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Hinduism is one of the world's oldest religions in existence (Srinivasan 66). It ranks as
the third largest religion. Today there are about fifty million Hindus worldwide, majority of them
living in India (Wangu 6). In order to understand the followers of the religion, you must first
realize that Hinduism is more of a way of life than a religion (Srinivasan 66). Hinduism holds
together diversity and not only for its own spiritual tradition, but for the entire subcontinent of
India (Berry 3). All traditions within India are somehow associated with Hinduism. "The
diversity which marks Hinduism begins with the notion of deity" (Boraks 14). "There is a strange
kind of unity in the vast multiplicity of the Hindu pantheon" (14). "One never really is certain
whether the Hindu religion is polytheistic or dualistic or even monotheistic: there are indications
that are all of these and none of these" (14)!
The Hindus define sacredness as Brahman (Boraks 14). To Hindus,......

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