The former Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee suggested in 2004 introducing legislation banning the slaughter of cows throughout India, as Hinduism holds cows as sacred and considers their slaughter unthinkable and offensive.

No other Hindu philosopher or school of Hinduism holds such beliefs.

Rājarshi ( 2001: p. 45 ) conveys his estimation of the historical synthesis of the School of Yoga ( one of the six Āstika schools of Hinduism ) which he holds introduces the principle of " Isvara " as Saguna Brahman, to reconcile the extreme views of Vedanta's " advandva " and Sankya's " dvandva ":

No other Hindu philosopher or school of Hinduism holds such beliefs.

Naraka in Hinduism is similar to the Christian Hell, but serves only as a temporary purgatory where the soul is purified of sin by its suffering.

Hinduism has preached about humility and egoless state through numerous sacred scripts and sages which dates back to 5500 – 2600 BCE. Hinduism has influenced many originating religions like Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism regarding egoless state and nirvana or mukti. Eknath Easwaran writes that the Gita's subject is " the war within, the struggle for self-mastery that every human being must wage if he or she is to emerge from life victorious ", and " The language of battle is often found in the scriptures, for it conveys the strenuous, long, drawn-out campaign we must wage to free ourselves from the tyranny of the ego, the cause of all our suffering and sorrow ".

In Hinduism and Buddhism, Mara determines fates of death and desire that tether people to an unending cycle of reincarnation and suffering.

Detachment as release from desire and consequently from suffering is an important principle, or even ideal, in the Bahá ' í Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism and Taoism.

In Vedic religion and Hinduism, it is used figuratively, denoting spiritual suffering, mortification or austerity, and also the spiritual ecstasy of a yogin or tāpasá ( a Vriddhi derivative meaning " a practitioner of austerities, an ascetic ").

The key points where the theory of Karma in Jainism differs from the other religions such as theistic traditions of Hinduism, can be stated as follows:

" It states that it follows the same traditions and teachings which Jesus himself followed, yet does not exclude Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, or Hinduism.

In his article Homosexuality and Hinduism, Arvind Sharma expresses his doubt over the common English translation of words like kliba into " eunuch " as follows: " The limited practice of castration in India raises another point significant for the rest of the discussion, namely, whether rendering a word such as " kliba " as " eunuch " regularly is correct ..."

In the Pattan belt of the valley in Lahoul most population follows Hinduism, but counts for 14 percent of the total and they are called swanglas.

Treta Yuga ( Devanagari: त ् र े त ा य ु ग ) is the second out of four yugas, or ages of mankind, in the religion of Hinduism, and follows the Satya Yuga of perfect morality and precedes the Dvapara Yuga.

Christian Lee Novetzke, associate professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Washington, summarizes this controversy as follows: " Wendy Doniger, a premier scholar of Indian religious thought and history expressed through Sanskritic sources, has faced regular criticism from those who consider her work to be disrespectful of Hinduism in general.

In Hinduism, when used as a technical term in Raja Yoga, the phrase samādhi refers to a particular type of samādhi that Heinrich Zimmer distinguishes from other states as follows:

As of 2000, 52 % of the country follows Hinduism, which makes Mauritius the only country in Africa, and one of only three countries worldwide, where Hinduism is the dominant religion.

Also, nothing is said about the period which follows Dharma yuga, which means that timeline is linear, and not circular as believed inside mainstream Hinduism.

Regarding the other species of life, the Master follows the view expressed in Hinduism, namely that we are souls passing through a continuous process of phenomenological evolution, moving from one form to the next more complex form, gaining more and more complex consciousness and also more complex desires — until the soul is lucky enough to find itself incarnated as a human being.

Indian Hindu artisans from the period of the Chola empire in Tamil Nadu, used bronze to create intricate statues via the lost wax casting method with ornate detailing depicting the Gods of Hinduism mostly, but also the lifestyle of the period.

Decisive in distinguishing Buddhism from what is commonly called Hinduism is the issue of epistemological justification.

In Hinduism, celibacy is usually associated with the sadhus (" holy men "), ascetics who withdraw from worldly ties.

Brahma | Brahmā, the Hinduism | Hindu Deva ( Hinduism ) | deva of creation, emerges from a Nelumbo nucifera | lotus risen from the navel of Vishnu | Viṣņu, who lies with Lakshmi on the serpent Ananta Shesha

The idea of rta laid the cornerstone of dharma's implicit attribution to the " ultimate reality " of the surrounding universe, in classical Vedic Hinduism the following verse from the Rig-Veda is an example where rta is mentioned:

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 First Night in Exile-This painting comes from a celebrated series illustrating one of Hinduism ’ s great epics, the Ramayana.

Hinduism is a complex of various belief systems that sees many gods and goddesses as being representative of and / or emanative from a single source, Brahman, understood either as a formless, infinite, impersonal monad in the Advaita tradition or as a dual god in the form of Lakshmi-Vishnu, Radha-Krishna, Shiva-Shakti in Dvaita traditions.

The Initial Declaration was signed by 143 respected leaders from all of the world's major faiths, including Baha ' i Faith, Brahmanism, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Indigenous, Interfaith, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Native American, Neo-Pagan, Sikhism, Taoism, Theosophist, Unitarian Universalist and Zoroastrian.

