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There is no meaning to religion without God and since the entire religion

is build upon the idea of God so lets first look into conception of God as

per Islam and Sanatan-Dharma. Sumeet Chandra (10-24-00)

 

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Kindly accept my obesiances unto your lotus feet.

 

I would like to answer your questions as per my own limited capacity and

unlimited grace of Gaudiya acaryas and Sri Sri Radha-Krsna allows me.

 

We all know that religion is entirely centered upon conception of God. There

is no meaning to religion without God and since the entire religion is build

upon the idea of God so lets first look into conception of God as per Islam

and Sanatan-Dharma.

 

 

"Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this non-dual

substance brahman, paramatma, and bhagavan."

 

(Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.11)

 

This is the Vedic conception of God. God is refered to as Absolute Truth in

Vedas. This verse from Bhagavatam states that Absolute Truth is called by

three different names by the transcendentalists. These three names are

actually three different conceptions of the same Absolute Truth that a

transcendentalists has in proportion with his spiritual realization.

 

 

>>What is Brahman?

 

 

Brahman is nothing but the impersonal spiritual effulgence which is full of

dazzling light. Hence is called brahmajyoti.

 

Vedic literature states:

 

This brahmajyoti effulgence is described in detail in several mantras of the

Mundaka Upanisad (2.2.10-12):

 

 

"In the spiritual realm, beyond the material covering, is the unlimited

Brahman effulgence, which is free from material contamination. That

effulgent white light is understood by transcendentalists to be the light of

all lights. In that realm there is no need of sunshine, moonshine, fire or

electricity for illumination. Indeed, whatever illumination appears in the

material world is only a reflection of that supreme illumination. That

Brahman is in front and in back, in the north, south, east and west, and

also overhead and below. In other words, that supreme Brahman effulgence

spreads throughout both the material and spiritual skies."

 

 

Lord Krishna in Holy Gita describes this as follows-

 

" But those who fully worship the unmanifested, that which lies beyond the

perception of the senses, the all-pervading, inconceivable, fixed and

immovable--the impersonal conception of the Absolute Truth--by controlling

the various senses and being equally disposed to everyone, such persons,

engaged in the welfare of all, at last achieve Me. "

 

(Holy Gita 12.3-4)

 

 

Now lets see what Al-Quran has to say about this:

 

"Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light

is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in

Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an

Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous,

though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He

will to His Light: Allah doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth

know all things. "

 

(24.35)

 

" He is the First and the Last, the Evident and the Immanent: and He has

full knowledge of all things. " (57.3)

 

"No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision: He is above all

comprehension, yet is acquainted with all things. "(6.103)

 

Last words goes like this-

 

wa Huwal Latiiful-Khabiir...

 

Latiif means fine and subtle. He is so fine that He is imperceptible to

senses. Hence no vision can grasp Him. So no one can see Him. This is

certainly the description of impersonal effulgence of God.

 

 

>> What is Parmatma ?

 

Paramatma means "the Supreme Self" or "the Supreme Soul," (atma means "self

or soul," and parama means "transcendental, absolute or supreme"). Usually,

paramatma is translated as "the Supersoul."

 

What Vedas speak about it:

 

" Yet in this body there is another, a transcendental enjoyer who is the

Lord, the supreme proprietor, who exists as the overseer and permitter, and

who is known as the Supersoul. " ( BG 13.23)

 

 

"Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes and faces, and He hears

everything. In this way the Supersoul exists."

 

" The Supersoul is the original source of all senses, yet He is without

senses. He is unattached, although He is the maintainer of all living

beings. He transcends the modes of nature, and at the same time He is the

master of all modes of material nature."

 

" The Supreme Truth exists both internally and externally, in the moving and

nonmoving. He is beyond the power of the material senses to see or to know.

