What do Hindus believe about god ?
Categorizing the religion of Hinduism is somewhat confusing: Hinduism has commonly been viewed in the west as a polytheistic religion – one which worships multiple deities: gods and goddesses. Although a widespread belief, this is not particularly accurate. Some have viewed it as a monotheistic religion, because it recognizes only one supreme God: the panentheistic principle of Brahman, that all reality is a unity. The entire universe is seen as one divine entity who is simultaneously at one with the universe and who transcends it as well. Some view Hinduism as Trinitarian because Brahman is simultaneously visualized as a triad — one God with three persons: Brahma the Creator who is continuing to create new realities Vishnu, (Krishna) the Preserver, who preserves these new creations. Whenever dharma (eternal order, righteousness, religion, law and duty) is threatened, Vishnu travels from heaven to earth in one of ten incarnations. Shiva, the Destroyer, is at times compassionate, eroti
Actually at the core all major religions say the same thing.Christianity’s concept,’I am That I am’. Islam,’There is no God other than God’. Hinduism,’I am’. Contrary to the popular belief, Hindus do not believe in millions of gods. You can almost say that they have no God. They believe in a supreme Consciousness, an Awareness that has no form, no characteristics, no gender, no time, which is always in the present, which is complete silence, and which has no action. However, people worship This Awareness in different manifestations, which may be masculine, feminine, animal, or even inamimate. Depending on the spiritual maturity of the person, this worship varies. There is no formal church to which a person belongs, there is no ceremony to make one a Hindu. It even permits Atheism and Agnosticism. Hindus do not believe in eternal heaven or hell. There is no devil. An individual has to bear the consequences of all action performed with a desire for the results of that action. Depending o
There is only one God. Got that? Only one Supreme Being who is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. However, God appears in different forms to different people, so that is why it seems like Hinduism has different Gods. While there are other divine beings, such as devas and gandharvas, they are like angels in the Judeo-Christian tradition and are not the Supreme Being. The confusion arises because while there are two words in Sanskrit (Bhagavan means the Supreme Lord; deva means a divine being), both are translated as ‘god’ in English. There are various sects of Hinduism that venerate a certain form of God as the Supreme. Shaivites (like myself) believe that Lord Shiva is the Supreme Lord, and that the other Gods such as Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma are forms of Lord Shiva. We venerate Lord Shiva’s two sons: Lord Ganesha (the elephant-headed god of obstacles) and Lord Murugan (the god of war). Vaishnavas revere Lord Vishnu as the Supreme Lord, and many believe that Lord Shiva and Lord
