Who started Hinduism?

Answer 1

First View: (Go below for Second View)

It is to be believed to have been started by Brahma, known as the creator in Hindu mythology; Vishnu, known as the preserver; and Shiva, known as the destroyer. All together known as Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh ( the other name for Shiva).

Before about 2400 BC when the Aryan peoples & their (the Vedic) religions filtered South down the Indian continent some of the local tribes believed in Jainism, & - no one knows why but many people worshiped sri Ganesh - the Elephant Headed God. Evidently the more formalized Vedic Cultures - - - absorbed him as the Son of Sri Lakshmi - who was the consort of Sri Shiva- who was the one who cut off Ganesh's head while he was guarding his mother's bath. Her rage caused Shiva to snatch the 1st sentient form handy & put Ganesh's head onto it.

Beyond that, as with all creation myths around the planet there was a worship of Sri Durga, the Great Mother. *fart noise qued* PFFFFTTTTHHHHHHH hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!

But 1st came The First Cause - which can be considered either Sri Brahma or Sri Durga. It doesn't matter, however, because all Indian gods had consorts, without whom they couldn't function,.

To me, the First Cause sounds like the Big Bang, which wouldn't be that far off because, when looking at the Rig Veda, (The 1st of the Sacred Books) not only can one find an exact reference to the position of the Pliades from 16,000 yrs ago, but also the planet Uranus (I believe) which is still important in current practices. Furthermore the Great Sarasvati River can be seen on satellite imaging to have actually had 7 branches that went across the continent from sea to sea. For a huge drainage basement, or catchment, such as one that would support 7 rivers Northern India had to be physically quite different than it is now. The great North West Desert, for instance, which the British consigned to Pakistan. Today, the Hindus are the only world religion that have had a continuous worship of the Great Mother (probably since the Pleides were where they were 16,000 yr ago) because each deity form has to have a consort to complete it. It's truly an amazing religion. There is even a wild rumor that Jesus traveled there between the ages of 14 & 20 when he began his official teachings.

Second View:

Hinduism was founded by an institution of Seven Sages called Saptarishis. Just as we have Pope for Christianity today, Hinduism, from the beginning, had an institution of seven sages who were the patriarchs of the Vedic religion. They very strictly guarded the Vedic body of knowledge, and the copy of the Vedas available to them was considered to be the final copy. They were considered as God's manifestation on earth, and their word was the final authority in religious matters.

Any changes to the Vedas were needed to be approved by this elite group of sages. If the reasons were justified, they approved the changes and incorporated them into the Vedas. Otherwise, they rejected it and kept the Vedas intact without any contamination. From what appears, they were extremely strict about changes to the Vedas. Even to this day of Hinduism, a word in Veda is normally considered as the final authority to the literal T. And this faith in Vedas was built upon a tradition where the Vedas were very strictly and jealously guarded from any changes whatsoever, unless the change really justified it. Some super human justification was required to have them changed. Any changes, to the extent possible, were always added as appendages rather than their being incorporated into the Vedas. So we have Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and Upanishads as appendages to the Vedas. As more and more philosophy developed, all of them got incorporated into this body as appendages.

It is this institution of seven sages that expended large amount of effort over thousands of years in unifying a large number of traditions from across continents and civilizations into one universal religion of Hinduism that we see today. The Hindu trinity, the Hindu divine hierarchy, the Hindu festivals, and everything else that we see today was formulated by them. It is they who declared Ram and Krishna to be the incarnations of Vishnu. It is they who inserted Purusha Sukta, Narayana Sukta, and Sri Sukta into the Vedas.

The names of the SaptaRishis carried over from one generation to the next. For example, if Kasyap dies, his son would take on the name of Kasyap and get inducted into the SaptaRishis. Once in a while, for some reason, like one of the seven rishis dying without having any children, the names of the one or more of the rishis changed, giving us a different set of SaptaRishis.

The religion got so excessively dependent on these sages that they started being considered as the representatives of the creator on earth. This slowly led to their deification and they started being mythicized. They were declared as the mind born sons of Brahma. Subsequently, they were equated with the most evolved light beings in the creation and the guardians of divine laws. Further deification of their attributes lead to the addition of more and more myths and halo around them. This sort of excessive mythicization finally lead to the relegation of this institution from the purview of the real world into the realm of mythology.

This institution got destroyed at the time of the three hundred year severe drought of 2200 BC. At that time, most of the Indians, devastated by the drought, left India for foreign shores, especially to European lands. Because of the severe suffering that people underwent because of the drought, people lost faith in a useless God who did not answer their prayers, leading to the rise of atheistic cults on the subcontinent. The institution of seven sages got destroyed in this religious upheaval, as a result of which, the origins of Hinduism have once and for all become lost in the dungeons of time.

(excerpts from book "19,000 Years of World History")

There is no single person to whom establishment of Hinduism can be attributed. Hinduism is the grass-root religion of India. There have been thousands of sages who have contributed to Hinduism. These also include the thousands of sages of the Aryans also who migrated to India around an unknown date (it could be 10,000 years ago according to genetists but certainly before 5,000 years) from Central Asia.

Hindu is the oldest of all world religions, therefore no one knows exactly who started Hinduism, the date of origin, or some of the authors of the sacred books of Hinduism. For hundreds of years we tried to find the answer to this unknown religion, but we can never be sure.

Answer 2

Yes by the invasion of the aryans

They passed down culture:Vedas

Answer 3

The religion of the Aryans started when they attributed divine powers to natural phenomena.

Answer 4

aryans first brought their religion to India, it was called Brahmanism. after hundreds of years, Brahmanism adapted popular traditions and developed into Hinduism.

Answer 5

no, this religion has no founder