ggohil

If one's Bhakti is true towards God, then I beleive that Bhakti will provide the necessary protection irrespective of wheather he is wearing dhoti or holding a weapon.

" why didnt an all-good god make us always freely choose good over bad?"

Then we would not have free will.

The Ability to chooes, to perform evil, good, believe in God or not to believe in God, is the free will.

"In the mean time a malechha (non-Aryan) Acharya (Spiritual teacher) will appear with the bunch of his disciples. His name will be Mahamad"

Strange…...

1. How Mahamad failed to declare he is the Kalki Avtar.

2. How he failed to promote his own teachings i.e. (the Principals of Vedas) as he did in his privious Avtars.

"the great vaishnava aacharya who worship vishnu tatva said that the original god is krishna.............."

That is my deep-seated belief too.

"If you say vishnu is different from krishna then we go into a deeper......"

As I understand, Vishnu, Krishna, Ram and so on....... are all one and the same.

However, when I think of Supreme I visulaize a dispaly of all the divine attributes, hence Sri Krishna redily comes to mind.

"Out of 12 azhwars none of them have quoted gita in their songs. does that mean gita is not true ?"

Point taken.

But in Gita Sri Krishna appears to reveal himself completely to Arjun, and yet leaves out a crucial and very relavent point that he is "incarnation of Vishnu". This to me sounds odd.

I do not believe that Hinduism is a real mess. However, lack of understanding or knowledge could lead to this conclusion.

"please read gita"

Naturally, you must be of the mind that people who have reached same conclusion as you, are the only ones who have read gita and understood it.

"..... Krishna, etc. are all Vishnu incarnations.."

Strangly in Gita Krishna never refers himself as an "Incarnation" of Vishnu.

"ggohil.i want to know your caste,please.thank you".

Hindu I guess....I follow the teachings of Sri Krsna...

Who told you that Paramatma is fooled?

Then who is fooled?

"If God is everything, then I am God"

I guess then I am The God, the creator.

"I will not try to contemplete on Women which does not belong to me and take that to my heart which inturn leads to the physical sinful deed"

I always thought, women is also a creation of God. Evil is in the mind of the beholder, not in the women. Control your mind and purify your heart and you will see God in everything.....including women.

" Anyone who says "Swaminarayan", his sins will be forgiven by Supreme Lord Shree Swaminarayan"

Swaminarayan.......I guess I am now sinless for a moment .....boy that was easy...

"If someone says "Swaminarayan" just once, it is equivalent to 1000 names of other names of God. It gives an unexplainable good result fal."

I said it.......I guess I am still waiting for Fal.

"If someone says "Swaminarayan" at the time that person is about to die, that person will achieve Moksha"

Didn't Sri Krsna said this in Geeta. Instead Swaminaranyan Sri Krsna said remembring me at the time of death.

In the long run it really does not matter to the Temple.

The Temple will not be richer or the poorer.

You will not gain any thing in keeping the money that does not belong to you.

By not keeping property which not belong to you, you will have acted in process of purifying your heart.

"Param Atam knows. It is the mind working through sense organs that temporarily cannot see the self effulgent Param Atman within and without."

How did Param Atam get into this state?

"Whereas, I know that He must be singing for enjoyment."

If he sings for enjoyment to crate GGohil, then he cannot be complete.

I still fail to see how can Param Atman which you say is God is fooled in thinking it has ego.

Incidentally, doesn’t Gita 2-12 say

“Never was there a time when I did not exist , nor you, nor all these king; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.”

“…. He entered everything that He created. So, how can anything not be God?”

“Param Atma encased Himself in seven material sheaths for sport. The most external material sheath is GGOHIL as a body. GGOHIL thinks that he is GGOHIL the body…..”.

Hence, my question. How can God, Param Atam, be influenced in believing he to be GGohil, by deliberately being encased in seven material sheaths.

"When GGOHIL thinks of I, he thinks of the body and tells himself “I am this”. He cannot see beneath the sheaths and know that “I” is the super soul -- controller of GGOHIL (the body - mind)."

”When you find the controller, you will realize WHO IS GOD AND WHO IS GGOHIL.”

I know I am not the body. But still have serious questions on understanding that I am the God. I am the supreme who created everything, of my own free will, but now I am influenced by seven sheaths.

”Do you assume that “we” are outside of God? That is Dvaita and not Advaita. Do not mix Dvaita and Advaita understandings.”

Dvaita I understand.

“I am God” is wrong. The correct statement (perhaps) is: The Lord is the one “I”.

I do not think I understand this……: )

So, God is not fallible but HE deliberately sings songs for pleasure. Such a song GGOHIL is.

So are saying I am his song and not HE, the God.

“Or HE takes up dresses for sport. Such a dress GGOHIL is.”

Makes me wonder why such a perfect, complete and ever happy God would need to take up a sport that creates songs which are at best bewildered and lost.

"The supreme God of Hinduism? Why is he the supreme god in your religion?"

The same resaon Allah is seen as the (Supreme) God of Islam.

"There is only one God, and we are told to acknowledge only one God -- Allah (SWT)."

True, we acknowledge him by the name other then Allah.....

"Here's a simpler proof. The Quran speaks of ideas/concepts that were unknown at the time of revelation.."

If the above happens to be disproved by science or other credible means then you naturally will have no faith in Islam.

If Quran holds the Perfect Knowledge given by God to live a perfect and happy life, then it would appear very few Muslims are living by it.

In respect to Advaita Philosophy, I presume that at one point we all must have been “The God”, if so..……

1. Why did we stop being “The God”?

2.If I am “The God”, but am on earth due to desires.

Does this mean “The God” is falliable?

Take a look at the link below.

http://www.stephen-knapp.com/art_photo_six.htm

Comments from anyone?

Do you really believe that your faith will become stronger, if you converse with someone who says that he or she has seen Krsna and converses with him on regular basis?

I have not seen Krsna materialize in front of me nor I have seen him in my dreams.

But, have felt his presence many times. Just like when one feels the presence of a Person with a strong personality in a room.

The other realization comes in experiencing and noticing the difference in not following the suggested way of life in Gita.

"UG : I wish I knew. If a Jivanmukta is sitting right in front of you, you will never know that he is one."

I cannot distinguish, UG cannot distinguish and I have not met anyone who can, but this is hardly a conclusive proof.