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Sindoor or Kumkum has been a marker for women in Hinduism, since early times. [122] A married Hindu woman typically wears a red pigment (vermilion) in the parting of her hair, while a never married, divorced or a widowed woman does not. [122] [123] A Hindu woman may wear a Bindi (also called Tip, Bindiya, Tilaka or Bottu) on her forehead. [124]
Brahma Kumaris believe God to be an incorporeal point of light. The Brahma Kumaris use the term "Supreme Soul" to refer to God. They see God as incorporeal and eternal , regarding him as a point of living light like a human soul but lacking a physical body, as he does not enter the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth .
In Hinduism, there are diverse approaches to conceptualizing God and gender.Many Hindus focus upon impersonal Absolute which is genderless.Other Hindu traditions conceive God as bigender (both female and male), alternatively as either male or female, while cherishing gender henotheism, that is without denying the existence of other gods in either gender.
It includes religious leaders that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "Indian women religious leaders" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
It is he who knows that God is the omnipresent force in the universe and sees in women the manifestation of that Force." [ 26 ] Shakta-universalist Sri Ramakrishna , one of the most influential figures of the Hindu reform movements , believed that all Hindu goddesses are manifestations of the same mother goddess . [ 27 ]
The God and his Shakti together represent the Absolute, the god being nonactivated Eternity, the goddess being activated Time." [ 28 ] Shakti is generally personified as the wife of a specific Hindu god, particularly Shiva , for whom she took forms as Durga , Kali , and Parvati , [ 29 ] [ 30 ] forming complementary principles. [ 31 ] "
Sita is the goddess of the Ramayana and the consort of the Hindu god Rama. Sita and Rama are avatars of Vishnu and his wife Lakshmi, goddess of wealth. She is esteemed as a model of wifely and womanly virtues for all Hindu women. [13] [14] Sita is the adopted daughter of Janaka, king of Videha, found while he was furrowing the earth. [15]
Many forms of Hinduism believe in a type of monotheistic God, such as Krishnaism with polymorphic theism, some schools of Vedanta, and Arya Samaj. [60] [61] [62] Advaita Vedanta, for instance, espouses monism, and holds Brahman to be unchanging and undifferentiated from reality. Brahman is therefore undifferentiated from the individual self, or ...