Although far, far away, He is also near to all. "

 

" Although the Supersoul appears to be divided, He is never divided. He is

situated as one. Although He is the maintainer of every living entity, it is

to be understood that He devours and develops all. "

 

" He is the source of light in all luminous objects. He is beyond the

darkness of matter and is unmanifested. He is knowledge, He is the object of

knowledge, and He is the goal of knowledge. He is situated in everyone's

heart."

 

(BG 13.14-18)

 

 

" I am the Self, O Gudakesa, seated in the hearts of all creatures. I am the

beginning, the middle and the end of all beings. " (BG 10.20)

 

>> This Self refered to the Supersoul and not the individual soul.

 

"Both the Supersoul [Paramatma] and the atomic soul [jivatma] are situated

on the same tree of the body within the same heart of the living being, and

only one who has become free from all material desires as well as

lamentations can, by the grace of the Supreme, understand the glories of the

soul." (Katha Upanisad 1.2.20).

 

 

Furthermore both the Katha Upanisad and Svetasvatara Upanisad confirm this:

 

 

"Although the two birds are in the same tree, the eating bird is fully

engrossed with anxiety and moroseness as the enjoyer of the fruits of the

tree. But if in some way or other he turns his face to his friend who is the

Lord and knows His glories--at once the suffering bird becomes free from all

anxieties."

 

 

Now lets see what Al-Quran has to say-

 

Allah enters into everyone's hearts:

 

"Say: "If I am astray, I only stray to the loss of my own soul: but if I

receive guidance, it is because of the inspiration of my Lord to me: it is

He Who hears all things, and is (ever) near." (34.50)

 

 

"It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes

to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein. " (50.16)

 

 

" And He is with you wheresoever ye may be. And Allah sees well all that ye

do. "(57.4)

 

 

" But We are nearer to him than ye, and yet see not,"(56.85)

 

 

".....He has full knowledge of the secrets of (all) hearts. "(57.6)

 

 

"............ and know that Allah cometh in between a man and his

heart,......"(8.24)

 

 

>> What is Bhagavan ?

 

The word Bhagavan means "the person who possesses all the divine attributes

or opulences (bhaga)," all wealth, all power, all fame, all beauty, all

knowledge, and all renunciation to an infinite degree.

 

Bhagavan refers to the Personality of Godhead. According to Vedic philosophy

and Al-Quran as we have seen, that God is impersonal absolute light or

all-pervasive Supersoul. But both of them don't end the description here.

They continue like this:

 

 

Al-Quran:

 

Remember I quoted a verse 24.35 where it was written Allah is light but then

it was immediately said that Allah possesses light.

 

Let me reproduce the relevant portion of the verse-

 

First part says:

 

Allaahu Nuurus....

 

Allah is light

 

Then it continues

 

Masalu Nuurihii......

 

Nuurihii means "His light".

 

So Allah is not only light but also possesses light.

 

Allah has personal relationships:

 

He guides- (24.35)&(7.155)

 

He punishes- (7.156) & (8.52) (7.165) (8.16)

 

He protects and takes care- (2.257)(6.102)

 

He teaches- (2.282)

 

He remembers-(2.152)

 

Allah has personal feelings:

 

Allah loves-(3.159)(9.100)(9.117)

 

Allah reciprocates with His personal devotees- Story about the messenger of

God, Joseph that Allah narrated to the Holy Prophet Mohammad.(12.4-101)

 

Certainly all this requires senses,mind and intelligence to be displayed

hence we should at least start to think that Allah is a person also.

 

Allah has personal desires:

 

10.107,2.40-41.

 

Allah has personal memory:

 

2.152,58.7,20.52

 

Allah has personal features:

 

10.21,10.32,10.60,12.100,12.98,14.47,20.5, 22.40,22.60,4.147,40.12

 

Allah plays different personal parts:

 

2.257,3.98,10.109,11.107,12.66, 13.16, 20.114, 22.78, 33.52,

2.233,35.31,59.23,59.24,6.57

 

Allah has personal will:

 

5.17,19.35,85.16

 

Allah is the living one:

 

2.255,40.65,2.20,22.40

 

Allah has personal faculty of speech:

 

2.30,12.3

 

Allah has personal faculty of hearing:

 

2.224,24.21

 

Allah has personal faculty of sight:

 

2.233,34.11

 

Allah has personal identity:

 

51.56-57

 

Allah has personal knowledge:

 

24.35,6.59

 

Allah is the best person[bhagavan]

 

8.30,22.58

 

Allah has a face:

 

6.52,13.22,18.28,30.38,30.39,2.115,28.88,55.26-27

 

Allah has hands:

 

39.67,38.75,3.73,67.1,48.10,5.67

 

Allah has an IMAGE:

 

16.60.

 

" It is He Who begins (the process of) creation; then repeats it; and for

Him it is most easy. To Him belongs the loftiest similitude (we can think

of) in the heavens and the earth: for He is Exalted in Might, full of

wisdom. "(30.27)

 

So according to Holy Quran Allah has a form whcih is Absolute, Spiritual,

infallible, most beautiful and transcendental to all kind of material

conceptions, free from even a tinge of material contamination.

 

This is the form which possess light. And this is the person who knows the

deepest secrets of our hearts.

 

Although Holy Quran just gives an idea that God ultimately possesses a form

but the Vedic literature just gives more details of this form giving the

specific information.

 

Now lets see what Vedic literature has to say:

 

" Krishna who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal

blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and

He is the prime cause of all causes." (Brahma Samhita 1)

 

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati a great devotee and spiritual master write

in purport to this verse-Krishna is the exalted Supreme entity having His

eternal name, eternal form, eternal attribution and eternal pastimes. The

very name "Krishna" implies His love-attracting designation, expressing by

His eternal nomenclature the acme of entity. His eternal beautiful heavenly

blue-tinged body glowing with the intensity of ever-existing knowledge has a

nude in both His hands. As His inconceivable spiritual energy is

all-extending, still He maintains His all-charming medium size by His

qualifying spiritual instrumentals. His all-accommodating supreme

subjectivity is nicely manifested in His eternal form. The concentrated all

time presence, uncovered knowledge and inebriating felicity have their

beauty in Him. The mundane manifestive portion of His own Self is known as

all-pervading Paramatma, Isvara (Superior Lord) or Vishnu (All-fostering).

Hence it is evident that Krishna is sole Supreme Godhead. His unrivaled or

unique spiritual body of super excellent charm is eternally unveiled with

innumerable spiritual instrumentals (senses) and unreckonable attributes

keeping their signifying location properly, adjusting at the same time by

His inconceivable conciliative powers. This beautiful spiritual figure is

identical with Krishna and the spiritual entity of Krishna is identical with

His own figure.

 

 

" I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is adept in playing on His

flute, with blooming eyes like lotus petals with head decked with peacock's

feather, with the figure of beauty tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and

His unique loveliness charming millions of Cupids. "(BS 30)

 

 

" I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, round whose neck is swinging a

garland of flowers beautified with the moon-locket, whose two hands are

adorned with the flute and jeweled ornaments, who always revels in pastimes

of Lowe, whose graceful threefold-bending form of Syamasundara is eternally

manifest. "(BS 31)

 

 

"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lords whose transcendental form is full of

bliss, truth, substantiality and is thus full of the most dazzling splendor.

Each of the limbs of that transcendental figure possesses in Himself, the

full-fledged functions of all the organs, and eternally sees, maintains and

manifests the infinite universes, both spiritual and mundane."

