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God attains the imaginable form of meduim into which He enters When the un-imaginable God enters a medium, He remains in His inherent un-imaginable form and at the same time attains the form of the medium also. But, the attainment of the form of the medium is by identifying Himself with that medium. The attainment is not real because God is not really transformed into that form of medium. When the current enters a metallic wire, the current is identified with the metallic wire because you can experience the property of the current at any part of the wire. This does not mean that the current is really modified or transformed into the metallic wire. The current is a stream of electrons and it remains in its inherent form, which is the stream of electrons. The metallic wire is a chain of crystals. The electrons are not transformed into crystals. But, the crystals are treated as electrons since the electrons are identified with the crystals. Hence, the current has two forms: (1) its inherent form of stream of electrons and (2) its identified form of chain of metallic crystals. The current remains always in its inherent form. Since we can treat the metallic wire as current for all practical purposes, the current has apparently attained the form of metallic crystals. The identified form is only assumed reality and the inherent form is the actual reality. Veda says that the un-imaginable God remaining in His inherent form attains the identified form of the medium also (Satcha tyatcha abhavat). The inherent form of the Absolute God is the un-imaginable nature. The identified form of the medium is the inherent form of the medium only and not the inherent form of God. Gita says that the un-imaginable God is not transformed into imaginable God at any cost (avyaktam vyaktimaapannam...).The un-imaginable God apparently attains the assumed form of the medium, which is the inherent form of the medium only. Since the medium is imaginable, the un-imaginable God becomes imaginable through the attained identified form of the imaginable medium. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The entry of God into a medium Infering the un-imaginable God through imagianble medium Veda says that the existence of un-imaginable God is experienced All the words give the meanings of the processes taking place in the imaginable items of the imaginable creation. When we say that God entered a medium, the entry denotes the process of entry of an imaginable item into another imaginable item. Thus, when we say that the current entered the wire, it means the imaginable stream of electrons entered the visible chain of metallic crystals. The stream of electrons may be invisible to the unclothed eye but is visible through powerful microscope. The imaginable item may be visible or invisible. The invisible may become visible through powerful instruments or at least to the powerful analytical logic. But, the un-imaginable is always invisible even to the most powerful analytical faculty. When we give this example as simile to the entry of God into a medium, the process of entry is not exactly valid because it is the entry of un-imaginable item (God) into imaginable entity. Since there is no second un-imaginable item, we cannot give the exact simile to the entry of un-imaginable God. Since the existence of the un-imaginable God is inferred through the un-imaginable events, we are inferring the entry of God into that medium. By the experience of the un-imaginable event, un-imaginable has not become imaginable. Only the existence of un-imaginable nature is experienced. If the existence is also not experienced, we have no authority to say that un-imaginable God exists. Therefore, Veda says that the existence of un-imaginable God is experienced, which is very essential and required as a proof for the existence of un-imaginable God (Asteetyeva…). Similarly, since we are experiencing the un-imaginable nature throughout the medium, we are assuming the probable pervasion of un-imaginable God all over the medium. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The only information that we can give about the Absolute God is that He is un-imaginable For example, when Krishna lifted the huge mountain, the entire body of Krishna is withstanding the huge load of the hill and hence we infer that the entire body of Krishna is pervaded by the un-imaginable God (Antarbahishcha... Veda). Here again, the all over pervasion has no direct proof as in the case of air entering the room and pervading all over the room. Both the air and the room are imaginable items and we cannot apply this process to the all over pervasion of un-imaginable God in the imaginable body of Krishna. Hence, we are only inferring the actions of un-imaginable God and these actions are also un-imaginable and cannot be compared to the imaginable processes taking place in the case of imaginable items. We only say that God entered or God pervaded etc. and these processes cannot be compared to the imaginable processes taking place in the imaginable items. The only information that we can give about the Absolute God is that He is un-imaginable. The only experience of the Absolute God is the inferred experience of existence of the un-imaginable nature. Such experience stands as the proof for the un-imaginable nature of God. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The simile to understand soul is not God A golden jar with a small golden handle is present. It is filled with milk. The milk is identified with the jar. When we say "take that golden jar", it means that you should take the milk. Since milk cannot be directly taken without jar, the milk is identified with the jar. The jar is the identified form of the milk. By this, you can treat the jar as milk and milk as the jar. This does not mean that the milk is actually the jar or the jar is actually the milk. The milk is not transformed into the jar or vice-versa. The identity of the milk with the jar is only an assumption, valid for all the practical purposes. Here, the milk is the un-imaginable God and the golden jar is the infinite cosmic energy. The small handle of the jar is the soul. The philosophy of Shankara can be understood in terms of milk, jar and handle. The handle (soul) and the jar (cosmic energy) are one and the same qualitatively since both are made of gold. Therefore, the handle (soul) is equal to jar (cosmic energy) neglecting the quantitative difference. Now, the milk (un-imaginable God) is equal to jar (cosmic energy) since the jar (cosmic energy) is the identified form of the milk (un-imaginable God). The conclusion is that since milk (un-imaginable God) is equal to jar (cosmic energy) and jar (cosmic energy) is equal to handle (soul), the handle (soul) is equal to milk (un-imaginable God). The final conclusion is that the soul becomes the un-imaginable God! This is a mathematical derivation and the final conclusion is a fun. When the big jar itself is not actually the milk, can the small handle become the milk? But, this conclusion was essential to convert the atheists into theists. When the atheist is told as God, the atheist will not deny the existence of God because if God is non-existent, he himself becomes non-existent. At least, the atheist becomes theist and all this magic of logic is necessary for such conclusions. Shankara converted the atheists into theists through His intellectual logic. You should not feel that Shankara is believing that the soul is God. He brought out the quantitative difference between jar and handle to differentiate the jar containing milk and the handle without milk (satyapi bhedaapagame...). He accepted the quantitative difference between the soul and infinite cosmic energy, comparing the soul to a wave and the infinite cosmic energy to the mighty ocean. He differentiated the jar and handle by neglecting the qualitative similarity. He further stated that the handle is a part of the jar containing the milk. Here, the jar is taken for milk since jar is the identified form of the milk. Now He said that the handle is a part of the milk and the milk means the identified jar. The assumption of milk as jar is retained. But, the assumption of handle as the jar through qualitative similarity is denied. This means out of the two assumptions, one assumption (jar standing for milk) is retained and the other assumption (the handle standing for jar) is removed. Since the ego of atheists is reduced to some extent, only one assumption is released. Madhva released the second assumption also stating that the milk indicated by jar is totally different from the handle. In fact, even the jar is not milk and is totally different form the milk. But however, the jar contains milk and hence stands for milk, whereas the handle does not contain milk and can never stand for milk. This means that the cosmic energy is also totally different form the un-imaginable God but at least it can stand for God since it is the container of God. The soul is not containing God and hence, the soul can be totally rejected to have any identification with God. In fact, even the identification of God with cosmic energy is only an assumption and therefore even the cosmic energy is totally different from God like the soul. This total difference is emphasized by Madhva. Ramanuja acted as a bridge of this transformation of concept from Shankara to Madhva. The total similarity of Shankara called as monism (Advaita) is transformed into the total difference or dualism (Dvaita) of Madhva in course of time, as the atheists are transformed into devotees. Shankara transformed the strong atheists into theists. Ramanuja transformed theists into devotees. Madhva transformed the devotees into strong devotees. Hence, the three preachers transformed a strong atheist into a strong devotee in course of time through sequential steps according to the stepwise transformation of psychology of the people. The difference in the three preachers is not the difference between the three preachers but is the difference between the psychologies of gradually progressing students. