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.

Hindus consider a murti worthy of serving as a focus of divine worship only after the divine is invoked in it for the purpose of offering worship.

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.

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 ).

Some Hindus find support for, or foreshadowing of evolutionary ideas in scriptures, namely the Vedas.

During his residence at Calcutta he wrote his Sanskrit Grammar ( 1805 ), some papers on the religious ceremonies of the Hindus, and his Essay on the Vedas ( 1805 ), for a long time the standard work in English on the subject.

Of the four Vedas ( holy books of the Hindus ), the Atharva Veda is said to contain the secrets related to magic and medicine.

The Vedic period is characterized by Indo-Aryan culture associated with the texts of Vedas, sacred to Hindus, which were orally composed in Vedic Sanskrit.

: What the Vedas were to the Hindus, Homer to the Greeks, and Ovid and Virgil to the Romans, the Tanakh is to the Jews, the Old and New Testaments to the Christians, and the Quran to the Muslims.

Holding an ambiguous position between the Upanishads of the Vedas and the epics, the Bhagavad Gita is considered to be revered scripture by most Hindus today.

Hindus view Vedas, Gita, other texts from the Shastra canon, rather than the Akilam.

Because of the Hindu traditions of Vedanta and Upanishads, and the prominent Hindu theological perspective that there is a single Reality ( Brahman ) from which the world arises, Hindus eventually have been included as dhimmis.

Arsha Vidya Gurukulam offers Indians and non-Indians, Hindus and non-Hindus, men and women alike, an opportunity to study the profound knowledge of the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Brahma-Sutra, and other classical Vedanta texts.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi thought so highly of this text that he remarked, " If all the Upanishads and all the other scriptures happened all of a sudden to be reduced to ashes, and if only the first verse in the Ishopanishad were left in the memory of the Hindus, Hinduism would live for ever.

Hindus, Jains and Sikhs observe several holidays, one of the largest being Diwali ( Festival of Light ).

The martyrdom of Sri Guru Teg Bahadur Ji 9th Guru to protect Hindus from religious persecution, in Delhi, on 11 November 1675 AD, is another example of upholding minority religious freedom ; he gave his life to protect the right of Kashmiri Hindus to practice their own religion when they were being forced to convert to Islam by Aurangzeb, the Mughal emperor at the time.

Thus, with all Hindus, there is a strong belief in all paths being true religions that lead to one God or source, whatever one chooses to call the ultimate truth.

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.

The Goa Inquisition discriminated Hindus who were living in the area, and persecuted Hindus, Muslims and Jews who had converted to Catholicism, but were being suspected of continuing their old faith in secret.

Still more fundamental principles include ahimsa ( non-violence ), the primacy of the Guru, the Divine Word of Aum and the power of mantras, love of Truth in many manifestations as gods and goddesses, and an understanding that the essential spark of the Divine ( Atman ) is in every human and living being, thus allowing for many spiritual paths leading to the One Unitary Religious Truth ( which Hindus call Brahman ).

The approximately 60, 000 Cham Hindus presently do not have a strict caste system, although previously they may have been divided into Nagavamshi Kshatriya caste, with a considerable minority being Brahmins.

Thus, some Hindus chant the name of their favorite deities as often as possible, the most common being Krishna

It is alleged that he associated with Abdullah el-Faisal, a Jamaican Muslim convert cleric who preached in the UK until he was imprisoned for urging his followers to murder Jews, Hindus, Christians and Americans, subsequently being deported to Jamaica in 2007.

Respecting his wishes, his body was buried instead of being cremated, the traditional funeral of Hindus.

The WBC then admonishes Hindus to convert to Christianity saying: " If you would STOP worshipping false gods, being a fag would not be a complex matter.

* Disparity of cult ( one party not being baptised a Catholic, or at least into one of the Christian denominations ; though there are many ceremonies where one party is not a Christian, or does not belong to any denomination ; Catholic-Jewish weddings, to give one example, have become much more common, as have those with Mormons, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus ; if the other party is not a Catholic, it requires the permission of the pastor, and the witnessing priest, deacon, or certified layperson ; if the other party is a non-Christian or a member of no denomination, the local ordinary must also give permission ; all weddings are inscribed into the parish registry, and cases requiring the ordinary's permission must be recorded at the diocesan headquarters )

Lala Jagat Narain, the editor of a widely circulated paper in which he had campaigned against Punjabi being adopted as a medium of instruction in Hindu schools, urged Hindus of Punjab to reply to government census that Hindi and not Punjabi was their mother tongue and decried the Anandpur Sahib Resolution.

Angkor scholar George Coedès has theorized that Jayavarman stood squarely in the tradition of the Khmer monarchs in thinking of himself as a " devaraja " ( god-king ), the salient difference being that while his predecessors were Hindus and regarded themselves as consubstantial with Shiva and his symbol the lingam, Jayavarman as a Buddhist identified himself with the Buddha and the bodhisattva.

Violence between Hindus and Muslims led to further confrontations within the Janata party, with most Janata leaders demanding that Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Lal Krishna Advani choose between staying in government and being members of the RSS.

The population of this region consists chiefly of Brahmanical Hindus, the Mahommedans being but thinly scattered over the country.

The festival of Onam, celebrated by Malayali Hindus in the southern Indian state of Kerala, and the Government of Kerala declared Onam as the ‘ State Festival ’ of Kerala in 1960, commemorates his yearly homecoming after being sent down to the underworld Sutala by Vamana, the fifth avatar of Vishnu.

For example, Christians go to a Christian heaven, Jews go to a Jewish heaven, Muslims go to a Muslim heaven, Hindus goes to a Hindu heaven, Theosophists go to a Theosophical heaven, and so forth, each heaven being like that described in the scriptures of that religion.

Though the state was Islamic, some Hindus did rise to prominence in the Qutb Shahi state, the most important example being the ministers Madanna and Akkanna.

Shiva, Krishna, Ganesh, Durga, Radha, and Sita are all names of Hindu Gods or Goddesses as well as being personal names for Hindus.

Some of the essays have been criticized by peer reviewers as being insufficiently objective about relations between Indian Muslims, Hindus and the British political classes.

Apart from being worshipped by all Hindus, this form is of particular importance to the Sri Vaishnava community.

All Venad Kings were devoted Hindus and they took pride in being the inheritors of the crown of Kulasekhara Alwar.