Hinduism

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A brief overview:

Hinduism is often regarded as the world's oldest organized religion and predates recorded history. It does not have a single founder or theological system, and is believed to have stemmed from many different religious groups throughout India's history.


Hinduism is henotheistic, meaning that they recognize a single deity, Brahman, and also recognize other gods and goddesses as facets, forms, manifestations, or aspects of that supreme being.

Hindus recognise three principal gods:

Brahma- who creates the universe.
Vishnu- who preserves the universe.
Shiva- destroyer of the universe.


Most Hindus follow one of two major divisions:

Vaishnavaism: which generally regards Vishnu as the ultimate deity
Shivaism: which generally regards Shiva as the ultimate deity

Hinduism relies primarily on the sacred texts of the Vedas, which they consider to hold the truth of life.


Hindu philosophy recognizes that existence is a cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, governed by Karma- which is how a person's past actions effect his or her present and future state.
Hindus believe that the soul is reincarnated continuously through a cycle of successive lives. The quality of the next life is dependent on how the previous life was lived.

From Bhagavad gita:

"Just as a man discards worn out clothes and puts on new clothes, the soul discards worn out bodies and wears new ones." (2.22)