HINDUISM AND ISLAM
It is poetic imagination to characterize Sun s a bright prince with glittering ornaments. That is to portray the sun in the human imagination. Similarly Earth is characterized in stories as a patient beautiful woman. That is only to tell some story with a moral lesson. It does not mean that the Sun is male or the Earth is female. If someone thinks that way, he is stupid.
Hinduism sees everything as a 'manifestation; of God. Not a 'creation' as imagined by Semitic (Abrahamic) religions (Islam Christianity and Jewism). Manifestation is a process of expressing a formless one in a form. Hinduism says "Easa vasya midam Sarvam". Which means everything that is seen and unseen is God. Some are expressed in forms, like the stars, Sun and Earth, trees, animals, fish, birds, insects, humans etc. Some are not seen. Like space, air, energy, etc. But all these are 'manifestations' of the supreme power.
God is a consciousness, knowledge, love, everything that one can imagine and more. God sometimes expresses its own majesty in the form of Universe and lives. That is the visible form of God. This visible form is in time and space. Means the expressed form cab end after some time. The world itself may not be there after some time. But God in its unexpressed form (pure consciousness) will remain at all times.
Thus God and the Universe are like the seed and the tree. The seed when developed in space and time becomes the tree. In the tree where is the seed ? The seed became the tree. The seed is now the tree ! Both are the same. The seed is the unexpressed form of the Tree. The tree is the expressed form of the seed. In the tree the seed has manifested. The tree is not 'created' by the seed. But the seed transformed into the tree.
This vision is different from those of Semitic religions. Semitic religions think the world is 'created' by an entity different from it. This may sound logical. Creation as separate from the creator. But when we search for the creator, the creator is found one with the creation, behind the creation as a conscious presence, at all times, knowing every movement of the creation, making corrections through some people who get the presence of God within and without.
So The so called God cannot be separated from the creation. Because The God i expressing itself in the form of the creation. May be to see its own capabilities. May be just playing a hide and seek game. Just for fun. In a human body, if one seeks God, one may not find. But it is always there. To realise that Godly presence, the mind is to be made conducive to search for the invisible consciousness.
That is by detaching the world and objects and relations from the mind, without any grudge, with complete honest devotion, purifying the mind by not allowing to make it polluted by feelings like affinity or hatred, likes or dislikes, in short make the mind balanced. Once the mind is thus free from attachments, desires and balanced, one can get into meditation.
Meditation is to be made in solitude, with sitting position with an erect spine (If there is spine LOL !). During meditation, watch the mind closely.Allow the thoughts to pass. Do not fight or control any thought. If one focusses attention on the mind, then the mind will become self conscious, the number of thoughts will be reduced as time passes by.
As the meditation continues, the thoughts will become very few. One thought now. Another thought after some time etc. Now shift the focus of attention to the gap between thoughts. This may look like an empty space, the gap between two successive thoughts. But it is not empty, which you will soon realise
It is in this gap between thoughts that the God will surface. God is formless awareness, ever present, ever living, having all powers, It was always under the mind. We failed to notice this ever present consciousness because we were pre-occupied with the thoughts in mind. And what are these thoughts ? Constant feed back from the world.
When something or someone attached to the individuals mind is noted in the mind RADAR, the soul goes after it to possess. As if that object or person is his or hers. Actually all objects and people belong to one another. Everyone and everything belongs to everyone else everything else. This is a great communion. All are siblings here.
No. Not just siblings. All are actually one at the core. The various fingers of a huge palm. The fingers think they have independent identities. They do not. Fingers are just parts of an underlying palm.If all fingers hug each other t form a fist, will the palm object ? Far from it. The palm will tell the fingers that now you realise who you are.
Until this realisation dwells in individual fingers, they will find each finger different and try to compare each other finger and feel better or try to belittle other fingers. This is what is happening in the world. No two fingers have any special relationship except what the individuals think or associate in particular ways to have a smooth running society.
