RE: [Rajarajeshwari_Kalpataru] Greatest God-Reply to Yashji

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Shreeramji and Yashji

 

I am sure that everyone can feel Shreeramji's hesitation in trying to answer a question that despite being a genuine question coming out of a curious mind has implications resonating in all sorts of wrong interpretations from it and from the answers to it.

 

Before attempts to answering such questions, what we need to understand is the following:

 

1. Vedas and other ancient texts are there in a try to decipher the laws governing the cosmos. What is written in simple looking verses filled with emotional and descriptive wording is hiding information that is far beyond what we (the 'royal' we here encompassing all of the efforts of humanity in modern factualistic day and age) have managed to understand so far. I hold strong belief that one day we humans would again make a breakthrough and go beyond the physical levels of reasoning and fact based understanding.

 

2. What is written in ancient texts is made into stories and verses so that the core of the knowledge is passed from generation to generation story-telling is the only other medium(apart from having practical experience of something) that has a life long lasting memory build-up.

 

3. This hierarchical understanding of great and greater and so on is not really what explains the Gods. There is no hierarchy in the powers that govern the cosmos. What we need to understand is that everything and everyone has a place and responsibility in the cosmos and any one going wrong can bring about catastrophic consequences to this creation. e.g. Vedas tell us that the creation has a sacred number of One, two three and five (here one is said to be the state where Siva and Sakti live as one, two is when Siva and Sakti manifest as two distinct entities, three being Brahma, Vishnu & Siva in Rudra form, and five being five basic elements of Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Sky) & all of the creation eventually gets re-absorbed into the One. After which the creation flows again from one into two, three, five, and so forth.

 

It does not matter in reality which name we give to those primeval powers and how we explain to the generations that are to come after us, what matters is that we pass on the knowledge that this creation is limited only because of and through our imagination. Once we get this anti-logic understood in our head, we begin to understand the beauty of the primeval forces. It is only this understanding that is important. This can not be attained through someone else putting in some fancy words but it comes from within and through time and patience and generally through meditation.

 

Now coming back to the question raised, the simple and straightforward answer is that none is greater or smaller as there is no hierarchy in the realm of Gods. It is only us humans that tend to understand the hierarchical ways as we have grown through these ways for many many thousands of years. It is only the ignorant or the people with some vested interests that would portray one form of God as bigger than the other.

 

I have seen this primarily when the eastern and western philosophies merge. Many western societies find it difficult to grasp the concepts of having many forms of Gods that have different responsibilities as they have grown with a simplistic view-point of having a supreme God and the rest. And some of our religious teachers trying to reason with such philosophies end up explaining things in a 'not so Indian' way and that is where the ideas of greater and lesser gods arises.

 

These are my views on this subject anyway and thought now is the opportunity to blurt them out so I did <g>.

 

With kind regards

 

Anand