 

(BS 32)

 

 

"I worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda [Krsna], who is the

original person--absolute, infallible, without beginning. Although expanded

into unlimited forms, still the same original, the oldest, and the person

always appearing as a fresh youth. Such eternal, blissful, all-knowing forms

of the Lord are usually understood by the best Vedic scholars, but they are

always manifest to pure, unalloyed devotees." (BS 33)

 

 

" He is an undifferentiated entity as there is no distinction between

potency and the possessor thereof. In His work of creation of millions of

worlds, His potency remains inseparable. All the universes exist in Him and

He is present in His fullness in every one of the atoms that are scattered

throughout the universe, at one and the same time. Such is the primeval Lord

whom I adore. "(BS 35)

 

 

"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is the absolute substantive

principle being the ultimate entity in the form of the support of all

existence whose external potency embodies the thr eefold mundane qualities,

viz., sattva, rajas and tamas and diffuses the Vedic knowledge regarding the

mundane world." (BS 41)

 

 

"The Supreme Lord is the controller of all other controllers, and He is the

greatest of all the diverse planetary leaders. Everyone is under His

control. All entities are delegated with particular power only by the

Supreme Lord; they are not supreme themselves. He is also worshipable by all

demigods and is the supreme director of all directors. Therefore, He is

transcendental to all kinds of material leaders and controllers and is

worshipable by all. There is no one greater than Him, and He is the supreme

cause of all causes."

 

"He does not possess bodily form like that of an ordinary living entity.

There is no difference between His body and His soul. He is absolute. All

His senses are transcendental. Any one of His senses can perform the action

of any other sense. Therefore, no one is greater than Him or equal to Him.

His potencies are multifarious, and thus His deeds are automatically

performed as a natural sequence." (Svetasvatara Upanisad 6.7-8)

 

 

Again in the svetasvatra Upanisad

 

"In the material world Brahma, the primeval living entity within the

universe, is understood to be the supreme amongst the demigods, human beings

and lower animals. But beyond Brahma there is the Transcendence who has no

material form and is free from all material contaminations. Anyone who can

know Him also becomes transcendental, but those who do not know Him suffer

the miseries of the material world."

 

 

"I know that Supreme Personality of Godhead who is transcendental to all

material conceptions of darkness. Only he who knows Him can transcend the

bonds of birth and death. There is no way for liberation other than this

knowledge of that Supreme Person.

 

 

"There is no truth superior to that Supreme Person because He is the

supermost. He is smaller than the smallest, and He is greater than the

greatest. He is situated as a silent tree, and He illumines the

transcendental sky, and as a tree spreads its roots, He spreads His

extensive energies." Svetasvatara Upanisad(3.8-9)

 

 

"I offer my respectful obeisances to Sri Krishna, whose form is eternal and

full of knowledge and bliss, who is the rescuer from distress, who is

understood by Vedanta, who is the supreme spiritual master, and who is the

witness in everyone's heart."(Gopal Tapani Upanisad 1.1)

 

 

" One should meditate upon the Supreme Person as the one who knows

everything, as He who is the oldest, who is the controller, who is smaller

than the smallest, who is the maintainer of everything, who is beyond all

material conception, who is inconceivable, and who is always a person. He is

luminous like the sun and, being transcendental, is beyond this material

nature. "(BG 8.9)

 

 

Visnu Purana(1.9.69):

 

"Whoever comes before You, be he a demigod, is created by You, O Supreme

Personality of Godhead."

 

 

" Although fixed in His abode, the Personality of Godhead is swifter than

the mind and can overcome all others running. The powerful demigods cannot

approach Him. Although in one place, He controls those who supply the air

and rain. He surpasses all in excellence." (Isopanisad 4)

 

 

"The Supreme Lord walks and does not walk. He is far away, but He is very

near as well. He is within everything, and yet He is outside of

everything."(Isopanisad 5)

 

 

"Such a person must factually know the greatest of all, the Personality of

Godhead, who is unembodied, omniscient, beyond reproach, without veins, pure

and uncontaminated, the self-sufficient philosopher who has been fulfilling

everyone's desire since time immemorial. "

 

(Isopanisad 8)

 

Srila Prabhupada writes in His purport to the above verse-

 

Here is a description of the transcendental and eternal form of the Absolute

Personality of Godhead. The Supreme Lord is not formless. He has His own

transcendental form, which is not at all similar to the forms of the mundane

world. The forms of the living entities in this world are embodied in

material nature, and they work like any material machine. The anatomy of a

material body must have a mechanical construction with veins and so forth,

but the transcendental body of the Supreme Lord has nothing like veins. It

is clearly stated here that He is un-embodied, which means that there is no

difference between His body and His soul. Nor is He forced to accept a body

according to the laws of nature, as we are. In materially conditioned life,

the soul is different from the gross embodiment and subtle mind. For the

Supreme Lord, however, there is never any such difference between Him and

His body and mind. He is the Complete Whole, and His mind, body and He

Himself are all one and the same.

