There is no exact date or year when Hinduism began. But it is said that it was thousands of years before Judaism and Christianity.

At a much deeper level of understanding, Hindu scriptures do not conclude with the description of just one heaven or one hell. Frankly, Hindus well versed in scriptures, do not believe in just one heaven or one hell. They believe in multiple heavens or worlds or of light and multiple hells or worlds of darkness stretching across the vast spaces of the manifest universe. According to Hindu cosmology, creation is an endless phenomenon and as mysterious as the mystery of the Divinity itself. The universe consists of multiple worlds, layers, and planes of existence, some known and some unknown, some within the field of awareness and sensory knowledge and some much beyond. These worlds are inhabited and controlled by different powers, beings, objects, energies, deities, and mysterious events.

It's interesting that today's scientists are also talking about the same concepts in a more scientific and organized way trying to explain the possibilites of parallel universes and coexistence of multiple realities in the same space and time dimensions.

Wrap your mind around that one!

Time is not linear like many believe.

I think that was Superman's Infinity crisis? Who needs Hindu when you have comics. you see scientists try to make their imagination real, religions try to think about thier imaginations and make others think that way to. Comic books just lays it out there.

What ever science or religion discovers, I can promise Batman did it first.

And what brings you to this conclusion?

There is no time in space. If man were to exist in space vs. on the surface of earth, how would he define time?

Very good question! Time just is.. I haven't met anyone that can conclusively define time. This concept is well beyond human understanding. We cannot prove or disprove that time is non existent in space.

I think time has existence for those who need it wherever they may be in this or other parallel universes or dimensions. It is only an indicator for use by them that need such indicator's. Past that i see no need for it to exist.

Einstein proved that time is relative--very smart guy! I've recently run across the theory that everything happens at once that's why we should only be concerned with this moment in time.

indeed, you speak truth, as what be imagination but the subconscious thoughts of where one came from, and of things that do exist, and come to exist, and why each movie made years before comes into existence in later years, and as so, has been predicting the future all along........it is significant that the thoughts of one come to be up on a screen, and then these come to pass in later years, and as infintiy number of things are seen by the mind, the ones which are believed by the mind are not chosen in advance, and do hold wisdom.......

indeed, the truth 100%, and the human mind does come to wrap itself around all these, and is even the plan and reason for humankinds existence, and why EACH in time came to bring a piece of the truth, for all the pieces to be put together, and no doubt mankind is at that time, when all things imagination, religion, and science become as one, and lead to answers for all current civilization........peace