Hindu beliefs

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Hindu beliefs

These grew from a post–2000 BC fusion of Aryan, Dravadian, and Munda cultures. Probably the world’s oldest surviving faith.
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As per Hindu beliefs, all places of religious worship are closed and no religious rituals are performed during an eclipse.
'I didn't mean to hurt Hindu beliefs or Pakistani Hindus, while I had categorically addressed Indian premier Narendra Modi, Indian armed forces and media", he said while clarifying a statement attributed to him.
In an article written for Janmabhumi, a newspaper promoted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), RSS executive council member R Sanjayan said there is nothing in the verdict that adversely affects Hindu beliefs or dharma.
Durga represents purity and power according to Hindu beliefs and was also associated with fertility of the earth. The festival is mostly celebrated as a triumph of good over evil.
According to Hindu beliefs, Vijayadasami forms an auspicious day to start any process of learning as it is dedicated to Saraswati, the deity of knowledge.
The right-wing activists say they have beaten men they suspected of violating core Hindu beliefs and threatened interfaith couples because they fear Muslims are stealing their women.
According to some Hindu beliefs, celestial bodies such as the sun and moon emit negative energy during an eclipse and so some temples in India were closed to minimize any disturbance.
The holiest Kashmiri Pandit shrine in Kashmir Valley, Kheer Bhawani temple is dedicated to Hindu deity Mata Ragnya, who according to Hindu beliefs came to Kashmir from Sri Lanka during the rule of Ravana.
Scholars call this era the 'primitive mytho-heroic stage of Hindu beliefs.' The area of their influence included Lahore, Sialkot, Virkgarh (today's Sheikhupura) and right up to the Indus.
They do, however, mirror many Hindu beliefs, such as the unity of the material world with the spiritual world, the union of the individual soul and the cosmic soul, and--most importantly for the subject of this article--the concept that one can arrive at the knowledge of this union through a heightened sensuality, through an appreciation of life's beauty.
Jewish and Hindu beliefs in the divine as the ultimate source of worldly reality, and the emphases in both contexts on moral uprightness and the spiritual life indicate that the one common God is worshipped.
He explains the historical events and socio-cultural processes that occasioned the transfer of Hindu beliefs and practices from India to Ghana at the tail-end of the British colonial rule of the two societies.