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Hinduism: Practices
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In the Middle East, Hinduism is a marginal phenomenon, despite its fairly high number of adherents. There are two reasons for this: First, most Hindus are guest workers from India (often just for few years, and normally without any hope of obtaining citizenship), in wealthy oil producing countries like the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Bahrain. As a result, many have little interest in funding temples or public festivals in the country in which they live. Instead they practice Hinduism inside their own houses, or when they return to India for holidays.
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The strength of Hinduism lies in its adaptability to the infinite diversity of human nature. It has a highly spiritual and abstract side suited to the philosopher, a practical and concrete side suited to the worldly individual, an aesthetic and ceremonial side suited to the person of poetic feeling and imagination, and a quiescent and contemplative side suited to the lover of peace and seclusion.
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Hinduism is practiced through a variety of Yogas (spiritual practices), primarily bhakti (loving devotion), Karma Yoga (selfless service), Raja Yoga (meditational Yoga) and Jnana Yoga (Yoga of discrimination). These are described in the two principal texts of Hindu Yoga: The Bhagavad Gita and the Yoga Sutras. The Upanishads are ... important as a philosophical foundation for this rational spiritualism.
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From this short paragraph a connection between Hinduism and the occult can be readily recognized. One does not need be a mystic to recognize the benefits that can serve in individual, whether an occultist or not. Many persons interested in the occult sciences want to abandon the self at times, which alone would substantiate a relative interest in Hinduism. This would include the yoga and meditation practices which the Way of Hinduism has promoted. A.G.H.
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