[world-vedic] Re: For the Love of Hanuman

10-16-1999, 05:33 AM

In response to your post:

>Hanuman's followers have brought, not only Hanuman, but his mood of
> devotion/Bhakti for God, to the whole world.

1) Neither Hanuman's nor Crhist's greatness are dependent upon whether
or not follower/devotees spread teachings, dogma, practices, etc. The
greatest testament to each is the state they achieved and the model
they present to humanity.

>Hanuman's glory and Love (are) available to anyone sincerely
interested.
>Unlike the "so called" Christians, Hanuman's followers never tried to
subvert
>people's faith in God.

2) The power of your message is diminished when you paint all followers
of Christ with the same brush. You make the same mistake as the
misguided sub-group of Christians you indite by superimosing the
imperfect practices of devotees over the perfect lives of living
Saints. Christ taught tolerance, forgiveness, humility, and love for
all- even one's enemies. There is a unity of purpose and action at work
in the lives of all Saints, Avatars, and gods. Christ's true words and
teachings belong to the same lineage as Lord Shiva, Saraswati, Ganesha,
Vishnu, Lakshmi, Durga, Hanuman, Rama, Krisha and the thousands of
fully realized teachers through the ages.

One must come to the conclusion that they are all true or all false.
Who among us has the right or authority to say that the Vedas are
divine scriture and the Bible is not, or that the Bible is but the
Quoran is not, or that the Gita is but the Sermon on the Mount is not?
I have never heard a great being speak or write these words.

My experience has been that all great beings are nothing more than
expressions of Divine Shakti that seem to be different to many because
they lack the discriminatory power to see the world as it really is.

Ours is a truly compassionate God because It sends rays of this Skati
to us in familiar forms! It is we, the devotees, that create the forms
thorugh which the Divine Principle reveals itself. If the time comes
when we can all recognize that we are one community, one people, with
the same unity of purpose- to know God- then the multitude of spiritual
paths will melt away. Only Brahman Itself will remain for our direct
perception.

Jaya Hanuman!