Girish Kadel Hinduism Girish Kadel While certain ideas unite Hinduism, Hinduism is a highly tolerant religion, which allows full freedom for its followers to choose their belief systems and lifestyles. Hinduism is a mystical religion, leading a devotee to experience truth personally inside, ultimately reaching a peak of consciousness in which human beings and gods are one.
Girish Kadel Hinduism is the leading world religion, not only by virtue of its large number of followers (estimated to number over 700 million), but because of the profound impact it has had on so many other religions throughout its long, continuous history, dating back about 1,500 B.C. Hinduisms diverse history overlaps with, or overlaps with, the development of religions on the Indian subcontinent from the Iron Age, and some of its traditions trace to prehistoric religions, such as the Bronze Age religions of the Indus Valley civilization. Girish Kadel Early Indus Valley religion developed under the influence of the New Arrivals in the Vedic period. It is probable that Indus Valley traditions and Vedic deities and beliefs combined to form the basis for Hinduism.