'Sri Sai Baba of Shirdi -A God!' by Bapatla Hanumanth Rao Garu

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CHAPTER TWO

It is now established after a review of the issues dealt with in detail in

the earlier chapter that the Supreme God is only one; He is the Creator, the

Preserver and the Destroyer of the entire universe and that He is

Omnipotent, Omniscient, and Omnipresent and the 'Inner Self’ of all living

beings.

My friend might have felt that Hindu Gods like Sri Vishnu, Sri Krishna, Sri

Sankara, Parvati, Sri Rama, Satyanarayana, Ganapati etc., are worshiped as

separate Gods when he enquired "Are the present Gods not enough"? We now

realize that all these forms represent One and Only God but are known by

different names and different forms. The devotees worship them according to

their liking. The term God is beyond our comprehension and is inexplicable.

God is nameless, formless, and He is Infinite. The God perceived by our

senses is the form we imagine Him to be. Let us realise that Vishnu, Sri

Rama, Sri Krishna, Parvati, Sankara, Ganapati, Buddha, etc., are all the

incarnations of the Almighty, in varied forms.

Avatars (Incarnations)

God who is endless, imperceptible and beyond the comprehension of the mind

and word, becomes the one who settles down at a place with a definite

objective in an Incarnation. The form, so assumed can be within the powers

of mind. An Avatara or Incarnation is the expressive form of an inexpressive

state. He is all pervasive, yet He steps down from the formless state

(Nirakara) to a definite form (Sahara) in order to uplift the demoralised,

the oppressed and the suffering people. This does confine to a particular

place or time alone.

Lord Sri Krishna says:

Whenever there is decay of Dharma (righteousness) and rise of Adharma

(wickedness and cruelty) and people are tormented! God embodies himself and

takes birth age after age for the protection of the good and for the

annihilation of the evil",

(Gita 4.7.8)

These Incarnations of God are known differently by different people, in view

of the prevailing times, locations, and conditions: We cannot think of one

incarnation to be either superior of inferior to the other. Each Avatara has

a specific role to play and once its objective is achieved, it disappears

from the scene paving way for the other.

 

To be contd....

(Source : http://www.saileelas.org/book/agod.htm

 

Sri Satchidananda Sadguru Sainath Maharaj ki Jai !!!

 

Baba Bless us all