#Thread on “UNDERSTANDING HINDUISM”

Hinduism has a history of more than 5000 years. It is a very complex topic. Understanding it, is difficult than understanding quantum physics. So, your patience is highly required.

@LostTemple7
@vivekagnihotri
@Sanjay_Dixit

There are approximately 110 crores hindu, living all around the globe. But even if you catch 100 hindu at a time and ask them “what is hinduism?” All will give a different definition. This is the beauty of Hinduism, it stands different for everybody, it stand different for every

hindu himself/herself.

But does it have any ultimate philosophy?

Apparently yes,

There is a BRAHAMAN (ब्रह्मण, not the caste, ब्राह्मण ), all pervading energy, there is an AATMAN, pieces that comes out of brahman, this aatman enters MAYA(nature) and

the ataman is surrounded by a physical structure called BODY. Now the aataman reveals itself through a self consciousness, CHETANA and the chetana interacts with the body and the body interact with the maya in three ways satwik guna or rajsik guna or tamsik guna.

With each and every interaction, positive or negative KARM (deeds) will be generated.

jab sharir ki mrityu hoti hai us waqt aataman ka jo vichar rehta hai aur jo uske karmo ka hisaab hota hai (karmik balance), uske hisab se use janm milta hai.

There are 6 categories in which a birth can happen
1. Aquatic
2. Plants
3. Insects
4. Birds
5. Animals
6. Human

only human have got the free will and choices to generate karm.

Apart from human, remaining five categories are unaware of their karm. They work on instinct only.

It says, that if you have got a human life then do good karm else you'll be reincarnated in remaining 5 categories,new karma wont be generated in those five categories, only bad karma will be burnt there. Resulting, u'll be trapped into endless cycle of life and deaths.

Now, if you have a human life and if your karma are good enough, then you’ll get a GURU, The guru will teach you scriptures, with his/her help you’ll realize that you are stuck in maya and endless cycle of lives and deaths. After realization you'll try to cut the cycle and

Will try to merge atman into parm-atman, which is the prime goal of every hindu.

This is the basic philosophy of Hinduism.This philosophy has 12 core concepts, but before that one must understand what is the brahman.

Hindu scriptures describe brahman as ultimate reality. It is non-dual pure consciousness, indivisible, incorporeal, infinite, and all-pervading energy. It is the reality of all realities,the soul of all souls. It is derived from the Sanskrit root brh, which means "to grow”.

Upanishads define brahman as satyam jnanam anantam brahman. Satyam means "that which never changes," jnanam means "knowledge,"& anantam means “infinity." Altogether it means, "Brahman is of the nature of truth, knowledge and infinity"

Brahman (not to be confused with the deity Brahmā) is seen as a Cosmic Spirit. The personality behind Brahman is known as Parabrahman (The superior Brahman). Brahman may be viewed as Nirguna Brahman (without personal attributes) or Saguna Brahman (with attributes).

Following shlok from Brihadaranyaka Upanishad defines brahman to its best. It also give a scientific relation b/w brahman and infinity.

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पुर्णमुदच्यते
पूर्णस्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॥

Meaning is that the infinite(brahman) has already,always existed and from that infinite ,even if infinite can be taken out, still it will remain infinite.

Remember, Einstein said ‘Nothing is absolute except speed of light, everything is relative except the speed of light’.

Brahaman says the same thing, “I am the only ABSOLUTE.

Now, I know, you have a lot of questions. You can ask me by using #askhy, I’m not an expert but will try to ans it. Abhi to bhagwan, tridev aaye hi nahi hai topic me. Depending upon the responses, i’ll write further.