Guest guest Posted January 3, 2002 Report Share Posted January 3, 2002 mike anderson Email: <michael_an,,,,,,, Posted on: Wednesday, January 02, 2002, 09:07 PM First, Hinduism answers alot of questions. But, the same old thing comes up. Someone says they are right,another says no, their wrong! I believe in GOD and love GOD . But WHO IS GOD? Thanks for the outline. life in this material world may become a little better with your help. my only exposure to hinduism has been the HARE KRISHNAS, so now i can see other views. Thanks again michael. ~~~~~~~~~~~response~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear Michael Thanks for your message sent to our site. Search for spirituality begins when we begin to feel dissatisfied with the status quo. We gain maturity and realise that we are chasing shadows - then begins this serious search. This process of reaching out for something deeper is not merely confined to religious pursuits but can be seen in many other fields like art or music and even science. God is a name given to this deeper level of understanding of what is this all about... regards jay Vivekananda Centre London Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2002 Report Share Posted January 3, 2002 Dear Friends, Both of you have used two different terminologies, search for God, search for spirituality.Both these only tell about the partial seach ordained in this perennial thought process called Sanathana Dhrama. I have been watching many correspondants getting confused about Advaitha and Sanathana Dharma.I would like to clarify:- 1.The search is for ulyimate truth not any other thing. Anybody doing this seach under any umbrella is a Sanathana Dharmin. 2.Advaitha is a small part of the thought process in this ocean of thought processes.It can never be equated with this great ocean of thoughts. A visishta Dwaithin, Dwaithin, Karma Kandin, Naiyyayika, etc are all Santhana Dharmins not vice versa. Ramachander.P.R. - Vivekananda Centre <vivekananda list <ramakrishna >; viv list <vivekananda >; Self Knowledge List <selfknow-l Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:27 PM Who is God? > mike anderson Email: <michael_an,,,,,,, > Posted on: Wednesday, January 02, 2002, 09:07 PM > > First, Hinduism answers alot of questions. But, the same old thing comes up. > Someone says they are right,another says no, their wrong! I believe in GOD > and love GOD . But WHO IS GOD? Thanks for the outline. life in this material > world may become a little better with your help. my only exposure to > hinduism has been the HARE KRISHNAS, so now i can see other views. Thanks > again michael. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~response~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Dear Michael > > Thanks for your message sent to our site. > > Search for spirituality begins when we begin to feel dissatisfied with > the status quo. We gain maturity and realise that we > are chasing shadows - then begins this serious search. > > This process of reaching out for something deeper is not > merely confined to religious pursuits but can be seen > in many other fields like art or music and even science. > God is a name given to this deeper level of understanding > of what is this all about... > > regards > jay > Vivekananda Centre London > > > > Discussion of Shankara's Advaita Vedanta Philosophy of nonseparablity of Atman and Brahman. > Advaitin List Archives available at: http://www.eScribe.com/culture/advaitin/ > To Post a message send an email to : advaitin > Messages Archived at: advaitin/messages > > > > Your use of is subject to > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2002 Report Share Posted January 3, 2002 Namaste, This is a reply given by Sri Ramana Maharshi. Once a devotee was greatly depressed at the loss of his son. He came to Bhagavan Ramana in a state of great grief and despair. He decided to "have it out" with Bhagavan. So he went to Sri Ramana Maharshi and asked Him bluntly "What is God?". Sri Ramana Maharshi kept silent for a while and then gently replied, "What is, is God!" Regards, Anand --- Vivekananda Centre <vivekananda wrote: > mike anderson Email: <michael_an,,,,,,, > Posted on: Wednesday, January 02, 2002, 09:07 PM > > First, Hinduism answers alot of questions. But, the > same old thing comes up. > Someone says they are right,another says no, their > wrong! I believe in GOD > and love GOD . But WHO IS GOD? Thanks for the > outline. life in this material > world may become a little better with your help. my > only exposure to > hinduism has been the HARE KRISHNAS, so now i can > see other views. Thanks > again michael. > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 3, 2002 Report Share Posted January 3, 2002 dear friends want to know who is God ? Swamy chinmayanand answer not only this but other related questions like Where is God? What is God's true nature? What is God's relation with the Universe? When does God come down in a physical finite form on earth? In what form can a devotee see God? All the answers by him are based on Bhagavad Gita, the scripture of Ultimate knowledge click http://www.chinmaya-chicago.org/gita/topic_1.htm#1.1 with regards n k bali --- Anand Natarajan <harihara.geo wrote: > > Namaste, > > This is a reply given by Sri Ramana Maharshi. > Once a devotee was greatly depressed at the loss of > his son. He came to Bhagavan Ramana in a state of > great grief and despair. He decided to "have it out" > with Bhagavan. So he went to Sri Ramana Maharshi and > asked Him bluntly "What is God?". > Sri Ramana Maharshi kept silent for a while and then > gently replied, > "What is, is God!" > > Regards, > Anand > > --- Vivekananda Centre <vivekananda > wrote: > > mike anderson Email: <michael_an,,,,,,, > > Posted on: Wednesday, January 02, 2002, 09:07 PM > > > > First, Hinduism answers alot of questions. But, > the > > same old thing comes up. > > Someone says they are