THE THEORY OF GOD

[barney]

THE THEORY OF GOD.

 

Man’s quest to discover his origin and his creator [if there is one] we call God has evolved thousands and thousands of years without certainty. Those who had claimed seeing God had only left writings of their experiences of blissfulness but nothing beyond that. But to understand the creator or his existence varies from religion to religion and this had brought conflicts among the human race for centuries. No one religion could conclusively say that there is a creator and he is the cause for all that exists in this world. It is mere speculation and elaboration to satisfy the curiosity of the human minds, which goes wondering beyond boundaries and to date there is nothing but assurance by those who say they are the masters and keepers of the good book. We have all been deluded for centuries by over zealous men who expounded these writings to their own perception and to interpret them in our own perception has put all of us in conflict with each others belief. We have branded those who refuse to accept our theories as atheist but we ourselves are much in doubt of which faith is the right path to whatever we believe in. We as human being have a better reasoning power than the creatures below par with us but yet we sometime behave in the manner that equals primitive man of the past. Claiming ourselves to be civilized and intelligent would not make one a human being. To be a human being one has to have the qualities of dharma [not the dharma of any particular religion] of human described by the early intelligent being. Such qualities are found in people of high spiritual beings such as Swami Vivekananda, Swami Ramalingam, Adikhal, Swami Ramakrishna, Sidharta Gautama Buddha and Jesus Christ. I did not mentioned Mohammaed here because his teachings had only brought chaos and fear into the hearts of people around the globe. The Muslims would claim that Mohammed’s Islam is the continuity of the Old Testaments of the Jews and his religion teaches compassion and tolerance but as far as the world can see there is no truth to their claim. I’m not bias or racist but the incidents created by some Muslims speak for it self.

 

 

 

Speaking about the creator and religion I believe that whatever the elders [those whom we call sages and seers] had experienced must have come from their spiritual self, which is the energy of the atman and this may have paved the way to the theory of God. We all know from science that there are powers beyond our control and is invisible to our naked eye. When we say power it literally mean energy that exist invisibly. The SUN that we see above us from dawn to dusk transmit energy some 12,756 kilometers [may not be the actual distance] from earth. Yet we feel the soaring heat on midday and some place it is so unbearable that living creatures die of dehydration. It is the main power source of energy and without it nothing could survive. The sun can generate heat as well as be the cause to changes in weather in our atmosphere. But do we pray to the sun? The wind has energy that changes every moment of time and sometime brings drastic storms that would create disaster to some part of our world. Do we pray to the wind? Water is another source of energy, which without it one would die and yet we do not pray to water. The earth we live on also contains magnetic energy invisible to our eyes and without it we would only float in thin air but do we pray to earth? These are questions one must ask himself in order to understand the real concept of religion and rituals.

 

The world we live in consist of panchabootas which consist of Earth (prthivi),Water (aap), Fire (agni), Air (vayu), and Space (akasha). Without these five elements none could survive or shall I say we would not be here. Our bodies consist of these five elements and five senses. But the most important is the Prana [ breath] which has many levels of meaning from the breath to the energy of consciousness itself. Prana is not only the basic life force; it is the master form of all energy working on the level of mind, life and body. Indeed the entire universe is a manifestation of Prana, which is the original creative power. Even Kundalini Shakti, the serpent power or inner power that transforms consciousness, develops from the awakened Prana. We call it the breath of life which most religion believes it to be so. As I have said earlier the concept of God as superior as a different meaning altogether. To transfer the knowledge to masses was not an easy task and may be, I repeat may be the elders had to come up with the theory of a superior being having created the whole universe and that we are his servant and should be obedient and respectful to him and him only. The ultimate truth will only be realized by self-realization and the real truth lies within our own atman. Whatever prayer or rituals we offer is actually offered to our own atman, which in turn is energized and works wonders within ourselves.

How Prana Creates The Physical Body is the question. Without Prana the physical body is no more than a lump of clay. Prana sculpts this gelatinous mass into various limbs and organs. It does this by creating various channels or Nadis, through which it can operate and energize gross matter into various tissues and organs.

Prana Vayu creates the openings and channels in the head and brain down to the heart. There are seven openings in our physical body, the head, the two eyes, two ears, two nostrils and mouth. These are called the seven Pranas or seven Rishis in Vedic thought. Udana assists Prana in creating the openings in the upper part of the body, particularly those of the mouth and vocal organs. The mouth, after all, is the main opening in the head and in the entire body. It could be said that the entire physical body is an extension of the mouth, which is the main organ of physical activity, eating and self-expression.

