What do the world think of Religion - Hinduism?

Question

also try to tell wat do u think ?

Answer 1

=Hinduism is all accepting religion
= hinduism believes, God is one who manifests as universe
= the highest aim in hinduism is to merge with the Supreme
= Hinduism does not condemn other faiths (even atheists) to hell
= Hindus believe in Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam - whole earth is my family
= Hindus never attacked any country to spread religion

Answer 2

1.Hinduism is not based on fear
2.Hinduism does not prey on the innocent
3.Hinduism is not based on dishonesty
4.Hinduism is not egocentric
5.Hinduism does not breed arrogance, a chosen-people mentality
6.Hinduism does not breed authoritarianism
7.Hinduism is not cruel
8.Hinduism is not anti-intellectual, anti-scientific
9.Hinduism has not an exceedingly narrow, legalistic view of morality
10.Hinduism does not depreciate the natural world
11.Hinduism does not model hierarchical, authoritarian organization
12.Hinduism does not sanction slavery
13.The Hindu scriptures are the reliable guide to Hindu’s teachings
14.The Hindu scriptures are not riddled with contradictions
15.Hinduism has not borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions

Answer 3

I am a Hindu and I naturally regard my dharmic religion (hinduism, buddhism, sikhism and jainism) as being a father.

Answer 4

I am a Hindu and i think that our religion is superior to any other religion because of its teachings,just read the vedas or gita and you can understand why its superior,but i think our religion has been crushed by westernisation and most people over the world dont even know hinduism exists which is bad.Our religion is the most peaceful religion on earth,we did not convert people forcibly like christians and muslims did and we certainly did not attack countries but we were attackked by them.We should always think highly of our religion for that.

Answer 5

Well I am a born Hindu, not a practicing one...the best thing abt Hinduism is that it gives a person the freedom to follow his/her own spirituality. and it does not condemn other religions. It, like other religions, have become corrupted, and desperately needs reform..........

Answer 6

I can't speak for the world, so I'll tell my opinion of Hinduism. It's very old and is not aggressive toward people of other religions but that has nothing to do with correctness. It is a manmade house with many floors being added over the centuries, but its foundation is error. It's a pagan concept that says nothing is right and wrong, that all of this life is an illusion so what's good to you is good, and what God is to you is God. It's nonsense that many people naturally feel comfortable with. No rules, just try to be "good" and you won't come back in another life as some lowly animal in your next of a million lives. It teaches that you never permanently reach nervona (sane reality, paradise, fulfillment). But I know anyone can know fulfillment and know the one true God in this life and live in real paradise when they die, by getting saved (reborn, enlightened) in Jesus Christ. You can do it today!

Answer 7

The most popular among the Aryan religions is Hinduism. ‘Hindu’ is actually a Persian word that stands for the inhabitants of the region beyond the Indus Valley. However, in common parlance, Hinduism is a blanket term for an assortment of religious beliefs, most of which are based on the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita.

There are several sacred scriptures of the Hindus. Among these are the Vedas, Upanishads and the Puranas.

1. VEDAS: The word Veda is derived from vid which means to know, knowledge par excellence or sacred wisdom. There are four principal divisions of the Vedas (although according to their number, they amount to 1131 out of which about a dozen are available). According to Maha Bhashya of Patanjali, there are 21 branches of Rigveda, 9 types of Atharvaveda, 101 branches of Yajurveda and 1000 of Samveda).

The Rigveda, the Yajurveda and the Samveda are considered to be more ancient books and are known as Trai Viddya or the ‘Triple Sciences’. The Rigveda is the oldest and has been compiled in three long and different periods of time. The 4th Veda is the Atharvaveda, which is of a later date.

There is no unanimous opinion regarding the date of compilation or revelation of the four Vedas. According to Swami Dayanand, founder of the Arya Samaj, the Vedas were revealed 1310 million years ago. According to other scholars, they are not more than 4000 years old.

Similarly, there are differing opinions regarding the places where these books were compiled and the Rishis to whom these Scriptures were given. Inspite of these differences, the Vedas are considered to be the most authentic of the Hindu Scriptures and the real foundations of the Hindu Dharma.


2. UPANISHADS:The word 'Upanishad' is derived from Upa meaning near, Ni which means down and Shad means to sit. Therefore ‘Upanishad’ means sitting down near. Groups of pupils sit near the teacher to learn from him the secret doctrines.

According to Samkara, ‘Upanishad’ is derived from the root word Sad which means ‘to loosen’, ‘to reach’ or ‘to destroy’, with Upa and ni as prefix; therefore ‘Upanishad’ means Brahma-Knowledge by which ignorance is loosened or destroyed.

