Pandurang Vaijnath Shastri Athavale () ( October 19, 1920 – October 25, 2003 ), also known as Dada-ji (), which literally translates as elder brother in Marathi, was an Indian philosopher, spiritual leader, social reformer and Hinduism reformist, who founded the Swadhyay Movement and the Swadhyay Parivar organization ( Swadhyay Family ) in 1954, a self-knowledge movement based on the Bhagavad Gita, which has spread across nearly 100, 000 villages in India, with over 5 million members.

Balinese Hinduism, (), is a religion practiced by the majority of the population of Bali.

( written also as Manusmriti or Manusmruti ) (), also known as Mānava-Dharmaśāstra (), is the most important and earliest metrical work of the Dharmaśāstra textual tradition of ancient Vedic Sanatana Dharma, presently called Hinduism.

Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (), IAST: ), often abbreviated as BAPS ( formerly Bochasan Swaminarayan Sanstha or BSS ), is a major organization within the Swaminarayan sect of Hinduism.

Chhetri or Chhettri (), synonymous with Kshetri () and Khatri () are all derivatives of Kshatriya (), the warrior and ruler caste group or varna of Hinduism.

Soul is believed to be indestructible. None of the five elements can harm or influence it. Hinduism through Garuda Purana also describes in detail various types of " Narkas " or Hells where a person after death is punished for his bad Karmas and dealt with accordingly.

The coastal Karnataka has a different tradition of praying to spirits ( see also Folk Hinduism ).

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.

Hinduism preaches ahimsa ( or ahinsa, non-violence ), but also teaches that the soul cannot be killed and death is limited only to the physical body.

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

In Hinduism, Vayu ( Sanskrit व ा य ु ), also known as Vāta व ा त, Pavana पवन ( meaning the Purifier ), or Prāna, is a primary deity, who is the father of Bhima and the spiritual father of Lord Hanuman.

In Hinduism, it is also the name of the deva, a personification of water, ( one of the Vasus in most later Puranic lists ).

The Chicago Metropolitan Area also includes adherents of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, and the Bahá ' í, among others.

Some also denounce non-Christian religions such as Islam, Wicca, Paganism, New Age groups, Buddhism, Hinduism, and other polytheistic religions.

Britannica's presentation of Hinduism has also been criticised.

Indian religions, also known as dharmic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent ; namely Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism.

Islamism can also be described as part of identity politics, specifically the religiously-oriented nationalism that emerged in the Third World in the 1970s: " resurgent Hinduism in India, ultra-Orthodox Judaism in Israel, militant Buddhism in Sri Lanka, resurgent Sikh nationalism in the Punjab, ' Liberation Theology ' of Catholicism in Latin America, and of course, Islamism in the Muslim world.

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.

Some other religions also include monastic elements, most notably Buddhism, but also Hinduism and Jainism, though the expressions differ considerably.

Hinduism uses the terms Aikantya, Apamarga, Brahma-upalabdhi, Sahaj, Sakshatkara, Sayujya, Videhalcivalyam and Yogakshemma, while Buddhism also uses the term Bodhi.

It is also fewer than the adherents Jediism, whose campaign made them the fourth largest religion after Christianity, Islam and Hinduism.

These rituals include bathing the murtis ( the statues of the gods / goddesses ), performing puja, a ritualistic offering of various items to the Gods, the waving of a ghee or oil lamp also called an offering in light, known in Hinduism as aarti, before the murtis.

Balinese Hinduism also includes the religious belief of Tabuh Rah, a religious cockfight where a rooster is used in religious custom by allowing him to fight against another rooster in the religious and spiritual cockfight of the Balinese Hinduism spiritual appeasement exercise of Tabuh Rah.

Weber also did considerable work in world religions, including Hinduism and Buddhism.

