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.

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.

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 ).

There is a general belief amongst Hindus that no pilgrimage to the four principal pilgrim centres ( Char Dham ) namely, Badrināth, Jagannāth, Rāmeshwaram and Dwarka, would be complete without a blessing that comes from bathing in the holy Pushkar Lake.

In contrast, Jains agree with Hindus that violence in self-defense can be justified, and they agree that a soldier who kills enemies in combat is performing a legitimate duty.

Hindus have a widely followed monistic philosophy that can be said to be neither monotheistic nor polytheistic.

The Guru Granth Sahib also says that Bhagat Namdev and Bhagat Kabir, who were both believed to be Hindus, both attained salvation though they were born before Sikhism took root and were clearly not Sikhs. This highlights and reinforces the Guru's saying that " peoples of other faiths " can join with God as true and also at the same time signify that Sikhism is not the exclusive path for liberation.

Tipu's treatment of conquered subjects, non-Muslims ( Hindus ), and prisoners of war, was controversial, his way of conversion to Islam was brutal and still continues to be a subject of debate.

But, an alternative meaning is that a non-corporeal God cannot lift anything, but can raise it ( a linguistic pedantry )-or to use the beliefs of Christians and Hindus ( that there is one God, who can be manifest as several different beings ) that whilst it is possible for God to do all things, it is not possible for all his incarnations to do them.

Ammonites from the Gandaki river in Nepal are known as saligrams, and are believed by Hindus to be a concrete manifestation of God or Vishnu.

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.

The BJP has also invited Muslims to be a part of this new society and work with the Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs for a better India.

Rather than one consistent, monolithic structure, it is a range of diverse traditions, developed by different sects, people and philosophical schools, in different regions and at different times, which are not necessarily held by all Hindus to be literal accounts of historical events, but are taken to have deeper, often symbolic, meaning, and which have been given a complex range of interpretations.

Dattatreya () is considered by Hindus to be god who is an incarnation of the Divine Trinity Brahma, Vishnu and Siva.

In a famous statement at the BJP's silver Jubilee rally at Mumbai's historic Shivaji Park, Vajpayee announced that " Henceforth, Lal Krishna Advani and Pramod Mahajan will be the Ram-Laxman ( the two godly brothers much revered and worshipped by Hindus ) of the BJP.

Hindus believed the site was the birthplace of the Lord, and there existed a temple long before the Babri mosque was built after demolishing the temple by Babar, and thus qualified as one of the most sacred sites of Hinduism, where a temple should be reconstructed.

What can be said to be common to many theistic Hindus is belief in Dharma, reincarnation, karma, and moksha ( liberation ) of every soul through a variety of moral, action-based, and meditative yogas.

The Hindu newspapers from Jalandhar, exhorted the Punjabi Hindus to declare Hindi as their " mother tongue ", so that the Punjabi Suba proponents could be deprived of the argument that their demand was solely linguistic.

During this turmoil, the Akali Dal began another agitation in February 1984 protesting against clause ( 2 )( b ) of Article 25 of the Indian constitution, which ambiguously states " the reference to Hindus shall be construed as including a reference to persons professing the Sikh, Jaina or Buddhist religion ", though it also implicitly recognizes Sikhism as a separate religion with the words " the wearing and carrying of kirpans shall be deemed to be included in the profession of the Sikh religion.

This date is also considered by many Hindus to be the day that Krishna left Earth to return to his abode.

However, a growing number of Jewish theologians question whether Hindus and Buddhists today should be considered idolaters in the Biblical sense of the term.

The committee has nine members, a majority of whom, including the chairman, must by law be Hindus.

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 ".

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 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.