Hinduism is the oldest organized religion in the world. It is the Sanatana Dharma, the Eternal Law. It has no known origin and no founders - it is a synthesis of various Indian cultures and practices from as early as 4000 BCE.
Hinduism differs from Christianity and other Abrahamic religions in that it does not have:
>A single founder,
>A specific theological system,
>A single concept of deity,
>A single holy text,
>A single system of morality,
>A central religious authority,
>The concept of a prophet.
Hinduism is neither polytheistic, monotheistic, trinitarian or henotheistic, yet it is all at the same time.
The development of Hinduism was influenced by many invasions over thousands of years. The major influences occurred when light-skinned, nomadic "Aryan" Indo-European tribes invaded Northern India (circa 1500 BCE) from the steppes of Russia and Central Asia. They brought with them their religion of Vedism. These beliefs mingled with the more advanced, indigenous Indian native beliefs, often called the "Indus valley culture."
>Rulers will become unreasonable: they will levy taxes unfairly. >Rulers will no longer see it as their duty to promote spirituality, or to protect their subjects: they will become a danger to the world. >People will start migrating, seeking countries where wheat and barley form the staple food source. >At the end of Kali-yuga, when there exist no topics on the subject of God, even at the residences of so-called saints and respectable gentlemen of the three higher varnas [temperament] and when nothing is known of the techniques of sacrifice, even by word, at that time the Lord will appear as the supreme chastiser.
Kali Yuga with regard to human relationships
>Avarice and wrath will be common. Humans will openly display animosity towards each other. Ignorance of dharma will occur. >People will have thoughts of murder with no justification and will see nothing wrong in that. >Lust will be viewed as socially acceptable and sexual intercourse will be seen as the central requirement of life. >Sin will increase exponentially, while virtue will fade and cease to flourish. >People will take vows and break them soon after. >People will become addicted to intoxicating drinks and drugs. >Teachers will no longer be respected and their students will attempt to injure them. Their teachings will be insulted, and followers of Kama(lust) will wrest control of the mind from all human beings.
come at me kali i fucking dare you pussy ass bitch
Jacob Jones
bump
Daniel Howard
POO
Easton Wood
>Ctrl for + dharma >no results Wew
Julian Diaz
Different kali from the kali yug
David Peterson
Well recently I've started looking at it as legitimate path but i dont prescribe to it personally
Jason Allen
>Savitri Devi Well, if a LARPing racemixing lunatic said so then it must be so.
Jaxon Nguyen
>implying
Leo Roberts
why do curries girls bang white guys all the time?
also I started reading the gita, is this a good place to start?
Connor Long
What translation are you reading and it's a good place to start if you understand what was going on in the mahabharat as the Geeta is a part of it
Luke Thomas
>Bengali >white
Jonathan Harris
doesnt mention the translation but its from The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust
I know little about hinduism but my gf is punjabi and bought me this book
Jeremiah Brown
>Hwhite
Zachary Fisher
i really find it interesting in terms of the 3 different aspects of the godhead- baghavan, paratman, and brahma. learning about it has been pretty intuitive/convincing as a westerner.
Eli Wood
>street >toilet
Wyatt Turner
Do you have a point?
Benjamin Morales
Come to the USA and assimilate as a Christian and change your name to John Smith
Henry Jackson
MAKE KARMA GREAT AGAIN
Ayden Sullivan
It's written into the code of every spoken language. From nothing, I. From I, you. From you, us. The nothing is the godhead from which everything flows. Hinduism itself is mind candy for the bluepilled and teaches nothing.
Logan Hernandez
lmao youre literally describing the opposite of bakhti yoga. read a book faggot.
brahman (nothingness) is the lowest tier, the top is baghavan, personalized either through vishnu, krishna, or shiva, and totally qualified.
like literally look at the wikipedia article
Nathan Cruz
>White >Interest in hinduism >Cannot into basic dialectics. Checks out.
