Hinduism has no single founder and no organized church. Through four thousand years, it has evolved from the teaching of the Vedic scriptures to the heritage of Mahatma Gandhi. It is practiced under many forms by a diverse population. It mixes primitive superstitions with great spiritual values. It honors multiple divinities, but supports unitary principles. Its various speculations may be regarded as the same truth under different angles.

In many ways, Hinduism is a celebration of the world of Eternons. In the Upanishads, one of the finest sacred texts ever written, we discover Atman, the hidden self, a striking description of the Leading Eternon:

Atman is smaller than a grain of rice, larger than the infinite universe. Atman is buried deep in the soul. It is the vital force at the center of the being. Atman exists in all vegetable and animal lives, in all realities.

Here are even more definitive words about the nature of our Leading Eternon. They invite us to turn inward, and to let our human mind discover the consciousness of our Leading Eternon:

We do not see Atman, but Atman is our Witness. We do not hear Atman, but Atman is the Hearer. We do not know Atman, but Atman is the Knower. Our goal is to contemplate, listen, and understand Atman.

The world is created by Atman-Eternons, but Brahman is the Absolute. Brahman is the alpha and omega, the perfection from which Eternons have come and to which they return. Eventually, Atman-Eternon and Brahman-Absolute are one:

Brahman is the ultimate reality, the essence of all things. It is without beginning, endless, and limitless. It is unimaginable, incomprehensible. One may worship various gods, but Brahman is all the creation, all the gods. The identity of Atman and Brahman is the thread that ties all things together.

Hinduism proclaims the fundamental unity of the universe through Eternons:

What is in the depths of the human and what is on the sun are the same and the one.

More than any other religion, Hinduism stresses the link between consecutive lives. The Leading Eternon we are assembles successive structures according to its experience. It is a dogma of gradual self-perfection:

Our life is determined by our acts during the previous ones. It is the karma. Likewise, behavior during this life determines our reincarnation in this or in another realm.

Eternons have no other purpose than to increase awareness till they return to the Absolute: