Hinduism Quiz

Over time traditions came together to develop recognizable religious traditions which was eventually known as Hinduism. Hindu’s have many different practices such as Sanatana Dharma, Vedic worship, yoga and many other different rituals. Hindu’s also have many other beliefs and celebrations such as reincarnation, karma, prana, puja, samsara and many more. Hinduism is known for its beliefs, practices and gods and as the years pass by the religion still stands strong to what they believe.

After reading the article, I think rituals have some basic structures of meaning, and there are number of ways to show that rituals are meaningful. In the following thesis I choose Hinduism as an example to show how rituals are meaningful, how it relates to the living context of the Indian people, how the Indians enact the Hindu rituals, and so on.

In particular ways, Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world; or at least there are aspects of Hinduism that have extended to today from many thousands of years ago. It is not easy defining Hinduism for it has boundless assortments of practices and beliefs found within it. To make it a bit easier to comprehend, they but meaning behind the first part of the word Hinduism, which is Hindu. Hindu can be a cultural political and geographical term. To make this religion a bit more of a mystery, Hinduism does not have a set founder, a particular scripture, or a set teaching. The religion believes itself to be timeless and having existed. There are many prime individuals teaching different philosophies that have extended throughout Hinduism’s history.

Hinduism is a combination of religion, culture, and philosophy that saw its beginnings in India (Molloy, 2009). Followers of Hinduism have a strong belief in a cycle of reincarnations, virtue, and karma. Unlike other belief systems, followers of Hinduism are not held to a particular set of beliefs. They live a particular way of life that governs all that they do and is governed by their own traditions, ethics, philosophy and theology. Within the Hindu faith there are several themes that govern their way of life and are all related in one way to each other. The prominent themes in the Hindu faith are karma, moksha, samsara, Brahman and yoga. Of these themes, samsara stands out the most to me as the most essential of the Hinduism themes and is also one of the most prominent themes for all religions that originate from

Imagine a place entirely made of Turkish Limestone and Italian marble, a place of worship and serenity. BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir is the full name of the Hindu Mandir I visited, it is located in Stafford also known as Houston, Texas. I visited BAPS because of the beautiful land mark it created. BAPS is a place of worship for people who practice and believe in Hinduism. Hinduism is approximately 5,000 to 10,000 years old. It is a religion that grows by enfolding new traditions. There are several field of Hinduism, but everyone picks only one. In Hinduism, the fallowers believe in the four gods and five goddesses, each one has an individual meaning and story. Causing each human individual to have a different connection with each of the gods.

For most people religion usually signifies a unified belief in one god and has a set structure of a system of practices. Hinduism is different from all other religions in that aspect. The Hindu religion has no founder, core beliefs that are defined, guided by common scripture, or a central authority, and has 900 million followers (Carabajal ppt).

Many religions offer an exact path to the afterlife; illuminated by various rules and regulations that one must follow to reach enlightenment. Hinduism, on the other hand, is much more complex, offering multiple ways to achieve moksha and providing many answers to the ancient question of “what happens after we die?” Many people think that Hindus believe in many deities, but the Hindu concept of God is much broader than that. In fact, Hinduism itself encompasses much more than just one specific set of religious beliefs. While some Hindus believe that God is a divine being with certain identifiable attributes, others believe that God cannot be defined and is an all-pervading being that extends beyond everything. Although some beliefs differ, the majority of Hindus see the concept of God in multiple ways. Among these are the concepts of God as one and many, God and the soul, God as sound, God as image, God in nature, cows, and avatara.

Hinduism, even just by virtue of its name, is deeply Indian in nature. The word Hindu is derived from a Persian word which means “the Indus River” or more simply, just “Indian.” The word began as a purely geographical term. It wasn’t until the invasions into India that the word became associated with the religions of the subcontinent. The invaders classed all the beliefs of India’s indigenous peoples as one religion, Hinduism. Even before the imperial takeover of the British, the ideas and beliefs of “Hinduism” were already undergoing significant changes, with the instruction of new teachings from invaders.

Hindus have confidence in a one, all-unavoidable Supreme Being who is both natural and otherworldly, both Creator and Unmanifest Reality.

Hinduism is estimated to have its roots beginning as early as 2500 BCE; it is the third largest religion in the world (900 million followers.) It is a complex system of beliefs that is closely intertwined with the similarly complex culture and society of India. It started in its infancy in the Indus Valley near what is now known as Pakistan where an Aryan invasion brought the influence of the Sanskrit language to the developing religion. Its teachings were prehistorically transmitted orally, and it now encompasses multiple languages and races. The ancient texts of Hinduism – the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Epics, and the Puranas – gave the religion a written set of scriptures and creeds starting in 1500 BCE. The Maurya and Gupta empires facilitated

Of the five major world religions, the two birthed from the loins of Southern Asia thousands of years ago couldn’t be of a greater dissimilarity. Many believe a religion must focus on a deity and committed worship of that figure, like Hinduism. However, some consider it as more of a spiritual path to self-realization than simply focusing on a certain ethereal being, like Buddhism. Through such practices we are able to gain a greater understanding of each religion.

Hindus beliefs mainly focus on simple and spiritual factor, they try to gain much knowledge and believe in always speaking the truth. They believe in the one true god Brahman who is said to be limitless and encompasses all things.

I am a Christian, but there are many other fascinating religions. I find Hinduism to be a very interesting religion, partly because it has major differences from Christianity.

Hinduism is the world religion that comprising both continuity and change. Hinduism has always combined and adapted to a variety of social and cultural contexts. It encompasses several and varied systems of philosophy, belief, and ritual. Hinduism is a Basic Religion with an animistic cosmology, out of which developed monistic and monotheistic. Hinduism is characterized by the belief in reincarnation, one absolute being of multiple manifestations, the law of cause and effect, and the desire for liberation from the cycle of births and deaths. In the following, there will be discussion of some characteristics of Basic Religion that are found in the Hindu tradition, philosophical monism of Hinduism and how it relates to the Basic Religion of Hinduism and also the beliefs and expressions of monotheism in the Basic Religion as well as scriptures.

In hinduism, darsahana is said to bring good fortune, well being, grace and spiritual merit to the devotees. As the deity gazes on the devotee without blinking, darshana, in essence, can be considered the exchange of vision that is essential to Hindu worship before images. The act of opening an image's eyes is said to "vivify it in essential preliminary to consecration and worship" (Fuller). It is the passive act in which the devotee and the deity exchange vision allowing for the devotee to absorb the power of the deity when he or she looks at the image. This allows for the symbolic interaction between the deity and the devotee. When a devotee looking into the image, they are essentially seeing the deity's shakti rather than the deity itself.