Easton Brooks
Hindu theology, at present, depicts four descending levels of deity and divinity: 1. The Brahman, the Absolute, the Infinite One, the IT IS. 2. The Trimurti, the supreme trinity of Hinduism. In this association Brahma, the first member, is conceived as being self-created out of the Brahman—infinity. Were it not for close identification with the pantheistic Infinite One, Brahma could constitute the foundation for a concept of the Universal Father. Brahma is also identified with fate. 5.The worship of the second and third members, Siva and Vishnu, arose in the first millennium after Christ. Siva is lord of life and death, god of fertility, and master of destruction. Vishnu is extremely popular due to the belief that he periodically incarnates in human form. In this way, Vishnu becomes real and living in the imaginations of the Indians. Siva and Vishnu are each regarded by some as supreme over all. 3. Vedic and post-Vedic deities. Many of the ancient gods of the Aryans, such as Agni, Indra, Soma, have persisted as secondary to the three members of the Trimurti. Numerous additional gods have arisen since the early days of Vedic India, and these have also been incorporated into the Hindu pantheon. 4. The demigods: supermen, semigods, heroes, demons, ghosts, evil spirits, sprites, monsters, goblins, and saints of the later-day cults.
Sebastian Long
>From nothing, I. From I, you. From you, us. The nothing is the godhead from which everything flows.
your basic premise is wrong regarding the specific hindu path i'm talking about
thanks for addressing none of my points, try again next time retard
Chase Bailey
Karmically Underrated.
Wtf are you trying to say mate?
Mason Allen
Brahma is not formally worshiped; you should merge 2 and 5.
Josiah Cruz
Why were we born during the kali yuga?
Jaxon Wood
the nothingness he's describing, the highest form of liberation, is known as brahman, which is actually not as high as it goes in the bakhti path
there's a whole lot more going on and it resembles western religion a bit more than, say, patanjali yoga. other guy says im a bluepill because im interested in stuff idk lol
Tyler Robinson
>You are wrong >My specific path Still can't into dialectics on the most infantile level, can you, brainlet?
Isaac White
I have involuntarily been surrounded by hindus
they have no morals, no maturity, no manners
they are arrogant, lazy, dirty and very jealous people
this isnt a religion, its a criminal organization
when you dont know right from wrong, you dont have a soul
Xavier Cook
>My specific path lol it's a pretty big sect of hinduism, which is itself a blanket term encompassing a really broad set of beliefs. sorry you're uninformed.
im not religiously affiliated
Brody Gray
because your parents loved each other, and they couldn't have you outside of it.
David Scott
Hindu paganism has a lot in common with European paganism. Each should practice their native religion. I see hindus as brothers. Based hindus kick Abrahamic ass
Jayden Thomas
Yes He is talking about bhakti yoga taught in the iskon sense
Benjamin Thompson
to learn. the kali yuga is simply a point in an infinite cycle. you have been here before and will be here again. this implies that you will also see another golden age again.
Adrian Mitchell
Life and death are temporary
Alexander Sullivan
You're both wrong.
First of all, all paths of yoga lead to the same end, which is moksha (nirvana in buddhism nomenclature). Bhakti yoga is yoga through love/devotion; and through yoga (meditative actions) you achieve union with the supreme (moksha) by doing His work and by loving Him. It's the closest philosophical path to traditional Christianity, which is why Westerners adopt it more readily (also because Hare Krishna is mainly for Westerners and they practice Bhakti).
There are at least two other kinds of yoga. >Jyana Yoga
Jyana yoga is enlightenment through knowledge.
>Karma Yoga
Karma yoga is enlightenment through action/karma. 99% of people actually practice karma yoga. As you dissolve your karma, you grow closer to the Supreme and eventually achieve moksha (this may take many re-births). If you fuck up too much and actually gain karma over your life, you'll be re-born lower than you were in this life.
Gabriel Perry
Why not? You'd think that the creator deity would be venerated as much as or more than the other two.
Charles Myers
Because he technically married his daughter and was cursed by Shiva, he has one temple is all of India and is worshipped once a year
Zachary Jackson
t. follower of Mohammed (PBUH)
How do you feel about ISKCON? I think the music is good but occasionally I have misgivings about their perversion of Hinduism. Though everything I learned was from my dad and self-introspection, along with the Mahabharat and Ramayan.
Samuel Parker
well the end of the non-bakhti schools is brahman, which is seen (by bakhtis) as inferior liberation to the realms of goloka etc that bakhti practitioners seek
everything i was saying was from the bakhti POV but it def resembles western religion more.
Noah Morris
So do souls have no control when they are pushed into existence or do they volunteer to inhabit the material universe in each yuga?
Hudson Richardson
He's only the "creator" deity in as much as Vishnu is the preserver and Shiva the destroyer. All 3 require the other two and exist in a balance with each other and to balance the flow and cycles of the universe itself.
