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Hinduism, Hinduism is so tolerant and Hindu religious practices so varied and eclectic that one would find it difficult to say whether one is practicing or professing Hindu religion or not. Especially when one is born a Hindu the fact that he goes to a Buddhist temple or a church or a durgah cannot be said to show that they are no more Hindus unless it is clearly proved that they have changed their religion from Hinduism to some other religion, Ganpat v. Presiding Officer, AIR 1975 SC 420 (424): (1975) 1 SCC 589: (1975) 2 SCR 923.Hinduism cannot be defined in terms of Polytheism or Henotheism or Monotheism. The nature of Hindu religion ultimately is Monism/Advaita. This is in contradistinction to Monotheism which means only one God to the exclusion of all others. Polytheism is a belief of multiplicity of Gods. On the contrary, Monism is a spiritual belief of one Ultimate Supreme who manifests himself as many. This multiplicity is not contrary to on-dualism. This is the reason why Hindu...
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
Reconversion
Reconversion, on 'reconversion' to Hinduism, a person can once again become a member of the caste in which he was born and to which he belonged before conversion to another religion, if the members of the caste accept him as a member. Hence on reconversion to Hinduism, a person can once again become a member of the scheduled caste to which he belonged prior to his conversion for the social and economic disabilities once again revive and become attached to him, C.M. Arumugam v. S. Rajgopal, AIR 1976 SC 939 (949): (1976) 1 SCC 863: (1976) 3 SCR 82.The national or imaginary process by which an earlier constructive conversion-meaning a change of personal into real property or real into personal property is annulled and taken away; and converted property restored to its originals quality, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1278....
Hinduism
the dominant religion of India characterized by a caste system anud belief in reincarnation...
Hindustan
northern region of India where Hinduism predominates...
Jainism
The heterodox Hindu religion founded in the 6th century as a revolt against Hinduism its most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals called jins above the ordinary Hindu gods and the denial of a supreme being and of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas Also the sect comprising those adhering to Jainism Jainism believes in immortality and the transmigration of the soul It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism having some things in common with each...
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