It is an important tenet of some Indian religions ( Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism ).

For some schools of Hinduism and Buddhism the received textual tradition is an epistemological category equal to perception and inference ( although this is not necessarily true for some other schools ).

Breatharianism is a related concept, in which believers claim food and possibly water are not necessary, and that humans can be sustained solely by prana ( the vital life force in Hinduism ), or, according to some, by the energy in sunlight ( according to Ayurveda, sunlight is one of the main sources of prana ).

This draws parallels with some sects of Hinduism who also do not consume pungent tasting foods.

This period produced some of India's finest art, considered the epitome of classical development, and the development of the main spiritual and philosophical systems which continued to be in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.

Contemporary Hinduism is mostly monistic, or in some instances monotheistic ( see Hindu views on monotheism ).

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

While Buddhism does give a similar and to some extent a matching account for Gautama Buddha, Hinduism maintains a totally different theory where " divine grace " is needed for emancipation.

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

Neopaganism in the United States accounts for roughly a third of all contemporary Pagans worldwide, and for some 0. 2 % of US population, figuring as the sixth largest non-Christian denomination in the US, after Judaism ( 1. 4 %), Islam ( 0. 6 %), Buddhism ( 0. 5 %), Hinduism ( 0. 3 %) and Unitarian Universalism ( 0. 3 %).

They exist in all or some branches of Judaism, Christianity, Shintoism, Hinduism and many other religions.

The actual process of change from one life to the next is called punarbhava ( Sanskrit ) or punabbhava ( Pāli ), literally " becoming again ", or more briefly bhava, " becoming ", and some English-speaking Buddhists prefer the term " rebirth " or " re-becoming " to render this term as they take " reincarnation " to imply a fixed entity that is reborn .< ref >" Reincarnation in Buddhism: What the Buddha Didn't Teach " By Barbara O ' Brien, About. com < sup > Popular Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology as well as a number of schools of Hinduism posit rebirth in many worlds and in varied forms.

However, some leftist academics like Nirad C. Chaudhuri still maintain the old-style colonialist narrative that the Aryans were Germannic Europeans who invaded India and conspired to create the " caste system " and " Hinduism " in order to secure their position in the region against the so-called " aboriginals "

Many foreign deities become assimilated into Hinduism, and some Hindus may sometimes offer prayers to Jesus along with their traditional forms of God.

Kaharingan, an animist folk religion of the Iban branch of the Dayak people, accepted as a form of Hinduism by the Indonesian government, includes the belief of a supreme deity as well as the rooster and cockfight in relation to that of the spiritual and religious and some with the belief that humans become the fighting cocks of god, with the Iban further believing the rooster and cockfight was introduced to them by god.

This approach is favored by some Eastern religious philosophies such as Hinduism and Buddhism, and by Christian Science.

However, the true figure lies closer to 85 %, Muslims are some 10 % and 5 % other religions including Christianity, Hinduism, especially among immigrants.

As such theism describes the classical conception of God that is found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam and some forms of Hinduism.

Some modern day monotheistic religions include Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and some forms of Hinduism.

" After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that all religions are true ; all religions have some error in them ; all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives.

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.

In addition to the Vedas, the principal texts of Hinduism, the core themes of the Sanskrit epics Ramayana and Mahabharata are said to have their ultimate origins during this period.

Hymns to the sun can be found in the Vedas, the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.

The earliest evidence of the group is from Vedic Sanskrit, the language used in the ancient preserved texts of the Indian subcontinent, the foundational canon of Hinduism known as the Vedas.

Thus Avataravada is one of the core principles of Hinduism along with Ekeshwaravada ( One Supreme Divine Reality ), Veda Praman ( Authority of the Vedas ), Atman, Karma, Murti Pooja, Ahimsa, and Punarjanma ( Reincarnation ).

Hinduism rests on the spiritual bedrock of the Vedas, hence Veda Dharma, and their mystic issue, the Upanishads, as well as the teachings of many great Hindu gurus through the ages.

This mode of worship has been preserved even today in Hinduism, which involves recitations from the Vedas by a purohita ( priest ), for prosperity, wealth and general well-being.

Brahmins, basically adhere to the principles of the Vedas, related to the texts of the Śruti and Smriti which are some the foundations of Hinduism, and practise Sanatana Dharma.

The subject – object problem was also discussed in several sections of the Vedas, the earliest sacred texts of Hinduism, and in several schools of Indian philosophy such as Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism.

* Sanskrit, the tongue of the Vedas and other sacred texts of Hinduism as well as the original language of Mahayana Buddhism and a language of Jainism.

In his preface Wilkins argued that the Gita was written to encourage a form of monotheist " unitarianism " and to draw Hinduism away from the polytheism he ascribed to the Vedas.

The second, and most common meaning of the word, refers to the sacred ancient literature of Hinduism, the Vedas, a collection of hymns, poetry and Hindu ceremonial formulae ( Veda ).

The Vedas form the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.

Koertge asserts that TM has introduced to the West the " scientistic version of Hinduism " developed in late 19th century Hindu revivalism by Dayananda Saraswati, Swami Vivekananda and others, i. e. the idea that " the Vedas are simply another name for science ".

The Vedas, which form the foundation of Hinduism for many, do not refer explicitly to homosexuality, but Rigveda says Vikruti Evam Prakriti ( perversity / diversity is what nature is all about, or, what seems un-natural is also natural ), which some scholars believe recognizes the cyclical constancy of homosexual / transsexual dimensions of human life, like all forms of universal diversities.

The Yajurveda ( Sanskrit:, a tatpurusha compound of " sacrificial formula ', + " knowledge ") is one of the four canonical texts of Hinduism, the Vedas.

Ratri, often also called Ratridevi, is the goddess of night in the Vedas and the mythology of India and Hinduism.

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

The Vedas form the fundamental source text for everything in Hinduism.

Āstika ( ; " it exists ") and Nāstika (, ; " it doesn't exist ") are technical terms in Hinduism used to classify philosophical schools and persons, according to whether they accept the authority of the Vedas as supreme revealed scriptures, or not, respectively.

Intolerance of slavery by Hinduism ( supported by Vedas as well as fringe scriptures ) may not be confused with historical studies, past, current, or future practices in India, legislation in India, or political movements.

Dayananda stated that he wanted ' to make the whole world Aryan ', i. e. he wanted to develop missionary Hinduism based on the universality of the Vedas.

Several of these arguments emphasize linguistic, architectural, cultural, agricultural, and technological continuity between Harappan culture, the Vedas, and post-Vedic Hinduism.