Hinduism gives everyone a choice in the practice, suitable for each individual's personal belief and understanding. It does not force anyone to accept its teachings blindly. It allows everyone to think, question and reason for himself /herself. Indeed, it does not even condemn those who do not believe in God, those who do not offer prayer to God or those who perform rituals blindly without knowing the true nature of the Faith. It allows even those persons to believe as they wish. A Hindu may not believe in a God or in the Vedas or do any rituals but still do good service to the people and obtain liberation. The various figurines, called Vigrahas or Deities by Hindu as symbols of worship, may look confusing to a non-Hindu who fails to understand the principle. A Hindu devotee who practices them faithfully understands that these are just the means to reach the ultimate reality of One God Almighty who comes in every form they comprehend to pray and as they need at any given time.

Hinduism has the most complex and complete Philosophical Truths for the learned ones and the ritualistic sacrifice method of practice for the priestly class. They also have mythological story form of the Vedic teachings for the uninitiated and some simple prayer method for the illiterate. Sometimes the prayers are performed with elaborate rituals to fire and water or just by silent meditation. An illiterate villager in a farm-land may pray to a small stone sculpture or piece of rock or a crude clay figure. He may perform rituals with flowers and incense, with the same devotion as a more learned one praying in a Temple or in a Vedic ritual with fire and water. He may just face the Sun and offer silent prayers in meditation. They all know that they pray to One God who is Omnipotent and Omnipresent but unmanifest. The figures they pray are only a representation for concentration. They recite in their daily prayers: "Like all the rain water falling from the sky to earth ultimately reaches the same ocean; Let all my prayers to every form of Deity reach ultimately the One God Almighty, Kesava."