 

 

These are the few verses from the Vedic literature that describes the

Transcendental form of Person of God.

 

So we see that Al-quran tells that Allah is light and Vedic literature

confirms this as well. Then we see that Al-Quran says Allah possesses light.

Similarly Vedic scripture says:

 

"And I am the basis of the impersonal Brahman, which is the constitutional

position of ultimate happiness, and which is immortal, imperishable and

eternal. "

 

(BG 14.27)

 

Here Lord Krishna says that the all pervading dazzling impersonal spiritual

effulgence is nothing but glow of Transcendental Personality. So Allah or

Krishna's Transcendental Personality's glow constitutes impersonal Brahman.

 

This is further verified in Brahma Samhita:

 

" I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose effulgence is the source of

the nondifferentiated Brahman mentioned in the Upanisads, being

differentiated from the infinity of glories of the mundane universe appears

as the indivisible, infinite, limitless, truth."(Text 40)

 

 

" O my Lord, sustainer of all that lives, Your real face is covered by Your

dazzling effulgence. Kindly remove that covering and exhibit Yourself to

Your pure devotee. "

 

(Isopanisad 15)

 

 

In the prayers of Kunti in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.8.18) it is said that

the Lord is covered by the curtain of yoga-maya and thus ordinary people

cannot understand Him. Kunti prays: "O my Lord, You are the maintainer of

the entire universe, and devotional service to You is the highest religious

principle. Therefore, I pray that You will also maintain me. Your

transcendental form is covered by the yoga-maya. The brahmajyoti is the

covering of the internal potency. May You kindly remove this glowing

effulgence that impedes my seeing Your sac-cid-ananda-vigraha, Your eternal

form of bliss and knowledge."

 

 

 

As Allah's Nur is the light of all luminaries similarly it has been stated

by

 

Vedic literature that Krishna's effulgence is light of all lights as

verified in the verses from upanisads and Gita stated above.

 

So now we can safely conclude that God is a Person, Supreme Person possesing

transcendental body which is knowledge absolute, never subjected to decay,

always youthful. This body is absolute as there is no difference between the

mind, body and spirit. Everything in connection with Him is Absolute spirit.

 

Now lets consider Parmatma. Although Al-Quran states that this very same

transcendental form is present in everyone's heart as the Supersoul Vedic

literature talks about this Supersoul as the plenary expansion of the

Transcendental personality of Supreme which dwells in all living entities.

 

In the Narada-pancaratra this is confirmed in this way:

 

"By concentrating one's attention on the transcendental form of Krsna, who

is all-pervading and beyond time and space, one becomes absorbed in thinking

of Krsna and then attains the happy state of transcendental association with

Him."

 

Krsna consciousness is the highest stage of trance in yoga practice. This

very understanding that Krsna is present as Paramatma in everyone's heart

makes the yogi faultless. The Vedas confirm this inconceivable potency of

the Lord as follows:

 

"Visnu is one, and yet He is certainly all-pervading. By His inconceivable

potency, in spite of His one form, He is present everywhere. As the sun, He

appears in many places at once."

 

So although being one without a second the very same transcendental

personality appears in the innumerable hearts as many just as one sun

appears in many places at once. He is able to do this by dint of His

inconcievable potency and since His personality is beyond space and time He

can expand Himself into another form and yet remain the same person

manifested differently in various forms:

 

Although Al-Quran covers information regarding God but Vedas goes in Detail

explaining that very same personality of Go has expanded Himself into

infinite number of forms-

 

"The one Supreme Personality of Godhead is eternally engaged in many, many

transcendental forms in relationships with His unalloyed devotees."

