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One hundred thoughts on Hinduism

Hinduism is a huge library with scriptures on all possible topics. Hinduism is a great ocean and what is presented here may be a drop. The contents below cover diverse topics on Hindusim ranging from cosmos to daily life. Many topics have to be further developed and updated.

1. Foreword and About this Site

   Introduction and Basics

2. What and Why of Religion
3. My religion and God
4. who is a hindu?
5. Hindu/Indian History - Indianness

   About GOD

6. Why God (any Purpose?)
7. God is love
8. Cosmic Dance
9. is God a concept?
10. Communicating with Almighty

    Why and What of living

11. Purpose of Living
12. Life and Death
13. Why our lives are different? Fate Luck
14. Karma and Rebirth
15. Swarga: Blissful Living

    How to live? Code of living

16. Life a journey or drama
17. Four stages of life
18. Dharma Common To All
19. Ahimsa - Peace
20. Wealth for our Needs
21. Kama or Desires
22. Fear (Ratnakaram)
23. Wisdom: accepting contradictions reality
24. Living in present

    Many Paths for Living (Moksha?)

25. Many paths
26. Yoga, Meditation
27. Tantra
28. Bakthi or Surrender to Almighty
29. Contradictions

    Indian scriptures

30. Bhagavad Gita Essence or Summary of Indian scriptures
31. Purananuru, Tamil words of wisdom (Tamil Gita)
32. Tirukkural and Avvaiyar works
33. Vedas and Vedic terms

    God and Self

34. Who am I?
35. Reasoning and Logic
36. God and Me (Metaphors)
37. Metaphysics
38. Sunyavada Advaitha Dvaitha

    Formeless to Form

39. Nature Worship
40. Beauty
41. Symbolism
42. Why idols and Images
43. ONE GOD - many names and forms
44. Vedic and earlier Gods
45. Trinity and Many Deities
46. Avataras - Divinities in Life forms

    Deities - Shanmadha: Different Sects

47. Smartha Shanmadha
48. Shiva - saivam
49. Vaishnavam
50. Shakthi or Devi worship
51. Temples
52. Places and Pilgrimage

    Ancient Gurus and Reformers

53. Selfguru ex. Dattatreya
54. Vyasa a title and ancient rishis
55. Ajivika Sramana Jains etc
56. Buddha and Buddhists
57. Siddhars
58. Pattinathaar
59. Auvaiyar & her Writings

    Rejunevation and revival

60. Shankara: An Institution
61. Tamil Saiva saints
62. Ramanuja Madhva Vallabha ...
63. Alwars: Vaishnava saints
64. North Indian Bakthi Movement
65. Recenta times and Modern Saints

    Spirituality Saints Godmen

66. Spirituality
67. God and Godmen
68. Sanyasa - Detachment

    Great Kings and empires

69. Ancient Empires
70. Northern Kings: Kanishka Maurya guptas Harsha
71. Bhartrihari Vikrama Bhoja
72. Salivahana: New era
73. Southern empires: Pallava Chola Pandya
74. Vijayanagar Maratha

    Hindu Science

75. Time or kala
76. Ancient Astronomy
77. Calendars - panchang
78. Zodiac - Nakshatra
79. Geography
80. Numbers and Mathematics
81. Ancient Science and Technology

    Language and arts

82. Languages
83. Ancient Northern Literature
84. Thamizh or Tamil Literature
85. Scriptures in other languages

    Puranas - Epics

86. Puranas
87. About stories of Murugan
88. Ramayana
89. Mahabharat
90. Kannan - Krishna Literature
91. Local Folk Tales
92. Myths

    Society

93. ancestor worship
94. culture
95. Festivals and other social events
96. Puja and Rituals
97. social class system
98. hinduwomen.htm

    Faith Sciences

99. Faith is powerful social force
100. Miracles: Unexplained or to be explained phenomena
101. astrology (based on astronomy)

     Other faiths

102. Christians Jesus
103. Islam in India
104. Sikhs, Parsi, Jews etc.
105. Tribals Faiths

     Conclusion

106. Achieving Nippana (ultimate truth/knowledge)
107. bliss joy
108. Shanthi (Peace) – final goal

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