The holy text spans 1430 pages and contains the actual words spoken by the Sikh Gurus and various other Saints from other religions including Hinduism and Islam.

The Bhagavad Gita, which contains the spiritual teachings of Krishna, is one of the most widely read scriptures in Hinduism.

Without the telephone, one could not have a conversation across long distances ; and without the sanctified image in the temple, one cannot easily talk with the Deity .” Moreover, anthropologist Christopher John Fuller notes that an image in Hinduism cannot be equated with a deity and the object of worship is the divine whose power is inside the image, and the image is not the object of worship itself, Hindus believe everything is worthy of worship as it contains divine energy emanating from the one god.

A Sanskrit text called the Damar Tantra, not part of core Hinduism, contains 107 stanzas on the benefits of " pure water, or one's own urine ".

The book also contains a critical analysis of the political intrusions of the British Empire into the subject of Hinduism ( and India itself ) through Madame Blavatsky ’ s theosophism.

These movements assert that Sant Mat shares a lineage with Sikhism and contains elements of thought found in Hinduism, such as karma and reincarnation.

A priestly Zoroastrian inscription from the time of King Bahram II ( 276 – 293 CE ) contains a list of religions ( including Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism etc.

The major knowledge source in Hinduism is the vast knowledge achieved by the sages over thousands of years and stored in form of 4 vedas, 8 siddhis, 9 Niddhis and Major religious books, to say Ramayana and Mahabharata.

Most of the great Angkor ruins have vast displays of bas-relief depicting the various gods, goddesses, and other-worldly beings from the mythological stories and epic poems of ancient Hinduism ( modified by centuries of Buddhism ).

These timings, due to the vast diversity in Hinduism, vary from temple to temple.

Its magazine has been criticised for having attitude of wilful ignorance, bigotry & intentional misinterpretations of Hinduism, after an issue said about Hindus as " The Indian sub-continent with one billion people, is a living example of what happens when Satan rules the entire culture ... India is one vast purgatory in which millions of people .... are literally living a cosmic lie!

Hinduism is a minority religion in the United States, American Hindus accounting for an estimated 0. 4 % of total US population .</ ref > The vast majority of American Hindus are Indian Americans, immigrants from India and Nepal and their descendants, besides a much smaller number of converts.

In Hinduism, the belief is that the body is but a shell, the soul inside is immutable and indestructible and takes on different lives in a cycle of birth and death.

Hinduism preaches ahimsa ( or ahinsa, non-violence ), but also teaches that the soul cannot be killed and death is limited only to the physical body.

Hindus believe the self or soul ( Atman ( Hinduism ) | atman ) repeatedly takes on a physical body.

It is a doctrine popular among a number of Eastern religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Druzism wherein an individual incarnates from one body to another, either human, animal, or plant.

Whether the lingam symbolizes the physical body of the god or something purely spiritual is the topic of many a century-old debate within Hinduism.

Hindu mythology is a large body of traditional narratives related to Hinduism, notably as contained in Sanskrit literature, such as the Sanskrit epics and the Puranas.

In Hinduism, it is avidya, or ignorance, of one's true self that leads to ego-consciousness of the body and the phenomenal world.

An important part of ritual purification in Hinduism is the bathing of the entire body, particularly in rivers considered holy such as the Ganges ; it is considered auspicious to perform this form of purification before any festival, and it is also practised after the death of someone, in order to maintain purity.

It is only the idea that we are the body that keeps us from living what he calls our " original essence ", the True Self, in Hinduism referred to as Atman.

Hinduism propounds that every living being, be it a human or animal, has a body and a soul ( consciousness ) and the bridge between the two is the mind ( a mixture of both ).

Some of the more abstract Tree of Life representations, such as the Sefirot in Kabbalism and in the Chakra system recognized by Hinduism and Buddhism, merge with the concept of the human body as a pillar between heaven and earth.

In Hinduism, the tilaka, tilak or tika ( ; tilak ) is a mark worn on the forehead and other parts of the body.

In Hinduism an Atma or Soul is bound to take rebirth after death in a body composed of five or more elements.

But in Hinduism the Priests gives the Prachatham by throwing, in the belief that if he happened to touch the worshipers body it would make him ritually unclean.

In Ayyavazhi, unlike in Hinduism, the body of the dead is buried.

In Hinduism it is believed that within the body, there exists the soul but that the spirit of God is also present within the heart of every human being.

Jivana mukta ( from the Sanskrit words jiva and mukti ) is someone who, in the Advaita philosophy of Hinduism, has gained dradh nishthaa, firmly assimilated knowledge of the Self-and is liberated while living in a human body, free from rebirth.

( Devanagari ) traditions are conservative ritualistic traditions of the historical Vedic religion in Hinduism, based on the body of Śruti literature.

This conversation is a key part of the Mahabharata and is considered as a holy scripture of Hinduism.

See Also: Hinduism -- Hindu scripture -- Samkhya -- Yoga -- Nyaya -- Vaisesika -- Vedanta -- Bhakti -- Cārvāka -- Indian logic

Religion and culture scholar Sean McCloud says that Newsweek reported that " many Indian sages contend that his rather simplified system of meditation is without basis in the Bhagavad-Gita — the epic poem that is Hinduism ’ s most exalted scripture ".

Volume II, Theology, discusses the similarity of Christian scripture to Eastern religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, the Vedas, and Zoroastrianism.

Bronze statue representing the Bhagavad Gita | discourse of Krishna and Arjuna, in KurukshetraKarma yoga ( Sanskrit: कर ् म य ो ग ), or the " discipline of action " is a form of yoga based on the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita, a sacred Sanskrit scripture of Hinduism.

Balinese Hinduism is deeply interwoven with art and ritual, and is less closely preoccupied with scripture, law, and belief than Islam in Indonesia.

The Arul Nool is a supplement to the Akilattirattu Ammanai, and is likewise considered a holy scripture of Ayyavazhi, an offshoot sect of Hinduism.

British colonialists, in the 19th century, exploited these divisions by mistranslating scriptures in Hinduism ( such as the Manusmriti ) and attaching undue weight to its importance over other more normative religious scripture in the religion in order to foster sectarian divisions among Hindus as part of the Divide and rule strategy employed by the crown.

The Barahmo Samaj is the monotheistic unitarian branch of Hinduism launched by Raja Rammohan Roy following the philosophy of the monotheistic Hindu scripture Isha-Upanishad of 7th Century BC.

Traditionally, it has been bestowed upon or used for acharyas belonging to the Vedānta school ( among the six traditional schools of thought in Hinduism ) who have written Sanskrit commentaries on the Prasthānatrayī ( literally the three sources )-the Brahma Sutra ( the original scripture of Vedānta ), the Bhagavad Gita ( part of the Mahābhārata ) and the principal Upanishads.

The Isha Upanishad ( Devanagari: ईश ा व ा स ् य उपन ि षद ्,, otherwise Ishopanishad or ) is one of the shortest of the Upanishads, consisting of 17 or 18 verses in total ; like other core texts of the vedanta, it is considered revealed scripture ( Śruti ) by diverse traditions within Hinduism.