Do hindus worship stone gods?

Question

yes statues

Answer 1

YES they definetly do, they worship there gods thru the statues

and they got a god of almost any animal

you're absolutely right. For a large majority of Hindus, image worship is an important part of ritual practice, both at home and temple. In Hinduism, we do not see image worship as something vile, but we see it as the most beautiful and natural expression of human devotion (bhakti). The image, technically known as a murti (“concrete form”), is seen as a concrete form of that which is abstract. Another term used for murti is vigraha (“uniquely grasped”). It is believed that the manner and the form in which the image is perceived and sculpted is a uniquely grasped vision of the abstract Divine

Answer 2

Hi Oracle'

Hindus do not all worship in the same way, nor do they have the same idea about God. Some worship God in the form of images, which they keep in their homes or Temples. Some say it is not possible to even know the imagine of what God is like
All Hindus agree that wise and holy men have discovered many different ways to God. The important thing is for every man to follow the way that suits him.

Most Hindus hold these basic beliefs:

THERE IS UNITY OF ALL LIVING THINGS IN THE WORLD

They belive that there is one spirit that runs through everything in the world--plants animals, and human beings. Because of this we are all united spiritualy. This unifying spirit is called..BRAHMAN..
Unity in BRAHMAN is reached through..YOGA..

IT IS WRONG TO HURT ANY LIVING THING..

This belife is called..AHIMSA..,or (NONVIOLENCE)
Many will not injure, or kill an animal to eat.

GOD EXISTS IN MANY FORMS..

There are different forms of the BRAHMAN, or PURE SPIRIT.
Siva the Destroyer.
Vishnu the Preserver.
Ganesha the Giver of Success.
Kartikeya a son of the Divine Mother of the Universe

The Divine Mothers are..Kali, Durga. Laksmi and Saraswati.
They are represented by having more arms and heads than humans. Sometimes they are cruel and frightening, other times beautiful. and gentle VISHNU has appeared on the earth in many forms, Two favorites are RAMA. and "KRISNA".

REINCARNATION

The hindus belive that when a person dies they come back (Reincarnation) as a better or worse person depending on quality of life. Bad life you may become a bug or animal.

If you have a few quality lives a person may reach..NIRVANA..
Nirvana is a state of happiness with absolute freedom

KARMA

Your soul moves up or down depending on your Karma. or actions. This is the Great Spiritual Law of the Universe.

WORK WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT THE RESULTS

Hindus belive that one should do the best work one can do without worrying if you will succeed or fail. God will work out the result; surrender the result to God.

These beliefs form the basis of the Hindu religion.

Answer 3

The ancient vedic system of worship is formulated around deity worship, the vaisnava school of thought which has a disciplic lineage that extends back 5000 years, when the veda was recorded in written form, (veda means knowledge) accept Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and along with the manifestation of his internal pleasure potency, Srimate Radharani are worshiped in deity form globally, the philosophy that justifies this type of worship is that the living entity generally is not purified to see the form of Krishna directly, so out of his causeless compassion, Krishna is present within the deity form to accept our love,service and devotion. This is one of the basic tenets of Bhakti Yoga, Bhakti means devotion and Yoga means to link up or connect. Deity worship is largely misunderstood in the Western world but is accepted without question by followers of the vedas.

Answer 4

Well i think its up to the hindus to answers, but believe me they wouldnt agree with you that they worship a stone God.

Answer 5

Do u mean a statue or a god which is related to the stone

Answer 6

Depends what you mean by worship.

The statues are representations of Gods as they see it, just like you see icons in many other religions, except Islam I think.

They do not believe the stone will come to life and grant their wishes, if that is what you are getting at.

Answer 7

Nope. Thats a misconception. They do not worship stone gods but they believe god is everywhere even in stones.

According to the Hindu view, the Supreme Reality can be viewed from two aspects:

Transcendent (impersonal) and Immanent (personal).

In the transcendent aspect, the Supreme Reality is called Nirguna Bramh, that is Bramh, without attributes. "Bramh is He whom speech cannot express, and from whom the mind is unable to reach Him, comes away baffled" states the Taittiriya Upanishad.

Nirguna Bramh is not an object of prayer, but of meditation and knowledge. It cannot be described, and the most one can say is that It is absolute existence, absolute knowledge, and absolute bliss (sat-chi-ananda). It is unborn, self-existent, all-pervading, and the essence of all things and beings in the universe. It is immeasurable, unapproachable, beyond conception, beyond birth, beyond reasoning, and beyond thought". God cannot be defined in terms of any specific manifestation, nor indeed in terms of their sum total. He is beyond all possibility of definition. The Bhagavad Gita, the best-known scripture of India, states this point clearly:

"Though I manifest Myself in all things, I am identified with none of them".

In its Immanent (personal) aspect, the Supreme Reality, is called Saguna Bramh. He is the personal God, the creator, the preserver, and the controller of the universe. In Hinduism, the immanent (personal) aspect of Bramh is worshipped in both male and female forms. In the male form, he is worshipped as Ishvara, Maheshvara, Paramatma, Purusha. In the female form, as the Divine Mother, Durga, and Kali.

Sagun Brahm worship uses icons and other sumbols.

Behind the lush tangle of religious imagery, is a clear structure of thought. Hinduism, 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.

God'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.

Idol or image is a kind of yantra or a device for harnessing the eye and mind on God. As the Vishnu Samhita puts it:

"Without a form how can God be mediated upon? If (He is) without any form, where will the mind fix itself? When there is nothing for the mind to attach itself to, it will slip away from meditation or will glide into a state of slumber. Therefore the wise will meditate on some form, remembering, however, that the form is a superimposition and not a reality."

Symbolism in Hinduism is sublime and profound. Each act of Hindu worship reflects some deep spiritual significance.

The Hindu, for his part, is nonplussed by the Western antipathy to spiritual imagery. Don't Christians, have their cross? their images of Jesus and Mary? their paintings of scenes from the Bible? And don't the Jews have their Star of David? their holy tabarnacle? Guru Nanak, the first of the Sikhs gurus, said to Muslims that they bowed to the Black Stone in Mecca, which is also an image.

Answer 8

no they don't worship stones. but they do worship gods. those statues are just a medium to worship gods

Answer 9

"They recognize a single deity, and view other Gods and Goddesses as manifestations or aspects of that supreme God."

As to the statues comment......they may use statues as a representation of their Deity, I'm not sure.....but almost every religion does that. Including Christianity.

Answer 10

Hindus worship GOD in many of his manifested forms, which are given physical form so that it is easy to relate to GOD. these forms are carved in rock (stone), wood, moulded from clay, brass, gold, silver, alloys, etc...

no matter what the GOD's figurine is made up of, we wroship the one supreme being - GOD.