Guest guest Posted June 1, 2009 Report Share Posted June 1, 2009 Namaste, Scriptures and other great people who have understood the essence of these scriptures say that God is everywhere. Since human brain cannot assimilate the concept of infinity, sages have tried to decipher Truth by saying that avataras, prophets etc are but manifestations/personifications of the same Truth. Depending on the propensities of the human beings, they have "followed" different prophets and avataras and assimilated their teachings in their way of life, hoping that they would reach the Truth through them. If this understanding is right, my question is: a) Why did God come on earth in different forms(Mohammad, Jesus, Vishnu etc)? Did God not anticipate the problems of having different faiths? Or is it that He/She/IT wants us to go through these problem and overcome our weakness to realize Self/God? I am unable to understand this cycle : God Creates human beings -> Human beings destroy themselves due to their weakness -> God incarnates as Krishna to save dharma -> Followers of Krishna come to existence -> Again humans destroy eachother -> This time God incarnates as Jesus -> Followers of Jesus come to existence -> Now Jesus followers and Krishna followers fight with eachother -> Now God is supposed to come as Kalki to save the followers of Krishna/Jesus Isn't God creating confusion in already confused/weak minds of humans? Thanks & Regards, --Murahari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 9, 2009 Report Share Posted June 9, 2009 Namaste, > a) Why did God come on earth in different forms(Mohammad, Jesus, > Vishnu etc)? Did God not anticipate the problems of having > different faiths? Or is it that He/She/IT wants us to go through > these problem and overcome our weakness to realize Self/God? When god comes to earth to establish some measure of dharma, he is bound by the limitations of the time and the place where he comes. Even god has to obey some limits of desa-kaala-paatra and that limits the amount of knowledge he can leave. Moreover, the knowledge left by god (or a god-realized person) can slowly become corrupted by generations of followers who have a lower level of understanding. A point will come when the knowledge is too corrupted to be useful anymore. Words are just words. They have no absolute meaning. Based on our life experiences, different words and sequences of words evoke different thoughts in our mind. The process of transmitting one's thoughts to another person using written words as a medium is imperfect, especially when two people are separated by different times, cultures and thinking styles. Thus, as time passes on, the thoughts evoked by the same set of words may change. What Jesus or his disciples had in mind when Biblical texts were spoken 2000 years back and how people understand those texts today can be significantly different. Religions and people's understanding become stale with time. Then god will have to find an appropriate time and come back or send somebody again. Even though conflicts between some religions have created strife for several people (and even some killings), it is still better than no relgion. However imperfect, those religions ensured that some minimum level of dharma was maintained in the world. Without those religions, life may have been more chaotic in some parts of the world. There is one more thing. There are different gunas in this world. People with too much of tamas and rajas, even when they come in contact with sattwa, cannot become sattwik. When such people get involved in a religion or take charge, they corrupt it and engage in unfortunate acts in the name of religion. Really sattwik people in all religions co-exist peacefully and practice their faith. It is the people with tamas and rajas who create strife. God cannot do anything about it. God acts through us. He either has to come down to earth to fix things or he uses us to do it. For him to come down, adharma has to cross some threshhold. When we say that god does everything in the world, we are taking about non-duality. The One Supreme Cosmic Being is the sum of all of us and he does all that all of us do. But, at the level of non-duality, there is no good and bad. The good and bad we see is at the level of duality. The gods who operate under the framework of duality, unlike the Supreme Cosmic Being, are restricted in their operations. They have to obey the rules of Nature. They cannot change the world as they want. They can only do what the current time allows. If the current time allows a lot of rajasik and tamasik people to control the world and if the current time does not allow god to come to earth, god will have to wait. Best regards,NarasimhaDo a Short Homam Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/homamDo Pitri Tarpanas Yourself: http://www.VedicAstrologer.org/tarpanaSpirituality: Free Jyotish lessons (MP3): http://vedicastro.home.comcast.netFree Jyotish software (Windows): http://www.VedicAstrologer.orgSri Jagannath Centre (SJC) website: http://www.SriJagannath.org - Murahari Vadapalli Monday, June 01, 2009 4:53 AM Multiple Gods and Conflicts Namaste, Scriptures and other great people who have understood the essence of these scriptures say that God is everywhere. Since human brain cannot assimilate the concept of infinity, sages have tried to decipher Truth by saying that avataras, prophets etc are but manifestations/personifications of the same Truth. Depending on the propensities of the human beings, they have "followed" different prophets and avataras and assimilated their teachings in their way of life, hoping that they would reach the Truth through them. If this understanding is right, my question is: a) Why did God come on earth in different forms(Mohammad, Jesus, Vishnu etc)? Did God not anticipate the problems of having different faiths? Or is it that He/She/IT wants us to go through these problem and overcome our weakness to realize Self/God? I am unable to understand this cycle : God Creates human beings -> Human beings destroy themselves due to their weakness -> God incarnates as Krishna to save dharma -> Followers of Krishna come to existence -> Again humans destroy eachother -> This time God incarnates as Jesus -> Followers of Jesus come to existence -> Now Jesus followers and Krishna followers fight with eachother -> Now God is supposed to come as Kalki to save the followers of Krishna/Jesus Isn't God creating confusion in already confused/weak minds of humans? Thanks & Regards, --Murahari Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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