It's sad how hindu children are ignorant about their religion and are embarrased. The hinduism they teach now about worshipping idols is crap. Most people don't know this but Hinduism is a monotheistic religion. There is only one supreme being and that is BRAHMAN (not the caste brahmin, and not the god brahma). The only reason we have idols is people could not comprehend how god c ould be everywhere. Yes there is shiva yes there is vishnu but they are all one supreme being. its one cosmic being. Every religion that is now formed all came from the concept of Hinduism. The ten commandments that are found in the bible and the torah, originated from Hinduism. The vedas are so extensive if you compare the bible or any other religious book, everything that they have recorded is already in the Vedas. And the vedas are the oldest religious book int he world. Also things like Noah's ark, that is actually from hinduism. During the ramayan, hinduism wasnt only present in the indian subcontent, the empire was actually vast and stretched all the way to the arabian sea. archeologist are actually finding that the Mahabharat was taken place in iraq area, they found chariots that were found in the vedic times. Also the dead sea scroll that was just discovered contradicts the existence of christianity, the dead sea scroll was found in sanskirt. Also the vedas has recroded that jesus actually came to the kashmiri reigion and learned the vedas from the hindu rishis. He learned tantra and all other spirtual power and went back to the middle east. This is the lost 14 years of jesus christ, that the bible doesnt record. it is found in the vedas. CHristians deny this and the church has banned this and hid from christians because they do not want to admit that their religion and teaching came out of a nother religon. Hindus should be proud and ashamed. That is why if you really want to know about your faith, stick to the Vedas, not the present day idol worhsipping crap. Also, the whole rakesh thing and half monkey half human stuff existsied. we are talking about hundreds and thousands of years. There were people like that. Did you know that the bridge that ram built to get sita from india to lanka...called setubanda, that we hindus believed all along existed. Westerners found it fake and stupid. well guess what, NASA recently found the bridge. ANd those right winged christians call it THE ADAMS BRDIGE. heres the link: http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/indexback49.html oh and you know the whole thing about atomic bombs and da vincis flying stuff, one of the vedas had all that recorded way before. the germans actually came to india and translated those books and took it back to germany. they came up with the atomoic bomb. recentley they finally admitted that they got all these scientific stuff from the hindu vedas. its espically hard for us hindus living in usa because we find all thest jehovah witnesses knocking on our doors to convert then we that that asshole from the 700 club every sunday preachign his jesus lloves us, love him back or go to hell. Stick to the original santana dharma.