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	MSN Encarta - Hinduism
		Hindu was primarily a geographical term that referred to India or to a region of India (near the Sindhu) as long ago as the 6th century bc.
		The Hindu tradition encourages Hindus to seek spiritual and moral truth wherever it might be found, while acknowledging that no creed can contain such truth in its fullness and that each individual must realize this truth through his or her own systematic effort.
		Because of Hinduism’s emphasis on living in accordance with dharma, anyone who is striving for spiritual knowledge and seeking the right course of ethical action is, in the broadest sense, a follower of sanātana dharma.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555715/Hinduism.html (1563 words)

	Hinduism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		One of the oldest living religions in the world, Hinduism is unique among the world religions in that it had no single founder but grew over a period of 4,000 years in syncretism with the religious and cultural movements of the Indian subcontinent.
		The first phase of Hinduism was early Brahmanism, the religion of the priests or Brahmans who performed the Vedic sacrifice, through the power of which proper relation with the gods and the cosmos is established.
		Modern Hindu leaders such as Swami Vivekananda, Mohandas Gandhi, and Aurobindo Ghose, have given voice to a movement away from the traditional ideal of world-renunciation and asceticism and have asserted the necessity of uniting spiritual life with social concerns.
	www.bartleby.com /65/hi/Hinduism.html (1043 words)

	World Religions Index: Hinduism
		Hinduism had never been a missionary religion until the twentieth century and is largely limited to India and groups of emigrant Indians.
		Hinduism "solves" the problem of the existence of suffering and evil in a fairly neat manner: all present suffering, it says, is exactly deserved, being the paying back of one's karma, the accumulation of deeds done in past lives--and all present evil will be exactly repaid in the form of suffering in future lives.
		Hindus have a magical and legalistic notion that one can acquire spiritual "points" through contact with all manner of holy objects and persons; that is by and large the Hindu notion of grace.
	wri.leaderu.com /wri-table2/hinduism.html (969 words)

	Hinduism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A core sacred text of Hinduism and it's philosophy, the Bhagavad Gita, often referred to as the Gita, is a summation of the Vedic, Yogic, Vedantic and Tantric philosophies.
		The Uttara ("later") Mimamsa school is perhaps one of the cornerstone movements of Hinduism and certainly was responsible for a new wave of philosophical and meditative enquiry, renewal of faith, and cultural reform.
		Hindus stress meditative insight, an intuition beyond the mind and body, a trait that is often associated with the ascetic god Shiva.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hinduism (5910 words)

	WORLD RELIGIONS: HINDUISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hinduism is the world's oldest living and organized religion.
		At its core Hinduism has pagan background, in which the forces of nature and human heroes are personified as gods and goddesses.
		Hinduism can be divided in to Popular Hinduism, is characterized by the worship of gods, through offerings, rituals and prayers; and Philosophical Hinduism, is the complex belief system understood by those who can study ancient texts, meditate and practice yoga.
	sub.namb.net /root/resources/beliefbulletins/religions/hinduism.asp (1295 words)

	Hinduism
		Hinduism is not just a philosophy of teachings about God; it is also a study of man and the world, and it is this study that makes Hindus a very practical type of people.
		Hinduism is the oldest religion in the world.
		Hinduism, therefore, has never been without teachers and that is why - in spite of being a very ancient religion - it is still very dynamic, with a great sense of purpose.
	www.spiritual.com.au /articles/religion/hinduism_Nirliptananda.htm (3163 words)

	Index\|Hinduism\|BBC World Service
		Hinduism is the name given to a family of religions and cultures that began and still flourish in India.
		For Hindus in India, Hinduism is an inextricable part of their existence, a complete approach to life that involves social class, earning a living, family, politics, diet, etc., in addition to the things Westerners view as religious.
		Hindu temples are the focus of religious life, but there is not a strong tradition of corporate congregational worship.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/people/features/world_religions/hinduism.shtml (288 words)

	Hinduism World
		The world in which we live is a world of ignorance and falsehood or untruth, called Asat, in contrast to Sat or the world of Truth that exists beyond it, where neither the mind, nor any of the senses can ever reach even remotely.
		In this sense, the world, or pasha, is three-fold, comprising anava (the force of individuation), karma (the principle of cause and effect) and maya (manifestation, the principle of matter, Siva's mirific energy, the sixth tattva).
		Hinduism is not a religion but a set of beliefs and traditions which have evolved over a period of time.
	www.experiencefestival.com /hinduism_world (876 words)

	Hinduism - An Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The sages who shaped the Hindu religion merely reiterated the teachings of the Vedas, the Hindu scriptures (most of which is unwritten).
		The period of Shankara's birth was witness to the spiritual degradation of India and a mass adoption of atheistic philosophies by Indians.
		Both teachers therefore corroborated the Hindu premise that the Truth manifests itself as us and we continue to manifest as long as we identify with this illusory world and fall into the trap of desires.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/9410/hindu1.html (3591 words)

