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Rigveda 1.164.46 Transl: Klaus Klostermaier Henotheism was the term used by scholars such as Max Müller to describe the theology of Vedic religion. Müller noted that the hymns of the Rigveda, the oldest scripture of Hinduism, mention many deities, but praises them successively as the "one ultimate, supreme God" (called saccidānanda in some traditions), alternatively as "one supreme Goddess ...
It is the divine in these that makes each sacred and worthy of reverence, rather than them being sacred in and of themselves. This perception of divinity manifested in all things, as Buttimer and Wallin view it, makes the Vedic foundations of Hinduism quite distinct from animism, in which all things are themselves divine.
Lila (Hinduism) Lila ( Sanskrit: लीला līlā) or leela ( / ˈliːlə /) can be loosely translated as "divine play". The concept of lila asserts that creation, instead of being an objective for achieving any purpose, is rather an outcome of the playful nature of the divine. As the divine is perfect, it could have no want fullfilled ...
Shakti ( Devanagari: शक्ति, IAST: Śakti; lit. "Energy, ability, strength, effort, power, capability" [1]) is the fundamental esoteric energy that underlies and sustains all existence. In Hindu theology, Shakti is the energizing power of Hindu gods. It is conceived of as feminine in nature and is personified generally as the wife of a ...
Hindu deities are the gods and goddesses in Hinduism. Deities in Hinduism are as diverse as its traditions, and a Hindu can choose to be polytheistic, pantheistic, monotheistic, monistic, even agnostic, atheistic, or humanist. [1] [2] [3] The terms and epithets for deities within the diverse traditions of Hinduism vary, and include Deva, Devi ...
Hindu units of time are described in Hindu texts ranging from microseconds to trillions of years, including cycles of cosmic time that repeat general events in Hindu cosmology. [1] [2] Time ( kāla) is described as eternal. [3] Various fragments of time are described in the Vedas, Manusmriti, Bhagavata Purana, Vishnu Purana, Mahabharata, Surya ...
According to the Bhagavad Gita (16.6-16.7), all beings in the universe have both the divine qualities (daivi sampad) and the demonic qualities (asuri sampad) within each. [9] [54] The sixteenth chapter of the Bhagavad Gita states that pure god-like saints are rare and pure demon-like evil are rare among human beings, and the bulk of humanity is ...
Devi. A sculpture of the goddess Lakshmi. Devī ( / ˈdeɪvi /; Sanskrit: देवी) is the Sanskrit word for ' goddess '; the masculine form is deva. Devi and deva mean 'heavenly, divine, anything of excellence', and are also gender-specific terms for a deity in Hinduism . The concept and reverence for goddesses appears in the Vedas, which ...