HINDUISM

FACTS

• They worship every day.
• They use yoga techniques fasting and meditation to bring peace.
• It started in India
• Their are nearly nine hundred million followers.

Things they worship

• Brahma was the creator. Vishnu was the preserver and Shiva was the destroyer.
• There is no book of worship.
• There is no specific day of worship.

Festivals

• Deepavali -a five day festival of lights that is the end of the Hindu year.

FACTS

• Hindus have to wash their feet before they go into a palace or place of worship.
• Hindus believe that souls can be reincarnated, undergoing rebirth cycle.

Beliefs

• There are five practices. The practices are worship daily, follow dharma, observe the sam-skaras (rites of passage), celebrate the holy days and go on pilgrimage to sacred places.
• India is a country with the largest Hindu population in the world.

FACTS

• Hinduism is a religion which has 330 million gods.
• Hindus believes that all living things have a soul, or Atman. Each timeless – never created and never will perish.

FUN FACTS

• Hindus like to worship tall mountain like palaces.
• Karma is the universal principle of cause and effect. Our actions, good and bad, come back to us in the future, helping us to learn from the lessons of life and become a better person.

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