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Un-necessary expenditure of wealth result in sin Your expenditure will never yield zero and it either yields good fruit or sin Your expenditure should be based on sharp analysis since your expenditure may result in the pleasure of God as well as in the anger of God. Earning the wealth is a great act. Saving the earned wealth by controlling unnecessary expenditure is greater act. Proper utilization of the saved wealth is greatest act. You can get the grace of God through proper utilization of the saved wealth in His name. When you spend your money in the name of God, God is pleased. But, you should spend it properly with sharp analysis. If the wealth is wasted or spent for un-deserving persons, God becomes furious. Therefore, expenditure or donation of money can bring the grace or anger of God and it is like a double edged knife. Therefore, controlling the expenditure in un-necessary ways and also resisting the expenditure on un-deserving persons results in pacifying the anger of God. The un-necessary expenditure and expenditure on un-deserving persons result in sin and you will be punished in the hell. Therefore, your expenditure should be based on sharp analysis since your expenditure may result in the pleasure of God as well as in the anger of God. Veda says the same [samvidaa deyam], which means that you should donate after analyzing through proper knowledge. You think that wasting money yields neither sin nor good fruit and the result is only zero. This is totally wrong. Your expenditure will never yield zero and it either yields good fruit or sin. Hence, you should be very careful in the expenditure or donation. A farmer gave milk to a serpent, which is shivering in snow. After gaining sufficient heat from the nearby fire created by the farmer and after gaining sufficient energy through the milk, the serpent bit the farmer and went away. The serpent killed some more people outside also due to the gained energy. For that act, the farmer was punished in the hell also. The farmer was not only punished on the earth, but was also punished in the upper world after death. Such is the severe result of donation to un-deserving people. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Donation of food is said to be greatest The human race is the blessed category of the creation since the human being alone has the faculty of devotion to God. You must save the life of every human being if it is in need. Even if the human being is an atheist, you must save the life since the atheist has a chance of becoming a devotee in future. Therefore, donation of food is said to be greatest since it is the basis of life. But, you should donate it to the deserving people only. 'Deserving' means any human being suffering for food. The human being must work and earn the food without begging as far as possible. Otherwise, people become lazy without doing work. Hence, while donating the food to a person capable of doing work, you should analyze the background carefully. Generally, poor children, poor old persons, poor disabled and poor patients can be accepted as deserving receivers of your donated food. A rich person should be always avoided as far as possible leaving rare emergent occasions. Do not have any analysis in the occasions of emergency demanding immediate service. Such donation is called as 'Apat-dharma'. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

By wasting money you are displeasing God You are either wasting most of your wealth or donating it to the un-deserving people. You are under the illusion that you are pleasing God. You do not know that God is becoming more and more furious with you. You are wasting ghee and other materials by burning them in fire during rituals. The word 'fire' is misunderstood as the physical fire created by burning the wood. Such physical fire is only called as 'Yajnasadhanam', which means that it is the instrumental item used in the sacrifice since it is used in cooking the food. The hunger of a deserving person is the divine fire called as 'Vaishwanara agni', which is to be worshipped by supplying the food associated with ghee [Aham vaishwanaro bhutvaa..Geeta]. The hunger of a deserving person is the deity-fire, which is divine since it should be worshipped by surrendering food to eat. Feeding a hungry deserving person is the worship of fire-deity. The fire is in three forms: [1] Physical fire prepared by wood [bhautikaagni or Laukikaagni], [2] fire in the form of electrical energy [Vaidyutaagni] and [3] hunger-fire of a deserving person, which is divine called as deity-fire [Vaishwanaraagni or Devataagni] . While cooking the food, the first and second forms must be used and while worshipping, the third form should be selected. You should select the form of fire as per the context and then only you are the scholar of Veda. Veda means knowledge. You should do every step of the ritual with analytical knowledge [Jnaatvaa kurvita..Geeta]. Sage Yaska says that if you do the ritual without the knowledge, you will not get the fruit and it will be like cooking the food without fire [Anagnauviva..]. The fire given in the simile by Yaska itself is misunderstood! www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Feed only hungry deserving priests The first hymn of the first Veda says that the fire is the deserving priest and not the physical fire [Agnimele purohitam]. Kapila in Bhagavatam says that fools only burn ghee and food in the fire. The word ghee indicates the best food prepared with ghee and not mere ghee. You have to understand this meaning through the concept of 'lakshana'. When you call the seller of apples by calling "Oh apples! Come", by 'lakshana', you mean the possessor of apples to come along with the apples and not mere apples. Similarly, the word 'ghee' means the food associated with the ghee. Both the words 'agni' and 'ghee' are totally misunderstood by the foolish ignorant priests, who are burning the ghee in physical fire. They mislead the devotees by saying that the angels eat the food through the fire [Agnimukhaah..Veda]. Here, the Vedic statement means that the angels eat the food through the hungry deserving priests. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Priests are exploiting the weakness of the devotees Veda says that all the angels reside in the body of the priest, who is the scholar of the correct Vedic knowledge [Yaavatirvai..].The priests are exploiting the weakness of the devotees, which is the desire to fulfill their ambitions through rituals. The ignorant priest is doing all this foolish act to earn some money from the devotees. The devotee, instead of getting the good fruit is punished in the hell for burning the ghee and other materials in the physical fire. The priest is also severely punished in the hell and since he is the initiator of this sin, he is punished with poverty also in this life itself. The essence of all Vedic rituals in only to save the life of humanity suffering with hunger. The entire aim is misinterpreted and is mislead leading the devotees to hell. Lord Krishna asked the wives of sages to give food to his friends suffering with hunger even before the ritual thereby establishing the actual aim of the ritual, which is only to feed the hungry people. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

In temple should food should be given to beggars and poor deserving persons only The temple funds must be spent by the wise management of temple only in proper ways You are donating money to the temple after getting some benefit from God through a business-contract. The devotee says that if he gets 1 lakh rupees, he will donate 10 percent to God. Such business-contract is the worst way of love to God. You are giving your wealth to your children without such business- contract. God is not having even the value of your children! However, when you donate something to the temple, they are giving the food to all the devotees as the remains of offering to God [Prasadam]. Even the rich devotees, who are not in need of food also are forced to eat it due to fear. Therefore, your donation is not properly utilized. Let the capable rich devotees make their own arrangements for their food. The management of the temple should give food to beggars and poor deserving persons only. If there is extra money, let it be used in serving the poor people and beggars in other ways. It is also good to spend the money in propagation of devotion through several programs. Thus there is no proper utilization of your donation. The government is grabbing some of the funds of the temple for social service. Everybody knows the misuse of funds in every social work. Let the government spend the taxes and other revenues only in such social works. The temple funds must be spent by the wise management of temple only in proper ways mentioned as above. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Who is the really deserving person to receive donation? You should approach God and not the other human beings for your needs Who is the really deserving person? Veda says that the person not expecting anything from anybody is the most deserving receiver of your donation [Akaamahatasya]. The deserving person must have full faith in God and should believe that God will give him all the required needs of the life. He should work and earn and if something is needed beyond the scope of the work, God is going to help him in the correct moment. He need not beg other human beings, who are beggars themselves, praying God to fulfill their desires. A beggar should not beg another beggar and should go to the house, which donated food to the other beggar. Similarly, you should approach God and not the other human beings for your needs, which are not covered by your work. In fact, a true devotee should not beg even God because God is omniscient and will act at the right time. Therefore, if one is expecting something from you, he is not a deserving person since his faith in God is not complete. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

A true deserving person do not expect anything… If you take the example of Kuchela [sudama], he never begged any person and did not beg even God. He was forced by his wife to beg Lord Krishna. He went to Lord Krishna but did not ask anything since he knows that Lord is omniscient. He stayed in the house of Krishna for a few days and returned back to his home. Krishna did not give a single rupee even though He observed the extreme condition of poverty of Kuchela. If you are in the place of Kuchela, you will certainly scold Krishna at least in your mind during your return journey. Kuchela did not entertain even a trace of such idea in his mind at any time. The omniscient Lord Krishna was constantly observing the mind of Kuchela during his return journey. The Lord was extremely pleased since no such idea could enter the mind of Kuchela. Therefore, the Lord gave immense wealth to Kuchela. The only donation done by Krishna in His entire life was this only. The Lord was waiting for such a deserving person. You compare yourself with Krishna. You do donations in hasty way without patience to catch a deserving receiver. You go to Varanasi on the day of Maha Shivaratri and you are in hurry to return back by next day. You think that your donation in a particular place at a particular time only becomes fruitful. You are captured by such false illusion and donate to an un-deserving person in that place on that day. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The place and the time can never influence your donation Only the deservingness of the receiver decides the fruit of your donation The place [desha] and the time [kaala] can never influence your donation. Only the deservingness of the receiver decides the fruit of your donation. Krishna did not donate wealth to Kuchela at Varanasi on Maha Shivaratri. When the most deserving Kuchela was found, that place is Varanasi and that day is Maha Shivaratri. Krishna spent almost the entire life to search for a deserving receiver. You do not have patience to search a deserving receiver for your petty donation. Instead of purchasing sin by your petty donations on such foolish occasions, you better accumulate all those petty donations and donate the entire accumulated wealth when you find a real deserving receiver. You will get very high fruit for such accumulated donation. Instead of this, you are purchasing the sin in bits only through your petty donations on such foolish occasions in specified places. The deservingness of receiver [paatra] alone decides the result of your donation and there is no trace of influence of place [desha] and time[kaala] on the result. You must not do donation with emotion. Several beggars exploit you by kindling your emotion through false appearance by creating sympathy in your heart. You can find a beggar limping during the process of donation in the railway compartment. As soon as he gets down from that compartment, he walks straightly and more fast than yourself! He gets into the next compartment and starts again limping! Therefore, you should have patience and analysis to study the deservingness of receiver and you should not be fooled at any cost. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The real meaning of Gayatri Mantra 'Gayatri' means the song of God that protects all the human beings irrespective of caste and sex [Gayaan traayate iti]. Thus, any song of God that attracts your mind provoking you to sing again and again so that the knowledge conveyed by it is constantly revised. Today, people are chanting some hymn of Veda present in a meter called 'Gayatri' without any trace of singing and which does not attract your mind to repeat and revise the knowledge again and again, is considered as 'Gayatri Mantra'! In view of the actual concept, it cannot be treated as 'Gayatri Mantra'. The foolish priests are stamping such hymn as 'Gayatri Mantra' and further say that the females and other castes are not eligible for it. First of all, what you say as 'Gayatri Mantra' is not 'Gayatri Mantra' at all in view of its actual concept. This is the first mistake. The second mistake is to deny such false 'Gayatri Mantra' to ladies and other castes. 'Gayatri' means any song of God in any mother tongue that protects any soul [Gaya] irrespective of caste and sex. The third mistake is to treat 'Gayatri Mantra' as a female deity, which actually means singing on God in any convenient language. The fourth mistake is to deny 'Gayatri Mantra' to females for which a female deity is super imposed and reject all the female souls as not eligible. Thus, the actual concept is totally buried and a chain of misinterpretations have buried the true concept resulting in blind tradition of ignorance. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The real meaning of mediation The knowledge of God alone generates the meditation Surya asked Swami “ Some people are asking about the necessity of the preacher (Guru) since we can meditate upon God directly as Buddhists practice it.” Swami replied --- People are using the word ‘Meditation’ without knowing its exact concept. The word meditation means the intensified interest upon God. The interest on any item is generated by the knowledge of details of that item. Therefore, the knowledge of God alone generates the meditation. Knowledge cannot be obtained from scriptures directly without proper preacher. You cannot obtain the correct knowledge from books without going to the class room in which the teacher explains the knowledge present in the text book in a proper way. You cannot read the textbook straightly and obtain correct knowledge without the classroom and teacher. The knowledge also covers the other two aspects apart from the goal, which is God. The other two aspects are the concept about yourself and the concept about the correct path to please God. The knowledge becomes complete only when all the three aspects are correctly explained. The meditation is not the concept about the path to please God. It only means your interest about the details of the goal. After receiving the details about God, you will be interested in God. When this interest becomes very strong, it is called as meditation. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Bhddha & Unimaginable God God is unimaginable according to Buddha The purpose of Bhddha’s dramatic meditation The process of meditation means the deep analysis about God The contemporary human incarnation is the only way to catch the unimaginable God Buddha is incarnation of God and does not require meditation. He behaved like an ordinary human being to show that how a human being should be deeply interested about God. The word meditation also indicates the process of effort to know the unknowable God. After spending a long time to know God, Buddha declared that God is unimaginable and the declaration was done through silence. Therefore, the silence about God means that God is unimaginable according to Buddha. Even before doing the long meditation under the huge tree, Buddha knows that God is unimaginable because He was the human incarnation of God. Then, what was the purpose of His dramatic meditation? He enacted the process of meditation to give a message to every human being that one should meditate upon God for a long time to realize finally that God is unimaginable. In this context the process of meditation means the deep analysis about God. Unless there is intensified interest on God, one will not think so deeply about God. Hence, even in this context, the word meditation means only intensified interest. Buddhism indicates the surrender to contemporary human incarnation through the first statement “Buddham sharanam…”. The contemporary human incarnation is the only way to catch the unimaginable God. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The silence of Buddha- the secret Buddhists misunderstood Buddha by taking His silence for negation. The silence of Buddha about God was misunderstood and Buddhists felt that Buddha indicated the absence of God through silence. When you have concluded that God does not exist at all, then, what is the object of your meditation? If you say that the self is the object, there is no benefit in taking interest about yourself since you are always interested in yourself. Your interest on yourself is natural and spontaneous and there is no need of any effort for it. By such meditation you are not going to be blessed by yourself. Yourself is a part of the creation and is not the creator who, is beyond the creation. Veda says that one bird on the tree is eating the substance of the tree and other bird is shining without eating it (Dvaa suparnaa..). This is the context of human incarnation in which it is said that the human body is the tree, one bird is the individual soul and the other bird is unimaginable God. The human bird is a part of the creation. The soul is eating the substance of the human body or creation. This means that the creation, human body and the soul are made of the same common component, which is the inert cosmic energy. Since space is energy, the soul, human body and creation have spatial dimensions. The unimaginable God is not eating and this means that the unimaginable God is beyond energy or space. Therefore, there is no use when the soul, which is a part of cosmic energy meditates upon itself or even upon the entire infinite cosmic energy, which is this entire creation. There will be any use if the soul meditates upon the creator, who is beyond the cosmic energy. But, you may say that meditation upon unimaginable God is impossible. We agree to this point and the solution is to meditate upon the contemporary human incarnation with which you can directly interact. Otherwise, you can meditate upon any item of the creation as a representative model of the unimaginable God, but you cannot directly interact with God through this way. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Shankara stressed on self analysis just to avoid grief Shankara advised meditation upon self, which means the deep analysis about self. The human being is under the illusion that the human body consisting of matter and energy is self. Shankara removed the concept of matter and concluded that self is only a bit of cosmic energy in essence. In fact, since matter and space are also different forms of cosmic energy, the self becomes a part of continuous ocean of cosmic energy only. In such situation the self cannot be isolated and hence the finite itself becomes the infinite ocean of cosmic energy. The word Brahaman used by Shankara denotes only this continuous infinite cosmic energy. This cosmic energy is the source, controller and dissolver of the entire creation consisting of various materialized forms. This picture concludes that all the materialized forms are unreal in absolute sense and removes all the worldly bonds and the subsequent grief. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Shankara Vs Buddha Shankara told that absolute unimaginable God is Para Brahma Both Buddha and Shankara kept silent about the absolute unimaginable God The word Brahman in the philosophy of Shankara never means the unimaginable God, who cannot be indicated by any word. Shankara clearly told that absolute unimaginable God indicated by the word Para Brahma can be expressed through silence only (Maunavyaakhyaa..). The word Para Brahma means that which is beyond Brahman. Therefore, the word Brahma in the philosophy of Shankara clearly stands for the essence of the creation, which is cosmic energy only. The final use of this meditation is to know that you are this infinite cosmic energy (Brahman) and live without any worldly tension. Shankara was also human incarnation and never opposed Buddha. He opposed the Buddhists only, who misunderstood Buddha and became atheists. According to Shankara meditation always means the critical analysis about the self to get salvation from the worldly tensions. Due to the eccentric ego of the then atheists, Shankara did not go beyond this since the atheists will not accept God beyond themselves. This limitation is not due to limited knowledge of Shankara, but is due to the then existing situation of the psychology of the surrounding society. Even Buddha kept silent about God because the society dealt by Him consisted of Purvamimamsakas, who