I guess one of the benefits of not having been brought up a Hindu, and not knowing many Hindus, is that I don't have a lot of misconceptions engrained in my head regarding Hinduism.

Perhaps you are blessed to explain the Hindu scripture . you were one great sage in ancient India in your last birth.

Sir, you are our recent Sankaracharya who will salvage Sanatana Dharma, while millions of Hindus cook meat on Diwali, the Day Of Remembrance. You are truely Great,sir.

Oh man... Christians are so confused and misled. Thank you for this wisdom! Funny how connected religions truly are.

Pranam Swamiji. Wonderful to hear the basics of Hinduism from you, Swamiji. As a Hindu though I was knowing the basics in a broad way but not clearly and precisely as you have explained. Thank you from my heart.

The first misconception that you explained at the end - am blessed to have watched your explanation Swamiji and how true you are...all your effort shows in the simple yet detailed explanation you provided... am truly blessed...

These misconceptions (in similar but not identical forms) also exist in western religions. They are also believed by those inside and outside those religions as well. I am saddened that these common misunderstandings are so pervasive in western culture that their versions of these misconceptions seem to be what you know of their beliefs. Thank you for all of your excellent work. I am really enjoying and learning from your lectures... in particular the class on Atma Bohda.

Thanks for caste system explanation Swami Ji. So basically Caste system is a Position of a person in life. A new born baby is not of any caste. If the person do job and get paid then it becomes shudra. After doing job for few years, if it does business then becomes Vaishya. If the person works to save people of his country from disasters, enemies etc then becomes Kshatriya Finally the person learns enough knowledge throughout his life and is ready to give free knowledge in Gurukul and is Also ready to help people regarding marriage or spiritual things then it is Brahman.

Thank you Swamiji for uploading more videos!

Humans born predestined nature and has free will to choose his actions( karma) to uplift his dharma (his true self)

I hear your lectures many times. Each time the understandings becomes clearer. I think everyone should listen multiple times to really grasp the meaning of your lectures. Thank you very much.

ten gems of thought sets.

Remarkably described by you swamiji... Very transparent and honest out of all controversial believes prevalent today.

Very very Good. This should be taught in every school,every section of the society. Easiest way of convincing and teaching.

Loving your teachings ever since I found them a few days ago! You have simplified the scriptures so beautifully! It's amazing feeling I found you!

🙏😊Jai Shree Krishna 😊🙏 1. "Gyan(Knowledge)" stabilizes the "Mastisk(Brain)". 2. "Dharya(patience)" stabilizes the "Maan(Mind)". 3. "Prem(Love)" stabilizes the "Hriday(Heart)". 4. "Samarpan(Dedication)" calms the Impulses of the Body and stabilizes the "Sareer(Body)". 5. "Naay(Justice)" stabilizes the "Aatmaan(Soul)". When these FIVE Bases of "Dharma" becomes stable, then man/woman is filled with "Karuna(Compassion)" ..... It's called "DHARMA" 😊🙏Jai Shree Krishna🙏😊

Thanks Swamiji for making this wonderful video....🙏🙏

You have explained each and every concept of Hindu Dharma in a very simple way making it interesting and understandable. I love to watch your videos. Thanks a lot. 🙏🙏

Thanks for making this video. You kind of opened my eyes by quashing my misconceptions!

That is the best explanation I ever heard about misconceptions about HINDUISM. Thank you, Swamiji, for uploading these beautiful videos about meditation, Geetha, and Vedanta topics. 🙏

Thank you. You are such a help for clarification in detail and complete picture.

Thank you Swamiji for a wonderful wisdom session 👍🙏

Pranams Swamiji! Thank you very much for making this complex topics, easily understandable! Grateful for all the efforts!

Very relevant Videos for All Thank you so much , we are grateful to you Guruji !

