Hinduism is considered by many as the oldest active religion in the world
It's a very unique religion with many aspects that are not so easily
Understood after we did our episode on Islam so many of you requested facts on Hinduism
one of our viewers in particular on in denier Anya Singh oh seven he's watching all the way from India and
Requests it for us to do this video on Hinduism
Thanks for joining us here on another episode of FTD facts
My name is Leroy Kenton now our goal with these videos on religion is to give you an insight on the various
Aspects and elements of the religion and not to challenge
personal beliefs about
Hinduism or any other religion that we cover as always I asked you to respect everybody's beliefs even though you may disagree with them because
We all have a reason for believing what we believe right the word Hindu is derived from the Sanskrit word Sindhu meaning River
It was the Arabic invaders that use the name Hindu for people that were on the other side of the river Indus
Now here's a surprising one. Did you know that?
Hinduism is not the real name for the religion this name was made up by Greeks and Arabs to those living by the Sindhu River
The real name of Hinduism is sanatana dharma or the vedic dharma
Sanatana dharma means the eternal way
And that's pretty much the easiest way that I can translate it into English because there's no single English word
translation for Dharma
Hinduism also has no founder according to scholars
They state that Hinduism has various cultural and traditional roots
And it has evolved over time through different texts and scriptures and speaking of religious texts
Yes, Hinduism is made up of several scriptures
Sacrificial formulas as well as songs this group of texts are known as Vedas
Vedas are also called sir tea unlike other religious texts, which are called is smirky meaning
What is REM now before I continue with this video guys that leads us to our question of this episode?
And I want to know what religious books have you?
Read whether to Bible the kojiki the Quran or anything else let me know down there in
Hinduism the Rig Veda is the first sacred text of Hindus it was written more than
3,800 years ago and the text of it was written for over
3,500 years the text had been passed down orally from generation to generation
And many of its verses continued to be used today in many Hindu celebrations
Making it probably the world's oldest religious texts currently still in use
Hindus consider the number
108 to be very sacred although there are some variations on the number significance
This is in relation to the sons distance from the earth
And the sun's diameter or the moon's distance from the earth, and the moon's diameter it gets pretty tricky and complex
But we also see significance of the number 108 because most of the prayer beads in Hinduism contain a hundred and eight beads
many of the deities in the Hindu religion
Like Lord Shiva for example have a specific day that they're worshiped on like Lord Shiva is worshipped on Monday
However Hindus themselves don't have a specific day to actually go to their temple and worship
The temple can simply be visited anytime they feel now this word here
Juggernaut the official definition for it is a huge powerful and overwhelming force or institution
Also, if you are fan of x-man like myself it also refers to this guy right here
Anyways the English word juggernaut is taken from the Jagannath chariot
This was a huge chariot of the Jagannath temple
Which reportedly crushed hundreds of people under its wheels during a Rath Yatra?
Which is simply a chariot festival now most of us have heard this sound Oh?
I think I did it right. Well that word spelt AUM or
simply om it's considered to be a very holy sound the beginning sound ah
That represents the creation aspect of the universe and everything within it the move sound
Signifies the maintaining energy in the universe as well as the subtle impressions of the mine and the mmm sound
That characterizes the transformative energy of the universe and the thoughts and beliefs of your beingness
another pretty interesting thing about
Hinduism is that atheists and believers in a God can actually exist together?
This is because Hinduism gives complete
Freedom of practice and they advocate that there are many ways to reach God
Although the path may be different perhaps one of the most well known Hindu sayings is this the truth is one
Sages call it by different names in the end. This is what Hinduism aims to teach you lokah samasta sukhino bhavantu
Om shanti shanti shanti and that translates to may all the beings in all the worlds be happy let there be peace
peace and peace everywhere and in the end guys
We're all looking for truth and nobody likes to be lied to right well at least I hope not
So rather than fighting amongst ourselves and fighting one another
Let's just continue to share what we already know and be open to listen to people like genuinely
Listening to them you never know what you might learn. Thanks for tuning in to this episode at FC DFACS
Be sure to leave your thoughts and comments down below and let us know what other video topics
You'd like us to cover until next time guys stay awesome
My name is Leroy Kenton, and I hope you enjoyed this episode on Hinduism
It's a religion that strives to help you achieve peace, and if not at least as close to peace as possible