Hindu practices include worship ( puja), fire rituals ( homa/havan), recitations ( pravachan), devotion ( bhakti), chanting ( japa), meditation ( dhyāna), sacrifice ( yajña), charity ( dāna), selfless service ( sevā), homage to one's ancestors ( śrāddha), family-oriented rites of passage, annual festivals, and occasional pilgrimages ( yatra). Hinduism prescribes the eternal duties, such as honesty, refraining from injuring living beings ( Ahiṃsā), patience, forbearance, self-restraint, virtue, and compassion, among others. Prominent themes in Hindu beliefs include the four Puruṣārthas, the proper goals or aims of human life namely, dharma (ethics/duties), artha (prosperity/work), kama (desires/passions) and moksha (liberation/freedom from the passions and the cycle of death and rebirth), as well as karma (action, intent and consequences) and saṃsāra (cycle of death and rebirth). Hinduism is a diverse system of thought marked by a range of philosophies and shared concepts, rituals, cosmological systems, pilgrimage sites, and shared textual sources that discuss theology, metaphysics, mythology, Vedic yajna, yoga, agamic rituals, and temple building, among other topics. Another endonym is Vaidika Dharma, the dharma related to the Vedas. The word Hindu is an exonym, and while Hinduism has been called the oldest religion in the world, many practitioners refer to their religion as Sanātana Dharma ( Sanskrit: सनातन धर्म, lit.''the Eternal Dharma''), a modern usage, which refers to the idea that its origins lie beyond human history, as revealed in the Hindu texts. As a religion, it is the world's third-largest, with over 1.2–1.35 billion followers, or 15–16% of the global population, known as Hindus. Hinduism ( / ˈ h ɪ n d u ɪ z əm/) is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order or way of life by which followers abide.

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