Swamiji. That's a nice video so lucidly explained in your own inimitable way. Please also address about why there are so many scriptural texts and which one is the best/easy to follow.. 🙏

Thank you good sir for your diligent thoughtful work. 🙏🏾 I am eternally grateful.

Looking forward to start Year 2021 with a bang with the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita , Advaita Makaranda and Meditation classes ..Pranaam Guruji .🙏🏻

So well explained to remove common misconceptions about Hinduism. Thank you for your great work. May God continue to bless you

An enlightening talk. Thank you very much Swami Ji.

Thanks 🙏🏾 for this great video

🙏Thank you Swamiji for your eloquent explanations and wisdom. As a new Hindu thirsty for truth and spiritual knowledge , I am so grateful to have found you ! 🙏💕

Every society has a caste system.

Thank you, Swamiji, for introducing two types of karma--- prarabdha karma and purusartha karma that is accomplished by free will.

Thanks for clearing doubts.

Thank you very much swamiji.

Thank you Swam Ji for your inspiring words🙏

Revered and respected Swamiji Saashtaanga Namaskara at your lotus feet. I am amazed at the clarity and the knowledge your explanation. I have no doubt at all that every human on earth will be benefited and reformed if he or she listen to you even once. I am a volunteer in a vedic research institute exploring the-inner meanings of Veda. I pray to to the Lord to give you long and healthy life to continue to enlighten people 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Namasthe Guru ji! Thank you for the enlightenment🙏🏻

Thank you for this summery

Please Swami subtittles in spanish. Om Tat Sat

Both Ramayan and Mahabharata were history happened…the Dwarka city of Krishna is exactly located in sea has been recently found and the weapon used in war of kurukshetra r also found in Hariyana state of India to archeologists 🙏🏻Hare Krishna Hare Ram 🙏🏻

Very crisply explained. Relevant, progressive and practical and in tune with changed environment

So blessed to hear this short lecture, so meaningful and rational. Om Shanti! Thanks to AI, I am able to study each of the 10 Upanishads in a manner, easy to understand and assimilate.

Super episode. Thank you so much Swami!!

Thanks for this great teachings.

Very enlightening discourse.Pranam Swamiji.

Thank you swanji❤️🙏🏻

This collection of teachings are some of the best I have ever had the pleasure of learning. Thank you so much

 wonderful lecture of yours again, dear sir! I always appreciate your profound knoweldge. And as a christian (orthodox Church) theologian, only a very little correction. It is definitely NOT the main goal of the my own orthodox christianity to get into a place called "paradise". Our goal is to get fully united with the attributes of God, by whome He communicates with creation, these are His love, His light, His grace and so on. Also in Judaism - at least in its mystsical branches - the main goal is in no way becoming an indweller of paradise, but again to unite with Gods greatest and most beloved attributes, thus performing in part the "tikkun olam" - the re-creation and restoring of the entire world by re-uniting the world with its creator. And even in the mystical forms of Islam, the goal is not achieving some paradise, but getting united with God himself and all His attributes in love, light and devotion. So I found in all religions - abrahamic and non-abrahamic alike - the ONE and only goal of meaning of life is LOVE and nothing but LOVE and to unite with that uncreated an undefilable LOVE, that we christians call God (and yes - this LOVE may have personal attributes - or even dont (like in parts of Buddhism, for example), but that is eventually of no greater relevance). May the Lord, who is love itself, bless you and those who follow the illuminous path to God you teach! Please carry on, enlightening all of us with such a great and profound wisdom! God bless you!

Absolutely amazing and well needed video.

Excellent analysis of the Hindu doctrine. Thank you Swami Ji.

Pranam and much thanks to Guruji. In this age of frantic rhetoric I find his simple explanations a soothing balm🙏🙏🙏

Thank you for this lecture!

Sir I really bow my love and respect to your teaching I was feeling this all time in the past but no there to give me confidence that it is true But after watching your teachings I am so happy that yes my thoughts are true and I am very positive towards life. Thank you lot for sharings your knowledge with us it will help so many people

what is the song that plays in the transition please?