Brayden Johnson
hinduism is one of the only religions i respect
David Harris
You don't volunteer the ultimate aim of existence is to escape the cycle of life and death, follow your dharma and you will escape this cycle
Adrian Barnes
All I can say is that their translations aren't particularly accurate and their current leader a jew
Camden Torres
They are the same; the distinction being drawn is liking asking an autist and the chad to draw heaven and then saying because the autist drew a library and a computer and the chad drew an infinite number of stacy that different people have different heavens. Rather, they are both attempting to draw happiness (it's not really happiness but rather infinite emotion and knowledge) itself, and that is actually the nature of nirvana.
Carter Edwards
legit curious, what's your source on that? still learning.
the stuff i've read (from a bakhti POV) seems to say the opposite.
Ayden Rogers
Intuition.
Luis Bennett
i just want to make swastikas and then play it off as a cultural thing
>yfw hitler was onto something >yfw kali kills the jew
Hudson Walker
gay
Evan Lee
Do it, then. You can be Hindu if you want. Julia Roberts did.
Zachary Fisher
can someone tell me what this pic is?
Dylan Martin
Kek. How do you feel about Hanuman? He's a monkey. We worship monkeys.
Nicholas Brown
It's baby krishna screwing around. The woman is Yasoda, his adoptive mom.
Carson Reyes
>not worshiping monkeys
Jeremiah Powell
The ISKCON faggot wants to tell us how to be Hindu; I was just enlightening him.
Samuel Harris
thanks
what about this one? idk why i saved these 2 a never knew wtf they were
Gavin Barnes
The ascension process requires spiritual enlightenment. You must overcome some of your spiritual deficiencies to proceed on your universe career. Do not think of it as a forced action, while we think of having a soul, from the spiritual perspective, the soul has taken a body.
As stated, breakin free from the mortal career is our final goal.
Shiva in the Nataraja form dancing on the demon dwarf representing ignorance. Shiva is my favorite god.
Cameron Flores
How do I know if I'm not following dharma?
Gabriel Butler
The same way you know when you're being true to yourself.
James Kelly
If the soul is already free why does it take a body to begin with?
Andrew King
How do I know when I'm not being true to myself?
Austin Jones
To fulfill its dharma
Its a gut feeling. You were already destined to do it, anyway, so you don't really have to sweat the details.
Aiden Perry
How closely related are Hinduism and Jainism?
Tyler Gray
Are you on the same path your ancestors were, do you believe you were born with an aim?
Levi Cruz
Pretty closely; Jains are strict vegetarians but share a lot of philosophical elements with Hinduism, as does Buddhism. They're collectively known as "dharmic religions".
Josiah Moore
Jainism is like hardcore mode in fallout
Andrew Ross
If the soul was free why would it need to fulfill dharma again? If everyones destiny is predetermined why would anyone need to follow dharma?
Luke Kelly
I would like to think life has a point to it.
Evan Jones
do you like my screencap?
Jordan Foster
Dharma is never ending. It's the will/path/flow of the universe. It's justice.
>why would souls have to fulfill dharma Because they are called to duty if that's how you want to think about it. You could also view it as punishment for karma.
>predetermined destiny Your karma IS your destiny. Dharma is sticking to it without being a little bitch.
Adrian Robinson
Don't insult the being that was on the banner of the chariot Arjuna and Krishna rode on if you are into bhakthi as you claim.
Alexander Edwards
If dharma is never ending how is there an end goal to leave the cycle of life and death? If karma is destiny how do I know if I'm not following dharma?
Gavin Hall
It's not an insult to say Hanuman was a monkey; it's only insulting if you're unwilling to see the dharma in all being. Like Christians and their illegitimate offspring ISKCON.
James Harris
He was a vanara not a monkey. So you have some fundamental issues in understanding the context of it. I suggest you read about it again.
Adrian Sanders
why are indian women, both western and in india so feminist?
Jason Reyes
>end goal There is no end, bro. It just starts all over again, like a video game.
>how do I know if I'm not following dharma Its a gut feeling. You were already destined to do it, anyway, so you don't really have to sweat the details.
>karma is destiny Only if you're a slave to your karma. Break the cycle, Morty. *burp*
Kayden Ramirez
>getting butthurt about Hanuman Sounds to me like you're the one with the problem about monkeys. Sri Hanuman would be happy to know the legend and teachings of Rama were being spread regardless of whether he was called a monkey or vanara. You're the one disrespecting his spirit by saying "those words/depictions are wrong and you're excluded out of my official club".