Both of these predecessor organizations began as Christian Unitarian and Christian Universalist denominations ; but modern Unitarian Universalists define themselves as non-creedal, and therefore they are not limited to Christian beliefs or affinities, but may also draw wisdom from other religions and philosophies as well, such as Humanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Earth-centered spirituality, among others, or different combinations of them.

" His mystical interests — also inspired by a study of Hinduism, under the Theosophist Mohini Chatterjee, and the occult — formed much of the basis of his late poetry.

In Hinduism, the Himalaya have also been personified as the god Himavat, the God of snow, who is mentioned in the Mahabharata.

In Hinduism, it is also frowned upon to go to a temple and do pooja ( prayer ) or do pooja at religious events if you are a woman who is menstruating.

Founded by Maharaja Sri-Gupta, the dynasty was the model of a classical civilization. Maurya and Gupta empires are called as the Golden Age of India and were marked by extensive inventions and discoveries in science, technology, art, religion and philosophy that crystallized the elements of what is generally known as Indian culture. The religions of Hinduism and Buddhism, which began in India, were an important influence on South, East and Southeast Asia

This is more than many well known traditions such as Rastafarian, Bahá ' í and Zoroastrian groups, but fewer than the ' Big Six ' of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism.

In Hinduism, Ursa Major is known as Saptarshi, each of the stars representing one of the Saptarshis or Seven Sages viz.

The Sinhalized interior Veddahs follow a mix of animism and nominal Buddhism whereas the Tamilized east coast Veddahs follow a mix of animism and nominal Hinduism, known as folk Hinduism amongst anthropologists.

Tulsidas ' Ramayana is popularly known as Ramacharitamanasa and is one of the most revered scriptures of Hinduism.

He is perhaps best known for his inspiring speech beginning with " Sisters and Brothers of America ," through which he introduced Hinduism at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1893.

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.

With the Bhagavad Gita and the Brahmasutra ( known collectively as the Prasthanatrayi ), the mukhya Upanishads provide a foundation for several later schools of Indian philosophy ( vedanta ), among them, two influential monistic schools of Hinduism.

Hinduism is known to its followers as ( a Sanskrit phrase meaning " the eternal law that sustains / upholds / surely preserves "), amongst many other expressions.

Balarama (, Balarāma ), also known as Baladeva, Balabhadra and Halayudha, is the elder brother of the divine being, Krishna in Hinduism.

Within both the Vaishnava traditions and Hinduism generally he is known as being a manifestation of Shesha, the serpent on whom Vishnu rests.

Savitr disappeared as an independent deity from the Hindu pantheon after the end of the Vedic period, but in modern Hinduism, his name occurs in the well-known Gayatri mantra ( taken from book three of the Rigveda ), which is also known as Savitri because of this.

In Hinduism, Kalki ( Devanagari: कल ् क ि) is the tenth and final Maha Avatar ( great incarnation ) of Vishnu who will bring to an end the present age of darkness and destruction known as Kali Yuga.

In Hinduism, Svarga ( or Swarga ) () also known as Swarga Loka is a one of seven loka or planes in Hindu cosmology, which sequentially are Bhu loka ( Prithvi Loka, Earth ), Bhuvar loka, Swarga loka, Mahar loka, Jana loka, Tapa loka, and the highest Satyaloka ( Brahmaloka ).

In Hinduism, Brahmani ( also known as Brahmi and Brahmayi ) is a kind and benevolent aspect of Devi, the Divine mother.

Outside the European tradition of the philosophia perennis, one of the best known traditions to propose a similar idea of a common truth residing within all religions is Sanatana Dharma of Hinduism.

The religion of the Vedic period ( 1500 BC to 500 BC ) ( also known as Vedism, Vedic Brahmanism, ancient Hinduism or, in a context of Indian antiquity, simply Brahmanism ) is a historical predecessor of modern Hinduism.

In Hinduism the spiritual teacher is known as a guru.

* In Hinduism, tutelary deities are known as ishta-devata and Kuldevi or Kuldevta.