This helped ❤️Thankyou ❤️🙏

Pronaams!🙏

A very good understanding. Thank you.

A very beautiful myth buster 🙏

Explanation was very precise. Excellent Ji pranams

Thanks Swamiji

Thank you for the charity of your clarity.

Very nicely & clearly made me understand abut Hinduism.

Very nice explanation swamiji.

Great clarity and wisdom

A new word is used for God in the universe and transcending the universe- it is called panentheism! Another wonderful video, swamiji. Thank you!

Very very neatly organized explained

Thank you for your videos

Hey can u tell d name of d temple at d beginning it's so marvellous

Excellent work, thanks. Not much else to say.

Thanks you for clear distinktion various religous concept about God.

Pranam to swamiji for delivering such great knowledge to us….

I’ve been lost trying to find my way in Hinduism until this video

What a learned decent man! Many kudos Sir!

Thank you Swami ji. You have done a tremendous job in helping Hindus to understand their own true nature and their faith. Also for non Hindus and society in general you have elegantly removed the misconceptions about Hinduism Hope this gives Hindus a curiosity to learn more about their faith/ Dharma and purpose in life

Excellent! Every Hindu should watch this video first. Many non-Hindus have misconceptions about Hinduism. This video will help us when they confront us.

Thank you guru 🙏🙏❤️

Thank you, Swamiji.

Great contribution for better understanding of Hinduism...thanks a lot Gurudev...keep it up...God bless you

Seconds well spent!🧡

Guru Dev, will you please let us find a written description of the ten misconceptions of Hinduism as you have explained in the link of KZfaq, Pranam.

This video is one of the most important things I have ever come across in my life.

Great Video

Thank you thank you thank you thank you

Well done, thank you :)

🙏 Thank you Swamiji🙏

धन्यवाद स्वामी जी ।बहुत बहुत शुभकामनायें ।

@Pankaj A. This will answer your questions!

Hinduism(Sanatana Dharma) 33 koti devata ≠ 330 million gods 33 koti devata = 33 Principle deities They are as below: (8) Vasus (Deities of elements) 1. Dyaus : Sky 2. Prithivi : Earth 3. Vayu : Wind 4. Agni : Fire 5. Nakshatra : Stars 6. Antariksha : Space 7. Surya : Sun 8. Chandra : Moon (12) Adityas (personified deities) 9. Vishnu : The presever 10. Indra : Leader of other Adityas and god of clouds 11. Ansh : Due share 12. Aryaman : Nobility 13. Bhaag : Due inheritance 14. Dhatri : Ritual skill 15. Tvashtar : Skill in crafting 16. Mitra : Friendship 17. Pushan/Ravi : Prosperity 18. Savitra/Parjanya : Power of word 19. Surya/Vivasvan : Social law 20. Varun : Fate 21. Vaman : Cosmic law (Adityas may vary). (11) Rudras (The five abstractions) 22. Ananda : Bliss 23. Vijnana : Knowledge 24. Manas : Thought 25. Prana : Breath or life 26. Vack : Speech (5) names of Śiva 27. Isana : Revealing grace 28. Tatpurusha : Concealing grace 29. Aghora : Dissolution/rejuvenation 30. Vamadeva : Preserving aspect 31. Sadyojata : Born at once 32. Atma : Self And the last 33. The 2 Ashwins : Twin solar deities.

Greatly explained

Easy to understand explanation.

