It is a widely believed that Hinduism has lots of gods and goddesses. But it is just a matter of a misconception about this culture. In this culture we do not have many gods but we have many ways to god. For a person of a monotheist culture to whom the idea of a supreme being is singular therefore the people who translated this culture into the west have no clue about this culture. The reality of this culture is the idea of a divine principle which is known as Atman and Brahman this principle is what pushed this culture to have such a variety of deities. The principle which is the base of the SanAtana Dharma is the idea which states that all the physical and nonphysical part of this existence is just a manifestation of the supreme consciousness in many different ways. When our ancient Rishis looked at the world around and wondered about the reality of the creation they came to a conclusion that whatever that has manifested as the creation is being held by a supreme principle which was called Brahman. They said that the world we see all the living and non-living things are just an appearance of the supreme principle at the deeper level which holds everything together. This was the real ancient Hinduism which states that the spirit which holds the body of any living being in deeper level, which is sparkling through the eyes of any living beings is the Atman . So basically the Atman and the Brahman is the same which manifests in different forms of reality. The Vedanta explains that the living things are those which don’t want to be pushed about, they are defiance of any natural forces. It is because of the Brahman which appears in any living organism and that force or the principle which holds the body and allows the lump of matter to act the way they act is called Atman or the soul. Even though this is not a religion by itself , but it is one of the most complex and confusing practices followed by people of the south Asian countries

In this culture, there is no actual translation for the word religion. The word itself is a gift from the foreigners. In the Vedic SanAtana Dharma, Dharma is about the state you are in so that you will be able to function consciously: according to your intelligence and the situation you are in. To be exact Hinduism isn’t a religion, we are a spiritual democracy. We don’t follow a single supreme entity; instead we have freedom of creating a divinity according to our personal temperament. But it has been loosely misused as the translation for religion. It has been the greatest blunder for the people of this land. The ideas of the west mostly about the spirituality are an authoritarian rule where the divine is the creator, the judge and the punisher. Where the almighty is the one: who makes all the rules which will lead the people to an imaginary place after death? But here in this land the idea of spirituality is not meeting the divine; it’s actually to dissolve into the divine. That’s moksha, which means liberation. Unlike the Abrahamic religions, our culture sees divinity in everything from lifeless to every living being. The reason behind that is the idea of Brahman or the Atman i.e. the Soul. When our ancient Rishis were meditating in the wild, they figured out that whatever we see as the material world isn’t everything that exists. The flesh that we accumulated over period of time, the thoughts that we have acquired only isn’t the reality of existence. Because whatever we have accumulated can never be us, that would be ours. So whatever that is holding this flesh and thoughts together, which is very dramatic and yet not in our experience was called the Atman. That metaphysical entity which is the base holding this fragile world together is known as Brahman, which in modern term has been loosely referred as Consciousness. So the basic idea is that the Brahman is the platform which underpins this reality which we call as material world. It suggests that the material world is nothing but just the Brahman appearing in different forms, so non-living things are less vivid form of the Brahman appearing as reality whereas the living beings more vivid and dynamic forms of the Brahman.

Therefore in our culture we bow down to everything around us, and this lead to worshipping both the living and non-living things. For a person from an Abrahamic religious point of view, this idea seems to be difficult to digest but the scientific community is coming to terms with our culture. Suppose you take a stone a leaf or anything , no matter how long you observe , study , break it down to pieces or down to its atomic structure , there is no way that one will be able to understand it to what it truly is . No matter whatever jargon you throw on its reality, only thing one can do is give it fancy names, make use of it in different aspects of life but we will never be able to understand the reality. Therefore we acknowledge the fact that, no matter how smart we have become or no matter how much we know about anything there is always something greater that we don’t know. There was a time when science would dismiss these marvellous ideas stating it to be a pseudo-science or blind faith, but since the discovery of the Higgs Boson in the Large Hadron Collider in CERN Switzerland, the scientific community is trying to explain this in a way similar to the ancient wisdom of the Vedic culture. Thez are saying things which are way more complicated than the ideas which science can never ever explain. There was a time when science was dismissive about the ideas propounded by the Vaidik Sanaatan Dharma. With the discovery of the quantum phenomenon , the scientific communities are now starting to talk like any other religious sects. There is one component in our culture where it talks about this reality being just an appearance of the Brahman which is the principle which underpins this material world. Now they are taliking similar things talking about the quantum entanglement , string theory and the God Particle. But we are certain that science will have to borrow ideas and hypothesis from this culture ,which is eternal . Hence the name The Eternal Dharma.