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The Hinduism,
Legends and customs
We all think we know the world we are living in Jet, we all know in
through our own culture's eyes, and it is a known thing that culture is
strongly influenced by religion. And one of the oldest religions of this
world is the Hindu religion.
In Hinduism, everything begins, ends and it is included in ohm
,, which is a sign representing the trinity of God. Like the Christians,
the Hindu God is divided in 3 different gods, which are one and the same
person at the same time. It's the same way a person can be somebody's
brother, somebody's father and somebody else's husband, but being at the
same time one single person. The gods Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva represent
the Hindu trinity.
Lord Brahma is the Generator, the creator of earth and everything
there is: animals, plants and humans. Even being the generator of all
things, he isn't worshiped because he married his sister.
Lord Vishnu, the most worshiped one, is the Operator. He is one that
makes all the rules of the society, the one that makes things move. He
usually uses material thing to persuade people to do the different things
he wants them to do. Lord Vishnu is the most handsome one and he is usually
represented like a beautiful young man with 4 arms or like a normal
beautiful young man that has the shakra in his right hand and a snail shell
from which it flows sand in the left one. The snail shell and the sand
represent the flow of the time.
Lord Shiva is the Destroyer, the most important of the 3 gods. He is
the one who will arise the Divyajyoti, the Hindu "apocalypse", the end of
the world. Hindus believe in reincarnation, so the ones that will go to
haven and the ones who will go to hell are the ones who made good deeds and
bad deeds during their life until the Divyajyoti's time when there will be
too much sin on this world. When this will happen, he will open his third
eye, and the world will burn. He is represented usually in the meditation
position, with his third eye opened that he gained through meditation.
That's why Hindu's wear a coloured dot between their eyes. It represents
worshipping the intellect, the power of reason and will. Lord Shiva has an
eye instead of a dot because he took the meditation to such level that a
third eye opened, the eye of the mind.
Actually, it is with his third eye that he killed Kaam Dev, the god
of love, because it was affecting him too much.
There are many gods in the Hindu religion. Everything that exists has
it own got. There are about 63.000 gods. Some of the most known are Varun
Dev, the god of air, Arun Dev, the sun god, Agni Dev, the god of fire and
Kaam Dev, the god of love, who was killed by lord Shiva. It is useless to
pray to him because he's dead. Still, there is a mantra |