'Hindu Religion\r'

' Hindoo RELIGION Dennis E. Leber Axia College RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD (AXIA) HUM/130 NAOMI DOUMBIA AUG 14, 2007 The Hindoo holiness The Hindu morality is strongly hooked on the Hindu philosophy and in addition, has inculcated a lot of rituals and f ares. The Hindu religion has 333 million gods; this is because the Hindu philosophy believes that every human being is beau ideal himself. This acceptance of the multiplicity of the Supreme Being in some(prenominal) forms is the hallmark of the Hindu religion. The Hindu religion is also very assimilative and has accepted many faiths into it.\r\nThe Hindu religion also allows religious granting immunity and does not enforce the edicts of the religion on anyone. In fact, Hinduism teaches that a person, in order to attain judgment of dismissal from the worldly bondage, essential select the religion that he is comfortable in. Hence, it accepts the existence of all other religions as a means to realize God. The Hindu religion like oth er religions also believes in the appointment surrounded by the bang-up and the evil although at a lower level of existence. The religion preaches that man must advance himself through successive levels of knowledge in his quest for the final truth.\r\nHence, the concept of the Devas, or the good deities and the Asuras, the demoniac characters atomic number 18 very important in the Hindu traditions. com localizationy folklores revolve around the battles between the Devas and the Asuras. The important Godheads in the Hindu tradition are Brahma, Vishnu and Siva who correspond with the threesome ‘Gunas or qualities of Satva (pureness), Rajas(action), and Tamas(darkness and inactivity). Man is a mixture of the three gunas and the inherent genius of a person will depend on the predominance of the three gunas in him. The Hindu well-disposed Life\r\nThe Hindu cordial livelihood is clan based, which was originally devised for the division of labor. Hence the Hindu monastic order has the Brahmins, the highest class who performs rituals and is supposed to be the most ameliorate in terms of religion. Then comes the Kshatriyas who are the warrior and vox populi class. Following them in importance comes the Vaishyas, who are the dividing line class. Last comes the Shudras who serve the upper class. People who do not come in these four classes were antecedently classified as the untouchables who had to do menial jobs in the society and were looked down upon.\r\nWomen were given important position in the family even though her importance in public affairs was greatly curtailed during the later historic period of Hindu history The Hindu way of life has many beliefs that were perhaps a means that offered kindly balance in the society. For example, the norm of sacrifice and the authorisation rules on feeding others helped to provide food for the needy. Similarly, the social practices were seen as the physical grammatical constructions of the philosophic al edicts that Hinduism preached.\r\nFor example the practice of sacrifice to the fire is a physical manifestation of the philosophic ritual of giving up everything for the saki of understanding the truth. Similarly, the belief that the confluence of the three rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswathi is holy, is repayable to the Tantric belief that the meeting point of the three nerve centers in the body awakens the Kundalini, which is the seat of authority in the human body. The appetency for liberation from secular existence Dharma is the duty that you have to fulfill in life through your placement. Karma states that you will reap what you sow.\r\nAnd the desire for liberation from earthly existence is achieved through the crew 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 materialistic desires because they are temporary. Only the psyche is eternal. So by meditating, fu lfilling your duties, and by eventually ridding yourself of your karma; you are free to exist as soul and be one with the universe as opposed to inveterate the cycle of birth & death. http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Hindu drawn from Aug, 2007 generator of Hinduism, About. com drawn from Aug 2007\r\n'