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

Many Hindus see God's direct involvement in this process ; others consider the natural laws of causation sufficient to explain the effects of karma.

Many of the Muslim clergy of India considered Hindus as people of the book, and from Muhhammad-bin-Kasim to Aurangzib, Muslim rulers were willing to consider Hindus as people of the book.

He considered " Hindus " as those who consider India ( Bharat, भ ा रत ) to be their motherland ( matrubhumi ), fatherland ( pitrubhumi, प ि त ृ भ ू म ि) as well as their holy land ( punyabhumi, प ु ण ् यभ ू म ि), hence describing it purely in cultural terms.

There are some Hindus who consider the various deities not as forms of the one Brahman, but as independently existing entities, and may thus be properly considered polytheists.

After the ruling, all Hindus were given access to what they consider the birthplace of Rama, and the mosque gained some function as a Hindu temple.

As Hindus do not consider humans as special or noble creations of god, unlike some other religions, the wrong doings or such things committed by humans shall have no effects on the end of time, as the end of time as per Hinduism is purely a property of matter.

Hindus consider taking a holy dip at the Mahamaham tank on the day of Mahamaham as sacred.

Hindus consider the tantras to be divine revelations, or Śruti, imparted by ( Śiva ) in the form of Svacchandanath, who created each tantra as a combination of his five universal energies, or shakti: cit śakti ( energy of all-consciousness ), ānanda śakti ( energy of all-bliss ), īccha śakti ( energy of all-will ), jñāna śakti ( energy of all-knowledge ), kriya śakti ( energy of all-action ).

Devout Hindus consider bathing in the icy waters near Gangotri town to be a holy ritual, and many make the trek to Gomukh and Tapovan.

For example, Hinduism in the Caribbean has been considered an ethnic religion by some scholars, because Hindus in Trinidad, Guyana, and Suriname consider themselves a distinct ethnic group.

A Hindu myth is a religious story that Hindus may consider factually true or have deep explanatory or symbolic significance.

Whereas Duff and many of his fellow evangelists saw Christianity and Hinduism as diametrically opposed, Hindus did not generally consider the knowledge either tradition provided as mutually exclusive with the other.

Many Hindus consider Karna as a man who fought against his misfortunes throughout his life without a single pause.

Hindus consider Gajanan Maharaj a saint with miraculous powers.

Hindus consider the Vedas and the Upanishads as being among the foremost in authority, importance and antiquity.

Hinduism has no specific proscriptions against eating meat ( however, they can not eat cows, as they are considered as sacred beings in their religion ), but some Hindus apply the concept of ahimsa ( non-violence ) to their diet and consider vegetarianism as ideal, and practice forms of vegetarianism.

It has great significance to Hindus, particularly to Brahmins, Smarthas uses this the replica of lord Narayana, Srivaisnavas & Madhva Sects who consider the place of availability of this stone in the river bed of the Gandaki River, and the Mukthinath temple as one of the 108 Divyakshetrams or Thirthastanas ( temples and celestial abodes of Vishnu ) to be visited on a pilgrimage ( at least once in their life ).

Hindus believe that the deity that they are worshiping actually enters and inhabits the murti.

The scholar Steven Rosen notes that early European missionaries were largely responsible for conflating the two terms by informing local Hindus that " idol " was the correct translation for " murti ".

Many Hindus believe everything is God and contains the divine energy of God, so everything is worthy of worship be it the Murti, an icon, or nature itself.

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.

The association was overtly a self serving political association, founded on a large and liberal basis, to admit landholders of all descriptions, Englishmen, Hindus, Muslims, and Christians.

While serving as a law member of the executive council of the Governor of Madras, Ramaswami Iyer's agenda for social reform and opening the doors of Hindu temples for Dalits and low-caste Hindus were praised by C. Natesa Mudaliar, one of the founders of the South Indian Liberation Federation.

Moreover, Hindus have found it easier to focus on anthropmorphic icons, because Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 5, that it is much more difficult to focus on God as the unmanifested than God with form, due to human beings having the need to perceive via the senses.

Furthermore, Hindus have found it easier to focus on anthropomorphic icons, as Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 5

Furthermore, Hindus have found it easier to focus on anthropomorphic icons, as Lord Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 5,

Another major form of prayer for Hindus involves a heavy focus on meditation, through Hindu yoga that stills the mind in order to focus on God.

