some basic questions.. engrossing dialogue on Utility of God

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Namaste,

 

advaitin, "advaitins" <advaitins wrote:

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> advaitin, "Sundar Rajan" <avsundarrajan@>

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> > advaitin, SUNDEEP GUPTA <sundeep_gupta1@>

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> > > Few basic questions:

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> A similar engrossing dialogue on "Utility of God" between

Sw.

> Chandrasekhara Bharati and an agnostic youth can be read at:

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> http://www.advaita-vedanta.org/articles/utility_of_god.html

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Thanks for posting this link. The dialogue is a real Gem and I am

especially drawn to the last paragraph

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The seers were as much human beings as ourselves. How did they

happen to know of God when we do not.

 

They did so because they had implicit faith in the words of their

teachers and earnestly followed their instructions for the

realisation of God.

 

If that is the answer, a further question will arise as to how those

teachers know? And this question will have to be repeated ad

infinitum.

 

Certainly so, if we do not grant the existence of some primal person

who knows the truth without the need to learn from another.

 

Who is he?

 

Our old friend again, the omniscient God himself.

The vedas are his breath and the fountainhead of all knowledge.

Have faith in God, his words and his servants.

You will feel before long an immense relief.

The thought of his ever-loving presence with you will be a great

solace to you.

 

Once you begin to feel such a presence, a joy unknown to you ever

before will begin to be felt.

 

And you will then realise that time is not something to be merely

spent in some pursuit or other, but has to be intensively lived in

the pursuit and enjoyment of the bliss of peace.

 

There will no more be any room for pessimistic thoughts nor will

life seem a blank with no purpose to serve.

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Every sentence in that last response is profound and one sloka that

comes to mind is this final verse from the 5th chapter of Gita:

 

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bhoktaram yajnatapasam sarvolokamahesvaram

suhrdam sarvabhutanam jnatva mam santimrchhati 5.29..

 

One attains Peace by knowing Me who, as the great Lord of all the

worlds, am the enjoyer of sacrifices and austerities, (and) who am

the friend of all creatures.

 

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regards

Sundar Rajan