hinduism info anyone?

Question

can sumone give me a whole lot of info on hinduism please?
im very curious as to what it is like

Answer 1

Hinduism is hard to summarize in just a few sentences. The one important thing that people should know though is that it is not polytheistic. There is a pantheon of gods, but all are aspects of one Supreme Being. Check out the site below for more info, hope this helps.

Answer 2

It's very diverse it it's beliefs. It is polytheistic, but many argue that all the Gods are branches of the same God, which is cool. Kind of like the trinity concept.
There are yogas of the mind and body. It is a very accepting belief system. Their texts contain a lot of very ancient wisdom.

Answer 3

Religion is that which leads towards God. Religion derives from the word religare - to rejoin which is called as Yoga in India.

The regular activities however successful leads to a hollow in terms of completeness and satisfaction.

The remedy of course is with spirituality (and also religion, for it gives or rather is supposed to give the spiritual practices).

Stress is an agitation in the mind, a hush of thoughts uncontrollable and not conducive to the natural state of the individual which sometimes is also of the nature of blank or a dull state of mind.

To avoid stress immediately (and temporarily) breathing techniques like pranayama would help. This would work out because the source of thoughts and breath is the same.

But a permanent solution to stress and vacuum in life can be achieved only when we expand to get identified with our true source.

In Hinduism, our saint Adi Sankara says that man throughout runs towards gaining happiness (Sukha Prapti) and removal of sorrow (Dukha Nivritti). But he rarely understands that his basic nature is Happiness (Ananda) only and all troubles, doubts, unhappiness is created by his thoughts.

We are happy when asleep. We say I slept happily. Now after waking up from sleep, we say I am sorrowful, stressed. So what is the reason for stress. We cannot say that I was not conscious when asleep. If so how do you feel that you slept happily. Modern science and western psychology may call it subconsciousness or through other terms. In our culture we say that it was our natural state, but we most of the times colour ourselves with thoughts and assume that thoughts are us.

Anyway the problems are because our identification with the thoughts. So the solution to the problems are always because of I and mine. The solution can be by understanding who is that I which is referred, whether it is our thoughts or whether it is our real nature. Thoughts cannot be us, because it keeps changing and flowing in front of us. Anything which could witness is apart from ourselves.

This is meditation in Indian terms, finding out "WHO AM I" also called as Gnyana Yoga, the path of knowledge. In this way we find that we are our true nature and sorrow is only because of identification with useless temporary thoughts chain parading before us.

Devotion is complete surrender as everything is yours (including me). Even in that case there is no stress because we see everything as a gift of the primordial cause (GOD), so there is nothing for me separately, there even I am His. This also leads to the same goal.

Following are some of the practices in Hinduism
1. Breathing exercise (Pranayama or others) to calm the mind
2. Karma Bhava (Performance of Duty to work towards our cherished goal) alongwith Prasadha Bhava (Acceptance of the results of action without reserve or prejudice).
3. Accomodate and grow by identifying with everyone we love, every one in the family, everyone in the groups that we work with, every human being, every living being and then with every being around. This way we love everyone and what is more fulfilling than love.
4. Welcoming every situation as a honorouble guest coming to us and returning the best that we could do to that situation, treating it as a service to that guest.
5. Consistent study of holy scriptures and association with saints and sages (whom we consider holy).
6. Dedication towards a Higher Goal (as envisioned by us).

Even if you go to an island, you cannot leave your mind. The problem is in our mind and not in the beings. It is in our perception. So let us expand our perception and live contended in the midst of the challenging surroundings. How to do this is the entire teaching of our Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita, where a demoralised man of action is raised by the wisdom words of the Lord). There is a download the installation version of this book with English translation and commentary. If this can help you, you can have it.

http://www.chinmayauk.org/resources/downloads.htm

All great religions and religious leaders still takes us towards Godhood only. They do not see differences but unites them all. We have many examples of living masters from India like Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Swami Chinmayananda, Mata Amritanandamayi, Sri Sri Ravishankar and so on.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within us is the experience of all saints. May we all reach that natural state of ours with our own efforts.

Answer 4

hold on let me get you the link


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism

Answer 5

www.hinduismtoday.com therein you will find a "LOT" of info on Hinduism

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