Several galleries focus on the genocide carried out by the Pakistani army against the Bengali population, with Operation Searchlight targeting Bengali intellectuals, students, Hindus and Awami League leaders, and the humanitarian crisis created with the pouring of an estimated ten million refugees into neighbouring India.

Moreover, Hindus have found it easier to focus on anthropmorphic icons, because god Krishna said in the Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 12, Verse 5, that it is much more difficult to focus on God as the unmanifested than God with form, due to human beings having the need to perceive via the senses.

There are, however, certain esoteric and mystical schools of thought, present in many faiths — Sufis in Islam, Gnostics in Christianity, Advaitan Hindus, Zen Buddhists, as well as several non-specific perspectives developed in new age philosophy — which hold that all humans are in essence divine, or unified with the Divine in a non-trivial way.

In addition to shrardha ( the ritual Hindu offerings by the son of deceased ), we find among Hindus widespread adherence to the notion of divine intervention in ones fate, while Buddhists eventually came to propound such theories like boon-granting bodhisattvas, transfer of merit and like.

The lingam has been interpreted as a symbol of male creative energy or of the phallus, though today most Hindus view the linga as a symbol of divine energy rather than as a sexual symbol.

Hindus believe that as creation began, the divine, all-encompassing consciousness took the form of the first and original vibration manifesting as sound " OM ".

The Yamuna, like the Ganges, has been elevated to the status of a divine mother for the Hindus and has been held responsible for nurturing and developing the Indian civilization.

Among Hindus, as the etymology of deodar suggests, it is worshiped as a divine tree.

It generally means the place for divine resting and is considered very holy by the Hindus.

He is believed by Hindus to be the " Principal Universal Architect ", the architect who fabricated and designed the divine architecture of the Universe, the Lord of Creation.

Makar Sankranti is a Hindu festival dependent on the position of the sun and celebration of Sankranti who is considered a Deity for Hindus and is celebrated in many ways including worship for the departed ancestors and to worship Saraswati.

Ancestor worship is predominant in India among Hindus.

In 2009, places of worship exist for Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims.

Whilst Christianity is the dominant religion of the borough, several religious minorities are also active, and places of worship for Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus and Jews may be found.

In their personal religious practices, Hindus may worship primarily one or another of these aspects, known as their " Ishta Devata " or " Ishvara " ( chosen deity ).

In Bangladesh also the four-days long Sharadiya Durga Puja ( Bengali: শ া রদ ী য ়া দ ু র ্ গ া প ু জ ো, ‘ autumnal Durga worship ’) is the biggest religious festivals for the Hindus and celebrated across the country with Vijayadashami being a national holiday.

According to the District Gazetteer Faizabad 1905, " up to this time ( 1855 ), both the Hindus and Muslims used to worship in the same building.

Their reasons are that modern day Buddhists, Hindus and others ( a ) do not literally worship " sticks and stones ", as the idolaters in the Tanakh were described doing.

Pūjā or alternative transliteration Pooja, ( Devanagari: प ू ज ा) () ( Sanskrit: reverence, honour, adoration, or worship ) is a religious ritual performed by Hindus as an offering to various deities, distinguished persons, or special guests.

Hindus regard the Buddha as an incarnation of Vishnu and thousands of Hindu pilgrims come here on the full moon of the Nepali month of Baisakh ( April-May ) to worship Maya Devi as Rupa Devi, the mother goddess of Lumbini.

* Shiva, whom Hindus, especially Shaivites, worship as supreme God or their Supreme Being

Most mainstream parties on both sides of the ethnic divide, however, agreed that a constitutional clause calling for " worship and reverence of God " was broad enough to encompass interpretations acceptable to Hindus and Moslems, as well as Christians.

Half of the population calls themselves Hindus, but in fact are more or less practising ancestor worship.

There are sects of Hindus who worship a particular deity for several generations.

These sites are sacred to the Hindus and some Buddhists worship in these Hindu sites.

From 1853 to 1949, separate areas were earmarked for both Hindus and Muslims to worship and in 1949, Idols were placed inside the disputed structure.

According to British sources, Hindus and Muslims ( who came from Faizabad ) used to worship together in the disputed structure in the 19th century until about 1855.

: " It is said that up to that time, the Hindus and Mohamedans alike used to worship in the mosque-temple.

Subsequently, Aurangzeb, or according to others, Babur razed this place down, in order not to give the Gentiles ( Hindus ) occasion to practice their worship.