were strong atheists. Buddha told that everything including the self is only relatively real (Shunyam). This is correct because the self is a part of the cosmic energy or creation, which is relatively real with respect to the absolute unimaginable God. Buddha stopped at this point because the atheists cannot realize the existence of unimaginable God indicated through His silence. The point of Buddha is that if God is non-existent, the entire creation including yourself is non-existent. Shankara wanted to establish the existence of God. For this purpose, He made the infinite cosmic energy as the God. He brought out the identity of yourself with the continuous cosmic energy and made yourself the God. Since you will not negate the existence of yourself, you will accept the existence of God, who is yourself. Both Buddha and Shankara kept silent about the absolute unimaginable God. The same philosophy was dealt by them in different angles in different situations. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The practical side and the proof of real meditation Meditation either means the analysis of an object to know its real nature or the attraction towards an item by remembering it again and again. All this is theoretical phase. The practical side and the proof of real meditation is the sacrifice of everything for the sake of it and continuous service to it. The practical meditation alone brings you the fruit. Meditation about self may give you salvation from the worldly tension. But, meditation about God brings you the eternal grace and eternal protection from God. Salvation can never be permanent and you may be bonded again. But the grace of God is always permanent. You can aspire salvation as temporary relief so that you can concentrate upon the meditation of God. Salvation from the worldly bonds based on self meditation is always temporary and by the grace of God alone it becomes permanent. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

The fall of Hindu religion People follow ritual due to fear Hindu religion is very fortunate that it is built up by ancient learned sages, who analyzed the philosophy to the climax and hence every concept is enlightened by the radiance of deep spiritual knowledge. This point was true in the past when Sanskrit language was the mother tongue of everybody so that whenever the scripture, Veda, in the form of Sanskrit hymns was recited, everybody understood it clearly. By this, every ritual was a revision of the spiritual concepts. Thereby the spiritual knowledge was strengthened repeatedly. But, today what is the position of this greatest religion? The Sanskrit hymns are recited in every ritual as usual. Neither the reader nor the audience, understand the meaning of the scripture even once. It is a blind recitation of sounds in Greek and Latin. Everybody is continuing the ritual with the fear that if the ritual is not performed, there may be negative results in the present worldly life and also in the life after death in the upper world. There is no interest in ritual since knowledge is absent and the driving force of the ritual is only fear. Due to this unfortunate situation, people are not even listening those sounds uttered by the priests and become busy in other activities. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

People are neglecting God during rituals For example, when the ritual of the marriage is going on, nobody even listens the sounds uttered by the priests even for fraction of minute because nothing is understood. Everybody is busy in other activities and conversations during the ritual. Can there be more unfortunate thing than this? All the hymns are speaking something about God. You are neglecting that means that you are neglecting God. Can there be more insult than this to God? Can you expect even a trace of grace of God from such ritual? The climax of misfortune is that even the priest, who is reading the scripture is unaware of the meaning. Do you find anybody who speaks something and does not understand the meaning of what he speaks and even the listener does not understand it? Even the birds and animals understand the meaning of the sounds generated within themselves. But here is the peculiar situation where even the human beings, who developed beautiful communication through systematic languages speak and listen some sounds without serving the real purpose of communication! By this, Hinduism, which was in the top position in the past is now in the lowest position. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

People are blindly continuing process of recitation The priest learns the hymns through recitation without knowing the meanings. He spends few years in learning this mechanical recitation of scripture and straightly enters the field of earning his livelihood. There is no need of mechanical recitation of the scripture, when the scripture is already printed. In those days, when the printing was not developed, there was no other way to preserve the scripture than through the mechanical recitation. Therefore, the process of mechanical recitation existed and hence the mechanical recitation was justified. People are blindly continuing that process of recitation even today when the actual need for such recitation ended. This is called as blind tradition in which you follow something blindly from the past without analyzing it. It is said that all old is not gold and