Hinduism Paper
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Sindy Tasies
The Hindu religion is strongly dependent on the Hindu philosophy and also, has inculcated a lot of rituals and practices. The Hindu religion has over 300 million gods; perhaps the largest number of Gods in any religion. This is because the Hindu philosophy believes that every human being is God himself. This acceptance of the multiplicity of the Supreme Being in many forms is the hallmark of the Hindu religion. The Hindu religion is also very assimilative and has accepted many faiths into it. In fact in many parts of India, the distinction between Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism is very thin and inconspicuous. The Hindu religion also allows religious freedom and does not enforce the edicts of the religion on anyone. In fact, Hinduism teaches that a person, in order to attain liberation from the worldly bondage, must 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 other religions also believes in the battle between the good and the evil although at a lower level of existence. The religion says that man must advance himself through successive levels of knowledge in his quest for the final truth. Hence, the concept of the Devas, or the good deities and the Asuras, the demoniac characters are very important in the Hindu traditions. Much folklore revolves 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 three 'Gunas' or qualities of Satva (pureness), Rajas(action), and Tamas(darkness and inactivity). Man is a mixture of the three gunas and the inherent nature of a person will depend on the predominance of th ...