Ancient hymns include the Egyptian Great Hymn to the Aten, composed by Pharaoh Akhenaten ; the Vedas, a collection of hymns in the tradition of Hinduism ; and the Psalms, a collection of songs from Judaism.

The Atharvaveda, a sacred text of Hinduism dating from the Early Iron Age, is the first Indian text dealing with medicine, like the medicine of the Ancient Near East based on concepts of the exorcism of demons and magic.

Hinduism has some common concepts and practices that nowadays some Hindus tend to consider Jainism to have derived its roots from Hinduism.

In the Bhakti tradition within Hinduism, it is believed that execution of devotional service to God leads to the development of Love for God ( taiche bhakti-phale krsne prema upajaya ), and as love for God increases in the heart, the more one becomes free from material contamination ( krishna-prema asvada haile, bhava nasa paya ).

In most of Hinduism and transcendentalism, all matter is believed to be an illusion called Maya, blinding us from knowing the truth.

Although the Sikhs have many names for God, some derived from Islam and Hinduism, they all refer to the same Supreme Being.

* Mages of Akashic Brotherhood are ascetics, martial artists, and monks, largely drawing from Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, Hinduism and other such religions.

" After being released from court, he converted to Hinduism in 1996 to become engaged to a daughter of an Indian tea merchant.

The name Muralitharan is derived from murli dhar ( Devnagri: म ु रल ी धर ) meaning " the bearer of the flute ", which is a synonym for Lord Krishna, a deity in Hinduism who is said to play upon his bamboo flute while looking after cattle.

New Age practices and philosophies sometimes draw inspiration from major world religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam ( especially Sufism ), Judaism ( especially Kabbalah ), Sikhism ; with strong influences from East Asian religions, Gnosticism, Neopaganism, New Thought, Spiritualism, Theosophy, Universalism and Western esotericism.

According to the various Indian religions, such as Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism, beings that live in accordance with dharma proceed more quickly toward dharma yukam, moksha or nirvana ( personal liberation ).

Theistic schools of Hinduism such as Vedanta thus disagree with the Buddhist and Jain views and other Hindu views that karma is merely a law of cause and effect but rather is also dependent on the will of a personal supreme God.

Monistic theism, which includes the concept of a personal god as a universal, omnipotent Supreme Being who is both immanent and transcendent, is prevalent within many other schools of Hinduism as well.

* Monism is the type of monotheism found in Hinduism, encompassing pantheism and panentheism, and at the same time the concept of a personal god.

It has been characterized as a religion, a cult, a charismatic movement, a " sect ", " plastic export Hinduism ", a progressive millennialism organization and a " multinational, capitalist, Vedantic Export Religion " in books and the mainstream press, with concerns that the movement was being run to promote the Maharishi's personal interests.

Kabir was influenced by the prevailing religious mood of his times, such as old Brahmanic Hinduism, Tantrism, the teachings of Nath yogis and the personal devotionalism of South India mixed with the imageless God of Islam.

Sacrifice in Hinduism can also refer to personal surrender through acts of inner and outer worship.

This massive program of construction coincided with a transition in the state religion from Hinduism to Mahayana Buddhism, since Jayavarman himself had adopted the latter as his personal faith.

Within Hinduism a large number of personal gods ( Ishvaras ) are worshipped as murtis.

Within monotheistic Hinduism, it is the love felt by the worshipper towards the personal God, a concept expressed in Hindu theology as Iṣṭa-devatā ( also as Svayam Bhagavan in Gaudiya Vaishnavism ).

The TM movement has been called a spiritual movement, a new religious movement, a " Neo-Hindu " sect, a religion, a cult, a charismatic movement, " plastic export Hinduism ", a " multinational, capitalist, Vedantic Export Religion ", a millenarian movement, a world affirming movement, a new social movement and a guru-centered movement in books and the mainstream press, with concerns that it was being run to promote the Maharishi's personal interests. Sources also say that TM is not a religion, but a meditation technique ; and that the TM movement is a spiritual organization, and not a religion or a cult.

The Ishta-devata of Hinduism is an aspect of God for personal worship.

The Vishnusahasranama ( Sanskrit, a tatpurusha compound translating literally to " the thousand names of Vishnu ") is a list of 1, 000 names ( sahasranama ) of Vishnu, one of the main forms of God in Hinduism and the personal supreme God for Vaishnavas ( followers of Vishnu ).

Followers of Vedanta, a leading practicing school of Hinduism in existence today, consider Ishvara, a personal supreme God, as playing that role.

These differing views are explicitly noted in a series of passes in the Brahma Sutras ( III. 2. 38-40 ), an important text in Vedanta, the major school of Hinduism, which endorses the concept of Ishvara i. e., a personal supreme God, as the source of fruits of karma, but note opposing views in order to refute them.

Theistic schools of Hinduism such as Vedanta disagree with the Buddhist views, Jain views and other Hindu views that karma is merely a law of cause and effect but instead additionally hold that karma is mediated by the will of a personal supreme God.

Hinduism became a more " intelligible and satisfying road to faith for many ordinary worshippers " than it had been because it now included not only an appeal to a personal god, but had also seen the development of an emotional facet with the composition of devotional hymns.

In some traditions of Hinduism it is used to indicate the Supreme Being or Absolute Truth, but with specific reference to that Supreme Being as possessing a personality ( a personal God ).

Vaishnava and Saiva traditions of Hinduism subscribe to an ultimate personal nature of God.