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Hinduism preaches ahimsa (or ahinsa, non-violence), [9] but also teaches that the soul cannot be killed and death is limited only to the physical body, [70] explaining the difficulty in choosing an exact position on capital punishment. [3] Hinduism's belief that life in this world is more of an illusion greatly decreases the religious impact on ...
In modern India, the death penalty is an exception whereas in ancient India it was a rule. Today, the underlying principle seems to be retributive but in classical India it was a means of deterrence. As of 2023 [update] , the law in relation to the death penalty is the same regardless of caste or colour but in ancient India, Brahmins were never ...
Gandhi stated his belief that "[a]himsa is in Hinduism, it is in Christianity as well as in Islam." [ 91 ] He added, "Nonviolence is common to all religions, but it has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism (I do not regard Jainism or Buddhism as separate from Hinduism)."
Capital punishment in India is the highest legal penalty for crimes under the country's main substantive penal legislation, the Indian Penal Code, as well as other laws.. Executions are carried out by hanging as the primary method of execution per Section 354(5) of the Criminal Code of Procedure, 1973 is "Hanging by the neck until dead", and is imposed only in the 'rarest of ca
According to Eaton these orders appear to have been directed not toward Hindu temples in general, but towards a more narrowly defined "deviant group". [67] The number of Hindu temples destroyed or desecrated under Aurangzeb's rule is unclear and subject to scholarly debate. [note 5] Some suggest he may have built more temples than he destroyed.
Religion has begun to play an increasing role in reinforcing ethnic divides among the decades-old militant separatist movements in north-east India. [ 72 ] [ 73 ] [ 74 ] The Christian separatist group National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) has proclaimed bans on Hindu worship and has attacked animist Reangs and Hindu Jamatia tribesmen in ...
The Bhagavad Gita (/ ˈ b ʌ ɡ ə v ə d ˈ ɡ iː t ɑː /; [1] Sanskrit: भगवद्गीता, IPA: [ˌbʱɐɡɐʋɐd ˈɡiːtɑː], romanized: bhagavad-gītā, lit. 'God's song'), [a] often referred to as the Gita (IAST: gītā), is a Hindu scripture, dated to the second or first century BCE, [7] which forms part of the epic Mahabharata.
A Hindu may embrace a non-Hindu religion without ceasing to be a Hindu and since the Hindu is disposed to think synthetically and to regard other forms of worship, strange gods and divergent doctrines as inadequate rather than wrong or objectionable, he tends to believe that the highest divine powers complement each other for the well-being of ...