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Hinduism

Hinduism is a broad polytheistic religion that contains several different ideas, values, beliefs, and philosophies. The ultimate canonical authority for all Hindus is the Vedas. The Vedas are called shruti and stems from the inner spiritual experience of the ancient seers. There are four Vedas, namely Rgveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda. Each Veda consists of sections namely Samhita (containing the hymns) and Brahmana (significance of the hymns), Aranyakas (interpretations), and Vedanta (Upanishads, which are metaphysical dialogs). The oldest of the four Vedas is the Rig-Veda, which was composed in an ancient form of the sanskrit language, in northwest India. Hinduism has many different reasons why God created the universe. There are three different accounts of creation from the Hindu perspective; let us study each of them in detail.

Rgveda, Manus-Smrti, Brhadaranyaka Upanisad and Chandogya Upanisad

In the Rgveda and the Chandogya Upanisad, creation begins to take place through the negation of non-being. Hindu Creation Hymn starts out telling us about before the distinction between being and non-being, stating that there was no space, sky, or beyond that. In Manu-Smrti, the creator god Brahma creates the world fo


The word Upanishad has been derived from the root Upani-sad that means ‘to sit down near someone’. It denotes a student sitting under the feet of his guru to learn. Eventually the word began to be used for the secret knowledge imparted by the guru to his selected pupils. Upanishads are also called Vedanta (the end of the Veda) firstly, because they denote the last phase of the Vedic period and secondly, because they reveal the final aim of the Veda. Upanishads discuss various theories on the creation of the Universe and define the doctrine of Karma (action). They profess the goal of life to be-to attain moksha (salvation) that is possible through meditation and self-control.

Hindu has several diverse viewpoints into what to believe, follow, worship, love, and live by. There are over three hundred and thirty million deities one can choose to pray to. A polytheist Hindu can pray to as many as they choose. Polytheism believes in the assembly of gods, each possessing a character of his own. The term polytheism knowledges the presence of a God-figure in a religious system, but in the plural; Hindus worship many such being of god and consider each of them of equal importance. Henotheism is another prospective which indicates the tendency of the Vedic seers to magnify the importance of the particular deity they are praising in a hymn at the expense of the other gods. One deity is identified with another or different deities are identified with one divine entity, indifferently described as Ekam (one) and Tat Sat (the reality). Monotheism, it has been aptly stated "contemplates the Divine in heaven and polytheism contemplates the Divine in the universe.

rm the egg. They believed that there was darkness in the beginning; with no distinguishing sign, all this was water. He, desiring, seeking to produce various creatures from his own body, first created the waters, and deposited in them a seed. This (seed) became a golden egg, glorious as the sun, in which he himself was born as Brahma, the progenitor of all worlds. The waters are called Nara, because they are the offspring of Nara; and since they were formerly the place of his movement or ayana, he is therefore called Narayana. He then divided the egg into tw

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