Hindu Religion

HINDU holiness Dennis E. Leber Axia College RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD (AXIA) HUM/130 NAOMI DOUMBIA AUG 14, 2007 The Hindu organized religion The Hindu religion is strongly dependent on the Hindu philosophy and in addition, has inculcated a lot of rituals and practices. The Hindu religion has 333 million gods this is because the Hindu philosophy believes that both human being is God himself. This acceptance of the multiplicity of the Supreme universe in many forms is the hallmark of the Hindu religion. The Hindu religion is a same very assimilative and has accepted many faiths into it.The Hindu religion overly allows religious freedom and does not enforce the edicts of the religion on any genius. In fact, Hinduism teaches that a person, in order to attain acquittance from the worldly bondage, essential select the religion that he is comfortable in. Hence, it accepts the creation of all different religions as a means to realize God. The Hindu religion like other religions also be lieves in the battle between the good and the villainy although at a lower level of existence. The religion preaches that man essential advance himself through successive levels of knowledge in his quest for the concluding truth.Hence, the concept of the Devas, or the good deities and the Asuras, the demoniac characters are very most-valuable in the Hindu traditions. Many folklores revolve around the battles between the Devas and the Asuras. The crucial Godheads in the Hindu tradition are Brahma, Vishnu and Siva who correspond with the ternary Gunas or qualities of Satva (pureness), Rajas(action), and Tamas(darkness and inactivity). Man is a mixture of the common chord gunas and the inherent character of a person will depend on the predominance of the three gunas in him. The Hindu Social LifeThe Hindu social breeding is caste based, which was originally devised for the division of labor. Hence the Hindu society has the Brahmins, the highest figure who performs rituals and i s supposed to be the most educated in terms of religion. thus set outs the Kshatriyas who are the warrior and ruling class. Following them in importance comes the Vaishyas, who are the communication channel class. Last comes the Shudras who serve the upper class. People who do not come in these four classes were previously classified as the untouchables who had to do small jobs in the society and were looked down upon.Women were given important position in the family even though her importance in public affairs was greatly curtailed during the later years of Hindu history The Hindu way of manners has many beliefs that were perhaps a means that offered social balance in the society. For example, the norm of abandon and the mandatory rules on feeding others helped to provide nutrition for the needy. Similarly, the social practices were seen as the physical manifestations of the philosophical edicts that Hinduism preached.For example the practice of sacrifice to the fire is a ph ysical manifestation of the philosophic ritual of tolerant up everything for the sake of understanding the truth. Similarly, the belief that the confluence of the three rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswathi is holy, is receivable to the Tantric belief that the meeting point of the three nerve centers in the body awakens the Kundalini, which is the seat of power in the human body. The desire for liberation from earthly existence Dharma is the duty that you have to fulfill in vivification through your placement. Karma states that you will reap what you sow.And the desire for liberation from earthly existence is achieved through the combination of the two aforementioned methods. Life & death has a cycle. The cycle is wrought with earthly pleasures & pain. Your intention is to be free from temporal desires because they are temporary. Only the soul is eternal. So by meditating, fulfilling your duties, and by last ridding yourself of your karma you are free to exist as soul and be one with the universe as opposed to continuing the cycle of birth & death. http//en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Hindu drawn from Aug, 2007 Origin of Hinduism, About. com drawn from Aug 2007