Hinduism is plainly the world's first spirituality and thus, at hand is a cipher of misconceptions on it.
Probably one of the most known misconceptions, even within Hindus, is that they are obligatory to respect idols. The correctness is Hindus are asked not to hero worship idols, but activity God in the genre of idols. With so oodles idols and faces of the Almighty, ancestors be to well get absent-minded involving God and idols. The intention of worhsipping God through idols is to ease stare of the unbounded next to our impermanent capabilities. Reaching the bottomless with finite capabilities is one of the paradoxes in Hinduism.
To digress slightly, supreme paradoxes product us construe and the crude pretext is that they include the wide-ranging reality in them. Note "simple reason" and "universal truth", even that is a contradiction in terms I basically study of.
There is an out of the ordinary meditation on how organic process is self represented finished the ten incarnations of the Hindu Lord Maha Vishnu. This is what it is believed to be.
Matsya(fish) to Kurma(tortoise-amphibian) to Varaha(boar) to Narasimha(half-man/half cat) to Vamana(dwarfed man-with stunted tumour) to Parasurama(axe wielding crude man) to Rama(justly king-epitome of decency) to Krishna(worldly wise-machiavellian) to Buddha(enlightened one) to ?
The past incarnation is believed to be Kalki Avatar. The personification He takes to detonate the planetary which is equivalent to that of what another religions deem to be "judgement day".
There is another content of how Lord Surya's (Sun) had seven chariots which tally to the seven colours of the spectrum.
It is spellbinding that our forefathers knew capably give or take a few scientific discipline which we cognize of present. In the Golden and Silver Ages, few civilisations were noted to have previously owned technology more precocious than ours. Just imagine, associates in those life utilised profession greater than that of computer's.