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Do you like hinduism?

Hinduism is a Polytheistic religion mainly in India. You can say we're the oldest surviving pagans.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
I really don't agree with Hinduism, yet I have far, far less against Hinduism than any of the Abrahamic beliefs.

At least Hinduism doesn't attempt to infiltrate every society throughout the world like all the Abrahamic beliefs actually do.

My draw to pagan beliefs is mostly is because of this lack of attacking others with their Abrahamic beliefs.

I'm a bit closer to Buddhist in my beliefs though definitely not a Buddhist either.

Some may consider me more of a neopaganist. Though I do follow certain long standing Celtic traditions. Eastern European Celtic is my heritage. The type which is far older than Wicca. Heck far older than Islam and Christianity both.
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Gangstress not referring to the culture. Look into their deities.
Gangstress · 41-45, F
@DeWayfarer i am Hindu and yes i knows what youre referring to but theyre just stories most of which were present because of men. But the theology is a lot different
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@Gangstress the link i once had is no longer valid.

Domain name is even up for sale 🫤:

Note this link is so old that it's not even using secure protocol like: https.

http://www.kamakala.com/vamacara.htm

Yet it was more from a tantric form of Hinduism. It was interesting, yet I saw no balance in it.

I'm not criticizing really. Yet yet I do look at as many sides of a belief system as I can.

The opposite as I saw Hinduism was tantric, as close as I could tell. That being the left hand path as opposed to your dharma (right hand path). Yet there wasn't any opposite even in tantric. And therefore little balance.

Your saying that it mostly dharma, and I do believe you, doesn't help with that balance either. 😞

I have found another interesting link on kama kali. Actually a pdf on a certain archeology dig.

Can give a link to it if you are interested in it.
Angelicalist · 31-35, M
Hinduism gets into a lot of the Reality of the Ancient Religious World. Before Jesus.

If we just look at the kind of Structure, Varun is Neptune, is Poseidon, is Loki, is Moses. Look at all the Planet based Gods of Hinduism. So then that’s the Chakras, the Planets, the Chakras, the Gemstones, the Gods, the Months, the 7 Days of the Week. 12 Hours of the Day. So then those are Gods, which is to Ignore the Titans. In Egypt and India, Giants and Titans are Gods, in Greek there was Titanomachy so we think “Chronos and the big bad Titans were defeated by Zeus”. So then there is Gigantomachy and Zeus kills the Giants.

Jesus said, “Ignore the Jots and Tittles” because the Greek mind did not really grasp the Giants and Titans. So Jesus brought back Light, the Titan Theia, Light is Wadjet, the Wadj, or the Djed, Wadj-et. Then Jesus locked a bunch in the Heart Chakra, reminded us to Love, reminded us of Death, Remembrance, he taught us how to Pray, etc, etc. Moses becomes Mercury in Jesus, but also the Sun, this all is in Christianity.

So if we look before Jesus, the Jews had Moses, David (King David is like King Arthur, and comes when Hercules, Melqart, etc, do) there was Alexander the Great who came after Homer wrote the Poems about the Gods, like Beowulf or the Bagavad-gita. And Alexander takes Egypt and Phrygia after David in Israel, after Philip II father of Alexander read the Poems and hired Aristotle to Tutor Alexander.

After his young Death, Ptolemy replaced Alexander and compared the Egyptian Gods to the Greek Gods, he was trying to line it all up. He took 72 Jewish Scholars and Housed them and fed them and had them write their Oral Tradition. We now have the Dead Sea Scrolls but at the time of Ptolemy the 72, the “Septuagint” as it was called, was declared to be the Word of God because the 72 all wrote the same thing. This included Macabees, which is a Bible Book including Alexander, and other Books. Another example would be that the way Kings and Chronicles are similar, Enoch and Genesis are similar. So this Ancient 72, the Septuagint, that Book was the Holy word passed down eventually hidden in Latin, in the hands of Kings to organize them like King James.

Then Aristotle wrote Classification, Physics, Metaphysics. The Classical Civilization and then Rome came, they agreed with the Greeks, “Hercules founded our Towns, and buried the Giants in Italy”. Then Jesus comes. And reminds everyone about the bigger picture. Angels, Malach. Sons of God, Nephilim, Samuel and his Mom. Sisera and the Stars. The Ancient Scriptures about a Flood, Azazel and a Breastplate, fallen Angels, Sodom and Gamorah. The Book of Jude is very short and goes through it all very quickly.
Jeephikelove · 46-50, F
I like a lot of aspects about it aswell.
Jackand · 41-45, M
Idol worshippers, They worship trees, plants, animals, mountains, Rain, Sun, moon and almost all the planets. They are very propogative. They are opening worldwide ISKCON centres. That's hinduism propogation. They believe in trillions of Gods. They believe in multiple births based on your karma. They believe that animals are more important than human beings.
@Renkon Hence why I gave up trying to explain. @Jackand doesn't want to understand.
Jackand · 41-45, M
@Renkon Then why do you worship Planets? Know what? Your culture is brought to you by Greece prior to Alexander.

Renkon · 36-40, M
@Jackand [quote]Then why do you worship Planets? Know what? Your culture is brought to you by Greece prior to Alexander. [/quote]
Personally I have never worshiped planets in my life. I don't know why you assume that.

The idea of Trinity is not brought from Greece or anywhere. Historically time line is easily available on that. Even the comparison between those three pics is way out. Nothing common in that.
This is like learning a culture from comic books.

I understand why people mistake those things as the culture of India. But this culture accepted everyones beliefs. Who you worship is your business. No one tries to force anything on anyone.

Things you mentioned above exist more in tantric ways. The culture of the country is actually Sanathanadharma. The eternal way. Or one that is based on the time. It is sometimes known as the culture of the Saints or enlighten ones. It is a spiritual culture.

Its too long to explain here.
Renkon · 36-40, M
We mistake hinduism as a Religion. It's a culture. Technically you cannot say that it is polytheistic. Because it says there is only God. But acknowledge the presence of Deities. Which are basically some form of evolution of a soul. They were human once. And their worship is more tantric in nature.

But Hinduism don't have any constriction or restriction on who you can worship. You can worship anyone you please. It's your business. That's all.
ABCDEF7 · M
Hindu Culture is not polytheistic, it's pluralistic. There are many ways, Bhakti yoga, the path of devotion which is polytheist is one of the four.

Path -> Problem -> Solution
1. Gyan/Janana Yoga(includes Advaita) -> Ignorance -> Knowledge
2. Bhakti Yoga (Devotion) -> Lack of Faith -> Devotion(Love for God)
3. Karma Yoga -> Desires/Attachments -> Selfless Action
4. Raja Yoga(popular as Yoga) -> Restlessness of Mind -> Meditation
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I love humanity in its original sense. No more, no less.
I don’t actually know anything about it.
Penny · 46-50, F
i wouldnt call HInduism polytheistic. The different "gods" are just worshipped as representations of the different aspects of one God. theyre like personifications of His/Her many qualities.
JimboSaturn · 51-55, M
I thought that all the Gods were just facets of the one God so Hinduism is not really polytheistic?
@JimboSaturn That's what I read too.
I like a lot of the aspects of it, but I don't love how it was used to justify the caste system in India. I can't imagine that was the original intent.
Renkon · 36-40, M
@LordShadowfire All religions deteriorate from its original essence over time. Caste system is not part of 'Sanathana Dharma' the core of what we call Hinduism. That was a cunning ploy used by men in power to enslave a population.

It happened in all religion. Human greed trying to manipulate the society.

 
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