Guest guest Posted June 26, 2003 Report Share Posted June 26, 2003 Every human is an incarnation of God, right? So can one reach enlightenment by worshipping any ordinary person as god/goddess? Does that only work with Avatars, or certain spiritual advanced persons like ones Guru? Or does that also work with commpletely ordinary persons? For instance Indian women in erlier times regarded their husbands as gods, and then there is also the worship of Devi in form of virginal girls. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 26, 2003 Report Share Posted June 26, 2003 achintya, "Alexandra Kafka" <alexandra.kafka@a...> wrote: > Every human is an incarnation of God, right? > So can one reach enlightenment by worshipping any ordinary person as god/goddess? > Does that only work with Avatars, or certain spiritual advanced persons like ones Guru? > Or does that also work with commpletely ordinary persons? > For instance Indian women in erlier times regarded their husbands as gods, and then there is also the worship of Devi in form of virginal girls. Well Sir, your basic premise is flawed. Where did you read that every human being is an incarnation of God ? And what does the term incarnation means ? I am very confused, I don't know from where did you get this idea. Please can you inform me about the source of this belief. I will suggest that you read vaishnava commentaries on Gita, Vedanta and upanisads. It will surely help you in getting rid of any wrong info like that one above. Your Servant Always Sumeet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 2003 Report Share Posted June 27, 2003 Possibly I should have used the word manifestation. - sumeet1981 achintya Friday, June 27, 2003 4:19 AM Re: worship of human beings achintya, "Alexandra Kafka" < wrote:> Every human is an incarnation of God, right?> So can one reach enlightenment by worshipping any ordinary person as god/goddess? > Does that only work with Avatars, or certain spiritual advanced persons like ones Guru?> Or does that also work with commpletely ordinary persons?> For instance Indian women in erlier times regarded their husbands as gods, and then there is also the worship of Devi in form of virginal girls.Well Sir, your basic premise is flawed. Where did you read that every human being is an incarnation of God ? And what does the term incarnation means ? I am very confused, I don't know from where did you get this idea. Please can you inform me about the source of this belief. I will suggest that you read vaishnava commentaries on Gita, Vedanta and upanisads. It will surely help you in getting rid of any wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 27, 2003 Report Share Posted June 27, 2003 achintya, "Alexandra Kafka" <alexandra.kafka@a...> wrote: > Possibly I should have used the word manifestation. > > Every human is an incarnation of God, right? > > So can one reach enlightenment by worshipping any ordinary person > as god/goddess? What exactly is your basis for stating that every human is a manifestation of God? This has no support in common sense, logic, or scripture. For two things to be identical, they must have identical properties. If the properties of two things are not the same, then the two things cannot be the same. Surely you can accept this. Well, God is commonly understood to be omnipresent, all powerful, and all knowing. These are some basic properties of God which anyone should agree with. What human being has even one of these properties, what to speak of all three in "every human?" You would be hard pressed to prove that every human has the properties of omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience. Why therefore do you equate the human beings with God? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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