Ancient Indians, people who lived in Indian peninsula lived life based on Dharma (righteousness). This practice continues even till today. The world Hinduism was coined by Greeks, Persians who invaded India from West after crossing Sindhu (Indus River). India is still governed by Sanatana Dharma, a dharma that exists from times immemorial. The vast paraphernalia of various cultures, practices and beliefs in the Indian peninsula is now called Hinduism religion primarily a way of life.
In the erstwhile Bharatvarsha (now India) people prayed, worshipped as per means available. Similar is the predicament today. If we go into interiors of India where communities cannot afford building a temple, we would find people worshipping various rivers, mountains or the sacred banyan tree even now. The practices remaining the same only the name of the conglomerate changed. The amalgamation of different cultures, practices and beliefs is now collectively grouped under umbrella of Hinduism.
The practices of Hinduism are the ancient in world. Nothing existed before coming of Hinduism religion.
“Dharma” … “Your right to do what is just and right and not what was destined” is that cosmic power that indirectly governs life of every single human being on mother earth. In absence of dharma (righteousness) nothing living in cosmos could survive. It is dharma that prompted human beings from within to believe in powers of nature. With time people in India started worshipping various forms of gods and goddesses including air, water, sun, moon, planets, most rivers and mountains etc.
The power of air became Vayu Devta, that of rains God Varuna. Sun and moon were called Sun God and Chandra Devta. As the belief accordingly the manifestation! Nothing was based on hearsay or simple belief. Various sages and saints of yesteryears deeply contemplated on these cosmic precepts of life before offering obeisance to all these gods and goddesses. Every precept of life is explained in Hinduism. Rishis of yester era (highly evolved sages) contemplated and wrote many treatises (termed Upanishads) to explain various fundamentals of Hinduism, life.
Right from stage of big bang when God Almighty (Brahman in Hinduism) exploded self to form present cosmos to stage of complete dissolution of cosmos (Pralaya in Hinduism) all is detailed in scriptures of Hinduism. All these scriptures of Hinduism existed before any religion came into being. Primarily worshipping, praying is only a religious phenomenon, essence of life always laying elsewhere in Hinduism. Hinduism precepts say we were primarily a spiritual being… a soul atman, the spirit within on its cosmic life cycle of 8.4 million manifestations.
By indulging in contemplation, path of logical reasoning we can become a pure soul atman in the cosmic journey of life, reach stage of enlightenment (kaivalya jnana) forever. This belief existed even in times of Prince Rama when enlightened sages like Yajnavalkya existed. The timeline of Prince Rama is above 5000 years BC.
By: Vijay Kumar “Atma Jnani”… The Man who Realized God in 1993 – (Ref 150924)
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