Apana Vayu creates the openings in the lower part of the body, those of the urino-genital and excretory systems. Samana Vayu creates the openings in the middle part of the body, those of the digestive system, centered in the navel. It opens out the channels of the intestines and the organs, like the liver and pancreas, which secrete into it. Vyana Vayu creates the channels going to the peripheral parts of the body, the arms and legs. It creates the veins and arteries and also the muscles, sinews, joints and bones.

In summary, Samana Vayu creates the trunk of the body (which is dominated by the gastro-intestinal tract), while Vyana Vayu creates the limbs. Prana and Udana create the upper openings or bodily orifices, while Apana creates those below. Prana however exists not just on a physical level. The navel is the main vital center for the physical body. The heart is the main center for the Pranamaya Kosha. The head is the main center for Manomaya kosha.

I may sound crazy but let us ponder in deep thought about what I feel and what is explained above. If you can come up with a better explanation I would surely examine your theory. We have the brain and let us put it to good use and not just take whatever is given to us.

Barney.

27th May 2004

13:33

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

interesting thoughts about the physical aspects of te effects of the elements upon the human body.

one quick Q:what's the difference between Allah and Mohammed? If Mohammed was not on the same level as Krishna, Jesus, Buddha -what about Allah? Because who is God ? and Who is the messanger? Whate are they? Thank you!

[Guest guest]

I believe we are taught to see the light in the souls-as opposed to discriminating against them using material branding, religions and class.

 

It is sad that there are some who miss out on life as they are too narrow minded to let these labels dictate their life and that is why I am so proud to have the teachings of Krishna/Hinduism/vedas etc guide my life.

 

I like to see God as a strong beautiful flame burning blissfully in a coloured glass lantern. Now whichever piece of coloured glass you look through depends on how you see God. May be you see God as Jesus, or Allah or Krishna. But we are all moulded with the same clay by the same hand…

 

But we are taught that God is :

Krishna taught Arjun that a good person is :

Fearlessness, purity of heart, perseverance in the yoga of knowledge, charity, sense restraint, sacrifice, study of the scriptures, austerity, honesty; (16.01)

 

Non-violence, truthfulness, absence of anger, renunciation, equanimity, abstaining from malicious talk, compassion for all creatures, freedom from greed, gentleness, modesty, absence of fickleness; (16.02)

 

Splendour, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, absence of malice, and absence of pride; these are the qualities of those endowed with divine virtues, O Arjun. (16.03)

 

It is these virtues by which we balance our karma. And God is Truth.

 

I am so happy that I am not taught to discriminate against others using their beliefs as a benchmark to measure up others by. I am not taught to believe that God exists ONLY in one name of God and that others who believe God to have a different name are wrong.

 

Sanatam Dharam is a philosophy of life. It is not dictating nor is it oppressive. It doesn’t bind or restrict. One builds their karma through ones actions. And most importantly God is loving and compassionate. He doesn’t see good in killing. Ahimsa is one of the highest virtues God told us to live by.

 

 

Anyway-that is what I think...Barney you know the quotations and the scriptures very well-do you have any thing that supports my thinking-i want to back up my thinking with actual stuff...

 

we are all students and teachers of wisdom..

 

Arrigato!

 

[Guest guest]

I like to see God as a strong beautiful flame burning blissfully in a coloured glass lantern.

•••the flame of consciousness... and the one who lights the flame. Let us remember that god is a complete person

 

Now whichever piece of coloured glass you look through depends on how you see God

•••no... it is god that is already full of different personalities and very able to show perfect messages perfectly fit for the men that have to receive them

 

May be you see God as Jesus, or Allah or Krishna.

•••and it is not that we see like that.. it is god that really is jesus, allah, or krsna

 

It is not dictating nor is it oppressive. It doesn’t bind or restrict.

•••but it is important to not go at the excess that doing everything we want and thinking everything we want is still sanatana dharma

 

do you have any thing that supports my thinking

•••you have alredy backed up your philosophy wery well... what do you need more?

[barney]

Your thoughts are suppoted by Dharma sastras. Many do not realy understand what it means to be a human and why we need to coexist in this world.

 

The Law of Divine Unity

The whole universe is permeated with divine presence. Therefore one should deal with every object in it as if one is dealing with oneself or with God.

God is omnipresent and omniscient. Everything in this universe is thus very sacred and very divine. Because it is filled with the presence of God, every thing here deserves respect and consideration.

He, who is aware of this truth, treats every object in the universe with unconditional respect, love and consideration.

He treats everything and everyone here the way he treats himself or the way he expects others to treat him.

He treats everyone and every thing as if it is a part of him or an aspect of God.

He knows that if he does not do so, somewhere he may have to pay for the consequences of his ignorance and selfishness.

He realizes that if he treats the world around him wrongly, the world would become inhospitable for him, that if he indulges in the destruction of nature around him than surely nature would slowly make life difficult for him too.

He lives with the awareness that if he treats people with goodness in his heart, he begets their goodness, but if he frowns at them, they too would.

All religions preach this law. Those who seek harmony and peace in life understand this principle very well and treat every thing in the world with due respect and a sense of sacredness.

This law demands that you have to treat every one as how you want to be treated by others.

It enjoins that you develop the vision of oneness of the universe and deal with it accordingly.

Those who observe this law are forever connected to the presence of Divine with in themselves and with in others. They are connected to the flow of universal love that stems from the Oneness of the universe.

Those who are self-centred and ignore this law may achieve temporary gains at the cost of others, but they remain mostly unhappy, disturbed and unloved.

This law can be followed sincerely only when a person comes out of the little cocoon he builds around himself, without excluding others from the gains he makes and without exploiting others for the gains he wants to make.

When we fill our hearts, with expectations and unlimited desires for our own comforts and happiness, there would but be little scope to express the natural flow of divine love through us. The love that we block in our hearts also blocks the love that is due from others.

When love for others and consideration for others desert a person, he has but loneliness only as his companion, that breeds in him the darkness of insecurity and unlimited anxiety towards his own future.

But when he emerges out of his little world and tries to embrace the world with open arms and clean minds, he grows in the light of that awareness and learn see the world as an aspect of God.

He lives with the assured feeling that when the need arises, the world would open its arms and embrace him too.

 

 

 

The Law of Inherent Balance

There is an inherent balance in all created things. If you want peace and happiness all around you and within you, you have to respect this law and keep this balance in your life as well as your environment.

Everything in this world is balanced. For every force here there is an opposite and balancing force. Pairs of opposites hold the world. You destroy one and you will destroy the other soon.

According to this law, happiness and peace are possible only when you do not disturb the harmony and the order that exists in yourself and in the whole creation around you.

Whether it is in spiritualism or materialism, in your personal life or professional life, the middle path is always the best path.

It is something else if you want to renounce the world and choose to lead the extreme ascetic life to extinguish all pairs of opposites and achieve stability of mind and union with God.

But if you want to remain ordinary and lead a normal human life, it is better to stick to the middle path for there in lays your safety and stability.

Whether it is your thoughts or your actions, your relationship with yourself or with others, what brings you ultimate peace and happiness is this balanced approach.

It is a well-known fact that biologically human beings cannot tolerate extreme physical conditions.

We tolerate neither extreme pleasures nor extreme pains. We cannot strain the mind or the body beyond a certain degree.

Extreme rest or exertion is both harmful to our wellbeing. One cannot live for long if one chooses to indulge oneself beyond tolerable limits.

Life on earth is conditioned on this principle.

Our bodies and minds have evolved on the principle of balance and moderation.

Whoever we are and whatever may be our achievements, we cannot withstand extreme situations in life.

We should therefore understand this truth and maintain harmony and balance in our lives and activities by remaining within our limits and safeguarding the order and balance that exists both within and without.

 

 

The Law of Individual Reality

You are the creator of your life and your reality. Your thoughts become your actions and your actions create the circumstances in your life. You are responsible for everything that happens to you in your life.

This is the simple law of as you sow so you reap.

It can also be called the law of motion and emotion.

Every thought that we send out into the universe comes back to us with accumulated energy of its own kind.

When negative thoughts go out of our minds, they will come back to us with redoubled negative energy and give us lot of pain and unhappiness.

Positive thoughts on the other hand bring in positive energy and energize us, establishing in the process peace and harmony in our consciousness.

Our actions too yield the same results. Our positive actions bring in positive rewards and our negative actions bring negative rewards.

The energy that we unleash, either in the form of a thought or action always comes back to us with increased force.

Thus through our actions and thoughts we are constantly creating our own realities.

Whatever we give comes back to us.

We should therefore be very careful about our thoughts and actions as they have a lasting influence on the pattern of our lives.

People blame others for what happens to them. Little do they know that if any one is to be blamed it is the person himself who made it happen to himself!

Wisdom is when something happens to you, instead of looking around for excuses and placing the blame on others, look into yourself and ask yourself why you made it happen? Why you invited those conditions and circumstances into your life?

Perhaps it was because you wanted to learn something out of that experience. Perhaps you wanted to strengthen some aspect of your personality or resolve some long troubling relationship.

