For over 200 years, Western scholars have struggled to understand Hinduism, a faith whose followers seemed (to outsiders) to arbitrarily worship any one of a dozen Gods as the Supreme, a religion vastly diverse in its beliefs, practices and ways of worship. Some Indologists labeled the Hinduism...
Hinduism is the world's third largest religion; its followers, known as Hindus, number about 1.15 billion, or 15-16% of the global population.Hindus form the majority of the population in India, Nepal and Mauritius. Significant Hindu communities are also found in other countries. Hinduism is ...
of alien religions. It is time that the world knew of the greatness of Hinduism, knew it as it is. Of course, we cannot explain it in an evening. My satguru, the great Siva Yogaswami of Columbuthurai, would say, “The time is short and the subject is vast.” But we can have a ...
The Hindus, followers of the oldest of the religions now being practised, believe that one’s own Self or Soul is really identical with the Self or Soul of all other creatures. Hence one who injures another injures oneself. In the Hindu Vedas, “Love your neighbour as yourself'” is an ...
Now we want to look at the primary ways in which followers of Hinduism seek to achieve this salvation--liberation from earthly existence. Before discussing the three primary ways of salvation in Hinduism, we must mention the four goals of life permissible to Hindus. Hinduism recognizes that in ...
followers. As in case of Vaishnavism, Saivism has several sects and sub sects. Followers of Siva worship Him as the Supreme Brahman who is responsible for the creation, preservation, and destruction of the worlds, besides delusion and liberation of the beings. In popular Hinduism he is ...
First, let’s start with Vaishnavism, the sect that sees the god Vishnu as the supreme existence. The word “Vaishna” means “of Vishnu” or “from Vishnu” in Sanskrit, and is used to refer to a person who worships Vishnu. It is the sect with the largest number of followers in ...
Today a number of independent institutions have followed ISKCON’s example in contributing to the global spread of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition. General Overview Serious scholarship on Bhaktisiddhānta began in the second decade of the twenty-first century. Various publications have ...
The most popular gods of Vedic religion are Indra and Agni because the highest number of hymns in the four Vedas are addressed to them. They are followed by Soma, Surya and Vayu. Other important gods are Adityas, Aditi, Pusan, Rudras, Maruths, and Visvadevas. They are called gods of ...
A few years later he returned with a number of followers; followers that devoted their lives to The Middle Way“, a lifestyle that is midway between a completely simple lifestyle and one that is full of materialistic goods. Siddhartha searched for a way that would allow him to escape the ...