{"id":49449,"date":"2015-04-20T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T01:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/faithstreet_sheetal_shah-10_things_i_wish_everyone_knew_about_hinduism\/"},"modified":"2015-04-20T01:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T01:00:21","slug":"faithstreet_sheetal_shah-10_things_i_wish_everyone_knew_about_hinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49449","title":{"rendered":"(Faithstreet) Sheetal Shah&#8211;10 Things I Wish Everyone Knew About Hinduism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Hinduism\u2019s core principle is pluralism.<\/p>\n<p>Hindus acknowledge the potential existence of multiple, legitimate religious and spiritual paths, and the idea that the path best suited for one person may not be the same for another. The Rig Veda, one of Hinduism\u2019s sacred texts, states Ekam sat vipraha bahudha vadanti, or \u201cThe Truth is one, the wise call It by many names.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this pluralistic outlook, Hinduism has never sanctioned proselytization and asserts that it is harmful to society\u2019s well being to insist one\u2019s own path to God is the only true way. Hindus consider the whole world as one extended family, and Hindu prayers often end with the repetition of shanti \u201d\u201c or peace for all of existence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faithstreet.com\/onfaith\/2015\/04\/17\/10-things-i-wish-everyone-knew-about-hinduism\/36564\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Hinduism\u2019s core principle is pluralism. Hindus acknowledge the potential existence of multiple, legitimate religious and spiritual paths, and the idea that the path best suited for one person may not be the same for another. The Rig Veda, one<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49449\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,431,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-hinduism","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}