hindu religion..tell about it?

Answer 1

M. J. Akbar Indian journalist and editor of Asian age and author of The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the Conflict Between Islam and Christianity writes:

"Hinduism has a supernatural aspect, which involves faith in an afterlife; and a natural one, which guides the worldly behavior.

If Hinduism has a defining message, then it is humanism. There is space in its philosophy for everyone, which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world. Anyone who has been persecuted anywhere else has found an undisturbed haven in India. This remained true even when men distorted the philosophy of Hinduism and introduced the inequities of caste: The attitude of Hinduism to other faiths continued to be liberal. Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality."

(source: Of human bondage - arabnews.com).

Professor Klaus K. Klostermaier: "Since ancient times India has been famous for its wisdom and its thought. The ancient Persians, Greek and Romans were eager to learn from its sages and philosophers. When, in the eighteenth century, the first translations of some Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita became available to the West, European philosophers rhapsodized about the profundity and beauty of these writings. Here they encountered a fusion of philosophy and religion, a deep wisdom and a concern with the ultimate, that had no parallel in either contemporary Western philosophy or Western religion. Indian philosophy is highly sophisticated and very technical and surpasses in both in volume and subtlety."

Indian culture has emphasized three cardinal virtues. There is a parable in the Brihadaranyka Upanishad 5.2 Prajapati, the ancestor of man, blessed his creation with a code of conduct consisting of three basic principles. viz. Dama, Dana and Daya i.e. restraint, charity and compassion. These are the basic qualities for which man is revered and respected in India.


The finale of Mahabharat concludes:

"Dharma is eternal; life, its joys and sorrow are not. Do not give away the eternal for the temporal values of life."

Do not to others what ye do not wish
Done to yourself; and wish for others too
What ye desire and long for, for yourself — This is the whole of dharma — heed —it well.

— Veda Vyasa, The Mahabharata.

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Answer 2

The Hindu religion, there is no central practise or belief system that can be said essential to it, except a belief in some kind of higher power and a willingness by human beings to surrender to it. It believes in the ultimate destruction of the world as we know it and its recreation. Here you will find an idol worshipper and also those who denounce it and follow simply the Vedic religion, which believes in God as an energy form.

Before late 18th century and westerners came in there was no such term in practise, in fact it was a collective term used later when western scholars needed to label the people of the land and their collective belief systems, so they gave the name Hindu, the people who live beyond the river Sindhu, or the modern day Indus; their language was called Hindi and the nation Hindustan, even the English name India comes from Indus, though the original name was and still is Bharat.

Answer 3

From what I have read in the answers, it is about all that has to be said about the hindu religion, and by now if you are a hindu, you should be proud to be one, and if you are not, then Become one, or atleast learn in details about the ideology and practice or spread the word.

Answer 4

Hindu is not a religion. It is an ISM. It is the mother of all religion.
It does not teach you how to live. Instead it shows various ways for a better living, and leaves the decision to you. Its more like a light house on a sea.

Answer 5

Hindu Religion is the world's oldest faith. It was followed by the ancient civilization of the Indus valley, Ganges valley, Deccan and Cauveri delta, as well as other parts of India all over the Indian peninsula and surrounding areas of Asia. This Faith, known by many names, is followed and practiced in several ways and forms as it was practiced several thousand years back, with very little modifications, though it adjusted itself to the various times.

There are over 900 million to one Billion Hindus living throughout the world, mainly in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia and Indonesia from ancient times and also the Hindus settled all over the world now. There are also many new converts and followers to this practice in the modern world.

Hinduism, is as much a "way of life" as a religion and affects every aspect of life for Hindus from birth throughout their life. It is followed by the devout Hindu in every aspect of life and activity, and not just in a prayer only.

Answer 6

It is not a religion. It is a culture that consists of:
Spirituality - Bhagawath Geetha
Health - Ayur Veda
Sex - Kama Shastra
Ramayana - Rules for Kingdom and rulers' ethics and responsibilities to people.
and so on.

Hindu temples were originally used for Arts performances. The signs are the sculptures seen there even today. Beyond that even today these places are used as stage for singers and dancers. Go anywhere in the world - there is no dance system, so classical in every sense as compared to Indian dances.

Answer 7

it is a way of life

thank all who bring you well being - we have so many gods

do all that bring you well being - we have so many disciplines.
religion yoga mantra tantra yantra

if all fails to bring you well being - just do your thing. Fulfill your responsiblities to your family and neighbors and surrounding and then leave it God - Geeta

We never left our homes to conquer the world.
The Buddhists and Jainism are new religions in their own rights but we call them AVATAR's of Rama. We Welcome them.
The muslims came - we welcomed them
The parsies came - we welcomed them TATA?
The christians came - we welcomed them British?

They all ruled but we remained Hindus.
That is what we are.
Ashoka Maha Rana Pratap Rabindra Nath Tagore Gandhi Rajiv Gandhi Lal Bahadur Shastri Amitabh Bachhan are all Hindu and very cosmopolitan - The right religion for the centuries to come.

We believe if you are human and you believe in religion - you are Hindu - we do not need to convert you.

I also like what is written on the Indian Coins
Satya Mave Jaytay - Ony truth shall be victorious.

Where as on American Coins it is
In God We Trust.

How ironic, it is the Americans who say they are scientifically advanced and the Indians follow a primitive religion.

Answer 8

Too subtle a thing and too simple also . i will tell you the true and essence iof it with chapter and verse .after a few days . So that I can put is in a concise and effective manner .It is one thng that believes honestly and truely in teh omnipresence of God . It has rasons , and very valid reason for the plurality of its pantheon of gods. a true democratice religion tha does nt =create any constrainta for any one and allows every one to use any name to call God . a religon that tells you that there is no heavan aior hell created by god and that no man ever goes to hell . man's very soul is considerd god and such being the case how the soul which is god itself would ever go to hell.? will it noit absured to say that the soul of man wiould ever go to hell. The philosophy of the realigion is very scientific . the only reliigon tha tallows you to question even the God s and the only religion that shows the god and that neer tells you that God can be approached only through an agent like saint , a messaih to mess with your klife and a prophet to to kill you for not believing in him. hindism does not kill any soul as it recognize any soul as gosd and othr religos whicn recognize soul as god allows killing of th soul which is god , if the sole agent of the /god is displeased. hindus co9nsider that there is god in all creatures and all living beings - animals also have Souls and soul is God . oahtre rreligios do not believe that animals have souls so that animals can be killed for eating .It is for that convenience they sau=y that anomals donot have a soul. These are only some glimpses . Much more is there and i shall be writing it in a day or two

Answer 9

First and foremost, Hinduism is not an "organized" religion like, say, Christianity, Islam or Judaism. It represents a living and continuous stream and record of Man's inborn quest, from very ancient times, to find Meaning in life here and in the hereafter. This conglomeration of ideas that is Hinduism includes innumerable strands of beliefs. But the most important one of these is this: "all roads to the Supreme are valid paths for a virtuous soul to follow for his salvation. God is known by many names by his different groups of followers. But the important fact is that we all are his children."
M K

Answer 10

It is one of the ancient religion of the world. It's a religion of idol worship. It has lots and lots of ethics and myths. The main sects of it saivites (worshippers of Lord Shiva) and Vaishnavites (worshippers of Lord Vishnu). Many religions have come out of the shade of this religion (Buddhism, Jainism and lot...). Its like an ocean. It's a great one but currently it has many superstitious beliefs crypted in it as what occurs to any other thing that has a long long historical background.