How and Why does Hinduism have 33 crore gods?

So many gods,so many goddesses,so little knowledge.

Hinduism offers an explanation for this complicated theology of millions of gods. I find this explanation quite satisfying. For a country, state, or city to run properly, the government creates various departments and employs individuals within those departments — teachers, postal workers, police and military personnel, construction works, doctors, politicians, and so many more. Each of these departments hire out hundreds or thousands of individuals carrying out their respective duties and each sector has an individual or multiple individuals that oversees the activities of that one unit. Each head of an area is endowed with certain privileges and powers which facilitates them in their tasks.

With this logic ,thereby we can conclude on the fact that,thus,Hinduism is not proverbially immense,but numerically,immense as well. Or change that to uncountable. Yes,Hinduism has more Gods and Goddesses than a number one can ever even imagine. Or even count.
And what is that very large number?

Let’s find out as you read this interesting essay on Hindu Gods and Goddesses.
Most theistic schools of hindu Philosophy have explained that in order to keep the universe running, Krishna, the supreme being, has put into place individuals that oversee different parts of the material universe. These individuals are powerful beings that have been appointed by Krishna and have been bestowed with the necessary powers and abilities to manage and govern their area of creation. They can be referred to as demigods. For example, there is someone responsible for the sun and his name is Surya. The goddess Saraswati is the overseer of knowledge. The creator of the material universe is known as Brahma. The destruction of the universe is overseen by Shiva and Vishnu serves as the maintainer. There are individuals overseeing the oceans, the wind, and practically every facet of creations. When seen from this perspective, 33 million is not that big a number.

We take it completely for granted that the sun is always perfectly fixed in its position. However it is not so,since texts mention Surya being driven in his chariot by the Ashvins,his sons,towards earth in the mornings.But scientifically, if the sun is to move even slightly closer to the earth we would burn to a crisp and if it were to distance itself from us, we would become frozen icicles. We thus and also take it for granted that all day and all night, there is oxygen in the atmosphere for us to breathe. It’s not by chance that all this is existing. It has been placed here and someone has been put in charge of each aspect of it. For example, we plug our electronic gadgetry into power outlets. That’s not magic and it’s not by chance. It was constructed into the building to facilitate our needs. If for some reason, there’s a massive power outage, then the person in charge would have to take responsibility for its maintenance. Hence,things are made to function. And what makes them function? One and only God. Or 33 Crore gods and goddesses,in the case of Hinduism.

This material universe functions like a big governmental structure with heads of departments managing their respective affairs. These heads or “demigods” have also been endowed with abilities to grace humanity with certain boons and that’s why so many people pray to the different gods to have their material wishes fulfilled. Granting boons to whatever degree deemed appropriate is up to the individual God.

According to the scriptures, the Gods live in different realms with life spans that are much longer than ours. For example, when six months pass here on earth, only one day has gone by in the upper realms. Another six months equals one night. When a full day goes by for them, a full year has passed here on earth. According to human calculation, their lives span to a few billion years. This may sound quite fantastic to one who is hearing it for the first time, however, it’s not much different than what Einstein said about the relativity of time. [Just for a purpose of note,I feel proud to write in herewith of the event of Einstein visiting my great grandfather Prafulla Chandra Ghosh in both Germany and India].
Moving on.

There is also a story from the Puranas which parallels Einstein’s hypothetical experiment. A yogi, by the power of his trained mind, exited the earthly realm for the higher planetary realms, was informed by the inhabitants of these higher realms that millions of years had instantly passed on Earth in the mere moments since he had entered the higher realms. They also told him that all of his relatives and everyone he had ever known was deceased. The understanding that time is relative is nothing new for the Hindu tradition. It was quite common knowledge for most Hindus. This is what much of Sāñkhya and Yoga Philosophy has taught to us, you,though the first one is aesthetic while the latter is very much theistic.

However,even that the Gods live for billions of human years, for them one of their years feels like a year would feel for us here on earth. After their allotted span of time, most of them will also die and then different living beings are placed into those positions to continue overseeing their duties. This is similar to most governmental posts. A person in that post can serve in that capacity for a certain duration and then is sacked and replaced.

It’s not an eternal post,obviously and definitely not an eternal post. Oh no.

There are realms that go beyond the heavenly sphere. The highest realm within the material cosmos is Satyaloka, where Brahma resides. His entire life span, if calculated in terms of human years, is 311 trillion years.

He is the creator,and Lord Shiva is said to be the destroyer. After his allotted time of 311 trillion years which feel to him like a 100 years would to us, he also has to die. We thus conclude,saying is that nothing in the material world is permanent!

yes,its said to be