? and why am I here.......\n\nso I think religion is a process of understanding what I am.....\n\nanother way is ,\n\nThe world we see around us is all relative, so we cant absolutely understand anything coz everything is relative.........\n\nIf we find something absolute, then we can define everything else......\n\nso religion is search for an absolute.( a point of reference..which is perfect applies to all conditions and time frames...or any frame of reference)....\n\nThe enquiry in vedanta(its a school of thought) is......\n\n"By knowing which everything can be known"\n\n\nthat is religion........
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I believe that Hinduism is a very ancient religion, that has some very philosophical thoughts put into its religion. I am speaking from the perspective as a Hindu myself. Some of the traditions that we have, are just so interesting, that i always want to know more abotu it. all of the religious occasions that we have, has so much ancient background into it, that it really amazes me. I am really proud of who i am, and for what i represent, cause honestly, the religion of Hinduism is really interesting to learn or know more about...i was born in America, but i taught myself alot about Hinduism and was quite amazed.
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jbs, get lost if you don't have anything constructive to say.\n\nJainism is an offshoot of Hinduism. Its followers follow the teachings of Lord Mahavira. Jain beliefs are very similar to Hindu beliefs, and the two religions have very much in common. Jains, like Hindus, believe very strongly in ahimsa [nonviolence], self control, and the sacred nature of all life. They also share the Hindu belief that God is the eternal, the universe, called Brahman by the Hindus [ not sure if the Jains also call it Brahman] and that the human soul is also part of that entity.\n\nJains are vegetarian because of their belief in ahimsa and that life is sacred. Sometimes very religious Jains cover their mouths with a cloth when outside to avoid allowing bacteria into their mouths because they want to prevent the death of the bacteria.
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HInduism. it existed before romans or greeks or even christanity.
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Hinduism believes in evolution.  They say we reach human stage after passing through 840 million species. They go farther that It is actually Mental evolution which is still taking place in human....the next species being the divine man
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Hindu is a religion in India among majority people. Hindus believe in worship of God's an godes's idols for which they have made or established a system oftemple where these idols are being placed by doing some religious ceremony called Murti Sthapan. This place is called Temple MAndir in Hindi which is a centere of most religious activities and celebrations and also a part of society.
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Your perception of God is your own.\n\nAs a Hindu I believe that there is one God, but that God is so vast and large that we each individually experience and approach God differently (thus lots of different religions). That all will discover the same ultimate truth in any religion because it dwells within our inner self (and every religion ultimately takes the practictioner to look within). Thus all religions are valid paths. "Truth is one, though humanity calls it by different names." Rig Veda\nAs a Hindu I believe that God always listens to us regardless of what name we call God by that whatever form we meditate upon God, God will always come to us. "What I am is utterly beyond your minds ability to fully comprehend, thus call me by whatever name and worship me and meditate upon me in whatever form. I promise that by whatever name you call upon me I shall hear you and by whatever form you worship me I shall come to you." Tripura Rahasya. \nUltimate God is beyond name and form, and yet manifested the entire cosmos into existences and thereby took form, too. \nHindus believe that when one dies our consciousness projects the experience we will have. Thus, when we die it is our consciousness that creates the temporary heaven we go to. If we have expected heaven to be a place where we gather with our ancestors...then our consciousness will project a heaven with our ancestors and God will take on the form of ancestors to be with us. If we expect a heaven with, say, Jesus, then our consciousness will project a heaven and God will take the form of Jesus. Heaven is just temporary and our karma (actions) and desires will lead us back to samsara (the cycle of birth, death, rebirth) and we will reincarnate. The ultimate goal of a Hindu is moksha or liberation of samsara and union with God completely. They often use the example of an ocean. The water evaporates and forms clouds, the clouds get so heavy that eventually the water falls in the form of rain. The rain forms streams and the streams come together and form rivers. The rivers ultimately merge back into the ocean. God is the ocean and we are the droplets of water. The rivers and streams are just religions and paths back to God.\n\nAnd that is what I believe, as a Hindu.
