Hinduism Leading Religion

Hinduism is the leading religion, or way of life, particularly in India. Although Hinduism contains an overall variety of philosophies, it is a family of connected religious cultures by shared concepts, rituals, cosmology, and shared textual means. What does it mean to be Hindu? Hinduism recommends the eternal duties, such as honesty, refraining from harming living beings, patience, mercy, self-restraint, compassion, among others. When people refer to being Hindu they refer to a certain god or goddess such as Vishna or Devi. As to many followers of Hinduism they believe the spirit of God is within our bodies and everything around us, meaning if you wanted to worship a particular object you can because it is your belief system. A different approach …show more content…
The core teachings of Hinduism in my opinion are, the goal of moksha, individuals are immortal, the belief of karma, and the cycle of existence which is called samsara. In Hinduism many believers see the human soul as being immortalized because once a person dies they believe the soul is reborn into another body in which gives off the same actions as their life before. For instants, in the book “Nine Lives” by William Dalrymple it states, “Like followers of other Indian faiths they believe in an immortal and indestructible soul, and that the sum of one’s actions determines the nature of ones future rebirth.”(Dalrymple) On the other hand, Jainism rejects the Hindu idea. In Hinduism they say the nature of ones future determines rebirth because in their belief system they believe in something called Karma which is the actions and the individual’s effect on life. In other words meaning “What goes around comes around.” Also, in Nine Lives it stated, “Once they have paid through suffering for their bad actions, they can rise to be reborn in the middle world and again begin the cycle of death and rebirth- depending on their karma, as a human being, animal, and plant.”(Dalrymple)From my understandings if people who intended to do bad actions in their present life they paid the price in the afterlife, life is driven by desire. Most Hindu’s see the individual goal of the soul is moksha. Moksha is the path to enlightenment and liberation which is …show more content…
Individual’s journeys would always be different which the stages of life give four examples of the voyage. The four stages of life are the student, householder, forest dweller, and sannyasin. Each one of these individuals journey is different because as a student this is the time when he/she gets informed of education. The next stage in life is the householder that strives to wealth or called Artha and sexual desire. The forest dweller is the stage when the person matures throughout life in now can withdraw from everything. The final stage is sanyassin. At this stage these individual’s journey are different because the person is devoted to God. Something that is common in Hindu people might identify is everyone is trying to be as close as possible to