Carl Jung believed that the Hindu mind/world-view was very dangerous to the Western mind.
This means the whole gods thing, the style of worship, and especially the deeper philosophical cosmology. He believed it can act like a seed of destruction in the mind of a person brought up in the western world. The seed at first is a play thing, but eventually it can seriously unbalance the mind, as it is so different. He is not the only one to have put this forward.
I have never had trouble, but then there are always individual cases. And also, he was speaking before the sixties, when a flood of eastern thought patterns prepared the western mind, in a way those before did not have the advantage of.
So I have taken the view that it is no longer as dangerous as it may have been previously. And based on my own experiences, I tended to feel the 'cancerous' effect on the stability of the western mind, was not so serious as he had believed.
However two things have caused me some pause here.
The first is that in the past few years I have delved much deeper into the matrix of Hindu thought and its sensuousness of worship. It is still not my main guiding compass, but I find an inner delight and inner compatibility, plus plenty of room for me to maintain my own unique approach - ie no constraint in my primary intent.
But as I go deeper, I am made aware just how different it is to western thought patterns. Hindus swim in their religion, and the ocean they swim in is filled with the most fantastic colour and shapes. They swim with every part of their being, they touch, they taste, they smell, they wallow in the sensuous immediacy of the gods, in all their horror and glory. There is nothing in the west to equate with this complete self-consumption within their sacred-secular world.
I can see that this full-on approach in a phantasmogorical world is profoundly disturbing to the foundation of the western mind.
The second, is the recent events, where a certain member of our group, perhaps bit off too much too soon. This has been a lesson to me, that anyone opening themselves to the Hindu world, should go very slowly, and ensure digestion is complete after each bite.
So I place this warning here, that Hinduism may look like a lot of fun, but it presupposes a whole new way of stabilization. I would suggest Buddhism is sufficiently disturbing - it carries the deepest challenges within it, while avoiding the festival of the fantastic. And if you want a little of that, then Tibetan Buddhism is a good medium point. Just remember that Buddhism grew out of Hinduism, and slippery slides run all the way down from the Himalayas into the cess-pit of the Vedic orgy.