	The world's top hinduism websites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		To the Hindu, this idea has been an active force in defining the 'Eternal Dharma.' It has been for Hinduism what the infinite Divine Self of Advaita is to existence, remaining forever unchanged and self-luminous, central and pervasive, in spite of all the chaos and flux around it.
		Hinduism rests on the spiritual bedrock of the Vedas, hence Veda Dharma, and their mystic issue, the Upanishads, as well as the teachings of many great Hindu gurus through the ages.
		Thus, Hindu image worship is a form of iconolatry, in which the symbols are venerated as putative sigils of divinity, as opposed to idolatry, a charge often levied (erroneously) at Hindus.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/hinduism (4685 words)

	Great World Religions: Hinduism (Detailed Description)
		In Hinduism you will find a religion that is perhaps the most diverse of all, that worships more gods and goddesses than any other, and which rejects the notion that there is one path to the divine.
		The story of Hinduism is the story of very un-Western traditions—arranged marriages and the caste system—that have survived and thrived for thousands of years; and of a wealth of gods, terms, and practices—karma, Krishna, yoga, guru—that have found a home in Western lives and language.
		Hinduism is the world's oldest living religious tradition, with roots deep in the early cultures of India.
	www.teach12.com /ttc/Assets/courseDescriptions/6104.asp (919 words)

	A Tribute to Hinduism - Hinduism's influence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There are many other similarities between Hinduism and Christianity: incense, sacred bread (prasadam), the different altars around churches (which recall the manifold deities in their niches inside Hindu temples); reciting the rosary (japamala), the Christian Trinity (the ancient Santana Dharma: Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh), Christian processions, the sign of the cross (Anganyasa), and so on.
		Buddhism is an offshoot of Hinduism and is considered one of the heterodox schools of Hindu philosophy.
		Hindu thought was filtered to the West via Greek colonies which are known to have existed in India prior the time of the Buddha in the 6th century B.C.E. The Buddha actually refers to the Greeks in a discourse in the Middle Length Sayings.
	www.atributetohinduism.com /Hinduisms_influence.htm (12284 words)

	World Religions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hinduism is a very complex and thought out religion that essentially gives an answer for any question that you might have about your life.
		Hinduism has been practiced for thousands of years and has developed philosophies that include everybody in every walk of life.
		Hinduism has relegated everything into categories and everyone falls into more than one category because people are different and can't all be one personality type.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Forum/1699/Hinduism.html (405 words)

	aaronc - world religions - Hinduism
		Hinduism is a very complex set of beliefs and instructions that they have derived from ancient scriptures, the Vedas.
		Hindus have a very wide selection of beliefs and practices to choose from: they can be pantheists, polytheists, monotheists, agnostics and even atheists, but to reach the next level in their reincarnation they must choose and adhere to the teachings that they choose.
		The world's largest democracy is having to deal with the discriminatory issues of the caste system, and modern problems, such as birth control and the problems raised by urbanization.
	jpdawson.com /modrelg/hinduism.html (3675 words)

	The major world religions
		For an excellent introduction to Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Confucianism, Christianity, and Judaism, Huston Smith's "The World's Religions" is highly recommended.
		Hindus follow a strict caste system which determines the standing of each person.
		In 70 CE the temple was destroyed and the Jews were scattered throughout the world until 1948 when the state of Israel was formed.
	www.omsakthi.org /religions.html (3373 words)

	HINDUISM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hinduism is derived from the Persian word for Indian.
		Hinduism grew to become the world's third largest religion, claiming about 13% of the world's population.
		The most important of all Hindu texts is the Bhagavad Gita which is a poem describing a conversation between a warrior Arjuna and his charioteer Krishna.
	www.caicusa.org /world/hinduism.htm (859 words)

	hinduism - hindu, canon, themes,
		It was suggested by Victorian England that the principle beliefs that form the Hindu religion were brought to India by an invasion of Arayan peoples, from the plains of Iran.
		Hinduism is best regarded not a single dogmatised set of principles, as much as a cacophony of diverse interpretations of reality, heavily based on a unique pantheism-polytheism.
		Hinduism is an exploration of reality itself, and seeks to recognise a relationship between the nature of Divnity and the nature of the soul.
	www.comparative-religion.com /hinduism (646 words)

	Indian religious influence in the Mediterranean world (from Hinduism) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Nearly as dubious as the question of Hindu influence on the religious life of the Far East is its influence on that of the ancient Mediterranean world.
		Apart from animism, from which it may have partly derived, Hinduism is the oldest of the world's...
		Hinduism believes the chains of Karmic law are broken by achieving union with the Divine.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-8989 (990 words)

	HINDUISM: The world's third largest religion
		Hinduism differs from Christianity and other Western religions in that it does not have a single founder, a specific theological system, a single system of morality, or a central religious organization.
		Hinduism has grown to become the world's third largest religion, after Christianity and Islam.
		Hinduism is generally regarded as the world's oldest organized religion.
	www.religioustolerance.org /hinduism.htm (688 words)

