Hinduism (Sanatan Dharma)

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Hinduism (Sanatan Dharma)

• What Hinduism (Sanatan Dharma) means ?

Yogesh Mehla
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Resources for Language

• http//en.wikipedia.org/

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What is Hinduism?

• Hinduism is the dominant religion of the Indian
  subcontinent, and consists of many diverse
  traditions. a wide spectrum of laws and
  prescriptions of "daily morality" based on karma,
  dharma, and societal norms. Hinduism is a
  categorisation of distinct intellectual or
  philosophical points of view, rather than a
  rigid, common set of beliefs. Their are 330
  millions gods/goddesses in Hinduism.

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Detail

• You will find many people saying Hinduism is not
  a religion it is way of life.
• Because Hinduism doesn't force any one to follow
  a belief.
• Most commonly you will find maximum families
  consist of 4 people and you can even find all
  members worshiping different deities/gods/goddesse
  s. Also in different ways. Also respecting others
  belief.

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• But their are common beliefs too
• Taking bath before worshiping because body is
  consider as 1st temple man/women should worship.
• Taking bath before cooking as kitchen is consider
  as 2nd temple of every home.

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Who is Hindu?

• To be a Hindu you can be
• Polytheism is the worship of or belief in
  multiple deities usually assembled into a
  pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their
  own religions and rituals.
• Monotheism is defined by the Encyclopædia
  Britannica as belief in the existence of one god
  or in the oneness of God.

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Who is Hindu?

• Atheism is, in a broad sense, the rejection of
  belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower
  sense, atheism is specifically the position that
  there are no deities.

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Who is Hindu?

• Hindus worships nature (trees, rivers, sun, moon,
  cow, dog, cat, lion, tiger, etc).
• So If I combine my last three slides.
• To be a good hindu you can worship one god or
  multiple gods/goddesses or tree or cow or river
  or no god then also you can be a good Hindu.

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Who is Hindu?

• According to our sacred text name Bhagavad Gita.
• Hindu or can say any Human is defiend by his
  Karma (means deeds) done by Human.
• It is not important that you worship a god or
  goddess or not.
• If you have done any sin then even if you worship
  a god you will be punished as an act of your deed.

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Who is Hindu?

• What are punishments ?
• Their is no punishment like burning in hell or
  other things. Yes their is also place consider
  where suffering after lifes are given.
• But if you did any thing like murder or any other
  crime and you get punished by your court and sent
  to jail then also it is considered as punishment
  as result of your Karma (deed).

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What is Karma?

• Karma means action, work or deed it also refers
  to the principle of causality where intent and
  actions of an individual influence the future of
  that individual. Good intent and good deed
  contribute to good karma and future happiness,
  while bad intent and bad deed contribute to bad
  karma and future suffering.

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Way to God?

• Karma yoga As noted by various commentators, the
  Bhagavad Gita offers a practical approach to
  liberation in the form of Karma yoga. The path of
  Karma yoga upholds the necessity of action.
• (Karma yoga also include full filling your all
  duties on time is also way to god)
• Bhakti yoga The introduction to chapter seven of
  the Bhagavad Gita explains bhakti as a mode of
  worship which consists of unceasing and loving
  remembrance of God. Faith (Sraddha) and total
  surrender to a chosen God (Ishta-deva) are
  considered to be important aspects of bhakti.

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Way to God?

• Jnana yoga Jnana yoga is the path of wisdom,
  knowledge, and direct experience of Brahman as
  the ultimate reality. The path renounces both
  desires and actions, and is therefore depicted as
  being steep and very difficult in the Bhagavad
  Gita.

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About Peace

• In Hinduism Peace holds a great part. If you
  under stand theory of Karma then it is very easy
  to understand that if you will give love then in
  return you will get love if you will impart peace
  then you will get peace in return. Fruit you get
  is from seed you planted.
• Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism are religions which
  were formed from Hinduism. Lots of learning and
  knowledge between these four religion is common.
  Out of which PEACE is one.

