As the most prominent religion in the countries of India and Nepal, and their immediate neighbours (Flood, 1996, p5), Hinduism is one of the world’s major religions and yet it lacks a set of central beliefs which unite its followers, making it quite a unique belief system. It combines a set of beliefs, traditions and ideas which unite its followers in the pursuit of seeking their own, personal interpretation of religion, as well as the desire to escape from the on-going cycle of re-birth which ties the individual to the Earth and all of its limitations.
Hindus refer ...