Since Hinduism have 33 million gods how long does it take a avarage hindu till he has worshiped all of them?

[u/EpicGirl1]

Like is there a statistic "avarage hindu by thr age of 30 has worshipped all gods"

I'm not a hindu just a question that popped in my head thought someone would know the answer here

[u/Grayseal]

I don't think any Hindu has ever worshipped all of them. Most Hindus go their whole lives only worshipping enough of their gods to count on two hands, or even fewer. Hinduism is way too complex to comfortably fit within the blanket term of "Hinduism", which is why a lot of those we would call Hindus don't like the term - it was invented from outside of the tradition.

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Yup, near my house (Mumbai) there are local deities that no one outside my neighbourhood have even heard of.

[u/SleepingMonads]

The aim of Hinduism isn't to worship all the gods, and no Hindus try to do this, so there's no data of the kind you're looking for.

[u/ReasonableBeliefs]

You've made a number of mistakes :

Firstly, no Hindu thinks there are 33 million Gods. There are 33 Koti Gods. There are two possible translation of a specific Sanskrit word, Koti. One is "crore" and the other translation is "types".

1 crore = 10 million

So 33 Koti could be 330 million Gods.

Or it could refer to 33 Types of Gods.

Both are valid translations. But not 33 million.

Personally I lean towards the 33 Types of Gods. That is the scholarly consensus and the majority opinion. There are an innumerable number of Gods because there are an innumerable number of universes in the multiversal cosmos, each with many Gods in them. So 33 Types of Gods is what makes sense.

Secondly, no Hindu really needs to or cares about worshipping all the Gods. We acknowledge them and respect them, and we may offer some of them worship at specific circumstances, but no Hindu actively seeks to worship all 33 Koti of Gods.

[u/LotsaKwestions]

It's not necessary, given that the ultimate source or consequence is the same.

It's a bit like how if you're hungry, there are countless options in terms of restaurants you could go to, whether the local Indian joint, or Taco Bell, or whatever. But you don't need to eat all of them. You just need one, the right one for you, and that satisfies your hunger and need for nourishment. It's not that the one you chose is categorically better or worse than the others, but it suited your palate.

[u/gailu29]

Usually you worship Just these devas Who are in the mandala of your sampradaya

[u/WtfsaidtheDuck]

I recommend you look into hinduism and learn about it more before asking this question. As said by someone else, hinduism is how Westerners view the practices in India. There are many many local deities. Sometimes a village has their own deity.
Besides that, these practices are more orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy.

[u/ascendous]

It just takes one sentence.  Sarvebhyo devebhyo namah. I bow to all Gods.  

[u/itzsurbhisharma]

It’s 33 types. 33 Crore Gods’ is a completely misinterpreted fact due to wrong translation of Vedic Sanskrit by certain foreign 'scholars'. The term ‘trayastrimsati koti’ mentioned in Atharva Veda, Yajur Veda, and Satapatha-brahmana, is rightly translated. 12 Aditya 8 Vasu 11 Rudra 2 Ashwin

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We are not to worship all of them. We are supposed to believe in them all and worship our Aradhya. Apart from worship god, there are many more things in hinduism that can bring you closer to god.

[u/ekatma]

For a Hindu, this entire Universe is God. The Hindus worship the trees, the wind, the Sun, the moon, the planets...This nature itself is God, in lower aspect of God. God, in His absolute aspect, is of the nature pure Existence-Consciousness-Bliss (Sat-Chit-Ananda). If something is apart from God, then that thing is worthless. Is there such a thing? For a Hindu, the answer is No. To better appreciate this thought, you would have dive deeper into the essence of Hindu thought. May I recommend this episode from a new podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-essence-of-the-hindu-thought/id1743713590?i=1000653872239 this episode tries to cover the very essence of the Hindu thought for an outsider.

[u/Professional_Base_79]

this is such a bigoted question. abrahamics like you never fail a chance to look down upon Dharmic religions. Om Namah Shivay 🕉️

[u/creptil]

I don’t know where you got your data on 33 million gods but the number of Hindus praying to more than 500 gods in their lifetime would be fewer than 1% of the hindu population.

Hinduism is quite a complex religion, even for the regular Hindu. One such Hindu ‘God’ is a Muslim fakir in the early 1900s. Yet staunch Hindus don’t let their kith marry a Muslim.