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Saturday, October 2, 2010

WHAT IS GOD?

The most ancient authority of human wisdom - the Vedas - accept their defeat in not being able to understand what is God as NETI-NETI: not this, not that. And yet, they accept the best definition of God is SAT-CHIT-ANAND = TRUTH-ALL KNOWING CONSCIOUSNESS-BLISSFUL

TRUTH is timeless or eternal, indestructible (avinaashi), without any beginning, middle and end.
CHIT = AWARENESS, CONSCIOUSNESS, ALL-KNOWING.
BLISSFUL = Param-anand, above states of happiness and unhappiness, non-suffering

Out of all holy scriptures that exist, God is described in first person, only in Srimad Bhagwad Gita as: ONE IN ALL and ALL IN ONE, VIRAT-BRAHM in form and also, unimaginable bright-light of infinite suns shining at once as formless GOD with universal vibration OMN.

Bhagwad Gita advises that it is easier to relate to God in form (Viraat) and more difficult to identify ourselves with formless God. As God alone exists, all perceptible identities must be viewed as part and parcel of ONE God. The universe and its variety as observed is creative sport of God (please refer to post above 'Truth and Justice') that, invariably surrenders to God. Gita advises that the shortest-cut to God-realization is the determined total surrender of mind (which hides our true identity) to God by performing one's prescribed duty to the best of ability for establishing truth and justice in the society without attachment to the fruit of work, so as to share it with all (just like our stomach shares the essence of food with all cells of our body, fairly, rather than to selfishly pile on the belly alone to make us ugly). Just as, all our body cells are a variety of manifestations of our same DNA, the whole universe is a variety of manifestations the same ONE God.

2 comments:

  1. hey mamaji ... nice post. I like the analogy of the stomach sharing with each cell of the body and so should we do our tasks without any attachment. Love always ... Priya

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  2. Thanks Priya,
    This analogy derives from the vedic declaration: "Yatha Brahmande tatha pinde" meaning" "Like universe like body". Thus, yogees meditate on imaginary bright-light between their eye-brows or heart and see the universe within and realize God inside themselves. God bless.

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