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Worshiping images

• According to Hindu God is every where, God is in
  stone, is in river, is in child, is in human, is
  in air or every where.
• People worship images, stones, statues even food
  as Hindu beliefs God is every where.

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MAN and WOMEN

• Both are consider as equal. As one of the main
  god that is shiv is not full without shakti which
  represents women.

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MAN and WOMEN

• To support this
• It is considered that all 3 essentials things
  which are
• Money/Property
• Power/Strength
• Knowledge
• are gift of 3 goddesses which are
• Laxmi
• Durga
• Saraswati

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Life of a man and women

• Life of man and women are divided into stages
• Student till 25
• Martial life (25-50)
• Devoting them self to Bhakti

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Why so many gods/goddesses? Is it mandatory to
worship all?

• In Hinduism it is not important to worship all or
  any god/goddess. It totally depends upon you.

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Why so many gods/goddesses? Is it mandatory to
worship all?

• Apart from this, In Hinduism their are gods in
  every family. E.g.
• Mother is considered as biggest god for his
  son/daughter
• Fathers comes after.
• Teacher are also consider as god as they give
  lessons of life and knowledge.
• For women her husband is also god.
• Even if their is a case son or daughter is grown
  up by some other man and women then that person
  is consider as god for that child.

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Why so many gods/goddesses? Is it mandatory to
worship all?

• It is first Duty or Dharma of every individual to
  first complete his/her responsibilities for their
  mother/father/children. If he/she fails then
  his/her worship is not accepted by any
  god/goddess he/she follows.

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Other Religion

• In Hindu families respecting other religion is
  specially taught as, it is saying that if we
  don't know much about any thing then we should
  not discriminate that also we should respect
  others feelings.
• There is no restriction on any one on visiting
  other religious places.

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History which effected Hindu and India

• Gurukula or gurukul (Sanskrit ???????) is a type
  of school in India, residential in nature, with
  pupils (shishya) living near the guru, often
  within the same house. Prior to British rule,
  they served as South Asia's primary educational
  institution. The guru-shishya tradition
  (parampara) is a hallowed one in Hinduism and
  appears in other religious groups in India, such
  as Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism.

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History which effected Hindu and India

• Nalanda University was the first great university
  in recorded history and one of the world's first
  residential university as it had dormitories for
  students. It is also one of the most famous
  universities. In its heyday, it accommodated over
  10,000 students and 2,000 teachers.The university
  was considered an architectural masterpiece, and
  was marked by a lofty wall and one gate. Nalanda
  had eight separate compounds and ten temples,
  along with many other meditation halls and
  classrooms. On the grounds were lakes and parks.
  The library was located in a nine storied
  building where meticulous copies of texts were
  produced.

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History which effected Hindu and India

• The Manu sm?ti (or "Laws of Manu", Sanskrit
  Manusm?ti ????????? also known as
  Manava-Dharmasastra ???????????????), is the most
  important and earliest metrical work of the
  Dharmasastra textual tradition of Hinduism.
• The text presents itself as a discourse given by
  Manu, the progenitor of mankind to a group of
  seers, or rishis, who beseech him to tell them
  the "law of all the social classes

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Lesson from Bhagavad Gita

• Whatever happened, happened for good. Whatever is
  happening, is happening for good and whatever
  will happen will happen for good. What have you
  lost that you are crying for? Whatever you have
  gained, you have gained here. Whatever you have
  lost, you have lost here. What belongs to you
  today, belonged to someone else yesterday and
  will belong to someone else tomorrow. CHANGE is
  the eternal rule of life. So dont focus on the
  result but do your karma.

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Thank you

• If you feel any thing right or wrong during this
  lecture then please do mail me on address below.
  Your suggestions are always welcome.
• Email yogesh.mehla_at_gmail.com