Hinduisms

Hinduisms

Axia College of University of Phoenix

HUM 130 Religions of the World

Judith Vandenberg

April 8, 2007

Considering that Hinduism lacks a uniting belief system, what makes up the Hindu religion is Sanarana Dharma, which is also known as Hinduism, an alternative label that is preferred today. Hinduism is the traditional religion of India. Sanatan Dharma is one of the oldest religions known to mankind and Hinduisms religion is still in practice today. The spiritual expressions of Sanatana Dharma range from extreme asceticism to the extreme sensuality, from the heights of personal devotion to a deity to the heights of abstract philosophy (Fisher, M.P., 2005). Hinduism have been able to hold itself together for several years; Hinduism is still one of the major religions in the world, so, the factor that it is more than a way of life, Hinduism is a restrictive and organized religion.

Hinduism religion has originated from the ancient Vedic age and other indigenous beliefs. Hinduism religion comes in many different religion beliefs that have incorporated over time. Hinduism religion include Dharma meaning religion, encompasses duty, natural law, social welfare, ethics, health, and transcendental realization. Dharma can be reflections of a great age. Many of the religions paths of Dharma have raised over millennia that have been lost and they still continue to coexist in the present day of India. Other well known beliefs in Hinduisms include Karma which means action and also the consequences of actions. Then there is Samsara, which is the ultimate goal of the eternal cycle of birth, death, and rebirth and lastly there is Moksha, which means the liberation from the limitations of space, time, and matter through realization of the Immortal Absolute (Fisher, M. P., 2005). With all these religion beliefs it is good to practice them in modern day religion to give someone peace with in themselves. The fact that the essence of Hinduism religion is imbued in the Indian society has spread through the everyday lives of the liberal Hindu.

The cultural and societal influences that have made Hinduism vital to the region in which it originated is a diverse body of religion, philosophy, and cultural practice native to and predominant in India, characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils. The Hindu faiths, practices and philosophies have evolved from the Vedic tradition and from the beliefs of the other Indian peoples; and philosophies such as Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, which conversely share common philosophical and spiritual traits in varying degrees with Hinduism. Many Hindus would argue that while the philosophies have gained recognition as independent world religions, the great diversity within Hinduism itself is even greater and therefore