What are the ethics and morality of Hinduism?
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The ethic of Hinduism is one of duty.  You are to do your svadharma (own-duty) and devote your actions to God.  You are to carry out your actions with integrity and honesty.  \n\nHere are the basic dos and don'ts of Hinduism:\n\n1.  Non-Injury.  Respect all life and practice nonviolence in thought, word, and deed.\n2.  Truthfulness.  Tell the truth.\n3.  Non-Stealing.  Don't take what has not been acquired by your own efforts.\n4.  Divine Conduct.  Control lust by remaining celebate when single and faithful in marriage.  Dress modestly, shun pornography, sexual humor and violence.\n5.  Patience.\n6.  Steadfastness.  Overcome nonperseverence, fear, and indecision.\n7.  Compassion.\n8.  Honesty.  Renounce deception and wrongdoing.  Don't cheat, deceive or circumvent.\n9.  Moderate Appetite.  Don't overindulge.\n10.  Purity.  Be pure and clean in body, speech and mind.\n\n11.  Remorse.  Recognize your errors and show remorse for misdeeds, confess and make amends.\n12.  Contentment.  Uplift others.  Be grateful.  Be content in all circumstances.\n13.  Charity.  Share with those less fortunate.\n14.  Faith.  Believe firmly in God.\n15.  Worship.  Cultivate devotion through daily worship and meditation.\n16.  Scriptural Listening.  Study the Scriptures.\n17.  Cognition.  Strive for knowledge of God.\n18.  Sacred Vows.  keep your vows of fasting, vegetarianism, marriage, or whatever religious vows you make.\n\n\nAlso, protection of the earth, respect for parents and elders and teachers, and tolerance are very important.
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You should think about choosing a sect within Hinduism, otherwise you'll have pages and pages of general information that doesn't give any real form and depth to your paper.  Or you might choose a specific belief withing Hinduism.  Or focus on the cultural or economic or legal aspect of India that Hinduism has shaped.  It needs to be more specific, so look at something within Hinduism or within India that you want to focus on.
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"Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details." \n"The one theme of the Vedanta philosophy is the search after unity. The Hindu mind does not care for the particular; it is always after the general, nay, the universal. "what is it that by knowing which everything else is to be known." That is the one search." \n"Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege." \n"It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body -- to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God." \n"Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best." \n" So long as even a dog in my country is starving, my entire religion is to feed it." \n" It is better to live in dreams than to die on hard facts."
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HInduism. it existed before romans or greeks or even christanity.
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Hinduism. it still includes mother goddess, sun, fire worship and shamans. \n\nwe call it Sanatana dharma. it includes most ancient traditions. yet always modifying itself according to changing ideas. still retaining old traditions and beliefs.\n\nstill for religious practices pots made of bronze are supposed auspicious. that was the first metal man used. \n\nHinduism has a continuous evolution tradition. but it never negated or disregarded earlier beliefs. it just modifies them. \n\nyou want to study religious evolution of man study hinduism. it will go back to stone age and latest off shoot of hinduism Sikh Panth is hardly 400 yers old.
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Hindus believe in a variety of things, such that it is hard to classify Hindu beliefs.  But in general, Hindus believe that there is one God, but that this One God has made Himself/Herself known in many ways, through various forms and names.\nGod is believed to be in all things, although not the same as material objects.  He is IN all, but he is not ALL.  (so it's not really pantheism).\n\nSince God is in all, this is why many Hindus believe that God can be worshiped by means of murtis, or images.  God is present within the image, though not the same as the image itself.\n\nHindus believe in reincarnation, and that salvation from the cycle of rebirths (samsara) is possible.  There are many paths to salvation in Hinduism.  There is the path of knowledge, where one learns the scriptures and the philosophy as a means to breaking free from the constraints of human existence.  There is the path of devotion, which is just living a life of devotion to God, where one considers God as his close companion and friend.\nThere is a path of work, where one offers all his actions to God.  He does what is right, works hard, and is not himself attached to the results.  In other words, he does not work just to gain money or prestige, but only for the sake of following God.\nThere are also methods such as meditation, and yoga and other spiritual practices.
