Why we should respect Hinduism?

* It is not religion, it is culture and way of life.
* It is related to Sindh civilization (Indus Valley Civilization). Hindu is the Persian name for the Indus River, first encountered in the Old Persian word Hindu, corresponding to Vedic Sanskrit Sindhu, the Indus River. In Persian the letter H and S are pronounced almost the same so they mistook the word Sindhu (Sanskrit name for Indus) to H and then started calling Hindus and Hinduism. The term Hinduism was introduced by the English People to denote the religious, philosophical, and cultural traditions native to India. Indus Valley Civilization is oldest culture in world.
* In Hindi language Religion means Dharm but in Hinduism Dharm is defined as humanity and morality, it can not be divided as Christianity, Islam or Budhiusm.
* Hinduism is sometime called Sanatan Dharm means Eternal Law.
* All religions are the result of the works of thousands of thinkers. Hinduism and Judaism are cultures and they are the mothers of all religions. New religions like Christianity and Islam took the best aspects of Judaism and made part of them. So too Buddhism and Jainism took the best aspects of Hinduism and made part of them.
* Forbes Magazine, (July, 1987) wrote: "Sanskrit is the mother of all the European languages and is the most suitable language for the computer software."
* Hindus believe in One and Only God – Brahman which expresses itself in trillions of forms. Hindus do not believe God has human form or any other form. God is nameless and timeless. But there is nothing wrong to worship a God with name and form (nama-roopa), since man cannot conceive anything without any name and form. In fact, in the Shruti scriptures of Hinduism, God or Brahman has been described as Saguna Brahman (God-Brahman with attributes) as well as Nirguna Brahman (God-without attributes. In the Upanishads, God is described as Neti–Neti (not this-not that) method. So first Hindus worshiped 33 natural gods in the Rig Veda. Then Hinduism came to the realization that there is one and only God - Brahman.
* In Hinduism Woman is called Shakti (Power). They worship Goddess as Mata (Mother). The Man is called Shiv ( Originator) and Woman is Shakti (Power). Both man and woman are complement of each other.
* Ayurveda – The Hindu Medicine Scripture – consists of more than 100,000 verses initially. Still it is considered as a upa Veda of Atharva Veda.
* In Rig Ved the holy book of hinduism says that God is Only one , It is almighty, immanent and immortal but there can worshiped in many name and many ways.
* Namste is the popular Hindu greeting performed by pressing two hands together and holding them near the heart. The whole act communicate to the world 'You and I are one. I salute and worship the God within you, which is a mirror image of myself"