But that does not mean anything to the palm. The base of all fingers. To the palm, any finger associating with any other finger is just natural. All fingers are the same to the palm. A cock roach or pig is not different to God from say an elephant and a human. That is the unattached unbiased vision of God. Once humans reach that vision, he becomes divine, respectable, acceptable like a cool breeze.
Those who keep discriminating views like different religions, different sexes, species, mine and yours etc are unrealised fingers. These fingers die out arguing and fighting all life without even knowing their true nature within. Which is compassion and love. To reach this state of compassion,one needs to know that they are not actually independent fingers but parts of a limitless palm. Then they are in tune with the palm, also called God.
No one here is smaller or less privileged than any other. Including insects and birds and animals. All beings being just fingers in a palm, the roles of fingers can interchange after some time too. This can be quite an interesting prospect. A goat becoming a human and the human who ate the goat becoming a goat. The roles are simply reversed for teaching a lesson and realizing their actual relationship, which is brotherhood.
Last time the man ate the goat. The next time the goat will eat the man to get even ! Similarly males may become females. Beard today, Burqa tomorrow. The activities by an individual in time and space determines the next course of action. So be careful about what one does. If one harasses others, for whatever reason, even in the name of religion and faith, the next birth can be just a reversal of the roles. The hunter will become the hunted. Pay back time.
No heaven or hell. Just a reversal of roles will straighten all deeds. You throw a stone at a street dog, The dog is helpless. It bra\ears the pain and runs away howling. You smile at your power. Feel better than the dog. But big brother is watching you. Not from the sky but from within. The dog's pain is God's pain.
What would the God do ? Incarnate and whip the stone thrower ? No.
God keeps records of each and every action. The one who threw the stone will get a chance to feel how the Dog felt at the receiving end. That is divine justice. No hatred ever. Just reversing the roles to fel exactly how the other felt. That is divine justice. So it is better to behave like decent beings. Else you are going to get it real hard some time down the line. There is no escape from the Karma cycle. One is responsible for all that he does. So do deeds carefully, without hatred, without hurting others.
Judgment day awaits each...Be prepared...
It is poetic imagination to characterize Sun s a bright prince with glittering ornaments. That is to portray the sun in the human imagination. Similarly Earth is characterized in stories as a patient beautiful woman. That is only to tell some story with a moral lesson. It does not mean that the Sun is male or the Earth is female. If someone thinks that way, he is stupid.
Hinduism sees everything as a 'manifestation; of God. Not a 'creation' as imagined by Semitic (Abrahamic) religions (Islam Christianity and Jewism). Manifestation is a process of expressing a formless one in a form. Hinduism says "Easa vasya midam Sarvam". Which means everything that is seen and unseen is God. Some are expressed in forms, like the stars, Sun and Earth, trees, animals, fish, birds, insects, humans etc. Some are not seen. Like space, air, energy, etc. But all these are 'manifestations' of the supreme power.
God is a consciousness, knowledge, love, everything that one can imagine and more. God sometimes expresses its own majesty in the form of Universe and lives. That is the visible form of God. This visible form is in time and space. Means the expressed form cab end after some time. The world itself may not be there after some time. But God in its unexpressed form (pure consciousness) will remain at all times.
Thus God and the Universe are like the seed and the tree. The seed when developed in space and time becomes the tree. In the tree where is the seed ? The seed became the tree. The seed is now the tree ! Both are the same. The seed is the unexpressed form of the Tree. The tree is the expressed form of the seed. In the tree the seed has manifested. The tree is not 'created' by the seed. But the seed transformed into the tree.
This vision is different from those of Semitic religions. Semitic religions think the world is 'created' by an entity different from it. This may sound logical. Creation as separate from the creator. But when we search for the creator, the creator is found one with the creation, behind the creation as a conscious presence, at all times, knowing every movement of the creation, making corrections through some people who get the presence of God within and without.
So The so called God cannot be separated from the creation. Because The God i expressing itself in the form of the creation. May be to see its own capabilities. May be just playing a hide and seek game. Just for fun. In a human body, if one seeks God, one may not find. But it is always there. To realise that Godly presence, the mind is to be made conducive to search for the invisible consciousness.
