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Why Hindu Have Many Gods and Goddesses

Hinduism has unique concept of God which is different from any other religion’s concept of God particularly from Abrahamic religion. It is a complicated concept to understand The concept of God of Hinduism by using other point of view. We should use the same angle to try to understand the concept. Hinduism regard Brahman as the supreme god, the ultimate reality, but Brahma is consist of three entities that is Brahma as the creator of the world, Shiva as the God of destroyer and Visnu as the preserver. Brahma is not the god but the symbol of God.
The Gods and Goddesses for Hindus are real beings. The fundamental thing about God is spirit. For Hindus God is Universe, the world, the sky, you, I, moon, sun and everything. So according to Hindus, every body is free to be Him and every body is Hindus.
In my opinion Gods and Goddesses in Hinduism is a descriptive object for Hindus to be able to directly contacting His or Her god for particular purposes. For instance when Hindus want to win in a battle then they pray to god shiva. That is their way to reach the ultimate power by creating an animate imagination. By the time goes on the need of the people getting more and more complex and the amount of the animate imagery grows following the need. This is why Hindus has about 330 million of God and Goddesses.[]

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