Hinduism
Nameste: it’s the popular Hindu greeting performed by pressing two hands together and holding them near the heart. The whole act communicate to the world “Your and I are one. I salute and worship the God within you, which is mirror image of me”.
Sanatan Dharma is the original name of Hinduism. It is the true culture of Indian in India. Many call it “A way of life.” It isn’t an organized religion like Christianity or Islam. It has no founder. It has no pope no hierarchy. Just a lot of scriptures. It is the research output of countless learned men called Rishis. Nobody knows when Hinduism was born. If you go by Hindu mythological stories, Hinduism is trillions of years old.
Sanskrit is the language in which the Hindu scriptures were written. Sanskrit is older than Hebrew and Latin; it’s the oldest language in the world. The first word in English language came from Sanskrit. The word
Mother came from Sanskrit word Mata
Father came from Sanskrit word Pita
Geometry came from a Sanskrit word Gyaamiti
Trigonometry came from the word Trikonamiti
Sanskrit is the classical language of India and is the oldest and the most systematic language in the world. Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages.
Hindus believe in one and only one God. Hindus do not believe god has human form or any other form. God is nameless and timeless. But there is nothing wrong to worship a God with name and a form, since man cannot conceive anything without any name and form.
So this leads to the question why Hindus worship many god forms.
During the time of Upanishads, when the Hindu Rishis (scientists of that day) said there is only One God –they found out that laymen could no ...