Johnnie Ellington II December 26, 2015 at 8:10pm · Hinduism today is perhaps the most prevalent of the religions considered as polytheistic. Yet, a number of authorities agree that the original principles of Hinduism advocate monotheism. In Hinduism, the Creator and Absolute God is called “Brahman”. Brahman is referred to as formless or “nirakara”, and beyond anything that we can conceive of and has no gender, form or features. The various gods and goddesses are thus merely manifestations of the One God. In fact many passages in Hindu scriptures seem to suggest the worship of One God. To quote from the Gayatri Mantra in the Yajur Veda: Let us meditate on God, His glorious attributes, who is the basis of everything in this universe as its Creator, who is fit to be worshiped as Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient and self existent concious being, who removes all ignorance and impurities from the mind and purifies and sharpens the intellect.