God is Only one

[0:00]People have this idea about Hinduism that there are too many gods. They don't understand who is really God? Is it Ram? Is it Krishna? And they confuse Hinduism with polytheism. But if you go into the deep text of the Vedanta, it's actually monotheistic. If you study the full broad perspective of the Vedic tradition, the histories and the Upanishadic teachings, ultimately God is One. But every soul has its own unique nature. If we look in scientific terms, even every leaf of a tree has some individuality, some uniqueness. They're all similar, but they're also all unique, and this is the nature of the world. That's why we say we're one and different, because our nature is similar, consciousness, bliss, existence itself. But God appears in many forms with many names, because that is fulfilling the needs of every unique soul to have a personal relationship with God according to their individual nature. And that is why although God appears in many forms, God is actually One.