That is by detaching the world and objects and relations from the mind, without any grudge, with complete honest devotion, purifying the mind by not allowing to make it polluted by feelings like affinity or hatred, likes or dislikes, in short make the mind balanced. Once the mind is thus free from attachments, desires and balanced, one can get into meditation.
Meditation is to be made in solitude, with sitting position with an erect spine (If there is spine LOL !). During meditation, watch the mind closely.Allow the thoughts to pass. Do not fight or control any thought. If one focusses attention on the mind, then the mind will become self conscious, the number of thoughts will be reduced as time passes by.
As the meditation continues, the thoughts will become very few. One thought now. Another thought after some time etc. Now shift the focus of attention to the gap between thoughts. This may look like an empty space, the gap between two successive thoughts. But it is not empty, which you will soon realise
It is in this gap between thoughts that the God will surface. God is formless awareness, ever present, ever living, having all powers, It was always under the mind. We failed to notice this ever present consciousness because we were pre-occupied with the thoughts in mind. And what are these thoughts ? Constant feed back from the world.
When something or someone attached to the individuals mind is noted in the mind RADAR, the soul goes after it to possess. As if that object or person is his or hers. Actually all objects and people belong to one another. Everyone and everything belongs to everyone else everything else. This is a great communion. All are siblings here.
No. Not just siblings. All are actually one at the core. The various fingers of a huge palm. The fingers think they have independent identities. They do not. Fingers are just parts of an underlying palm.If all fingers hug each other t form a fist, will the palm object ? Far from it. The palm will tell the fingers that now you realise who you are.
Until this realisation dwells in individual fingers, they will find each finger different and try to compare each other finger and feel better or try to belittle other fingers. This is what is happening in the world. No two fingers have any special relationship except what the individuals think or associate in particular ways to have a smooth running society.
But that does not mean anything to the palm. The base of all fingers. To the palm, any finger associating with any other finger is just natural. All fingers are the same to the palm. A cock roach or pig is not different to God from say an elephant and a human. That is the unattached unbiased vision of God. Once humans reach that vision, he becomes divine, respectable, acceptable like a cool breeze.
Those who keep discriminating views like different religions, different sexes, species, mine and yours etc are unrealised fingers. These fingers die out arguing and fighting all life without even knowing their true nature within. Which is compassion and love. To reach this state of compassion,one needs to know that they are not actually independent fingers but parts of a limitless palm. Then they are in tune with the palm, also called God.
No one here is smaller or less privileged than any other. Including insects and birds and animals. All beings being just fingers in a palm, the roles of fingers can interchange after some time too. This can be quite an interesting prospect. A goat becoming a human and the human who ate the goat becoming a goat. The roles are simply reversed for teaching a lesson and realizing their actual relationship, which is brotherhood.
Last time the man ate the goat. The next time the goat will eat the man to get even ! Similarly males may become females. Beard today, Burqa tomorrow. The activities by an individual in time and space determines the next course of action. So be careful about what one does. If one harasses others, for whatever reason, even in the name of religion and faith, the next birth can be just a reversal of the roles. The hunter will become the hunted. Pay back time.
No heaven or hell. Just a reversal of roles will straighten all deeds. You throw a stone at a street dog, The dog is helpless. It bra\ears the pain and runs away howling. You smile at your power. Feel better than the dog. But big brother is watching you. Not from the sky but from within. The dog's pain is God's pain.
What would the God do ? Incarnate and whip the stone thrower ? No.
God keeps records of each and every action. The one who threw the stone will get a chance to feel how the Dog felt at the receiving end. That is divine justice. No hatred ever. Just reversing the roles to fel exactly how the other felt. That is divine justice. So it is better to behave like decent beings. Else you are going to get it real hard some time down the line. There is no escape from the Karma cycle. One is responsible for all that he does. So do deeds carefully, without hatred, without hurting others.
Judgment day awaits each...Be prepared...
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