all modern need not be correct. You have to decide the correctness based on sharp analysis of everything i.e., old or modern (Puraanamityeva…..). The priest should learn the meaning of the scripture without wasting his time on blind recitation of the printed book. The priest can recite the scripture by reading the book in ritual and explain the meaning of hymns to create interest in the audience. The priests of the other religion like Christianity, Islam etc., are reading the books of scripture in the rituals. You may say that one should only recite and not read the book as per the authority of the scripture (Tathaa likhitapathakah). This authority is not valid since it is only Smruti, that is created by the human beings, and not Shuruti, that is created by God. The same Smruti also says that you should know the meaning (Anarthajno…). The priest himself generated the authority because he found the mechanical recitation easier than learning its meaning. The priest has also created a false propagation that the sound of the scripture itself generates good even without knowing its meaning. This is again worst interpretation because the basic purpose of communication through language is murdered and hence the logic (Yukti) opposes such false concept. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Scripture should be recited knowing the meaning Managements of temples should rectifiy this The sage Yaska said that the scripture recited without knowing the meaning is totally waste and will not give any result. The scripture also says that you should recite and also know the meaning (Adhyetavyo Jneyashcha). In fact, the first word ‘Adhyetavyo’ means actually knowing the meaning only according to Sanskrit grammar and hence recitation is not meant. Since you have forcibly super imposed the recitation as the meaning of the first word (Rudhi). The second word ‘Jneyashcha’ is introduced to negate the superimposed meaning of the first word. In fact, the very meaning of Veda is to know the meaning and it means knowledge of the scripture and not blind recitation. All the managements of the temples should come forward to rectify this unfortunate mistake that cropped up the Hindu religion. They should patronize the students to learn the meaning of the scripture and should discourage the blind recitation. They should also support the propagation of Sanskrit language in the Hindu public so that the people will understand at least the basic meaning of the scripture without translation by the priest and the priest may be involved in the elaborate explanation of the scripture. If this is done, God will be pleased to maximum extent since God Himself is the author of Veda. If this fundamental mistake is rectified, there is no need of propagation of spiritual knowledge since every priest propagates the spiritual knowledge in every ritual. This should be the primary activity of the temple. The next activity of temples should be to help the beggars and poor people and to adopt discrimination of poor and rich in the devotees while serving the devotees with the funds. If this is done God will be very much pleased with the managements of the temples. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace

Omnipotence-the real meaning To achieve the knowledge and control of everything, God need not be present everywhere God does not want to confuse the people as far as possible You can use the point of omnipotence in this aspect of creation of a different thing other than God by God without the pre-existence of a second thing. Now, the sin is not God and hence the sin will be punished. Similarly, you need not say that God entered every part of creation. In such case, there should be something other than God for the process of entry. If there is nothing different from God, the process of entry is meaningless since there is only one God and God cannot enter God. Veda speaks about the entry of God in to creation (Tadavanupravishat..). In such case, Veda becomes false. If only God exists even after the creation, God cannot enter Himself. If there is God in everything, God exists in the sinner also and the punishment of sinner results in the punishment of God. People bring the concept of existence of God in everything so that God is aware of everything (Omniscient) and controls everything due to His omnipresence. To achieve the knowledge and control of everything, God need not be present everywhere. He can know and control everything through His omnipotence. Even a king, who is not omnipotent, knows and controls everything in his kingdom. Therefore, when we say that God entered the entire cosmic energy in the case of formation of Hiranyagarbha, it only means that God exists as milk in vessel. The vessel only contains the milk and milk is not pervading all the walls of vessel. If God pervades the entire cosmic energy, He will be present even in a sinner. Therefore, the point of omnipotence should be used in proper place and in proper angle so that there will not be confusion in the minds of the people. God will follow the rules of worldly logic only as far as possible so that people can understand Him and His actions easily. He does not want to confuse the people as far as possible by using His omnipotence everywhere as He likes. He uses the power of omnipotence only in a rare place, when it becomes inevitable. www.universal-spirituality.org Universal Spirituality for World Peace