Hinduism What is religion? Religion is a set of beliefs and experience. There are many religions in the world such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism, Shinto, Daoism, and Confucianism. Every religion has own beliefs systems and experiences. It is based on the individuals’ belief and experiences. Hindu religion is not like the other religions, which based on one person. There are 330 million gods in Hindu religion. It is founded by the Aryan Invaders of India. It has various types of creeds, religious groups, and textual traditions. Hinduism is s polytheistic religion because it has many faces of god. It has many beliefs such as dharma, karma, and reincarnation.
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All are important in Hinduism but I think naming ceremony is the most important. It is celebrated between 10th and 20th day after the birth of a child. The priest starts ritual with prayers to the God, fire. The first letter of the name is given by the priest, and it based on stars and Vedic astrology. “Rice grains are spread on a bronze dish and the father writes the chosen name on it using a gold stick while chanting the God 's name.” (Das) He whispers his name into the child’s right ear four times with chanting mantras. There are differences between girl and boy names. It’s tradition that boy’s name should have letters in even numbers, and girl’s name should have letters in odd numbers. Child attains his or her last name because it shows caste for instance a Brahmin use suffix ‘Sharma’, and a Kshtariya use suffix ‘Aggarwal’ and so …show more content…
It is polytheistic because they believe in more than one god. There are 330 million gods and goddess in Hindu religion. There are many faces of god in Hindu religion. I would like to mention one quote “Ekam sat vipraha bahudha vadanti” it means that Truth is one, people call it by many names , And just as Hindu believe that truth is one, it called by many names, so too is god called by many names. In India, people worship many male gods, but throughout India, mostly in the Northeast, they worship some female gods, some of them are look like animals. (Bajpai,
All are important in Hinduism but I think naming ceremony is the most important. It is celebrated between 10th and 20th day after the birth of a child. The priest starts ritual with prayers to the God, fire. The first letter of the name is given by the priest, and it based on stars and Vedic astrology. “Rice grains are spread on a bronze dish and the father writes the chosen name on it using a gold stick while chanting the God 's name.” (Das) He whispers his name into the child’s right ear four times with chanting mantras. There are differences between girl and boy names. It’s tradition that boy’s name should have letters in even numbers, and girl’s name should have letters in odd numbers. Child attains his or her last name because it shows caste for instance a Brahmin use suffix ‘Sharma’, and a Kshtariya use suffix ‘Aggarwal’ and so …show more content…
It is polytheistic because they believe in more than one god. There are 330 million gods and goddess in Hindu religion. There are many faces of god in Hindu religion. I would like to mention one quote “Ekam sat vipraha bahudha vadanti” it means that Truth is one, people call it by many names , And just as Hindu believe that truth is one, it called by many names, so too is god called by many names. In India, people worship many male gods, but throughout India, mostly in the Northeast, they worship some female gods, some of them are look like animals. (Bajpai,