Hindu religion claims have many Goddes?

Question

Does hindu god creats another gods like him? to help him? and also ceated a woman god and later came a baby god...how do they make sex? and how did mother god gives birth to a baby god? Why some of hindu's god look like an elephant man? if elephant was a symbol of mighty gigantic animal? why not make it dinasour man and it would be mightiest!!. What happens when the world doom's day. does hindu god have to kill those goddes that he created?

Answer 1

The first fundamental principle of Hindu Dharma is that "the Reality is one without a second." This reality is beyond description by human mind. Hence it is indicated by a single world, "Brahman". "Infinite, eternal, changeless existence is the All; from that All, All comes forth; to that All, all returns," that is what the Chandogya Upanishad (vi.2.1) tells us.

Hindus have represented God in innumerable forms. Each is but a symbol that points to something beyond; and as none exhausts God's actual nature, the entire array is needed to complete the picture of God's aspects and manifestations. Nowhere else in the world do we find such a profusion of gods and goddesses, divine beings and demons, ramifications of genealogies of gods, and manifestations of the divinity in human and animal forms. But that is only the surface of Hinduism, the colorful appearance of a tradition that has enormous depths.

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.

Foreigner have scorned the Hindu love of idols for centuries. What they have never understood is that the Hindus are not idol worshippers. They know as anyone - probably more so - that God can never be reduced to an image. What the devotee's gaze is fixed on in darshan is the eyes of the idol. Through those eyes streams the power that lives in the image through the grace of God and the invocations of the priesthood. That is why the eyes are always larger in proportion than the rest of the image, and why a red eye is daubed on the stones that are sacred to the goddess of a village. it is not the image, but the power in the image, that is worshipped by the devotee. It is a two-way process: the god sees the devotee, just as the devotee sees the god. In this meeting of eyes, the devotee and the lord become one.

Diane L. Eck has noted: "Hinduism is an imaginative, an "image-making, religious tradition in which the sacred is seen as present in the visible world – the world we see in multiple images and deities, in sacred places, and in people. India is a visual and visionary culture, one in which the eyes have a prominent role in the apprehension of the sacred. For most ordinary Hindus, the notion of the divine as "invisible" would be foreign indeed. God is eminently visible, although human beings have not always had the refinement of sight to see. Furthermore, the divine is visible not only in temple and shrine, but also in the whole continuum of life – in nature, in people, in birth and growth and death. Although some Hindus, both philosophers and radical reformers, have always used the terms "nirguna" (quality less) and nirakara (form less) to speak of the One Bramh. Yet the same tradition has simultaneously affirmed that Bramh is also saguna (with qualities) and that the multitude of "names and forms" of this world are the exuberant transformations of the One Bramh."

Hinduism is a religion of freedom. It allows the widest freedom in matters of faith and worship. It allows absolute freedom to the human reason and heart with regard to questions such as the nature of God, soul, creation, form of worship, and goal of life. It does not force anybody to accept particular dogmas or forms of worship. When religion becomes organized, man ceases to be free. For it is not God that is worshipped but the group or the authority that claims to speak in his name. Thus, it becomes a kind of social idolatry. Highly individualistic, Hindus have always resisted any regimentation of thought. Religion is an experience. To think that any human being or institution has the monopoly of God's truth is to commit the sin of pride.

Exclusivism and intolerance in matters of faith are features of Semitic religions—Judaism, Christianity, Islam. Contrary to these desert-born religions, intolerance and persecution were alien to Hinduism. Encyclopaedia Brittannica defines Hinduism as: "In principle, Hinduism incorporates all forms of belief and worship without necessitating the selection or elimination of any. The Hindu is inclined to revere the divine in every manifestation, whatever it may be, and is doctrinally tolerant.... A Hindu may embrace a non-Hindu religion without ceasing to be a Hindu...he tends to believe that the highest divine powers complement each other for the well being of the world and the mankind."

Answer 2

i'm not a Hindu myself, so respectfully i understand that firstly Hinduism is not strictly speaking a religion but a spiritual belief system with number of gods that encapsulate the five elements, being earth, water, air, fire and ether.
The elephant God (being Krishna i think) is associated with good fortune, and the elephant is revered in southern India and capable of giving blessings. I understand that Hindu gods do not seek or demand homage. Other gods include the giver of light and the formidable goddess who is the destroyer of all things. A central theme of Hinduism is the concept of reincarnation. Some of us may have been elephants in earlier incarnations.

Answer 3

The Gods in Hindu faith is based primarily on the holy Trident - being , Brahma , Vishnu and Shiva.They are the giver of life,the operator/preserver of life and the destroyer of life respectively.
Destroyer not being confined to human death but primarily man's evil and bad deeds.
What God gives you (in blessing) He cannot take away.
Such boons / blessings were abused by man ad-inifitum and the entire universe was being systematically obliterated.
God manifested in different forms over time,to rid the world of specific destructive forces and restore peace and harmony.
The "baby gods" per-se , were not created by copulation,but by spiritual forces ( Ganesha,Muruga / Skanda,Aiyappa )
God also manifested himself by human birth - "AVATAR" , to fullfill specific tasks/duties.
Such births being - RAAM,KRISHNA,BUDDAH and the last known Shridi BABA.

Answer 4

I thought that there is only 1 Hindu God (Brahman). The others are various forms in which that God can be worshipped.

Answer 5

Hindu Gods are cool because there is such diversity in each of them. Ganesh is the elephant god who is the son of Shiva btw:

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Answer 6

well in the vedas the hindu scriptures it only speaks of one god but the fundmental principle is that all of the gods are forms of the one god and all the gods represent the qualitys of the one god i myself would say that it takes years to understand the entire hindu philosophy

p.s
im a hindu

Answer 7

Hinduism is not a religion, no one can say for sure when it started and who started it. Hinduism is a way of life or a philosophy if you can call it that. You don't have to believe in any God and can still be Hindu!! You can believe in Jesus and still be a Hindu!

Answer 8

dude nothing is impossible..
in dis 21st century, r u clueless abt cloning n fertilisation without a sperm?
u mite say these r hi-fi stuffs n need a lotta technology, but wat lengths did ppl not go to separate liquids b4 da simple chromatography came?
i wud say, these r actully avatars n not "god creating gods like him".. remember, da faces of gods r imaginary..

n da elephant-faced god is GANESHA n not KRISHNA [sum1 in his/her answer said so].. dis has a reason.. he had his head cut off by his own father.. n then his father told his men to go straight n bring da head of whatever animal they see first.. so they got an elephant head..

now dont ask me how a human body accepted an elephant head.. maybe dis is just a story, but it proves da existence of surgeries in those days.. n successful ones.

Answer 9

Gods and Goddess are just synonyms for humans states.

They represent: love,anger,envy,greed,fear,jealousy .When we are possessed by any of them we are under control of our personal thoughts and feelings which trigger our glands to produce hormones which press us for action. Such are the orders of Gods (We are Gods ourselves without knowing it). When we know this we can chose our responses.

Answer 10

baguk21

if you can buy the concept of one god, then why not a myraid of gods and goddesses and animal gods and insect gods and abstract gods? they are as deluded as your monotheist sh*t

burn your bible, koran and torah, and you will be at peace with the world.