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There are sevral Things abt Hindu religion. Actually its worlds third most popular religion in the world. They Beleive in universal soul and even though they beleive in many gods but still they think that there is one god in the world who has made this world and who is the creator,preserver and destroyer.They believ there is one religion in the world, A religion fill with fill,respect and care.\nIt beleives that the soul passes through a cycle of successive lives and its next incarnation is always dependent on how the previous life was lived.\n\nSo if you behave badly in this life, your next incarnation is likely to be more unpleasant than your current one—you reap what you sow.\n\nThe 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. Our experience, our reason, and our dialogue with others—especially with enlightened individuals—provide various means of testing our understanding of spiritual and moral truth. And Hindu scripture, based on the insights of Hindu sages and seers, serves primarily as a guidebook. But ultimately truth comes to us through direct consciousness of the divine or the ultimate reality.\n \nAnother great aspect of Hinduism is that it has promoted spirituality and recommended restraint in becoming overly materialistic. The knowledge gained by learned people, has been used for general good of the public (such as Ayurveda, Yoga etc). I believe, no other religion or religious literature has such copious mix of spiritualism and knowledge related to daily life applications.\n\nI hope this prove usefull, If You need any more question abt it or want to be more specifc than ask someone who is hindu or who knows abt it not just anyone who actually doesnt know at all but still make it a pleasure to have rude comments\n\nP.S. The answerer 16 Hindu's God is not dead and When You Say God that simply means eternity.Think Before you Comment on something u dont know
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its B:hindu, being a hindu myself i can assure u thts the right answer!
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YES, Morals are your belief system. Ethics are our populas/public view of how things should be or are which ever the case.
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Morality and ethics are not something handed down from On High-- although some pretend it is-- morality and ethics are socially produced.  Basically, social morlaity is that which enhanches the survival of Each and All.  No reference to supernatural decrees is necessary.
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First I would check out these two links and read them thoroughly.\n\nhttp://www.religioustolerance.org/hinduism.htm\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinduism\n\nIf you want an inside view, look here:\n\nhttp://www.hindunet.org/\n\nFor comparisons with other religions, look here:\n\nhttp://www.experiencefestival.com/hinduism_vs_christianity\n\nAnd finally, if you want a rebuttal to Hinduism from a Christian perspective, take a look at this:\n\nhttp://www.biblestudylessons.com/cgi-bin/gospel_way/hinduism.php\n\nhttp://www.christiancourier.com/feature/february99.htm\n\nHere you can find some discussion on the pros and cons:\n\nhttp://outlookindia.com/submain1.asp?mode=25&refer=53516&rcount=37
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In one sentence, \n\n"The divinity of man"\n\nHinduism teaches that all religions are good and are valid paths to god...\n\njust like different ppl wear different clothes, eat different food, but are all the same "humans", so also different religions use different methods to reach the same\n"God"\n\nIt says that everything in the universe is god, you are god.\nI am god, \n\nall the suffering humanity goes through is because we forget our own divine nature, and think that we are nothin but bodies...\n\nThe goal of life is to realize our own divine nature,\n\nso hinduism shows 4 paths to that realization\n\nthey are\n\n1.bhakti yoga (through workship)\n\n2.karma yoga (through selfless work)\n\n3,raja yoga ( by psychic control, meditation and pranayama etc )\n\nand\n\n4.jyana yoga ( through philosophical discrimination of what is real and what is not real.)\n\nThe watch word of hinduism is\n\n"Truth alone triumphs"..........\n\nhinduism teaches us to be fearless...
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Hinduism is very diverse and has many different groups. It is not organized into a central body, thus there are millions of leaders in Hinduism. Every individual Math, Ashram, Temple, etc has its own leaders. Hinduism isn't concerned about 'power' or 'authority'.
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I hope that the links below help u get started.\n\nhttp://www.stephen-knapp.com/christianity's_similarities_with_hinduism.htm\n\nhttp://www.stephen-knapp.com/christianity_and_the_vedic_teachings_within_it.htm\n\nhttp://www.stephen-knapp.com/jesus_taught_bhaktiyoga.htm\n\nhttp://www.stephen-knapp.com/bible_teaches_chanting_gods_names.htm
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the hindu religion is basically a very conservative religion. It involves several gods,festivals,prayers,rituals and other such stuff. It is actually quite a fun religion too. I am hindu, and i love my religion.
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Hinduism is not an organised religion and does not have a religios leader like a pope .\n\nBut there are Shankaracharya Peetha and their heads are called Shankaracharya in memory of a great philosophe Adi Shankaracharya. You can consider them as leaders upto some extent. But they are not also exactly pope of some kind. \n\nHinduism  is a culture, a way of life. We follow what we want and reject the beliefs we do not agree with.\n\nIt is a monotheist religion which at the same time uses extensive symbolism and allows idol worship.\n\nThere are too many different kinds of philosophies from Advait Vedant and Nirgun Brahm(formless god) to Sagun Brahm.\n\nSo a religious leader does not make sence. At the most they are scholars.