When you start accepting responsibility for the events of your life, you begin to learn more about yourself, your inner thoughts, your fears and aspirations. Out of this awareness you also start expanding your consciousness, become aware of your thought processes, and through this awareness you finally learn to change the conditions of your life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Fifth Law: The Law of Harmony

Truth is Harmony; Truth is 'Rta', order.

The ancient believed in 'rta' (pronounced ritha) meaning the universal order or harmony. 'Rta' is an ancient word to which we can trace at least few important words that are known to us today. One is the Sanskrit world 'ritu', which means season. The others are the Latin word 'rhythmus', the French word 'rhythme', the Greek word 'rhuthmos' and the English word 'rhythm', all meaning, beat, pulse, metre, pattern, order, flowing, and harmony.

Let us understand why the concept of harmony and rhythm was considered so important by our ancient generations and why they elevated it to the level of highest divinity.

They did so because they considered Truth, harmony and order to be the Ultimate Reality lying beyond all realities, the hidden secret behind all manifest creation, or the Absolute Truth above all relative truths.

What is truth?

Truth does not necessarily mean only verbal truths.

Truth is the fundamental reality where there are no conflicts and confusion, no divisions and separation, but only unity and harmony. Truth is where there is movement without obstruction and where there is order without confusion.

Where there is conflict, separation and feeling of alienation, there is no truth.

Where there is division and alignment of divisions into opposing parts there is no truth.

There is no truth in ones life and ones being unless there is total harmony in ones whole being, which include ones activities, thoughts and environment.

Truth resolves all conflicts, divisions and differences and establishes permanent peace, order and harmony in ones life.

There is conflict when you consider the world outside is different and separate from you.

There is conflict when you consider others are different and separate from you.

There is conflict when you consider that some one is good, or some one is bad; that some thing is this or some thing is that. There is conflict as long as you pass petty judgements about yourself or about the world around you.

Unless you learn to resolve these differences, by expanding your consciousness, and learn to appreciate them in their own light, you cannot have real harmony and peace in your life.

The ordinary mind cannot understand this truth because it is still steeped in ignorance. But at the highest level of consciousness, all conflicts and confusion resolve themselves into one beautiful, harmonious whole. You may call it divine. You may call it God, This or That. The fact is, it is one, it is whole, it is harmony and order, without any divisions and without any conflicts.

At that level even in the seemingly chaotic conditions of life one can perceive harmony and certain order. That which we understand as good or that we understand as bad, become but the facets of the same Truth.

He who realizes this fundamental reality of our existence no more suffers from inner confusion and conflicts. He suffers no more from the relative conflicts of his life or relationships. He stops judging things from the limited values of his mind and consciousness. He learns to forgive people. He learns to tolerate opposition. He learns to accept the conditions of his life without complaint. He accepts people and their weaknesses without reservations.

For him there is nothing higher or lower, nothing sacred or evil. Nothing motivates him to take sides or judge the diversity of creation. He lives in harmony with himself and with others, with the world within himself and with the world external to him. He suffers not from fear or insecurity, or from worries and anxieties about himself or his life.

This is the truth.

If you want to live in peace, stop categorizing and grouping things and people, and it includes you also. Stop judging things from the relative state of your mind, against the partial truths you know and believe in. Understand that harmony comes when you live in peace with the world around you, and when you accept it whole heatedly and unconditionally without measuring it against your limited knowledge.

It happens when you become an embodiment of 'Rta', the rhythm of life and creation, in which the ancients believed so much.

 

 

The Law regarding Belief, Reason and Emotion.

You must learn to use appropriately the three forces of your personality namely emotion, reason and faith, to achieve peace and harmony in your life and move closer to God.

Emotion, reason and belief are equally important in human life. They serve different purposes. But they are complimentary, which means that you need them all equally to conduct yourself in this world. Be it your ordinary life or spiritual, without the one the other two do not take you far.

These three help us to conduct ourselves in this world, but in their own different ways. It is difficult to say which is more useful than the other two. He who has mastery over these three forces, is a master of himself and is qualified to reach God than any one else.

Emotion, reason and faith actually emanate from the body, the mind and the inner spirit, or alternatively, the animal, human and divine components of the human personality. The Great Trinity, namely Lord Siva, Vishnu and Brahma, the divinities that exist at the microcosmic level also, where as the whole human personality can be compared to the Cosmic Man (Purusha) or Supreme Being of the macrocosm. Without these three components, creation and our existence are incomplete.

Emotions connect us to the world while reason helps us to solve the problems of our existence. Belief help us to transcend ourselves to reach the world beyond. Emotions bring people together through the power of love or the joy of being together. But do not help us maintain them for long.

