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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Hinduism

                 In the Nepalese subcontinent there is a variety if different religions. Some of the religions are Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism. Hinduism has been a round for many years. The term Hinduism has "derived from a name applied by foreigners to the people living in the region of the Indus River, and was introduced in the nineteenth century under colonial British rule as a category for census-taking." Hinduism believes that there is only one supreme Absolute called Brahman, but it does not advocate the worship of one particular deity.
           What makes up the Hindu religion? The Hindu's have always known the way of thinking of freedom of action, for the reason that they had a perfect religion, a religion on which one aspect of God was described as human, and their various Deva's are nothing but various characteristics of human nature, each of them are adored and worshipped. In this way not only God, but the whole human nature in all its aspects was adorned and worshipped. Sanatana Dharma which also means eternal religion is an alternative label that is preferred today for Hinduism. Sanatana reflects the belief that these ways have always existed, while Dharma includes duty, natural law, social welfare, ethics, health, and transcendental realization. Dharma is therefore a holistic approach to social coherence and the good of all, corresponding to order in the cosmos. The spiritual expressions of Sanatana Dharma range from extreme asceticism to great sensuality, from the heights of personal devotion to a deity/God to the heights of abstract philosophy, from metaphysical proclamations of the oneness behind the material world to worship of images representing a multiplicity of deities. According to Hindu tradition, there are actually 330 million gods in the world.

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