 

(Puruso-bodhini upanisad)

 

 

"The light of one candle being communicated to other candles, although it

burns separately in them, is the same in its quality. I adore the primeval

Lord Govinda who exhibits Himself equally in the same mobile manner in His

various manifestations."(Brahma Samhita text 46)

 

 

One must understand that Personality of Supreme who is known as Krishna,

Allah...

 

is beyond space and time, uncontaminated, self-effulgent and absolute. When

He exhibits Himself in innumerable forms then it is not that He has divided

His one form into infinite pieces but each and every form is that same

absolute truth Himself. They are all one and same. The example of vaidurya

stone is given in this regards. This stone remains the same yet changes it's

color. Hence Personality of God remains the same yet manifests infinitely

different appearnces. This It is not that one form is a seperate person than

other; they are all one and the same Supreme Personality just differently

manifested. For us due to our conditioned existence it is very difficult to

understand that how can God who is one without a second remain same absolute

while simultaneously exhibit infinte number of forms. The answer is that He

has inconcievable transcendental energy through which He expands Himself[His

person] into different forms yet remain the same. Note He has expanded

Himself into innumerable forms and not divided Himself into innumerable

forms. Therefore He is God Himself in any of His form. Logically thinking

since Supreme is an unlimited Person therefore it is sensible to accept that

He possesses infinite number of forms. There is no limit to Him in any

respect. Just as He has inifinite number of names He possesses infinite

forms. Supreme Lord Krishna states this as follows:

 

"Lord Krishna says: There are others, who are purified and cultured souls,

who by understanding my different forms as myself, as one personality in

various forms and features, worship me according to their spiritual

understanding and convictions following the rules of worship as given in the

Vedas."

 

But originally the form of God is that which resembles Lord Krishna

transcendental triple bending form. These forms of one and same Supreme Lord

Krishna are identical with person of Lord Rama, Lord Vishnu. Not Lord Shiva

or Lord Brahma. What is the state of Lord Brahma in comparison to Lord

Krishna is spoken by Lord Brahma Himself:

 

http://www.bhagavadgita.org/Incarnations/incarnation-61.html

 

So now you must be convinced that Al-Quran when refers to Allah is only

refering to the person Krishna Himself. Certainly there cannot be two

different person with same description and paraphernalia.

 

Further more look at another amazing similarity---

 

"(We take our)Color from Allah. Who is better than Allah at

coloring?"(2.138)

 

Sibgat the root meaning of this word is color. Allah possesses beautiful

dark color.

 

Actually Allah being the source of everything it is no wonder that some

color of this material world should resemble His.

 

Although His color is not material which I shall explain in a moment. From

the above verse if Arabs analogously resembles the color of God then we can

safely conclude that color of God is a beautiful dark complexion. But God

has been described as full of dazzling effulgence and no dark color in this

world is dazzling. This seems contradictory. Actually there is no

contradiction if we realize that this dark color of Allah is spiritual but

not material. Being a spiritual color it is transcendental to perception and

mind and can afford to throw out flashing effulgence. Similarly Krishna is

famous as syamsundara or one whose complexion is darkish but at the same

time is full of most dazzling splendor. See this verse:

 

 

" I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is Syamasundara, Krishna Himself

with inconceivable innumerable attributes, whom the pure devotees see in

their heart of hearts with the eye of devotion tinged with the salve of

love." (Brahma Samhita 38)

 

 

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta saraswati writesin the purport to this verse-

 

