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title: "Things You Need to Know About Hinduism"  
description: "Hindus believe in one God and worship that one God under many manifestations, deities or images. Examples of Hindu deities are Krishna, Shiva, Rama and Durga."  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-20  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1368/things-you-need-to-know-about-hinduism  
category: "religion"  
tags: ["Hinduism", "Hindu", "religion", "religious", "facts", "Hindu facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Things You Need to Know About Hinduism

![Things You Need to Know About Hinduism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d271ea9f-1d81-4730-96a5-4efefad343d6/images/a7706091-6a40-4315-bba4-d37236a0fcad.jpeg) ![Things You Need to Know About Hinduism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d271ea9f-1d81-4730-96a5-4efefad343d6/images/0f93a401-924d-4c8d-a36e-d5f750fb608b.jpeg) Hinduism is at least 5000 years old ![Things You Need to Know About Hinduism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d271ea9f-1d81-4730-96a5-4efefad343d6/images/0b121f0f-78be-4ede-ae61-8179ac6b0f4d.jpeg) The Vedas are one of Hinduism’s many primary religious texts ![Things You Need to Know About Hinduism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d271ea9f-1d81-4730-96a5-4efefad343d6/images/d3fb2b37-8bf3-4340-978a-2f0a88491c00.jpeg) Hinduism is one of four ‘Dharmic’ or ‘Indic’ traditions ![Things You Need to Know About Hinduism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d271ea9f-1d81-4730-96a5-4efefad343d6/images/863025ee-fef3-4ed2-b1ed-a20d2d7d7f0c.jpeg) Hinduism sees the Divine present in all existence ![Things You Need to Know About Hinduism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d271ea9f-1d81-4730-96a5-4efefad343d6/images/a7706091-6a40-4315-bba4-d37236a0fcad.jpeg) The nature of the Divine is understood in different ways in different lineages ![Things You Need to Know About Hinduism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d271ea9f-1d81-4730-96a5-4efefad343d6/images/7c3d8315-a644-4f31-8cf8-a95f243c1f32.jpeg) Hinduism worships the Divine in both male and female, animal form ![Things You Need to Know About Hinduism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d271ea9f-1d81-4730-96a5-4efefad343d6/images/7b1bca6a-eabb-4130-b5b8-9b818807d3d7.jpeg) Hindus pray to different aspects of the Divine

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