Sanatana Dharma is a way of living , Modern Cosmologists and Physics Like Carl Sagan , Neils Bohr , CERN Scientist have validated and praised the Accuracy of the 30000 year old Vedic Scriptures from RIG VEDA Below are few lines from RIGVEDA 10:129 Nasadiya Sukta , Creation Hymn , (30000 year old Vedic scripts.) Then even nothingness was not, nor existence, There was no air then, nor the earth, heavens beyond it. There was no space, then who was protecting the space, What covered it? Where was it? In whose keeping Was there then cosmic water, in depths unfathomed? Means there was nothing. Then in boisterous, there was neither death nor immortality nor was there then the appearance of night and day. The One (Brahma) breathed actionlessly in illusion (maya) and self-sustaining. There was that One (Brahma) with maya then, and there was nothing beyond them. In Catastrophe, at first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness, All this was only unillumined water. Action and Cause were merged filled with ignorance, That One (Brahma) took action complementing with cause, resolving to penance created the Universe. In the beginning will-power descended on Brahma - that was the primal seed, born of the mind. The sages of this material world, searched their hearts with wisdom, to know that which is kin to that which is not. Like rays of Sun, strong resolution to and for creation imbibed. And they have stretched their cord across the void, Was the existent skewed or in the middle, was above or below. It was spread akin. On birth of the world, powers with seed, form and action made fertile mighty forces. Others were great existing above in the sky. Spirituality excels materialism. But, after all, who knows, and who can say in detail, Who else can let us know, how and why the creation happened, Whence it all came, and how creation happened? the gods themselves are later than creation, so who knows truly whence it has arisen? Whence all creation had its origin, the creator, whether he fashioned it or whether he did not, the creator, who surveys it all from highest heaven, he knows - or maybe even he does not know. How thought Provoking it is! Right? A land where people perform Skeptical Questioning. Well then what is Hindu Philosophical God? God is the energy. Energy is everywhere. Energy condensed is matter. The Universe is filled with dark energy and dark matter. In other words, scientist have found that all of the Universe is permeated by an energy that they cannot explain. Similarly you can think of God as permeating everything. God condensed is Vyakta, and God in his pure form is Nirguna as per Advaita Vedantam. God is Brahman. Brahman is the creator and the creation itself. Brahman is Impersonal , Transcendent and Beyond. Brahman is Om. Om is the vibration. Om is the building block of creation. Everything and Everywhere is Om. The Material world. Brahman the Supreme, is the ultimate consciousness and the Absolute Reality. If you were a saprophile , you would have already fallen in love with the Vedic literature. Decline and the ignorance of such a intellectual community and ideas is something to be consciously thought about and discussed. Sanatan Dharma is not a “Religion” like a western idea , Rather it is the collective knowledge and result of various Rishi’s and Sages of this Great land. It Proves To be meaningful and scientific. After all the Indian civilisation , Did not believe the earth was created on 23rd October 4004BC also our culture did not give rise to the idea that universe is earth-centric. Islam and christianity is only 1400 or 2000 years old and hence cannot be equated with Hinduism, which is God found religion from times immemorial.

well said . great .

तदात्मानन्दगुरवे सर्वश्रेष्ठाय धीमते । नमः सात्विकयोध्रे तेsज्ञानानीकविघातिने ।।😊 I now down to the best of all, Tadatmananda Guru who is a soft Satwik solider who fights and destroys the army of darkness 😊. My offerings to our teacher in the form of a Sanskrit shloka composed by me . 😊

I would belief in God in a great loving way with devotion straight from my heart, if only I saw proof of the fact that good is rewarded with good and bad with bad. But thats not the case. Instead "karma" appears randomly, good is random and bad is random as well. There is so much lack of consistency that my belief in God is weak and under question all the time. All I seek is to know God, but I cant really find Him anywhere because of contradictions and lack of consistency.

Excellent

Om

I wonder how the 4 Shankaracharya’s, each of whom is responsible for the preservation of one of the four vedas, would respond to the last point on the list. Advaita requires a step by step by step approach to realization. Is it not essential each of those steps is preserved?

Beautiful video! Please re-release the Bhagavad Gītā Chanted in English if you can Swami!

This video gives me a really new understanding of Hinduism, and respect it more as one of the oldest belief system that is still relevant today.