Information on the application of Hindu philosophy to everyday life?

Question

I'm an Indian teenager who is growing up in the United States, so I was just wondering if anyone could provide any personal imput about Hindu philosophy or any good links that explains some of the philosophy. More than anything, I'm interested in learning about some of the values and observations about the world that Hinduism presents, and also, its application to everday American society, if possible.

Thanks again for taking the time!

Answer 1

try this

Answer 2

The Gita is a book written by men, How can it be called as Divine?

The authentic Hindu scriptures that are considered to be from GOD are the Vedas. There are basically 4 Vedas, The Rig Ved, The Saam Ved, The Yejus Ved and the Atharva Ved.

So Hindus are supposed to be 'Vedantists'. But i dont find any Hindu reading or practicing the Veda. Because the TRUTH is that, THe Vedas are NOT accessible to the common Man.

Moreover the pandits do NOT themselves disclose anything about this. Why is that?

And as i have studied, The Vedas are DEAD against Popular Hindu belief of worshipping the Idols. And the Vedas have prophecies of the coming of Prophet Muhammed.

Nobody can deny these facts. He is called as 'Ahmadam' which is the sanskrit version of 'Ahmad' a name of the Prophet. He is also referred as 'Kalki Avatar', the Hindu pandits refer 'kalki avatar' to Krishna which is wrong. Because kalki's father are 'Vishnu vyas' meaning "Servant of GOD" which is exactly the translation of Prophet's Dads name in Arabic "Abdullah" and the name of the mother is "Sumati" which means "Peace Loving" translate this into Arabic and you get 'Aamina'

Christians, muslims, jews and all should also read the Hindu scriptures for understanding. But which Ones? I mentioned above.

PEACE BE with you.

Answer 3

Hinduism is more of way of life. Many hindus just practice hinduism, even without reading holy books like christians and other faiths do.
However holy books of hinduism, Gita, Ramayan, Mahabharat give more descriptive veiw of how hindu is like.
HInduism tells mostly about Dharma ( your duty to yourself and to fellow people) and ways of performing it to self realisation.
Hindus got great opportunity over other faiths in this regard.
You can start by practicing simple prayers, going to temple once in week ( or as you like ), reading Gita.
Gita, Ramayan and Mahabharat tell meaning of vedas in more intresting fashion.
Gita ( song of god) is summary of all Vedas.

Answer 4

Here's an Indian feminist's perspective of Hindu culture you might like:

"The Genocide of Hindu Women" By Sita Agarwal

http://usminc.org/wymyn.html (you can read it here)

Answer 5

Read more religious scriptures and ask some scholars, this is not a way to ask about this, you will get all non sense and false things here at Yahoo Answers.

Answer 6

in nutshell Hinduism is like "way of life" so you need to live life doing good things and for that you need to draw inspiration from great people of world like saints,good leaders like mahatma Gandhi,Abraham Lincoln etc,great artist,scientist etc. Hinduism says there is different path/ways to reach god so Muslim and christian also right and they have their way to reach god and if they are living good life they are like Hindu view of world according Hinduism is that this world is like one family (vasudhev kutumbkam) so you need to think about and love whole world not just yourself/your family/your community/your religion/your region
for more knowledge read bhagwad geeta(English translation)