The major Saiva sects include the Kashmir Saivas , and the Lingayats and Saiva Siddhantins of South India. There are various Hindu sects, however all Hindu sects share the fundamental belief in brahman . Hindus believe in an eternal, infinite, transcendent, and ultimate reality - this is called brahman. Brahman is the all, it is the entire universe, it is in everything. The Brahmans are the teachers of the Veda, and represent the ideal of purity and social status.
Hindu society is arranged into a caste system .
The caste system is a hierarchy based on purity. Samsara is the cycle of birth and rebirth which all souls undergo. What determines the form into which a soul is born is the law of karma . Karma is the effect of previous deeds and actions carried out in one's previous life on one's next life. An individual's acts or deeds determine the condition and form into which one is reborn in the next life.