What are the most interesting facts about Hinduism?

Hinduism is the world’s 3rd largest religion nearly following Christianity and Islam. still, unlike the top 2 persuasions, 95 of Hindus live in a single nation!

still, when did Krishna or Rama live- they will give an answer like 50 million times ago or some other arbitrary big number, If you ask a religious Hindu. Actually, it does not count. Because Hindus believe in a indirect time( rather than the direct time conception in the Western world).

Each of our time cycles has 4 main ages- the Satya yuga( golden age of innocence), Tretha Yuga, Dwapara yuga and Kali Yuga. In the last stage, people get so unprintable that whole thing is gutted up and the cycle starts each over again.

Hinduism is the oldest of the major extant persuasions. Its abecedarian book- Carriage Veda was written over 3800 times agone .

Carriage Veda was orally passed for hundreds of times in parallel. And yet, its current form has no major disagreement. It’s indeed a miraculous achievement that a major body of work can be orally passed between people in such a large nation with no loss in quality/ content.

Unlike other major persuasions, Hinduism does not consider the pursuit of wealth as a sin. In fact, we celebrate wealth in the form of numerous gods similar as Lakshmi, Kubera and Vishnu. Hinduism has a 4 position scale- Kama( pursuit of pleasures including sexual/ voluptuous)- Artha( pursuit of livelihood, wealth and power), Dharma( pursuit of gospel, religion and doing duties to society) and Moksha( emancipation) and we progress from the top to bottom.

This is veritably close to Maslow’s scale and therefore Hindus are natural plutocrats. Hinduism is the parent religion for 2 of the other major persuasions of South Asia- Buddhism and Sikhism. It’s also nearly associated with its family religion- Jainism.

The holiest number for Hindus is 108. This is the rate of Sun’s distance( from earth)/ Sun’s periphery or Moon’s distance( from earth)/ Moon’s periphery. therefore, utmost of our prayer globules have 108 globules

Beyond India, Hinduism is the dominant religion of numerous fantastic regions similar as Nepal, Mauritius, Bali, second biggest religion of Fiji & Sri Lanka and at one point covered utmost of Southeast Asia- including Indonesia, Cambodia and Malaysia. It’s also rehearsed in South American countries like Guyana and Suriname.

The Hindu epic of Mahabharatha- that’s frequently used to educate the principles of Hinduism is written in1.8 million words long lyric( 10X the combined length of the Illiad and Odyssey)

Unlike all other major persuasions, we do not have a author or a prophet( like Moses, Abraham, Jesus, Mohammad or Buddha). According to Hindus, the religion has no origin( again coming back to the indirect conception).

Unlike the popular Western generality, Yoga in Hinduism isn’t simply an exercise routine. It’s one of the founding blocks of the religion.

The 4 most holiest creatures for Hindus are the cow, giant, snake and peacock( India’s public raspberry and a cart of numerous Hindu gods)- 4 main creatures of India.