deity!?/Thanx Anand

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Namaste Anand,

 

Excellent message, many thanx!! Always grrrreat to see you here too!

 

Bountiful blessings,

Simone

 

 

, "Anand"

<anand_nortel> wrote:

> I would like to think that George has quite elegantly put into

words

> pretty much the sum total of all that could have been said about

the

> supreme being. All depends upon what is it that "we" or more

precisely

> "I" the person finds peace in.

>

> There are two ways of looking at our relationship with

someone/something

> that is beyond our current comprehension and is constantly

referred to

> as "God", "Supreme Being",and many other names. One is our

physical

> presence in the time-space continuum and our actions there-in

based upon

> our physical being. Second is the more illusive and less

quantifiable

> our astral being (our soul as we commonly refer to it). The two

are

> very much inter-twined and actions on one plane have resonance in

the

> other.

>

> Our physical being is very much dependant upon the laws of

nature. We

> take birth, we grow, we carry out daily bodily functions, some of

us

> choose to re-produce and eventually we all die. However as

described in

> Hindu scriptures (That is the religion I come from and hence am

> confident in quoting as a religion) we have what we call Karma and

we

> all perform in this physical world according to our Karma. Karma

is

> nothing more than the opportunities presented to each and every

one of

> us and we react and make choices based upon a number of factors.

> According to Hinduism the factors would be our soul and

experiences of

> that soul in past life-times, the place where we happen to be in

at the

> time, the solar system & celestial bodies and their alignments at

the

> time and the time itself in the space-time continuum. Each choice

we

> make is given a sort of marks system either positive or negative or

> zero. These choices we make lead to further opportunities and so

on and

> so on until we reach a stage where we can make the right choice to

every

> opportunity and thus leading to a state of having zero Karma. This

> state is referred to as the "Maha Shoonya (the great zero)" and is

the

> state where we no longer need our physical form to continue our

journey

> and we can maintain our presence just in our astral state.

>

> Most of the religion (regardless of which that religion is) deals

with

> our physical being and tries to explain the rationale and

relationship

> of our physical state of existence and our relationship to the

cosmos.

> It is only a very small part of our philosophical research that is

> centred entirely on the soul and it's relationship to the greater

> cosmos. Personally, I have done most of my research only in

Hinduism

> and frankly it is not easy going because of the symbolism embodied

into

> our religion.

>

> Now there are many-many explanations provided in all religions as

to who

> ought to be placed as the supreme among the supreme. The only

> explanation that can convince a person is the explanation that has

roots

> both in the religion that the person follows and the social up-

bringing

> the person has had. To claim that one form of "God" is better

than the

> other is simply for someone somewhere to be able to financially

benefit

> from these divisions.

>

> What we ought to strive to achieve is a balance in development

both in

> physical as well as astral plane. The feeling of being

overwhelmed with

> the Karma only occurs when the two planes of existence are not in

the

> state of balance and harmony. I can say that in my humble

experience of

> wearing the Holy beads of Rudraksha, it helps in achieving the

balance

> in the two states of our existence. I could not say that the Holy

beads

> helped me gain or lose physically/materially in any aspect of

life, but

> they most certainly helped clarify a lot that was happening around

me

> and helped me understand and appreciate life for what it is rather

than

> any help in gaining or losing anything.

>

> Remember answers are never out there for the questions that are

arising

> from within. We all have to do some soul-searching sometimes as to

> where the true answers are lying as well as sometimes more

precisely as

> to what the true questions are.

>

> Kind regards

>

> Anand

>

>

>

> [] On Behalf Of

pillai

> george

> 05 June 2005 12:01

>

> Re: RBSC : diety!?

>

>

> Namashkaar,

>

> Some thoughts about Supreme Being as described by learned pandits

> (learned ones):

>

> "The Supreme Being is the Eternal Truth beyond description, yet

revealed

> to Sages.