Hinduism gained ground in the region in the early centuries of the Common Era because it provided elites with a fully-fleshed metaphysical package along with literacy.

तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय। मृत्योर्मा अमृतं गमय॥ Most people don’t wake up one day and decide to “follow” Hinduism. They grow into ...

Hindus are the world’s fourth-largest religious group, after Christians, Muslims, and the religiously unaffiliated. According to Pew Research Center (Hackett et al., 2025), the number of Hindus ...

-- Friedrich Max Müller, the German scholar of comparative religion. There are many wisdom traditions across the world, and each has its own thoughts and rules as to judging personality, including ...

Hinduism does not open with a decree or a single sacred manual. It unfolds as a way of understanding life itself, how to live with awareness, act with responsibility, love without attachment, and ...

Hinduism is not something you believe in. It’s something you live. This is where most people get it wrong. They think it’s like other religions—bound by rules, defined by a single book, led by one ...

As we continue to work through the 12 main world religions, our latest faith feature is on Hinduism. With just over one billion followers globally, Hinduism is the third largest of world religions, ...