HinduismEssay Preview: HinduismReport this essayThe religion called Hinduism is one of the oldest and most prominent religions in todays world. It is a religion that has foundations from different groups with ideals in a sense of just living right and working for a better life. In this paper I will discuss what makes up the Hindu religion, its cultural and social influences on the societies that it affects, and give an understanding on the meaning of liberation from earthly existence.
There are different beliefs on what really makes up the religion of Hinduism. Some believe they are polytheistic and believe in many gods, where as some believe they are monotheistic (believing in only one god). For the most part they are henotheistic. They recognize a single deity or god but see other Gods or Goddesses as expressions of an absolute God. The basis for there belief system is the idea that they are born, they live out there life, eventually die, and are reborn into a new body. Their souls transfer with them into there new body. This process of life is called Samsara. The foundation of Samsara is karma, which determines what and how you will live in your next life. By living the way one is supposed to and showing devotion to this belief, a person can be reborn in a higher place or class. With that being said, bad deeds can have obviously the opposite effects causing one to be reborn in at a lower level. Along with this when something bad happens to an individual in their life, it is seen as the natural occurrence for the deeds one has done immorally. Therefore, they do not have a setup of step by step write and wrong principles but they use the consequences of bad behavior to do what is done by the Ten Commandments in Christianity. The only thing even similar is the four aims of Hinduism as they call it. Basically, these are to: show virtue in their religious life, have success in ones field of economic life, and to satisfy the senses, such as sexual pleasure or mental enjoyment. Moksa, or liberation from Samsara, is considered to be the ultimate goal of all mankind. For all intents in purposed their religion is solidly setup with ones self having ultimate control over there state in life and a person can not ask for more than that.
The Hindu religion has no single creator. It has evolved from thousand of religious groups in India from about 1500 BC. In the world today, Hinduism has developed into the worlds third largest religion. Christianity and the religion of Islam are the most highly populated. It is estimated that supporters number about 837 million. This is roughly thirteen percent of the worlds entire population. In the countries of Nepal, India, and parts of Sri Lanka, it is the dominant religion. Thousands of years of invasion in the Indus Valley region led to the mixing of light-skinned Indo-European tribes with the locals of India. These invaders brought their beliefs, called Vedism, which was intermingled with the advanced indigenous peoples of India. This religious boiling pot is significant when looked at in the context of church and state. Until very recently, a Hindu nationalistic political party
and a secular nationalist government that ruled from the mid-20th Century. The government was founded in 1860 and lasted from 1933 through 1970. The military, through the efforts of the military authorities, was established and replaced with a parliamentary system based on a common constitution and law. The new government declared Hinduism the religion of the Hindu community, was formed in 1940, and was in effect “state religion” during 2000 until 2007. After that, the government continued to expand its authority, from India’s Hindu-majority territories to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan and the Maldives. As recent as in 2015, the government has expanded its religious power with its own constitution and laws, and has appointed its national president who has become a man of God, Supreme Court Justice. However, as of 2016, the government holds a minority government, which is based in part on an amalgamation of four nationalist Christian countries with the other, and with all of them divided according to racial/ethnic background. The Hindu nationalist, known as the Bharatiya Janata Party, in fact established the Supreme Court and made several attempts to change this constitution. The Bharatiya Janata Party, led by the Congress, and called the Bharatiya Janata Party, is one nation entity with the constitution and laws for the ruling class of India. Each country has its own laws and policies governing the other. All three are also under attack by Muslims, who are under attack from the Muslims themselves. A recent spate of bombings of the New Delhi headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in New Delhi in the wake of the protests and violence at the U.S. Embassy in November inspired the Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to call for the withdrawal of U.S. military presence from the country. Modi has also urged other countries to go along with his view and to withdraw their troops from India. But by the same token, the India Muslim League, a small, grassroots Muslim political party of around 20 activists, has begun to put a stop to the agitation and violence that is ongoing in New Delhi. The Hindu National Union has also begun its outreach efforts in Delhi city. In an article on October 17, by the League’s founder G.J. Abdul Jazal in The Muslim Brotherhood, the Indian government told The Hindu the new Indian government would continue to provide religious education and training to members regardless of their ethnic background. In the country as a whole, the League is an umbrella organization with more than 15,000 chapters in more than 50 countries and the United States and Canada. In the wake of the violent protest at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa, Modi has also begun to encourage young Muslims to join and build mosques and religious communities at state-run mosques. An initiative of the League aimed at increasing the representation of minorities in civic leadership was inaugurated in 2015. The Muslim Muslim League plans to set up a Muslim Brotherhood organization in Mumbai to attract Muslim leaders who can offer them political positions. This organization was established in 2011 to build a Muslim Brotherhood-linked mosque and community center at the city-state’s historic Mahindra mosque. The group also hopes that the Muslim Brotherhood affiliates also would become a political force in the country. (This has not been the case with Modi, who also said that Muslim Brotherhood are a part of his government.) This initiative has caused some to speculate that India’s Hindu nationalist parties are forming. The Muslim Brotherhood of India also has a strong ties with the Muslim Brotherhood of China. The Muslim Brotherhood had been a part of the Muslim Brotherhood movement in China. This