Crash Course on Hinduism

[Hindustani78]

The Monkey King of Chinese mythology, based off Hanuman. A deity with incredible strength and the iconic weapon, a golden cudgel/mace/staff that weighs around 8 tons.

Rig Vedic tribes still practice the same traditions , so calling it mythology is incorrect.

Religion is not myth as its faith in the supreme Creator.

 

[Kashmiri Pandit]

Rig Vedic tribes still practice the same traditions , so calling it mythology is incorrect.

Religion is not myth as its faith in the supreme Creator.

Don't feel down ! Its just a word !

Age of Mythology is also Known as Age of Gods .

 

[zebra7]

a way of life is not safe from flaws as well. a way of life when goes wrong can plague the society just as Hindu castism has plagued Indian society. why not to compare it then?

Yes flaws but from the comprehension point of view. Thats why you need a Guru.

So what actually is a religion or can we say a Dharma.
Its such simple and yet complex and difficult to understand. For that you don't need the analysis and religious studies of the books but a simple understanding.

What does the God or Nature wants from us.

1 They want us to live

2. and perform the duties with duties is does not means to perform Namaz 5 times, or chant Arti in the morning in front of an IDOL.but to survive and keep the trail of life in the form of offsprings. in the same way a simple Bacteria perform his duty before dying and gives his leanings to his heirs in the form of genetic codes.

Now if the Hindu religion openness is not safe from the flaws but it itself have the mechanism to corrects itself by evolving, thats how it had survived for so many years attacked from the foreign invaders and is the OLDEST RELIGION IN THE WORLD.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

I thought Forbidden Kingdom's Monkey King was conceptualize from Hanuman .

It's all the same thing, Sun Wukong/Goku (the Monkey King) were based off the original Hanuman.

One of the most loved characters in East Asian history and culture.

 

[Hindustani78]

Don't feel down ! Its just a word !

Age of Mythology is also Known as Age of Gods .

Sorry to say , its not just a word but its being teached.

Darwin theory was what ?

 

[Kashmiri Pandit]

It's all the same thing, Sun Wukong/Goku (the Monkey King) were based off the original Hanuman.

One of the most loved characters in East Asian history and culture.

WoW !!! I am truly amazed !!
Indonesia is Muslim but uses Garuda .The world is full of surprises .

Sorry to say , its not just a word but its being teached.

Darwin theory was what ?

Evolution !!!

 

[Maira La]

5. Mahābhārata

The discourse on the Bhagavad Gita begins before the start of the climactic battle at Kurukshetra.

Can't help but notice that in this modern-day-fanboy-drawing, most of the soldiers are dressed like Muslim soldiers of the Medieval Islamic Empires. @Atanz

At the time of the Battle of Kurukshetra, no one dressed like that!

 

[Kashmiri Pandit]

Can't help but notice that in this modern-day-fanboy-drawing, most of the soldiers are dressed like Muslim soldiers of the Medieval Islamic Empires.

At the time of the Battle of Kurukshetra, no one dressed like that!

hehehe

But that is how they dressed , Its written in the scriptures .

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

WoW !!! I am truly amazed !!
Indonesia is Muslim but uses Garuda .The world is full of surprises .

A good idea never dies.

 

[haviZsultan]

I am Pandit and not Pundit

Pundit = an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called upon to give their opinions to the public.
Anyway , I am happy U called me that

Like Mashar in pashto?

 

[TejasMk3]

@Kashmiri Pandit documentary released by Indian diplomacy a few weeks ago

Also @Aminroop (are you Levina?, if you are, we were discussing this some time back, now there is a full fledged docu on it)

 

[zebra7]

i WROTE SOME THIS IN ANOTHER THREAD, BUT THINK I SHOULD POST IT HERE.

@Kashmiri Pandit
To understand it you have to understand what is GOD -- Every one will agree that God is supreme. Every one will agree that God is looking at everything. And every one will agree that God created everything what we see around us. Different views and brief led to a group of people which is called Religion and the ones who are believe and have faith in it are called as Muslim, Christians, Hindus etc etc. Some of the god have no form, some have multiple forms, some have certain shape, and some are living some place like Heaven. But if you look with the open mind, the God is only the Faith. The faith that God is there, even if nobody have seen him but he believe that its existence is for damn sure. And the ethicist who don't believe the existence of the God in any form are actually the same as because again they have the Faith that God does not exists. Philosophers A. J. Ayer and Theodore M. Drange reject both categories, stating that both camps accept "God exists" as a proposition; they instead place noncognitivism in its own category.

So technically its the Faith that Matters which is the real God !!

Now comes the question -- Reason ?

Nature have provided us few organs like eyes, tongue, nose, skins and few senses like vision, smell, taste, feel, pain etc , actually they are developed in thousands of years of evolution of the living being to cope up with environment, which may be living and non-living being. And we also developed an Organ in the evolutionary process called Brain. As far as the human brain is concerned how it works -- Gets inputs from the sensory organs and always tries to look for the reason for that. And when it could not find the answer of WHY like why it happens, and if it don't happens why it don't happens. Try out the question WHY, there is no end, nor anyone could answer this question. So to avoid our brain getting crashed we made a choice of creating a variable called INFINITY who don't have any value, but we believe in that variable, in another word have Faith. And the question that the human is desperate to find is Why we exists ?

Question now comes then how to be sure that whether it exists or not and if exists where it is ?

This question confused me for years, but the best answer I can conclude is explained below.