The number of Upanishads exceeds 200 though the Indian tradition puts it at 108. There are 10 principal Upanishads. However, some consider them to be more than 10, while others 18.

The Vedanta meant originally the Upanishads, though the word is now used for the system of philosophy based on the Upanishad. Literally, Vedanta means the end of the Veda, Vedasua-antah, and the conclusion as well as the goal of Vedas. The Upanishads are the concluding portion of the Vedas and chronologically they come at the end of the Vedic period. Some Pundits consider the Upanishads to be more superior to the Vedas.

3. PURANAS:Next in order of authenticity are the Puranas which are the most widely read scriptures. It is believed that the Puranas contain the history of the creation of the universe, history of the early Aryan tribes, life stories of the divines and deities of the Hindus. It is also believed that the Puranas are revealed books like the Vedas, which were revealed simultaneously with the Vedas or sometime close to it.

Maharishi Vyasa has divided the Puranas into 18 voluminous parts. He also arranged the Vedas under various heads.

Chief among the Puranas is a book known as Bhavishya Purana. It is called so because it is believed to give an account of future events. The Hindus consider it to be the word of God. Maharishi yasa is considered to be just the compiler of the book.

4. ITIHAAS:The two epics of Hinduism are the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

A. Ramayana: According to Ramanuja, the great scholar of Ramayana, there are more than 300 different types of Ramayana: Tulsidas Ramayana, Kumbha Ramayana. Though the outline of Ramayana is same, the details and contents differ.

Valmiki’s Ramayana: Unlike the Mahabharata, the Ramayana appears to be the work of one person – the sage Valmiki, who probably composed it in the 3rd century BC. Its best-known recension (by Tulsi Das, 1532-1623) consists of 24,000 rhymed couplets of 16-syllable lines organised into 7 books. The poem incorporates many ancient legends and draws on the sacred books of the Vedas. It describes the efforts of Kosala’s heir, Rama, to regain his throne and rescue his wife, Sita, from the demon King of Lanka.

Valmiki's Ramayana is a Hindu epic tradition whose earliest literary version is a Sanskrit poem attributed to the sage Valmiki. Its principal characters are said to present ideal models of personal, familial, and social behavior and hence are considered to exemplify Dharma, the principle of moral order.

B. Mahabharata: The nucleus of the Mahabharata is the war of eighteen days fought between the Kauravas, the hundred sons of Dhritarashtra and Pandavas, the five sons of Pandu. The epic entails all the circumstances leading upto the war. Involved in this Kurukshetra battle were almost all the kings of India joining either of the two parties. The result of this war was the total annihilation of Kauravas and their party. Yudhishthira, the head of the Pandavas, became the sovereign monarch of Hastinapura. His victory is supposed to symbolise the victory of good over evil. But with the progress of years, new matters and episodes relating to the various aspects of human life, social, economic, political, moral and religious as also fragments of other heroic legends came to be added to the aforesaid nucleus and this phenomenon continued for centuries until it acquired the present shape. The Mahabharata represents a whole literature rather than one single and unified work, and contains many multifarious things.

C. Bhagavad Gita: Bhagavad Gita is a part of Mahabharata. It is the advice given by Krishna to Arjun on the battlefield of Kurukshetra. It contains the essence of the Vedas and is the most popular of all the Hindu Scriptures. It contains 18 chapters.

The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most widely read and revered of the works sacred to the Hindus. It is their chief devotional book, and has been for centuries the principal source of religious inspiration for many thousands of Hindus.

The Gita is a dramatic poem, which forms a small part of the larger epic, the Mahabharata. It is included in the sixth book (Bhismaparvan) of the Mahabaharata and documents one tiny event in a huge epic tale.

The Bhagavad Gita tells a story of a moral crisis faced by Arjuna, which is solved through the interaction between Arjuna, a Pandava warrior hesitating before battle, and Krishna, his charioteer and teacher. The Bhagavad Gita relates a brief incident in the main story of a rivalry and eventually a war between two branches of a royal family. In that brief incident - a pause on the battlefield just as the battle is about to begin - Krishna, one chief on one side (also believed to be the Lord incarnate), is presented as responding to the doubts of Arjuna. The poem is the dialogue through which Arjuna’s doubts were resolved by Krishna’s teachings.

Answer 8

You may be interested in this book, written by Sita Agarwal, an Indian woman and feminist...

http://www.geocities.com/genocideofhinduwomen/index.html

Answer 9

Hindus are cool people, worked with many--the religion is pretty intriguing too, shiva , vishnu, Kali ma, Pavaarti--kind of neat, not my thing though

Answer 10

http://www.geocities.com/~abdulwahid/hinduism/index.html

CHeck this out for hinduism