Hinduism is becoming a popular newage practice in todays world

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newage in defintion:that spread to western culture in the 20th century drawing on both eastern and western metaphysical traditions also called the astrological age of aquarius

If you ever watched any lectures/videos on youtube.Chakras,ascension,inner peace and love,channeling abilities and levels of consciousness etc.
it's all based on the hindu faith.

and these are their masters
quick website reference
Ascended Masters - Western Saints, Eastern Mystics - The Summit Lighthouse

one of the more popular ones of this belief channel St Germain.


but why hinduism?a religion that believes anything is a god.which makes it hard to derive a sound doctrine
taken from Daniel Shayesteh's book Christ Above All Gods

Nature of God and The Effect

Some Hindus take gods as seperate and distinct divine beings whereas others think of them as different ways of looking at the one reality.The following divsions give a brief description of the nature of hindu gods and their effect on creation:

henotheism
(ancient vedas and later vishnavism and shivaism)states that many gods exist,but the supreme reality is one.
It is Brahman the eternal power who controls the universe and is more important than the others.Brahman is made up of many divinities.The three most important ones are:

Brahma,who is the creator of the universe.the lifetime of brahma is 12000 divine years,which is equivalent to 4,320,000 human years.The universe endures as long as the god lives.Brahma is married and his wife is called sarasvati

vishnu,who helps the creator in building the universe and in the battle against the enemy.any time the need arises,vishnu appears in various living forms(such as a fish or tortoise or boar or dwarf or buddah,etc)in order to deliver a person or the world from the power of evil

shiva(siva),who is the destroyer often accompanied by evil spirits.one of the most important hindu divinities is shiva's wife shakti,who is faous for her two extreme dualistic natures.

the beloved and attractive goddess of motherhood,protection,healing and benevolence;n this form she is called parvati or uma.
the feared goddess of destruction,murder and savagery who personifies death and darkness;in this form she is called durga or kali

the contrasting natures of the goddess describe birth,death and destruction in the re-incarnation circle
the destructing spirit of kali is still in work in india.In the year 2002,indian police recorded at least one human sacrifice a month through ritual killings in the name of kali.

henotheism believes in the pre-existence of a primordial impersonal reality(the one)that manifests itself into multiple gods and creatures and is the origin of all.

there is a great philosophical mistake in the heart of this belief.Personal beings cannot becomeimpersonal,and an mpersonal being cannotmanifest itself as personal beings.since brhman is believed to be impersonal and has no personality to be described,it then cannot manifest itself into other describable beings.secondly,a complete being cannot multiply into inferior incomplete and opposite beings.this belief also shows that the evil(shiva) is in brahman and sin flows down from brahman into other inferior forms.

and they believe the inferior forms are brought back to the one(supreme being)
 
Hinduism isn't a religion, it's more of a whole complex of religious traditions. Some of them are very old, some of them are relatively new. Some of them are regional, others are followed throughout the whole of the Indian peninsula. There are hindus who believe there are a multitude of gods, there are those who believe there are deities for rivers, springs, forests etc, but also people who believe in a fixed pantheon. There are those who primarily worship just one of the major gods: brahma, shiva, vishu. There are those who believe there's ultimately just one god, or maybe no god at all. Hinduism is just too complex to be seen as a single religion. In fact, western scholars made up the name 'hinduism' in the first place, to describe this multitude of religious traditions.
What landed in the west of these traditions usually was watered down, or got its own westernized form. When we see how popular 'hinduism' is in a way (and 'buddhism' too for that matter), and the secularization of the west at the same time, we might ask ourselves why so many people prefer it over christian religion. Could it be that in this postmodern world the churches are unable to answer all of the questions people have? It's so easy to scare people, to warn them and to point at the 'dangers' of eastern philosophies (btw, christianity started of as an eastern philosophy aswell).
We cannot just expect people to accept our version of the truth anymore, even when we believe it's the only truth. The true challenge for the churches, and for us as individual christians, is to show that believing in Jesus Christ still matters, and that we CAN give answers to the major questions people are confronted with in this modern world.
 
I believe that God sent prophets to all nations and found no nation worthy so created a new nation through Abraham.

The Hindu scriptures may well have their roots to one of these prophets. The oldest Hindu scriptures speak of one God.

“Verily He is one
Single, indivisible, supreme reality. “
- Atharva Veda 13/4/20

“There is only One
Who ought to be adored
By the people. “
- Atharva Veda 2/2/1

Only one to be adored. Somewhere along the line they messed up and started going down their own path of introducing Gods and ceremonies.
 
It's not that they "messed up" really. They always had the conception of there being multiple gods and spirits and the like. One of the core conceptions of Hindu philosophy is the Brahman, or God. They're conception is that there is only one Brahman, and that Brahman is all. In a way, everyone and everything is a part of God, therefore there is only One, which is a single, indivisible reality. It's really quite a beautiful way of looking at the universe, but then they added the caste system and ruined it all, IMO.
 
Just one mistake I noticed is that Shiva isn't really evil. Shiva's the destroyer, yes, but the way they see it is that "destroyer" is neither negative or positive. Good is sometimes destroyed, yes, but bad is also sometimes destroyed. And in order for good to come about, bad has to go away.
 
Shiva was never evil as Batman007 said, he's the destroyer of evil. Brahma created the earth, while Vishnu is something of a hero of mankind.