Hinduism

Hinduism
The Hindu religion or widely known as Santana Dharma, meaning eternal or ageless, which has progressed over the past 7000 years is a religion practiced by a large number of people around the globe, although the majority reside in and around India. The religion came from mostly aboriginal villages, and later moved to urban cities. The main factors in Hindu religion are encompassed by duty, natural law, social welfare, ethics, health, and transcendental welfare. Those that practice Hinduism are into the holistic approach or healing instead of western medicines, although this practice has become less prevalent in the cities. Hinduism has a great deal of different practices and deities, which includes 330 million deities in India alone, making it difficult to truly have a singular definition of Hinduism (Fisher, 2005). According to Hinduism for Beginners, the Hindu religion is varied but there are seven basic tenets that are accepted by all schools of Hinduism (Sivan, 2005). According to the Aryan Invasion Theory foreigners from the steppes of Russia invaded the Indian subcontinent in the Vedic Age, which was 2500 BCE, and brought with them the beginnings of the Hindu tradition (Fisher, 2005). While Hinduism does have uniting belief systems, the practices and rituals differ from region to region making Hinduism different from Western religious traditions, notably Christianity and Judaism, that have a united orthodoxy that guides the differing forms of practice.
It is true that Hinduism lacks a uniting belief system but the different schools of Hinduism can agree on seven basic tenets. According to Hinduism for Beginners these tenets are: “Brahman – the unity of the supreme being, Atman – the existence of the mortal self, Samsara – transmigration, evolution through rebirth back to the Godhead, Karma – the moral law of cause and effect, Nirvana – liberation for all sentient beings, Srishti – the universal becoming, and Dharma – duty, right living, ethics,...