firstly if you want to know about Hindu dharma. you have to believe system it is not only dharma its a belief of all his follower. Today Hindu dharma is the third largest religion in the world after Christian and Islam.
Hindu dharma is differing from person to person. if someone wants to believe in Idol worship he can do this. it is different for every person, different for every Hindu itself.
Hinduism is not a religion, a dogma, a certain set of beliefs, but an encompassing and all-inclusive way of life based on the principles of Sanatana Dharma. Just like we have laws that govern a society, a country, Sanatana Dharma refers to the laws that govern the life within us.
You can believe in any number of gods/goddesses, you can be a pantheist, a deist, a polytheist, monotheist, an agnostic or an atheist and still be a Hindu. You can worship a human, an animal, a plant, a tree, or anything of your choice, or not worship anything at all and still be a Hindu. In this culture we saw everything as sacred, everything as holy, so you were told to bow down to everything with great reverence.
However despite the differences in beliefs, there is one common thread between this culture, and that is the ultimate goal in life is moksha or liberation. Liberation from the very process of life and to go beyond all limitations.
“ In the East, spirituality and religion were never an organized process. An organization was only to the extent of making spirituality available to everyone – not for conquest. Essentially, religion is about you, it is not about God. Religion is about your liberation. God is just one more stepping stone that you can use or skip towards your ultimate liberation. This culture recognizes human wellbeing and freedom as of paramount importance versus the prominence of God, and hence the whole technology of god-making evolved into the science of consecrating various types of energy forms and spaces.
The essential purpose of God is to create reverence in a person. What you are reverential towards is not important. Being reverential is what is important. If you make reverence the quality of your life, then you become far more receptive to life. Life will happen to you in bigger ways. There is so much misunderstanding about these things because there is a certain dialectical ethos to the culture where we want to express everything in a story or in a song. But in a way, this whole culture referred to as Hindu is rooted in the spiritual ethos of each individual working toward ultimate liberation as the fundamental goal in life.
If you explore mysticism in India, it is absolutely incredible and this has been possible because it does not come from a belief system. It happens as a scientific means to explore dimensions beyond the physical.
India is not a study, but a phenomenon of possibilities, though a cauldron of multiple cultural, ethnic, religious and linguistic soup. It is all held together by a single thread of seeking. The tremendous longing has been nurtured into the peoples of the land, the longing to be free. Free from the very process of life and death. India cannot be studied, at the least one must soak it in, or at best must dissolve. This is the only way. It cannot be studied, western analysis of India is too off the mark, as symptomatic analysis of Bharat will only lead to very grossly misunderstood conclusions of a nation that revels and thrives in a chaos that is organic and exuberant.
This most ancient of nations upon this earth is not built upon a set of principles or beliefs or ambitions of its citizenry. It is a nation of seekers, seeking not wealth or wellbeing, but liberation, not of economic or political kind, but the ultimate liberation.
One must not forget that the basis of seeking is that One has realized that One does not know. One does not know the nature of One’s being. Instead of settling for a culturally convenient belief, for a whole populace to have the courage and commitment to seek the truth about themselves. This the basis of this nation that is called Bharata. Bha meaning sensation, that is the basis of all experience and expression; Ra meaning Raga, the tune and texture of life; Ta meaning Tala, the rhythms of life, which involve both rhythms of the human system and nature.
To preserve, protect and nurture the fundamental ethos of Bharat, the legacy of wisdom and unbridled exploration of life is a true gift to the Humanity as a whole. As a generation, this is an important responsibility that we should fulfil. Let not the limitless possibilities that the sages of this land explored and expounded be lost in religious bigotry and senseless simplistic dogmas.”