The Syamasundara form of Krishna is His inconceivable simultaneous personal

and impersonal self-contradictory form. True devotees see the form in their

purified hearts under the influence of devotional trance. The form Syama is

not the blue color visible in the mundane world but is the transcendental

variegated color affording eternal bliss, and is not visible to the mortal

eye. On a consideration of the trance of Vyasadeva as in the sloka,

bhakti-yogena manasi etc., it will be clear that the form of Sri Krishna is

the full Personality of Godhead and can only be visible in the heart of a

true devotee, which is the only true seat in the state of trance under the

influence of devotion. When Krishna manifested Himself in Vraja, both the

devotees and non- devotees saw Him with this very eye; but only the devotees

cherished Him, eternally present in Vraja, as the priceless jewel of their

heart. Nowadays also the devotees see Him in Vraja in their hearts,

saturated with devotion although they do not see Him with their eyes. The

eye of devotion is nothing but the eye of the pure unalloyed spiritual self

of the Jiva. The form of Krishna is visible to that eye in proportion to its

purification by the practice of devotion. When the devotion of the neophyte

reaches the stage of bhava-bhakti the pure eye of that devotee is tinged

with the salve of love by the grace of Krishna, which enables him to see

Krishna face to face. The phrase "in their hearts" means Krishna is visible

in proportion as their hearts are purified by the practice of devotion. The

sum and substance of this sloka is that the form of Krishna, who is

Syamasundara, Natavara (Best Dancer), Muralidhara (Holder of the Flutes) and

Tribhanga (Triple-bending), is not a mental concoction but is

transcendental, and is visible with the eye of the soul of the devotee under

trance.

 

 

Hence the Brahman just being the transcendental effulgence of spiritual body

of Lord represents Absolute Truth partially. Parmatma being plenary

expansion of the very spiritual absolute form of Lord is a partial

representation of Supreme Personality situated in everyone's heart. Highest

conception therefore of Absolute truth is Supreme Person who contains the

infinite formless magnitude in His form as His own spiritual energy and

expands Himself as Superself in everyone. So it is the Personality of

Godhead who makes Himself partially represented by all pervading effulgence

being rays of His spiritual body and hence nondifferent from His very person

just like Sun rays being emanation from sun are nondifferent from the sun

planet itself. Then this same person makes Himself partially present in

everyone's heart as the supersoul. So it is the Bhagavan who is both origin

of brahman and Parmatma who is to be worhsipped. One should not think here

that Absolute truth is has equally divided itself in the form of

Brahman,parmatma and bhagavan. But rather Absolute truth is only Bhagavan

Himself. Parmatma on virtue of being partial representation of that Absolute

truth Bhagavan is partial representation of Absolute truth and similarly the

dazzling effulgence being a spiritual energy of Absolute truth is a partial

representation of it only. Only Bhagavan who is Absolute Truth itself is the

complete perfection and complete manifestation of Absolute Truth possessing

superexcellently beautiful form. Since this form is unrivaled and

incomparable and other than whom no truth exists is called Allah due to this

reason. Because this very form of the Supreme Person is full in all

opulences unto infinite degree it is called Krishna meaning the

All-attractive one. Vedas further argue that anyname to belong to Supreme

Lord must be indicated by the word Krishna otheriwse it doesn't belongs to

the absolute truth. The reason is that since the word krishna means

all-attractive one and any name of God irrespective of the language, culture

etc.. always attracts in one or the other way. The basic nature of each and

every name of God is that it attracts one or in other word that it is

indicated by krishna.

 

Bhagavan is thus the personal God aspired to and worshiped by the devotees

of monotheistic religions like Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and

Hinduism.

 

 

SO MY DEAR BROTHER MUHAMMAD I HUMBLY REQUEST AT YOUR LOTUS FEET THAT YOU AT

LEAST START TO THINK OF THE SIMILARITY IN THE PERSON OF ALLAH AND KRISHNA AS

DESCRIBED IN AL-QURAN AND VEDIC LITERATURE YOUR DOUBTS WILL AUTOMATICALLY

MELT AWAY AND YOU WOULD KNOW THE CORRECT WAY INSHALLAH!!!!!

