any people who converted to hinduism?
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this is for stranger,well atleast hindus worship everything ,they are not arrogant and ignorant like you.You should'nt comment on something you don't know about.Being a hindu myself I know that there are many kinds of hindus,namely,Shaivites,Vaishnavites,and many more I can't keep count of all the sects.Each hindu sect has their own rights,rituals,following,culture and beliefs according to their geography and origin.Hinduism is one the oldest religions,which originated before Christ.It is believed that the vedic followings,ie,the followings of the vedas,that would be books of vast knowledge containing everything from the strategies of war,medicine which includes ayurveda and yoga,sciences of the elements and knowledge of the cosmos,originated with the aryans.Hinduism has many facets known and unknown.Hinduism or any religion as a matter of fact are ways of life, one can adopt a particular way or religion,it is what we have inside us that makes us good or bad.No religion is bad ,all of them have good teachings,it us humans and followers,politicians,clergy or people of power that manipulate them to their own benifit.Humanity is the greatest religion one can follow,It is not our religion that makes us good or bad,it is what we are at heart that decides,who or what we are.
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Hinduism\n\nAccording to historians, the origin of Hinduism dates back to 5000 or more years. The word "Hindu" is derived from the name of River Indus, which flows through northern India. In ancient times the river was called the 'Sindhu', but the Persians who migrated to India called the river 'Hindu', the land 'Hindustan' and its inhabitants 'Hindus'. Thus the religion followed by the Hindus came to be known as 'Hinduism'.
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Hi..I'm Indian [Hindu]. I COMPLETELY agree with your irritation at missionaries who go to India and other such countries and do community projects with the agenda to convert the "savages" in mind. It drives me nuts when ignorant crazy people like Pat Robertson go to India, visit religious places and watch sacred ceremonies and then criticize everything, including the most obviously positive aspects of Hinduism, such as its tolerance and the belief that all life is sacred. It is sickening that rather than trying to do good in these underprivileged areas, they are trying to spread their religion like a commercialized gimmick. I think that you may be pleased to know that the VHP [Vishwa Hindu Parishad] has been off late arranging re-conversion drives where converts who are unhappy with Christianity may accept their native religions again. These events are peaceful and voluntary, and allow people to rejoin and become active in their religions again.\nBy the way, I like how the word convert sounds negative even to the people who are attempting to do it. \n\nWhile I have the greatest tolerance for Christianity and respect for some aspects, it sounds ridiculous to those of us who are supposedly on the wrong path to be told that all Christian missionaries are trying to do is spread Jesus' love to us, when we are already given the love and protection of what can be seen as hundreds of different Gods or one force of compassion, forgiveness, kindness, and wealth. \n\nHeron-by-the-sea, thanks for bringing up this issue.. there are other people who feel strongly on these topics as well.
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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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- Hindus are Indians. I mean the people who lived in India was called as Hindus/Hindustani's and British by Indians according to geographic location.\n- If you are pointing about the religion which widely practiced in India then Coversion to Hinduism is very rare.\n- Because it refuses the rights to various sections of people.\n- Like Dowries, Suicide with fire on the death of husbands and more and more forced to women and the females were treated as slaves.\n- Hinduism has thousands of castes where upper castes only can offer prayer in temples.\n- Lower casts peoples denied any rights on education and not allowed to get good jobs.\n- The topic on the SIN of Hinduism is greater to explain and its outof contest now.\n- So, the conversion to Hinduism is very very rare case where a interreligion girl who did love marriage with a Hindu boy may be forced to convert to Hinduism.\n- There is history where tens of thousands of hindus are converting to Christianity and Islam.\n-------------------------
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Of course, your question 'do you still think I am in the wrong group' will raise the ire of those whose belief systems are more rigid and dogmatic than your own.    If this religion suits you, who am I to tell you that there is something better somewhere else?  So, go on, surprise us then.....  you're a Hindu following the Smarta tradition.  Am I right?  The only thing you have not mentioned is reincarnation, but that would have given it away.
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yeah,...thanks,,,am a hindu
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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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Well I am a Hindu, but I don't even know how to really define what a Hindu is.  Hindus can believe in a wide variety of things and can practice many different things, and can still be considered Hindus.  So how would I even go about determining what percentage I follow?\n\nI believe in the Hindu Scriptures.  I worship all the Gods and Goddesses as manifestations of the One Supreme.  I only go to a temple occasionally but this is because of the distance from my home.  I have murtis at home that I use for worship, but I do not regularly do the normal puja.  I am limited in what I am able to do because I live with my parents and they do not approve of (or know about) my Hindu faith.  I would practice more if I were able.\n\nBut in my heart, I'm very "Hindu" I believe, even though I am Western.  My soul just wants to follow God, and it doesn't "care" so much about the method or the particular religion, just so long as it is the one that leads it most closely to it's Love, which is the Lord.
