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Excuse my ignorance, I have to admit I don't know much about Hinduism so I have a question if you don't mind me asking.Originally Posted by GrimlocK
Originally Posted by DunkNForce
skipping over the trolling...
I got into researching about a lot of different religions in HS and Hinduism really stuck with me. I am not gonna say I am a Hindu, but I've read plenty of books and love what this religion has to give. I took many of their philosophies and teachings and applied it to my own life. Hinduism is thee oldest religion on earth, refereed to as the eternal religion. This makes me want to pick up the books again and enlighten my SELF some more.
One of if not the most treasured book of Hinduism, the Bhagavad Gita. If you want some enlightening reading, please look into this book:
The Essence of the Bhagavad Gita: Explained by Paramhansa Yogananda, As Remembered by His Disciple, Swami Kriyananda
Here's a link to it on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Ess...Remembered/dp/1565892194 and you can get it for as low as $1.93 !
I was born and raised christian, but I will pick up this book before i pick up the bible, no lie.
yea if you do pick up the gita or ramayan or rig veda or whatever other hindu texts you decide to read I would def go with some sort of translated version that isn't word for word translation but a synopsis as well. The gita for example is unreadable to me in its original form translated word for word...and i'm hindu.
I'm familiar with other Indian religions (I studied Buddhism in depth as well as Sikhism and Jainism) but I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to Hinduism. At my university, every freshman had to take this intro to world religions class (great move by the university btw) and when the prof was talking about Hinduism he mentioned a few times that there is no "defined"set of beliefs that make up the religion called "Hinduism" like there's sets of beliefs for Muslims, Christians, Jews, etc but rather the term is just used to describe the collective religions practiced in India. If I recall correctly, the prof mentioned that when the Arab Muslims came to the sub-continent, they identified and labeled Buddhists and Zoroastrians according their religious groups and they grouped all other local religions under the umbrella of "Hinduism" which was later carried on by the British. He mentioned that practice varies dramatically from village to village and that in some Hindu practices you find monotheism and in others you will find only a handful of gods and goddesses while in others you will find thousands of gods/goddesses. After you mentioned Hindu religious texts (which I didn't think existed based off the profs description of the religion) I looked them up on Wiki and now I'm starting to doubt that prof's definition of Hinduism as there does seem to be some sort of common beliefs shared across the religion through the use of the Hindu texts. Was his definition completely wrong?
Once again, sorry for my ignorance