In the Hindu epic Ramayana, the vanara Vali (, nominative singular of the root वालिन् Valin), also known as Bali (, , , Yuan: Bari, , Lao: Palichan) was king of Kishkindha, a son of Indra and the elder brother of Sugriva. He was killed by Rama, an Avatar of Vishnu.
Early life
Vali was famous for the boon that he had received, according to which anyone who fought him in single-combat lost half his strength to Vali, thereby making Vali invulnerable to any enemy. Once Ravana called Vali for a fight when Vali was doing his regular Sandhyavandanam. He took Ravana in his tail and took him ar...
According to Hindu mythology, Adi Parashakti—the Goddess, Devi—is the Supreme Being and recognized as Para Brahman. The Devi Bhagwata Mahapurana suggests that Adi Parashakti is the original creator, observer and destroyer of the whole universe. Today's Scientist call her Supreme Intelligence or Sacred Energy, and she is known commonly around the world simply as God. It is she who created everything which exists in the Universe. Hence Adi Parashakti is Parama Prakriti. Goddess Durga is the original manifested form of Mother Adi-Parashakti.Godess Durga is Adi- Parashakti herself. Durga or...
this is what i got as an asnwer.. but not the ideal one...
In Hindu monotheism, the concept of God varies from one sect to another.
Hinduism (by its nature as a regional rather than a doctrinal religious category) is not exclusively monotheistic, and has been described as spanning a wide range of henotheism, monotheism, polytheism, panentheism, pantheism, pandeism and monism, etc.
The philosophical system of Advaita or non-dualism as it developed in the Vedanta school of Hindu philosophy, especially as set out in the Upanishads and popularised by Adi Shankara in the 9th century, would become the basis of mainstream Hinduism as it developed ...
In hinduism , everything has cycle of life and death. Universe has a life of 100 brahma years (311 trillion 4o billion human years), Devtas 1 day equals 1 year of humans. So yes everything has age.
But for all practical reasons, God's are immortal. Godess Parvati (incarnation of Godess Sati) be...
I have a strong feeling that the english of this website will be a disaster
@vedic Just because the gods have a sense of time does not mean they are mortal or that they age. The gods do not in fact age. — Keshav Srinivasan4 mins ago
yea exactly it will be, I mean, what we should expect as an answer? Hindus find gods in Rocks, some find on paper, for us, everything is god and hence we pray when something falls from our hands, and we pray before we throw the left over foods so.. I feel it would be vague
Guys, here's a notice, I cannot pin so make sure we star and keep it above other messages
@Mr.Alien as new starred messages keep coming it will go down, you can star in, but it will go down the list eventually. I don't think (or at-least I have not seen) the starring system system work that way
as you can see, there are currently many single starred messages above the two-starred messages in starboard
@Mr.Alien as you can see in this answer, the question is about the gods, but the answerer has included everyone in answer explanation, like devtas and others like Hanuman and Parshuram.
That's why I asked that we need to define what is god
I am currently confused between these alternatives:
the sum total of all traditions followed in modern day India?
the value system of Canakya Pandita, the principal creator of the modern-day India?
the value system of Mahatma Gandhi?
the value system of emperor Ashoka, whose emblem India still ...
Sure I can but I would like you to do it as its your idea, if people agree it will be you who will post on the main... I'll wait for your post on meta.. :)
I read from a mythological story that the Fire(Agni Lingam) is entirely different and very important than other pancha bhoota like Water (Appu Lingam), Sky(Akasha Lingam), Air(Vayu Lingam), Land(Prithivi Lingam).
Is it completely true? If yes what are the reasons for that?
@vedic LOL, please try to understand. That would be meaningless to add a colon. It might feel better, because we know the actual meaning. If anyone else comes to site, with no knowledge about Hinduism, he'll be confused with this tag and its meaning.
Like many other poojas (prayers) of hindus they celebrate Durga Maa pooja by creating an idol for her. But I never understood (even I saw that happen, in many movies, Devdas, Aanand) why is the soil for such holy ritual taken from land of prostitutes?
Any divine context for this?
I am currently confused between these alternatives:
the sum total of all traditions followed in modern day India?
the value system of Canakya Pandita, the principal creator of the modern-day India?
the value system of Mahatma Gandhi?
the value system of emperor Ashoka, whose emblem India still ...
Sorry I missed the link because visited color is too similar to the normal one, and I commented that as too broad because, it will generate multiple opinion based answers
and its not literally possible for one to define hinduism
We don't need to speculate; we can look at the justification Rama himself gave for his actions: (This is all taken from this translation of the Valmiki Ramayana.)
1) In response to Vali's claim that Rama has no jurisdiction to enforce laws there, since they're not in Ayodhya, Rama says that the ...
Hindus believe in worship of Murthi (statue). What is the reason for this? I am believing that God exist in statue from my childhood but I don't have exact clarification or history behind it.
@DroidDev I am crazy for punjabi food, and I've being to chandigarh but not to roam, had a flight from there, unfortunately got cancelled and I traveled to Delhi... :(
yea I saw that, green sign boards everywhere, but whats the funny part, was asking where's the airport and the guy said go right, and his hand was pointing towards left :D
@Mr.Alien Actually that's the weather of whole north India. It is always extreme. Chandigarh is somewhat good from that point of view. It is never too hot or too cold as compared to other regions in north India.
@Mr.Alien That was just starting of summer. Real summer is now a days. It is dusty because of harvest season and chandigarh is cloudy at-least once a month even when it's not rainy season.
There are many gods in Hinduism and hence many questions would arise about gods of Hinduism. This post intends to decide, that whether we should make or create a canonical question on main site, in which the definition of god will be explained according to Hinduism.
The post will contain:
Def...
The Abramic religions have Biblical apocrypha sections of the work claimed by some to be authentic but excluded by the main body of the religion. Does the Gita have any similar sections?
In Hindu cosmology, particularly long periods of time are reckoned in terms of units like "days of Brahma", where one day of Brahma is equal to 4.32 billion "human" years.
I always thought that the "Brahma" here was Brahma as in the creator deity of the Trimurti. However, in another answer, it ...
It is well-known that temples devoted to Brahma are extremely rare compared to temples devoted to Vishnu and Shiva (or, indeed, any number of other deities, e.g Murugan, Ganesh, Hanuman, etc.). Question 1: Why is this?
I am of course familiar with the standard mythological justification - in one...