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Interesting Facts about #SanatanaDharma

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“Sanatana Dharma“, which literally means eternal dharma

- Hinduism is not a religion but it is a set of hundreds of different philosophical thoughts and lifestyles

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Hindu religion has no founder or origin that’s why it is known as “Sanatana Dharma”.

Besides Vedas, Bhagavad Gita is a popularly known Holy Book of Hindus.  The Upanishads, 18 Puranas, Ramayana and Mahabharata are also important Hindu Scriptures.

According to Hindus, the soul is immortal but takes on the form of many bodies until they achieve enlightenment. The rebirth, however, is on the basis of one’s karma. You can incarnate as birds, animals or humans or other forms as per your karma.

108 is the holiest number in Hinduism

In Hindu Dharma, number 108 has held great importance. According to Various Puranas, Lord Shiva has 108 Mukhya (Main) Shiva Ganas; Lord Vishnu has 108 Divya Desams; 108 gods and demons took part in Samudra Manthan. .

AUM, It’s the sound of Brahman, of the atman, and shows the divine as a part of Om-Tat-Sat (Bhagavad Gita, 17.23). Lord Krishna says, “Of speech, I am the transcendental syllable, Om.” (Bhagavad Gita, 10.25).

He adds, “I am the divine syllable Om in all the Vedas” to show the way in which the universe rests in Him .

Hinduism has its huge influence and common concepts with Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism which are later originated in India.

Hindu celebrate wealth in the form of many gods such as Lakshmi, Kubera, and Vishnu. Hinduism has a 4 level hierarchy –  Dharma (the pursuit of philosophy, religion and doing duties to society), Artha (the pursuit of livelihood, wealth, and power),

Kama (the pursuit of pleasures) and Moksha (liberation) and we progress from the top to bottom. This is very close to Maslow’s hierarchy and thus, Hindus are natural capitalists.

Hinduism is pro-science from early ages

Concept of Zero (as a number and as a marker), the concept of Infinity and concept of the Decimal Number System (with a carry-forward); Pythagoras Theorem, originated from Vedas.

The Big Bang theory is mentioned as early as the Rig Veda, where, in Tenth Mandala –  the Cosmos and the ‘Golden Egg’ or the Sun, is born from the Cosmic Void – often called as Asat (Non-being) – also meaning ‘Non-wisdom’ or Chaos.

Ayurveda,medical treatment practice was also taught to Chinese, Greek, Roman, and Persian students who studied at the great Ancient Indian Universities like Takshila and Nalanda –early as 700BCE. Yoga, Vastu, and Palmistry originated frm the Hindu scriptures frm the ancient past

There are 33 types of Gods, not 330 Million

In Brhadaranyaka Upanishad while discussing Brahman, Yajnavalkya is asked how many gods are there. The number 33 comes from the number of Vedic gods explained by Yajnavalkya in Brhadaranyaka Upanishad

– the eight Vasus, the eleven Rudras, the twelve Adityas, Indra and Prajapati. (Chapter I, hymn 9, verse 2)

Source

- Wiki Pedia
- Sanathan Dharma Lib.
- World Hinduism Forum
- Ancient India
- Vedic Feeds