 

Towards the end I beg for mercy and forgiveness if I have knowingly or

unknowingly hurt anyone's sentiments. I being a servant of all servants of

Krishna accept all religions that professes love unto Supreme as the only

way for perfect liberation bonafide.

 

 

All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga

 

Your Servant Always

 

OM TAT SAT

 

Sumeet.

 

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The Soul and Reincarnation. Letter to a Christian.

As the embodied soul continually passes in this body, from boyhood to youth

to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. The

self-realized soul is not bewildered by such a change. (Article by

Madhudvisa dasa 2 comments)

 

Questions From A Muslim With Answers From Kasim

I downloaded Bhagvad Geeta from your site and read it. I am extremely

impressed and moved by the teachings of Krishana Ji. But being a Muslim,

some questions arose in my mind. If you could help me to finding their

answers, I will be grateful to you. (Letter from Kasim 6 comments)

 

Uniting the Different Religions of the World With the Bhagavad-gita

The plain truth is that the Supreme Godhead is the Father, the Nature is the

Supreme Mother and all living entities so many children of Almighty Father

Godhead and the Mother Nature. The whole arrangement is therefore a family

unit and one should wonder as to why there is so much anomaly in this

universal family affair. (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)

 

Christ and Krishna - the Name is the Same

When an Indian person calls on Krishna, he often says, Krsta. Krsta is a

Sanskrit word meaning attraction. So when we address God as Christ, Krsta,

or Krishna we indicate the same all-attractive Supreme Personality of

Godhead. When Jesus said, Our Father who art in heaven hallowed be Thy name,

the name of God was Krsta or Krishna. (Article by Srila Prabhupada 16

comments)

 

Modern Day Miracles--Jesus Christ, God, and PRABHUPADA are NOT Dead!

A friend sent me these - they're all about God and miracles... thought they

might make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. (Article by A

Christian 7 comments)

 

The Hindus and the Muslims in India

Five hundred years ago in India Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was preaching

the Hare Krishna movement. At that time India was being ruled by the

Mohammedans who were Muslims. The following narration is a description of

their attempts to stop the chanting of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra by the

Hindus. (Article by Srila Prabhupada 1 comment)

 

You are not eternally conditioned. You are eternally liberated...

Yes, Lord Jesus was jiva-tattva. He is not Visnu tattva. When a jiva-tattva

becomes specifically empowered by the Lord, he is called saktyavesa avatara.

Lord Buddha and Lord Jesus Christ were in this group of saktyavesa avatara..

But they were not in conditioned state when they appeared; they came to

teach here. (Letter from Srila Prabhupada 30 comments)

 

Interview with Religion Editor of The London Observer

Religion, as it is explained in the dictionary is accepting a supreme

controller. Is it not? So do the people accept a supreme controller? Do they

accept? There are so many system of religions, but do they actually know who

is the supreme controller? That is my question. (RealAudio by Srila

Prabhupada)

 

Universal Religion Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.16.19 Los Angeles, July 9, 1974

(RealAudio)

For the foolish person, This is Hindu religion, This is Christian religion,

and This is Muhammadan religion. But religion is one. How it can be Hindu

religion, Christian religion? No. Religion is one. God is one. Because

religion means the law or the order given by God. That is religion. Simple

definition. (RealAudio by Srila Prabhupada)

 

Lecture at St. Pascal's Franciscan Seminary Melbourne Australia

Father Greene hinted the common platform of religion. Common platform is not

very difficult to understand because religion means to know God and abide by

the orders of God. That is religion. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated

that religious systems cannot be manufactured by man. No. Man-made religion

is not religion. Religion means God-made religion. (RealAudio by Srila

Prabhupada)

 

Vedanta, Impersonalists and Buddhists

The impersonalists masquerade as Vedantists, but actually they are defying

Vedanta. All the Vedas affirm it vehemently that the Supersoul and the soul

are two different identities, although qualitatively one. But the

impersonalists they accept Vedas as authority, but they go against the

verdict of the Vedas. (Letter from Srila Prabhupada)

 

 

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