Re: Hello all
Namaste
In my country most people are proud not to believe in God. They only believe in themselves. The society I live in has freed itself from everything, children from parents, pupils from teachers, women from men, the human from the divine.
Do I mention God in my country people turn away embarrassed, do I mention God in India the people’s eyes begin to glow.
I grew up with the Christian God … an old man with beard, sitting on a cloud in heaven. I liked this picture, it made me feel secure, there was someone protecting me.
Also a mother, who told me, that this God is watching us like a police man, thus if I do not obey, He will punish me, could not destroy my belief that this old man on the cloud would not do any harm to me.
We all know, God ist not an old man, has no elephant head, does not play the flute.
Christianity has only one concept of God – a Vaishnava once laughed on the poor Christian God who has not even a name. Hinduism has countless concepts. One, the most exalted, is ‚there is Brahman only, and I am Brahman‘, but even this ‚concept‘ gives two choises – Brahman nirguna and saguna. My bhakti needs Brahman saguna, my intellect is satisfied with Brahman nirguna.
Tukaram brings it to the point
Can water drink itself? Can a tree taste its own fruit?
The worshiper of God must remain distinct from Him.
Only thus will he come to know God's joyful love.
But if he were to say that God and he are one, that joy and love would vanish instantly.
Narada Purana talks about devotion to Vishnu
The best form of devotion that one can think of is known as uttamottama devotion and occurs when the devotee feels no difference between himself and Vishnu. There is complete union and identification.
Pranam
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