Are Hindus Crazy?

Question

Just take a look at their religion. Worshipping holy rivers with everyone bathing in it and drinking from there. Making Cows sacred, believing in more than one god. Praying clay statues. Seriously, just look at them from this view. There has to be something wrong. This is all from a documentary that I seen in World Civ.

Answer 1

no, they are not, not any more than any other religion. all religions are crazy, look at christianity and the whole holy communion thing, here drink my blood and eat my body....um, thanks but I'll pass and just head over to the buffet.

Answer 2

Hinduism is not craziness at all. But what is it???

True Hinduism is not 'Hinduism', instead it should be 'Vedantism'

Because the followers are suposed to follow the 'Vedas'. And if you read the Vedas, you find in it, that contrary to what most Hindus practice, the Vedas is DEAD against Idol worship.

It comes in Saam Ved,
' Ikkum Iva ditti yam' Which means Almighty GOD is ONE without a second.

'Na kassiya kasij jani tana chandipa' which means, Almighty GOD is not born and HE begets not.

It comes in 'Chandogaya Upanishad' (another sacred book)
'Andhaatma pavishantu ya sambhuti vipaste'

Which means they are in darkness who worship materialistic things.

No where in the Vedas it says that cows are Holy. The problem with most of the Hindus is that they have never red the Vedas.

And its like an explosion if you read it. Because the Vedas call for worshipping ONE GOD, the vedas shun Idol worship, allow eating cow, and even have prophecies of the coming of Prophet Muhammed (peace be upon him).

He is called as 'Kalki Avatar', in the vedas.

So if you see, Actual 'Vedantism' is Monotheism just like Islam and just like 'Actual Chrsitianity' which also calls for Belief in ONE GOD.

Answer 3

If all you know about Hindus is what you learn in World Civ, you don't know much. They are no more crazy than anyone else. Get to know one and you'll find out.

Answer 4

do you find hindus crazy just because their religion is different than yours? hindus wouldn't call christians crazy, for your information, they respect everyone so have the decency to respect everyone's beliefs and don't make stupid assumptions without first looking up on the religion, hinduism is a beautiful religion and I'm an agnostic

Answer 5

Understand the philosophy first and then pass a judgment. My answer is about the "idol worship".

In higher levels of Hinduism (Vedanta and Sankhya philosophy) we believe in "Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti" meaning "that which exists is one, sages call it by different names". There is no monotheistic polytheism in Vedanata, only monotheism. But Vedanta is beyond the scope of this question.

First let me tell u in brief about the concept of God in Hinduism.

Supreme Reality - Brahman has two aspects, transcendent (impersonal) and immanent (personal). In the impersonal aspect Brahman is without attributes (nirguna Brahman). In personal aspect (saguna Brahman) the God is creator, preserver and controller of the universe. Saguna Brahman is worshiped in male and female form. Hindu Deities represent various perceptions of a one God. Hindus believe in monotheistic polytheism, rather than polytheism.

The Hindu Trinity i.e. Brahma (creator), Vishnu (preserver), Shiva (destroyer) represent:
* Three Faces of Divine
* Three Cosmic Functions of the Supreme Lord
* Creation + Preservation+ Dissolution
* Generator + Operator + Destroyer = GOD



Now for the part on idol worship

Hindus do not worship idols as God's, they worship God in the form of idols.
Idol-worship is not peculiar to Hinduism. Christians worship the Cross. They have the image of the Cross in their mind. There are so many images in the catholic church. The Mohammedans keep the image of the Kaba stone when they kneel and do prayers. The people of the whole world, save a few Yogis and Vedantins, are all worshippers of idols. They keep some image or
the other in the mind.We can no more think about about anything without a mental image than we can live without breathing. By law of association The mental image calls up the mental idea and vice-versa.
Hence Hindus use an external image for worshiping.
As we find somehow or the other by the laws of our mental constitution we associate the idea of infinity with the blue sky, the ocean so we naturally connect our idea of holiness with the holy cross, the mosque, a church. The Hindus have associated the idea of holiness, purity, truth, omnipresence with external images and forms. But with this difference that some people devote their lives to the idol of the church and never rise higher because to
them religion means intellectual assent to certain doctrines, the religion of Hinduism is centered in realization. Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols etc are only the support of the spiritual childhood.

The scriptures say that external worship is the lowest stage struggling to rise high, mental prayer is the next stage, and the highest stage is when God has been realized. The Hindu will
never call anyones idol or call its worship a sin. It is a necessary stage in life. The child is the father of the man so would it be right for the older man to say that childhood / youth is a sin? If a man can realize his divine self with the help of an image would it be right to call that a sin? Even when man has passed that stage it would not be correct to call it an error. To a Hindu, man does not travel from error to truth, but from truth to truth, lower to higher
truth. All religions, from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism mean an attempt of man to grasp and connect with the infinite God. The absolute can only be realised of, or thought of, or stated through the relative and the images, the crosses, the crescents, kaaba, are simply so many symbols-so many pegs to hang the spiritual ideas on. It is not that this help is necessary for everyone, but those that do not need it have no right to say that it is wrong. Nor is it compulsory in Hinduism. "Idol worship" is just the attempt of undeveloped minds to grasp high spiritual truths. To Hindus all religions lead to the same goal. It is the same light through the glasses of different colors. But in the heart of everything the same truth reigns. The Lord has declared during his incarnation of Krishna that "I am in every religion as the thread through the string of pearls. Whenever thou seest extraordinary
holiness and power raising and purifying humanity know thou that I am there."

There is no expression in Hindu philosophy saying that only the Hindu will be saved and not others.



On earth there are many factors without which life cannot sustain, like water, air, fire, rain etc. All these are respected and given the status of devas. All the devtas are the servants of the supreme lord and carry out his orders. But they are never to be mistaken / equated with the almighty. They are just various manifestations of the divine, and not God / Gods.



Each and everyone of us in different ways is an "idol worshiper". As i explained above Christians worship the Cross. They have the image of the Cross in their mind. There are images in the catholic church. The Mohammedans keep the image of the Kaba stone when they kneel and do prayers. They keep some image or the other in the mind. The mental image also is a form of idol. The difference is not one of kind, but only one of degree. All worshipers, however intellectual they may be, generate a form in the mind and make the mind dwell on that image.Everyone is an idol-worshiper. Pictures, drawings, etc., are only forms of Pratima or the idol. A gross mind needs a concrete symbol as a prop or Alambana and a subtle mind requires an abstract symbol.

Even a Vedantin has the symbol OM for fixing the wandering mind. It is not only the pictures or images in stone and in wood, that are idols but dialectics and leaders also become idols.

Let us take pictures / "idols" of your parents / Kaaba / the cross, if u do not worship it then surely u can spit on the "idols"? Can u make an image of the quran / bible and then spit on it / disrespect it? "Idols" in this case only help the human mind to stay focussed. It is in a way an image of God.


If u are genuinely interested in learning about Hinduism pl mail me and i will be more than happy to answer all your questions.

Answer 6

Both of you misunderstand Christianity..very much. Anyway, yeah. I once saw a video of a Hindu, and some Christians came and cast a demon out of him in Jesus' name. He stood up, and was completely changed! Hallelujah!

Answer 7

There is nothing crazy about these people at all. I suggest you tend to your own soul and allow them to worry about theirs. A legitimate question is more than welcome but this is not a place for insults and hate.

Blessed Be

Answer 8

There has to be something wrong with u not with the religion

Answer 9

sounds a lot like Christianity