To understand Hindu Religion and Hindu Dharma, you have to go deep into the origin of this famous religion. The symbol of Hindu Dharma is AUM. AUM is more than an auspicious symbol. It is the divine sound, the first sound of creation from which life emerged. Its chanting generates creative, divine energy in all forms of existence and in all three states of mind, namely waking state, dream state and deep sleep state. Hindu religion is the world's oldest living religion. It is a very tolerant, resilient and peace loving religion. It's roots lie in the Indus Valley, in the Vast Indian Sub Continent. The people living around the river Sindhu(Indus) came to be known as the Hindus. There is no single founder. Through penance and prayers, intuition and introspection ancient seers gained the ultimate experience of God. These collective experiences formed the foundation of the Vedic Civilizations from which emerged the Hindu Dharma - that which sustains the universe.What makes the Hindu Dharma special, is that it respects all creation as it believes that the whole of creation is filled with the presence of God. Hindus believe that there are no headthems or enemies and that everyone has a limit of one life, but offers many lives. At the same time Hindu Dharma is strict and makes man responsible for every action he performs through the Law of Karma. One supreme all powerful God. He is the creator, has a divine form, believe, transcendent and is the giver of Moksha. The Hindus believe that the God assumes various forms and comes to earth to live amongst mankind to liveDharma and grant ultimate liberation, the Hindus believe that the mortal soul is continuously born and reborn in one of the species until in attained liberation. Ultimate liberation is the goal of human life. It is the liberation of the soul form the cycle of births and deaths to remain eternally in the service of God.
Hindu religion existed many years before the Civilizations Egypt and China and before the rise of Roman Empire. There is also evidence of Hindu astronomers mapping the skies, doctors performing surgery and seers composing scriptures before western civilizations. The growth and spread of Hindu religion lies in the fact that it is broad minded and encourages all scientific and social developments. It's more than a religion and is rightly called the Hindu Dharma meaning 'that which sustains'. The truth of Hindu Dharma aims to sustain the whole of creation not just one particular species or group. It promotes a civilization founded on spiritual principles and not just reason and inquiry. Hence the Hindu culture has survived uninterrupted even by innumerable intrusions and invasions. The nonviolent peaceful of Hindu religion is such that without the aid of swords or mass conversations, its pure, libeating values attracted people all over the world. At present Hindus comprise 13.07% of the worlds population residing in over 150 countries. The vedic civilization flourished around the three major River Sindhu, then migrated to the shores of the River Saraswati and finally culminated along the banks of the River Ganga. The holy Ganga became the ultimate source of life, of intellect and of illumination. Here India's glorious culture reached its sublime heights and has since attracted travelers, traders, scholars, philosophers and kings to its golden shores which have never ceased to fascinate the world. Hindu Dharma concentrates on the individual to build the mind, not just the muscles, to mold the spirit not just surroundings, to increase the worth of a person by inner values of life. As George Bernard Show once said " The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural real way of life." We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creator's hand. These divine expressions are the values of service love, sacrifice, humility, duty, devotion, fidelity, tolerance and others that help perfect the individual. The first scriptures of the human race are Vedas. The Vedas transcend recorded history and have not been created by any mortal. The Vedas are the Eternal truths revealed by God to the great seers of India. For generations they have passed on through experience and word of mouth until documented. There are 4 Vedas in Hindu Dharma, Veda means knowledge. The types of Vedas are necessary to perfect human life. They are knowledge of the world and knowledge of the Divine. Hence the Vedas are reservoir of all wisdom of the universe. They contain the knowledge of art, music, linguistics, literature economics, religion weaponry, space science, geometry, logic, technology, hypnotism, mathematics, philosophy, ritualism health and long life. Everything should be practiced and the soul will definitely attain the goal of Nirvana.
- Hindu Dharma says that the whole is one nest.
- We are the birds of the same nest.
- We may wear different skins
- We may speak in different tongues
- We may believe in different religions.
- We may belong to different cultures.
- Yet we share the same home at the earth.
- We are born on the same planet.
- We are conversed on the same skies.
- We are grazing at the same stars.
- We are breathing the same air.
- Therefore we must learn to live happily and progress or miserably perish together.
- Man can live individually but can only survive collectively.
