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.

Examples of Animism can be found in forms of Shinto, Serer, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Pantheism, Paganism, and Neopaganism.

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 ).

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.

The key points where the theory of Karma in Jainism differs from the other religions such as theistic traditions of Hinduism, can be stated as follows:

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

Remnants of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Islam can still be found in Ayodhya.

The power of the hijras as a sexually ambiguous category can only be understood in the religious context of Hinduism.

Sacrifice in Hinduism can also refer to personal surrender through acts of inner and outer worship.

In Hinduism, samādhi can also refer to videha mukti or the complete absorption of the individual consciousness in the self at the time of death-usually referred to as mahasamādhi.

However, in Buddhism, Jainism, and some forms of Hinduism, the Sacred lies outside the flux of the material world ( called maya, or " illusion "), and one can only reach it by escaping from the cycles of time.

The importance of finding a guru who can impart transcendental knowledge ( vidyā ) is emphasised in Hinduism.

Although important influences can be traced to Hindu rituals, the Lao people are not as overtly influenced by Hinduism as their neighbours the Tai Thai.

Indeed this term can be seen as the original name of Hinduism, the latter being a term invented by ancient Persians.

In Hinduism, both Ganesha and Hanuman possess the eight supernatural powers ( ashtamahasiddhis ) and can give one access to Ashta Siddhis.

Today, in all Hindu art and all over India and Nepal, ' om ' can be seen virtually everywhere, a common sign for Hinduism and its philosophy and theology.

Graham has also commented on Hinduism as well saying, " no elephant with 100 arms can do anything for me.

* In Hinduism, priests can marry.

Several aspects of Hinduism can be found in Burma today.

Beef is common in the Malaysian diet though it is notable that followers of certain religions such as Hinduism and some followers of Buddhism such as monks forbid the consumption of beef, while some Buddhists say people can eat beef and other meat.

Traditionally, Hinduism has never shown a preference for skin color and dark skinned people can be found in all castes of Hindu society.

Historically, in Hinduism, Buddhism and Roman Catholicism, and also in modern faiths, such as Neopaganism, a shrine can commonly be found within the home or shop.

He stated that " no description of Hinduism can be exhaustive which does not touch on almost every religious and philosophical idea that the world has ever known.

And indeed it can scarcely be doubted that Shaktism is Hinduism arrived at its worst and most corrupt stage of development.

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 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.

... While often employing concepts shared with Hinduism and Buddhism, the result of a common cultural and linguistic background, the Jain tradition must be regarded as an independent phenomenon.

This concept of Brahman explains the prevalence of Monism in Hinduism, because Brahman is considered to be all that exists and thus everything in the universe including the universe itself is considered a manifestation of Brahman.

In most of Hinduism and transcendentalism, all matter is believed to be an illusion called Maya, blinding us from knowing the truth.

Hinduism cannot be said to be purely polytheistic, as all great Hindu religious leaders have repeatedly stressed that while God's forms are many and the ways to communicate with him are many, God is one.

In her book, Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia, she writes that " As for Hinduism, the hierarchical principles of the Brahmanical social order have always been contested from within Hindu society, suggesting that equality has been and continues to be both valued and practiced.

" 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.

Although there is this special history of debate concerning reason and faith in the Islamic, Christian and Jewish traditions, the pursuit of reason is sometimes argued to be compatible with the other practice of other religions of a different nature, such as Hinduism, because they do not define their tenets in such an absolute way.

Hinduism, or Sanatana Dharma ( Dharma means moral duty ), has pivotal virtues that everyone keeping their Dharma is asked to follow, for they are distinct qualities of manusya ( mankind ) that allow one to be in the mode of goodness.

Swans are revered in Hinduism, and are compared to saintly persons whose chief characteristic is to be in the world without getting attached to it, just as a swan's feather does not get wet although it is in water.

* Ashvattha – the world tree of Hinduism, held to be a supernatural F. religiosa

His contemporary adversary, E. A. Wallis Budge, however, thought Egyptian religion to be primarily henotheistic where all the gods and goddesses were aspects of the God Ra, similar to the devas in Hinduism.

While this branch of Indian philosophy is today not considered to be part of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, some describe it as a atheistic or materialistic philosophical movement within Hinduism.

In Hinduism, māyā is to be seen through, like an epiphany, in order to achieve moksha ( liberation of the soul from the cycle of samsara ).

Sūtra (, Pāli: sutta, Ardhamagadhi: sūya ) is an aphorism ( or line, rule, formula ) or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a text in Hinduism or Buddhism.

The story of Hinduism in Suriname is broadly parallel to that in Guyana.

As it was ruled by the rulers who professed Hinduism, many temples, which were broadly known as monuments, are found here.