right,another says no, their > > wrong! I believe in GOD > > and love GOD . But WHO IS GOD? Thanks for the > > outline. life in this material > > world may become a little better with your help. > my > > only exposure to > > hinduism has been the HARE KRISHNAS, so now i can > > see other views. Thanks > > again michael. > > > > > > > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings. > ===== with best wishes, N.K.BALI Visit my site on ' Bhagavad Gita ', a spiritual delight.You will love it. http://in.geocities.com/gitabykrishna ______________________ Download Logos, Picture Messages & Ringtones for your mobile phone Visit http://mobile..co.in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2002 Report Share Posted January 4, 2002 advaitin, Anand Natarajan <harihara.geo> wrote: So he went to Sri Ramana Maharshi and > asked Him bluntly "What is God?". > Sri Ramana Maharshi kept silent for a while and then > gently replied, > "What is, is God!" > > Regards, > Anand > I love this! And that includes all. Colette Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2002 Report Share Posted January 9, 2002 Dear All, I had the same question in my mind once when I was attending Geetha class. And I told every one what if we come to know that God is not there?, and then there was a big shouting in the room but the Guru did not react and he gave me a casset of Swami Chinamaya and the explnation was very appeling to me. The simple thing as I understand is that there is a force in all of us, that force is the same in all of us be it man or animal. The experssion of this force is different and this force is God. All our effort is to make the force express it self in us with out we interfering with the force as the force is in its purest form. I beleve Samadi is a state in which the force expresses it self in its purest form. We learn and understand and do good things only to help us let the force express it self in the purest form. Om Sri Ganapathya Namaha, Ranga Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2002 Report Share Posted January 10, 2002 Namaste: Here is my understanding of Who is God? God is Wisdom. Man with wisdom becomes the God. Wisdom is matured knowldege or ultimate knowledge! The seeker with this ultimate knowledge will realize that he/she has nothing to seek. When the seeker gets this wisdom, he/she reaches the state of Samadhi - the state with eternal peace and happiness or bliss. The scriptures make clear distinctions between knowledge and wisdom. knowledge is 'apara vidya' and wisdom is 'para vidya.' The scriptures also state that the knowledge of scriptures fall into the categoy of 'apara vidya.' All those who are masters of the scriptures possess the theretical knowledge of 'who is God?' but do not necessarily have the 'wisdom' to experience the God. The scriptures only present the road map and provide the guidance for attaining the 'wisdom.' But road map and guidance at the most can provide only the 'knowledge' but not the 'wisdom.' The transformation of 'knowledge' to 'wisdom' is mystic and happens internally without our efforts with His Grace. The scriptures also state that only with God's grace, we can transform the theoretical knowledge into wisdom. Only persons who is spiritually matured knows the formula of this transformation. This formula is not available in any books or tapes or home pages. At the same time, it should be also pointed out that 'Wisdom is always present and our problem is the failure to recognize and exercise.' We have the lack of wisdom to understand the above fact. With wisdom, we should be able to recognzie that 'knowledge of the scriptures' is only 'apara vidya.' Unfortunately the 'wisdom of the scriptures' is well stated through unwritten pages and unspoken voices. Only with wisdom, 'apara vidya' has the potential to become 'para vidya.' During our recent discussions on the thread, "Vedanta Shastra Pramana" most of us exposed our theoretical knowledge of the subject matter. Sometime, we exposed our theoretical knowledge unwisely exposing our stupidity. Had we exercised the wisdom (buried deep beneath our ego) we could have avoided confusion, conflicts, confrontations, insults and our dignity. But error is human and our discussions clearly expressed our weekness. Hopefully, our wisdom will prevail and we should take time to contemplate and seek His Grace before posting our messages so that we feel happy and inject happiness to everyone around us. The Tamil Sage and Poet, Thiruvalluvar beautifully states the following: "No one should speak (and or write) bitter and unpleasant words because plenty of pleasant words are always available in all dictionaries. Aren't we always choose to eat the ripened and sweet fruits and throw away the bitter and uripened ones?" Warmest regards, Ram Chandran advaitin, "sambasivam2000" <sambasivam2000> wrote: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2002 Report Share Posted January 10, 2002 In the words of Mundaka Upanishad:2:2:9 "When He is seen, the knot of the heart is cut, all doubts are dispelled, and all actions terminate." [bhidyate hR^idaya-granthiH chhidyante sarvasa.nshayaaH | kshiiyante cha asya karmaaNi tasmin dR^ishhTe paraavare || Regards, Sunder advaitin, "ramvchandran" <rchandran@c...> wrote: > Namaste: > > Here is my understanding of Who is God? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 12, 2002 Report Share Posted January 12, 2002 In Brahmasuutra after stating that one should inquire into Brahman, in the next suutra Brahman is defined. jan~maadyasa yataH - One can find very detailed anlysis of the suutra in the brahmasuutra folder of the adviatin list. Who is god is defined using the frame work that we can identify. This is - taTasta lakshhaNa as discussed eloberately in the notes. Hari Om! Sadananda l _______________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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