We know only 4 parameters --- Length, Bregth , height, and Time only, these are the only 4 parameter which we try to measure, and compare other than that we don't understand any other parameter because our senses have such limitation. But these parameters are only valid on earth, and outside, in space there meanings vanishes.
E.g take a parameter like Time : What is time -- The only definition of Time is that it is what the clock reads. In space the time does not exists at all, so do the length breath or height, that's why Universe don't have any size, nor Universe have any Age. The only thing we got confused in understanding this truth is that we always tries to compare it with some thing that exists on earth our sense could measure.

So if the god is Faith as explained above, the god lives inside our brain.

And if the god is Nature which is True God, then it exists everywhere.

 

[makikirkiri]

It is both, pantheism and polytheism. Only the application of the concepts are different levels varies. It is like Kashmir Shaivism. Both the world we see around us as well as Brahman are real in which case pantheism as well as polytheism are both valid.

Kashmir Shaivism especially, is a non-dualistic school of thought. It does hold that both the reality we perceive around us and 'The Brahman ' are real . While Advaita Vedanta says that what we perceive around us naturally , is actually an illusion. But both are non-dualistic schools of thought. which means -both firmly hold that Brahman and the manifested reality are not disjoint from one another . The manifested is just part of 'The Brahman' .

This is very very different from polytheism .

 

[Hindustani78]

Yes flaws but from the comprehension point of view. Thats why you need a Guru.

So what actually is a religion or can we say a Dharma.
Its such simple and yet complex and difficult to understand. For that you don't need the analysis and religious studies of the books but a simple understanding.

What does the God or Nature wants from us.

1 They want us to live

2. and perform the duties with duties is does not means to perform Namaz 5 times, or chant Arti in the morning in front of an IDOL.but to survive and keep the trail of life in the form of offsprings. in the same way a simple Bacteria perform his duty before dying and gives his leanings to his heirs in the form of genetic codes.

Now if the Hindu religion openness is not safe from the flaws but it itself have the mechanism to corrects itself by evolving, thats how it had survived for so many years attacked from the foreign invaders and is the OLDEST RELIGION IN THE WORLD.

Religious scriptures do explain about the origins, traditions and in detailed about the nations.

Supreme Creator has even warned the mankind about the future prophecies which are mentioned in all the religious scriptures which have been revealed on the choosen messengers/founders all through the ages who are descendents of the ancient rig vedic tribes.

Judgement is done by the Supreme Creator but the fact doesnt change that all the choosen people are from ancient Rig vedic tribes.

Its just not simply written in all the religious scriptures about the coming of the divine soul to uphold dharma/justice.

Be it about Kalki, Messiah and Mehdi. Rig Vedic scriptures are more than 7000 years ,Old testaments are some 5000 years , New testament 2000 years and Quran some 1450 years. But the message related to future prophecies is the same.

 

[Kashmiri Pandit]

i WROTE SOME THIS IN ANOTHER THREAD, BUT THINK I SHOULD POST IT HERE.

@Kashmiri Pandit
To understand it you have to understand what is GOD -- Every one will agree that God is supreme. Every one will agree that God is looking at everything. And every one will agree that God created everything what we see around us. Different views and brief led to a group of people which is called Religion and the ones who are believe and have faith in it are called as Muslim, Christians, Hindus etc etc. Some of the god have no form, some have multiple forms, some have certain shape, and some are living some place like Heaven. But if you look with the open mind, the God is only the Faith. The faith that God is there, even if nobody have seen him but he believe that its existence is for damn sure. And the ethicist who don't believe the existence of the God in any form are actually the same as because again they have the Faith that God does not exists. Philosophers A. J. Ayer and Theodore M. Drange reject both categories, stating that both camps accept "God exists" as a proposition; they instead place noncognitivism in its own category.

So technically its the Faith that Matters which is the real God !!

Now comes the question -- Reason ?

Nature have provided us few organs like eyes, tongue, nose, skins and few senses like vision, smell, taste, feel, pain etc , actually they are developed in thousands of years of evolution of the living being to cope up with environment, which may be living and non-living being. And we also developed an Organ in the evolutionary process called Brain. As far as the human brain is concerned how it works -- Gets inputs from the sensory organs and always tries to look for the reason for that. And when it could not find the answer of WHY like why it happens, and if it don't happens why it don't happens. Try out the question WHY, there is no end, nor anyone could answer this question. So to avoid our brain getting crashed we made a choice of creating a variable called INFINITY who don't have any value, but we believe in that variable, in another word have Faith. And the question that the human is desperate to find is Why we exists ?

Question now comes then how to be sure that whether it exists or not and if exists where it is ?

This question confused me for years, but the best answer I can conclude is explained below.

We know only 4 parameters --- Length, Bregth , height, and Time only, these are the only 4 parameter which we try to measure, and compare other than that we don't understand any other parameter because our senses have such limitation. But these parameters are only valid on earth, and outside, in space there meanings vanishes.
E.g take a parameter like Time : What is time -- The only definition of Time is that it is what the clock reads. In space the time does not exists at all, so do the length breath or height, that's why Universe don't have any size, nor Universe have any Age. The only thing we got confused in understanding this truth is that we always tries to compare it with some thing that exists on earth our sense could measure.

So if the god is Faith as explained above, the god lives inside our brain.

And if the god is Nature which is True God, then it exists everywhere.

WoW !!!

Who are you ??? Kami sama shower some light on me .