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hinduism. i am already part of it . though Hinduism may not be called religion in the sense other religions are known. It has no founder. It is much more than a religion. It is a total way of life.  \n\nWhen religion becomes organized, man ceases to be free. It is not God that is worshipped but the group or the authority that claims to speak in his name. It is not faith, but just social idolatry. God is not like a father in a patriarchal society, who has His favorite children to whom He communicates. This idea seems rather archaic and crude. Hinduism believes in behavior than belief and  experience over authority. \n\nThe genius of Hinduism is assimilative. Puritanism is alien to its life and thought. It never opposed scientific enquiry. \n\nHinduism's greatest feature has been its positive ideas and those who do not belong to it are not infidels or heretics. Hinduism does not believe in bringing about a mechanical uniformity of belief and worship by a forcible elimination of all that is not in agreement with a particular creed. Hindus have never conquered, plundered or committed genocides on other peoples and they never will, primarily because the deeper values enshrined in the Sanatana Dharma are against such mindless violence and expansionism. At one level every true Hindu sees his/her self being one with the Universal Self . At a more samsaric level, a Hindu also understands more than any other religionist in the world, the concept of a harmonious global society that should unite, prosper and live in peace.\n\nHinduism, in its plethora of symbols and images, is endlessly complex and therefore endlessly misunderstood, but its true mission is both simple and universal: soul-enlightenment. Hinduism is goal-oriented, not way-oriented. In other words, its focus is the ultimate attainment, Self-realization, in God. Symbolism helps the seeker to concentrate his mind on the worship and meditation of god.idols are just symbolic:\n\nYes, said he, but just how many gods are there Yajnavalkya?" "Thirty three". "yes," said he, but just how many gods are there, Yajnavalkya?" "One."    \n                                                                        - Brhadaranyaka Upanishad III, IX, I\n\nGod's innumerable forms, and the acknowledgement of His Presence in everything, are an expression of the extraordinary vitality of India's collective imagination down through the ages. \n\nAccording to Thomas Berry, "In quality, in quantity, in significance for man's intellectual, cultural, and spiritual life, this literature in its totality is unsurpassed among all other literary traditions of the world."\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."
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I've study Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism, Shinto, Sikhism, Confucianism and Jainism,Judaism, Islam, and Christianity-and it only deepened my catholic faith.  Learning about so many religion made me realized how different people are and how glad i am to have my faith.
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I thought Hinduism was the dominant religion there... if you are talking about the sport... back in the day India was a British colony... cricket is a British sport... makes sense to me.
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Cnnverting to Hinduism is an oxymoron.\nSince most Hindu tradition or hinduism is a composition of embracing different faiths, doctrines and beleifs... It's as if you were born a human being than later realise that you are a human being ;-)\n\nIt is not a religion like we define it with Middle-Est (Jewdeo-Christiano-Ilamic) base religions. It is rather an amalgamation of different ideological and spiritual visions and some actually contradict one another yet, they do not "collide", thus the absence and respect of the different path. Love is action, the most sublime action of Love is to listen to God, God is in everyone's heart.\n\nMost indian spiritual traditions do not require that you abandon your own religion heritage. It is rather an itiation towards your own Path. Some teachings will require that you dedicate time to the teachingss so it may look like you abandoned a previous religion.\n\nSo if you are looking to "convert", what is the tradition or lineage that teaches that...?\n\nBrahmanism can be define as a religion and like many jewish tranditions, the transmission is a family lineage thing and conversion is more of an adoption...\n\nCertain branches of Vaishnavites such as the Krishna movement is a religion that behaves in their procelytism (yet mild) in pretty much the same manners as Pantheistic views (Middle Estern Heritage) sush as the concept of being Saved, or an alignment with a personalized God that is seperate from whow we are.\n\nSo Kuladevata is more initiatic and more of a energetic connection that you are making with a chosen Deity. Yes Jesus can be your Kuladevata since he is the power or the initial form that energize the Christic tradition.\n\nKuladevata does not make you a Hindu it empowers the relationship with the force from which your path was initiated. It is a support to one who seeks the or his/her calling.
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Read this. \n\nhttp://www.hindu.com/2004/12/16/stories/2004121607140500.htm
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I dont know about numbers (of such converts), but I know that many people from other faiths (and world-views) are commiting their lives to Christ. \n\nE.g., see http://www.godsci.org/gs/chri/testimony/00.html\n\nCordially,\nJohn\nhttp://www.GodSci.org\n[God and Science]
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This link will answer your question and also you will get some real idea about what Hinduism is. its just one page but worth reading it as we should know something before saying anything about it. Hope this will help ..
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Is same as like y do Hindu belive in many god ?Do they saw their god? Did u saw ur grandfather grandfather's.