	A Guide to World Hinduism - Caste and Holy Cows
		Every time a child is born or you want to marry or ask a favour of the gods you have to cross a Brahmin’s palm with silver.
		Hindus worship in front of little shrines in their own homes and in the temples.
		Hinduism has always had respected and revered saints and personages, Gandhi being a good example but there’s no clear-cut church as such.
	www.roadjunky.com /religions/hinduworld.shtml (640 words)

	www.hindu.org - Dharma & Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Afghan Hindus Worldwide - This is not an official site of any Afghan Hindu Association; it is maintained by a small group of Afghan Hindus/Sikhs living outside of Afghanistan as a service to rest of the community.
		Hindu Students Association of McGill University - The HSA in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, is a chapter of the Hindu Students Council (HSC), an international organization promoting understanding of Hindu traditions, customs, culture and heritage.
		National Hindu Students Forum UK - What began with a few students in the United Kingdom just 9 years ago is now the largest student body for Hindu students in Europe, with local chapters in over 51 universities.
	www.hindu.org /dharma (1921 words)

	Studies
		Hinduism explains that the soul reincarnates until all Karmas are resolved and God realization is attained.
		Hinduism is a mystical religion, leading the devotee to personally experience the Truth within, finally reaching the pinnacle of consciousness where man and God are one.
		Lord Vishnu - all pervasive consciousness - is the soulof the universe, distinct from the world and from the jivas, "embodied souls," which constitute His body.
	www.bnaiyer.com /studies/faith-01.html (1223 words)

	Hinduism on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hinduism is a religion born out of a culture of water, Islam o (PAR52362)
		Hinduism Today issue for January February and March 2003.
		Mauritius,Ghoon sect, influenced by Hinduism, Khalife swallows sword as penitence.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/Hinduism.asp (532 words)

	Major Religions Ranked by Size
		Hinduism is often described as a collection very different traditions, bound by a geographical and national identity.
		In the Western world, Europe is by far the place with the most self-avowed nonreligious, atheists and agnostics, with the nonreligious proportion of the population particularly high in Scandinavia.
		World Hinduism adherent figures are usually between 850 million and one billion.
	www.adherents.com /Religions_By_Adherents.html (11829 words)

	Godserver Alternative Health and Spiritual Directory: World Religions: Hinduism
		Some of these titles are hyperlinked (click on the number at the end of the titles) to show their table of contents and excerpts from the jacket/preface.
		The following is a presentation of two creeds, one for Saivite Hindus and one for Hindus of all denominations, as well as ten slokas presenting five precepts and five practices that constitute the minimum Hindu parents must teach their children to pass on Sanatana Dharma to the next generation.
		An important part of the Hindu renaissance of this century has been the discovery of the need for simple creeds expressing the basic beliefs of the Hindu faith.
	www.godserver.com /hinduism.shtml (933 words)

	World Hinduism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I am a member of a local Hindu Youth Group, and we have found that Hinduism is not as strong as it was a few years ago, especially amongst the youth.
		Do U have any suggestions that might help us to make people more aware and interested in Hinduism, without making them bored.
		I would gladly appreciate any info U would be able to bive me. PS: I have an IBM compatible PC at home, and would like to put some Hindu, ie Gujerati, Tamil, etc fonts on it, as we sometimes need it to mwrite letter, does anyone have any for me, please let me know.
	www.hindunet.org /alt_hindu/1995_Apr_2/msg00014.html (142 words)

	The Hindu : International / India & World : Hinduism and Buddhism are twins: Dalai Lama
		The Hindu : International / India & World : Hinduism and Buddhism are twins: Dalai Lama
		``Hinduism has a long tradition and Buddhism draws many practices from the old, ancient traditions of India.
		I am very happy that you are keeping alive so many religious and cultural practices of my second home — India, which is my spiritual home as well,'' he said about the local people of Indian origin.
	www.hindu.com /2004/11/08/stories/2004110806251200.htm (280 words)

	Spirituality, Religion, and Business - Spirituality
		The world of business must be a place where each participant realizes that his/her role is to offer useful service.
		Businesses must be places that exist to make the world a better place—not merely for the accumulation of wealth for selfish purposes.
		We are seeing a great awakening in the business world pointing toward greater interest in spirituality in the workplace.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art6709.asp (989 words)

	EduNet - Religions of the World, Hinduism
		For now, from here, you can download Hindu tantrik texts, view images of some of the gods and goddesses of the tradition and look at their yantras.
		The Hindu Family Newspaper Affirming the Dharma and Recording the Modern History of Nearly a Billion Members of a Global Religion in Renaissance.
		Along with Hinduism and Buddhism, Jainism is one of the three most ancient of India's religions still in existence.
	www.edunet.ie /resources/religioninfo/hindu.html (499 words)

	The Directory of Hindu Resources Online
		www.hindu.org is dedicated to Hindu solidarity, culture and the dissemination of the vast and timeless knowledge of our great Sanatana Dharma to all the people of the world.
		This is a public service of Himalayan Academy, publishers of Hinduism Today Magazine.
		The goal of www.hindu.org is to publish and connect all Hindu organizations, leaders and resources such as news, events, publications, Vedic sciences, art, music and culture on the Internet's World Wide Web.
	www.hindu.org (1799 words)

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