Reason helps us to understand the world around us intelligently, but does not take us far in building relationships that are based upon unconditional love, especially when the relationship are no more yielding the expected results. Reason cannot also explain properly the mysteries of our existence or the need for us to become spiritual. Its vision and its field of activity are limited to the tangible and to the sensory world.

It is where faith comes to our aid. It helps us to reason beyond reasons to pursue the path of spirituality so that we may realize Truth in a different way. It enables us to overcome our selfishness and petty mindedness so that we learn to love others unconditionally and sacrifice our selfish interests for the common welfare of all.

When difficulties surround us and we have exhausted our rationale means to deal with them, or when we are overwhelmed with the negative emotions of fear and hostility, faith provides us with some meaningful clues and the required answers to sustain ourselves. When emotions and reason let us down, faith is the comforting and soothing companion. If you have faith in yourself and in God, you can withstand greater difficulties and maintain your inner balance.

Trust is an aspect of faith only. Trust can bring diverse individuals and groups together so that they can work together and live in harmony, though this does not happen all the time, as we do not have enough faith in each other. It is trust, which is responsible for our social, political or economic institutions. But when people lose faith in them, they either use reason to change them or succumb to their emotions to destroy them.

Emotions on their own destabilize our lives. Reason on its own leads us to unlimited ambition and selfishness and in the process endangers the very safety and survival of our existence. Faith on its own binds us to blind superstition and dogmatism.

Emotions may cause harm if used inappropriately or not regulated properly. The body can suffer from enormous damage because of negative emotions. But take emotions completely out of our systems and what you find will be automatons, devoid of any love for life or concern for them-selves or others. If you take emotions completely of our consciousness, the institutions of family and society would collapse under the heavy burden of reason and conditional relationships alone.

We should therefore know when and where to use these three instruments appropriately for the greater benefit of all.

Cultivate the positive emotions of love; compassion, courage and inner joy, discarding wherever possible it’s corresponding negative emotions. Whether it is in your physical life, material life or spiritual life, learn to use three forces of your personality for your peace and inner happiness.

Bring out the best of your emotions in your relationships. Use the best of your reasoning in times of difficulties and when you stand alone in the contemplation of God, let the light of your faith shine through your heart. Be a complete man, with the Trinity firmly balanced in you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Law of Suffering

Suffering comes to us because of our inner imperfections. To the extent we learn from our suffering and learn from it, our suffering is mitigated.

 

Suffering is not a negative but a positive and dynamic force. Its aim is to open our eyes and correct our ways. It comes into our lives, not because we are destined to suffer, but because it has a message to deliver.

When you pursue a wrong path, aim for a wrong goal, make some wrong choices or give expression to some inner imperfection, you suffer and in that suffering lies a warning that you need to change. To the extent you become aware of it and respond positively to it and to the extent you correct yourselves or your actions, your suffering disappear.

The hidden purpose of suffering therefore is not to really subject you to physical or mental anguish, but to improve you in some aspect of your life. Those who refuse to listen to its message continue to suffer, perhaps more intensely, till good sense prevails and the required change comes in them.

The reason why every one suffers to some degree in the world is because every one is imperfect in some way and is in need of some improvement. It is through suffering that life evolves on earth.

So when suffering comes into the life of an individual, he must look into himself deeply and find out the root cause. He must find out what its true message is, what it wants in him to change or improve. Once he identifies the cause, he must take necessary steps to change himself. He should strive sincerely remove the cause. This way suffering becomes not a dark affliction, but a beacon of light guiding us in the right direction towards the future.

 

 

[barney]

Mohammed was a reformer of the religion the pre Islamic arabs practised. Having gained knowledge of the Jewish Tora and bible, Mohammed assimilated both into his reformation of the preIslamic religion, which hisotrians claim was the vedic religion. You asked who is God. First ask yourself who you are before asking who is God. As for messengers whom we call are some great souls who impart spiritual knowledge that they gained by self realization. Sometime their messages are misinterpreted by some extra intelligent persons who act as self appointed interpreters.

 

I hope I am not confusing you with my confused mind.

[Guest guest]

ou asked who is God. First ask yourself who you are before asking who is God.

 

these questions are to be made almost simultaneously.. the answer to one helps to give the answer to the other

[barney]

The real jiva is the Atman, which is unchanging, ever free, and identical with brahman. By sublating the superimposition of human shortcomings and attributes on the Atman, the pure Atman, the substratum, shines forth as brahman Itself. The mani-fold universe and the individual self, which considers itself bound, are both superimposed upon that Transcendental Reality which is brahman. Once the superimposition is understood for what it is, the individual is no more an individual, the universe is no more the universe - all is brahman.