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Some Interesting Facts about Hinduism

Friday, August 21, 2009


• Hinduism is the oldest religion where its origin occurs before history was ever recorded. There is no founder to give credit to its discovery and establishment. The foundation of Hinduism has been laid on the bedrock of spiritual truths. The entire structure of Hindu life is built on eternal truths, the findings of the Hindu Rishis or seers. That is the reason why this structure has lasted through scores of centuries.

Hindus hold the belief of the four Vedas high in their mind. This is considered the most ancient scripture throughout the world. Hinduism is not based on one single text book. Though it could be said that vedas are the base, in essence veda is nothing but knowledge. It is the science of the self and Supreme. The science can not be limited to one book so is Hinduism.

Ongoing cycles of creation, preservation and dissolution within the universe is a main belief of this religion. Hindus believe that the soul can be reincarnated, undergoing a cycle of rebirth. Hindus believe that a soul is able to undergo numerous lifetimes within a physical body. All of the past lives that you have led, contribute to the person you are today.

• Hinduism is more a way of life, than being a religion, Dharma, that is, the law that governs all action. It has its own beliefs, traditions, advanced system of ethics, meaningful rituals, philosophy and theology. The religious tradition of Hinduism is responsible for the creation of such concepts and practices as Yoga, Ayurveda, Vastu, Jyotish, Yajna, Puja, Tantra, Vedanta, Karma, etc.

Hinduism considers that the world is a manifestation of God. There is no concept of Creation and a Creator. The world came from God, exists in God and will return back to God, just like waves arise from the ocean, exist in the ocean and subside back into the ocean. And this happens in cycles, again and again.

Karma is the universal principle of cause and effect. Our actions, both good and bad, come back to us in the future, helping us to learn from life's lessons and become better people.

• Hindus believe that all living entities have a soul, or ãtma. Each is eternal – it was never created and will never perish. The ãtmã is characterized as unchanging truth, consciousness and bliss.

• Reincarnation is the phenomenon where the immortal soul is continuously born and reborn in any one of 8,400,000 life-forms until it attains moksha. Moksha is ultimate liberation. This is the goal of human life. Moksha is the liberation of the soul from the cycles of birth and death; thereafter, it remains eternally in the service of God.

• An attitude of understanding and tolerance is taught within the religion, where all religious teachings are not to be looked down upon and that no one way of worship should be considered better than another.

• Hinduism is a religion of 330 million Hinduism gods.

• Hinduism is not a religion but a way of life. Hinduism grants you a healthy lifestyle. The Hindu practices like bath in the morning, do Yoga, stay away from meat etc. promote health and hygiene.

These are some of facts about this vast religion,in my coming post I would come up with some more facts about Hinduism.

4 comments:

Vinod_Sharma said...

Nicely summarised.

Juhi said...

beautifully written Meghana!

Lakshmi Rajan said...

Hinduism is ocean of wisdom , each one of us can dip into it and find various pearls of widsom in different hues and shades.. The best think I love about Hinduism is it gives us the freedom to think , explore , observe , analyze the "truth" and not impose a set of points on us..

Looking forward to more articles from your end .. :)

AM I A HINDU? Best Seller said...

Very well written Meghana. Congratulations.

When I Googled the question “What Do Hindus Believe?” I was surprised to find all those who are explaining, what Hinduism is all about, are those who have nothing to do with Hinduism.

For a long periods of time, we depended upon authors like German author Max Muller, English philosopher Aldous Huxley etc to explain our scriptures to us.
Now at the dawn of the 21st century we are still depending on Christians evangelists to explain to us what is Hinduism is all about. That is very sad.

It is about time, we ourselves define and explain our culture & beliefs than allowing some one else to explain.

http://edviswanathan.sulekha.com/blog/post/2009/08/what-do-hindus-believe.htm