Does Hindus believe in one Creator who controls the destiny of all creatures ?

Question

What if creatures reincarnated from stone age to modern age, does it mean all humans have successively added on myriads of good karma through millions of existences - from eating raw meat to eating Chicken Biriyani. living in caves to living in the Taj Mahal.

Wouldnt it be more simpler to make all humans the superior creation - and animals food and utilities for humans.

How can you even envision animals doing good deeds. The tiger must kill. Why did your creator not create all creatures as vegetarians and give all existences a level ground to compete for karma. He must have so much time to waste keeping track of the karma of unmeasurable living beings including millions of microbes you kill in every drink of water.

Answer 1

Once you take the world as it is (meaning that there is no god or karma) and look at science, things start to start to make sense. There's a good reason why all animals can't be vegetarians; carnivores have existed since the beginning of life. So don't wonder about what god did, because there isn't one.

Answer 2

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So sorry to hear you being so critical of the beliefs of Hindus wtihout responsibly researching what they believe.

Hinduism like many religions has its faults as well as its graces.

We should not judge others or ourselves, for ultimately whenever we judge we condemn ourselves in the process, judgment belongs to god and god does not judge, god accepts and loves all beings, even the tiniest microbe and the vilest 'sinner' with unconditional love and acceptance.

I can only take a stab at the beliefs of Hindus and hope that someone who genuinely knows and honors their traditions will respond and correct me if I am wrong.

Hinduism appears to have many deities and none of these beings appear to have total control over every created creature.

Even the god of Christians does not have control of every creature, for mankind was given free will.

We all serve god as equals. Only those humans who choose to perceive the universe in an anthropomorphic and anthrocentric manner would want be the epitomy of creation with everything else created to serve themselves. Such a viewpoint is understandable but not ideal or true for everyone. Believe it or not, it is simple already, humans do not need to sit at the pinnacle of creation to make it simpler.

A good tiger will eat to survive and will even eat people. That is all part of the job of being a good tiger and earning good tiger karma.

Regardless of the specifics of the creation beliefs of Hindus or Christians our creators are the same, for we are our own creators. We co-create the world we live in through a mutual process in which consensus reality coordinates our contributions to creation to produce a shared experience with room enough for even the most paradoxical things to co-exist.

As for keeping track of all the incarnations from the smallest to the largest, the universe itself is the permanent record of all lives and their events. Any of us can access all of this record if we only understood how to do so. We all do access this record, it is just that most of us have only a very limited conscious knowledge of how we do it and therefor we have very poor control of the results when we go in search of knowledge...

Peace and Namaste

Answer 3

Wow.

Karma is a Buddhist principle...not Hindu.

I'm no expert on Hinduism, but I'm pretty sure they believe in a single creator-god, with many aspects. Sounds pretty similar to Christianity to me, except they have thousands of different aspects instead of just three.

Answer 4

The Taj Mahal has nothing to do with hinduism, it was made by a Muslim ruler, for his favorite wife when she died as an awesome place of burial.

Answer 5

I am not sure, but if I remember correctly they are a polytheistic faith that believes in several gods, who are all under the mother goddess, who is like the "Top Deity".

Answer 6

No.. I'm a buddhist and I know that the belief in karma (literally 'action') means that there cannot be an ultimate beginning or an end. Karma doesn't just start, it is cyclic like Samsara. You have performed actions forever and this is why you are continually reborn again and again. You don't just pop and appear out of nothing... Cause and effect my friend.

As for a creator.. us buddhists view Lord Brahma (the 'top' hindu god) as the one who made this world the way it is.. BUT he deludes himself into believing he is all powerful and desires worship to boost his ego. A Buddha is viewed as even greater than even the most powerful of gods because he manages to escapes from his own karma and ceases to be in this cyclic world of suffering, perfecting his thought, action and speech he becomes the perfect being. Where as gods continue to exist in this world of existance because of attachments and absence of complete perfect enlightenment. Although it is unwise to go against a god or insult one (just like it is unwise to insult the boss of the mafia, or a king, etc).

We have a debt of infinitely positive karma and infinitely negative karma behind us in our 'karma bank' from our infinite number of past lives and now in the present we decide with our present actions which karma will be withdrawn.

The very first noble truth states that all existance is suffering, all animals suffer in one way or another, but because some must hunt and kill to survive they do not attain as much bad karma as we humans do, because we have the choice whether to eat meat or not. Microbes and bacteria are alive, but they do not have a brain or a mind of their own (like jellyfish) so karma is not accumulated for killing them (unless you have the intention to do harm)...

You see, your intention behind the action is as influencing upon the karma created as the action itself. If you punch a desk out of anger and hurt yourself this pain is an immediate result of you wanting to harm something- you harm yourself instant karma balance. If you have no food at all except for a lamb it is nowhere near as negative to kill and eat the lamb in order to survive as it is to kill it for fun, etc.

In our countless rebirths we have been every type of animal imaginable too. Because of this infinite cycle, every living being is deeply interconnected. If we and everything else have been reborn an infinite amount of times, this also means that every being has been our mother, our father, our child, our husbands and wives, our pets, our best friends, our worst enemies an infinite number of times. Buddhists do our best to view every sentient being as a mother to us (of sorts- not directly, in this life we have one mother. but if you had a mother who had died, you would always want to remember and honour her, and you do this by respecting and honouring every other sentient being).

Confession of performing every negative deed you have ever done in all your lives is essential for cleansing of these past actions, you HAVE performed every dispicable thing possible in your countless past lives. Confessing this once is said to cleanse an aeon of negative karma (an aeon is the lifespan of one universe)- the big bang may have happened, but it happened as a result of the big crunch of a previous universe dying.

Oh and hindus also believe that all other gods are just aspects of this one supreme god, Brahma. (E.g. an incarnation of his wisdom, compassion, wrath, etc).

Want any more info? Feel free to ask..

Metta!

Answer 7

All doors lead to the same place

Answer 8

no they belevie in lots of gods, they are in the shapes in Animals