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Yes Hinduism believes there are many planets which have life somewhere lower and somewhere higher than earth.\n\nHinduism also believes there are many Universes...our is not the only one\n\nIn Bhagvat and Yoga Vashishta they explain other planets and universe...in Bhagavat when Brahmaa goes to see little Krishna...he sees there are hundereds of Brahmaas each one chief creator of his universe are waiting to see krishna\n\nA year before i saw on Discovery Channel a programme about some temples (in south America) which are 1000s of years old and are geometrically at exact ratio distance as Sun and other planets. The local people insist aliens came and made those temples.  Scientifically it is not possible to make such exact replica of solar system, without seeing it from the sky...and 1000s of years ago this was scientifically not possible...hence we have to believe the locals
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sunamwal hinduism was not started by manusmriti !! this is entirely wrong.\n\nAs per hindu philosophy, any one who believe in god, and himself and who is ever searching for Truth is a Hindu.\n\nSo any one searching for Truth is a hindu in broader terms.\n\nAs far as ritual part of hinduism is concerned, there are 100s of different cults going on in India, and it is not necessary that they represent true hinduism.\n\nThe only authentic scriptures of hinduism are vedas, upanishadas and Gita (which is a gist of all upanishadas).\n\n   Hinduism can not be bound into narrow definitions.  So anyone on the path of Truth, anyone who is not a blind follower, anyone who is humane,  is a Hindu
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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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Hindu is a geographic rather than a religious term. \n\nIt is based on the practice of Dharma, the code of life. Since Hinduism has no founder, anyone who practices Dharma can call himself a Hindu. Hinduism lays emphasis on direct Experience rather than on authority. \n\nAn important concept is the search or quest for Truth. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God." \n\nKnowledge, vision, wisdom, is the goal of the Upanishads. It is a new kind of thinking in which the whole man in implicated. The aim is not intellectual conformity to inherited doctrine, but one of attainment of knowledge. He can question the authority of any scripture, or even the existence of the Divine. Despite being the oldest religion, the truth realized by the seers prove that the Truth and path provided by Hinduism is beyond time. Its concern is with the absolute Truth, not with systems of belief. The absolute Truth is universal, and forever impersonal. No one has a proprietary claim to it.\n\nTo the Hindu, religion is an awareness of ultimate reality, not a theory about it; religion is psychology and method rather than theology and dogma.................\n\n\n"Hinduism is a process - for this reason, Hinduism must be studied not as a fixed body of doctrine, but as a developing tradition that has changed considerably throughout the centuries and which is still changing in a creative direction. Everything in India makes sense in the light of the changing process. Nothing makes sense without it. Hinduism is still a living, changing process and must be seen as such." \n\n(source: Religions of India: Hinduism, Yoga, Buddhism - Thomas Berry p. 3-16).
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I would say that the most important aspect of Hinduism is darsan, or to see and be seen by the god(s). This is where the statues come in to play. The statues or sculptures are a temporary vessel for the god to enter and give darsan to the worshiper. To see and be seen by the divine is the whole point of worship. \n\nThis is hard for some people to understand without indepth study.\n\nHere is a really good website that can give you more information.\n\nhttp://www.hinduwisdom.info/index.htm
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In the middle:  the Buddha (an avatar of Vishnu in Hinduism), reincarnation, aim of life is to be free from the cycle of rebirth\n\nIn the only Hindu part:  asceticism, the Hindu gods (Shiva, Vishnu, Kali, Durga, etc.), the Hindu saints (Alvars and Nayanmars), the Hindu scriptures and epics (Vedas, Puranas, Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata), the varnas (caste), the Laws of Manu, the 4 stages of man (student, householder, forest-dweller, wandering ascetic), gurus, Hindu temples\n\nIn the only Buddhist part:  the Middle Way, bodhisattvas, Buddhist temples and monuments, and maybe especially expansion to Tibet and China where Vajrayana and Mahayana practices, respectively, were elaborated.
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As per Hindus philosophy, woman is a manifestation of Shakti (Eternal self conscious Energy)....Shakti is half of the Shiva, the supreme consciousnes.\n\nShiva is worshipped by hindus in "Ardhanarishwara" form...a form which is half male and half female.\n\nIn Tantra philosophy of Hindus, God is worshipped in a woman form of Mother.\n\nMost of the Gods of hinuds are with their wives..whose names come before their male counterpart during worship.\n\nWomen were the head of family, and important factor in society in ancient India...of course with arrival of muslim and christian invaders, some pollution entered the Indian culture...and women lost a little of their respect.