God, ( see Chapter 1) the primary efficient cause, is good, pure and holy,
superior to others, in nature, attributes, power and good works. He is the
greatest among the great, holiest among the holy, and purest among the
pure. There is no one equal to Him, nor will anyone ever be. Neither matter
nor soul possesses such infinite powers and attributes as Truth, Justice,
Mercy, Omnipotence, Omniscience.
A thing, when true and real, has nature, attributes and
characteristics that are also true and real. So worshiping is wise for all
humanity that adores God and God only, no one else but Him. Even men of
yore, saints and sinners believed and venerated Him and Him only. He is the
absolute friend of all, unfriendly and indifferent to none. No man can be
like Him.
"He Who has created this multiform universe, and is the
cause of its sustenance as well as dissolution (see Chapter 8) the Lord of the universe in whom
the whole world exists, is sustained and then resolved into elementary
condition, is the Supreme Spirit. Know Him, O man, to be your God and
believe in no other as the Creator of the universe." Rig Veda, X, 126,
8.
God absorbs into Himself or contains the universe, animate
and inanimate. As grubs are born inside the fig tree, live and die in the
same, so is the universe born, lives and perishes (reduces into its
elementary condition) in God. He makes the wicked and the unjust shed
tears. Whatever a man thinks, he speaks; whatever he speaks, the same he
acts; whatever he acts he reaps. In other words, a man reaps whatever he
sows. When the wicked suffer pain in consequence of their sins at the hand
of Divine Justice, they wail and weep.
"I add only one more Hymn, (Rig. 10:121) in which the Idea
of One God is expressed with such power and decision, that it will make us
hesitate before we deny to the Aryan nation an instinctive monotheism."
Professor Max Muller in "History of Sanskrit Literature."
God (see Chapter 7) combines the elements of an atom properly, and evolves the
world out of them; unites bodies with souls, and delivers them out into the
world, which they call their birth. He is Himself never born. He created
the world and multiplied it. He has no limitations, boundaries, end or
dimensions and He has no beginning, nor a first cause. He is the One who is
all-blissful and endows to emancipate souls with bliss and bestows
happiness on the good and the righteous. He is the true embodiment of
existence among all that exists.
An English Scholar in his Vedic Conception of God:-"The Almighty,
Infinite, Eternal, Incomprehensible, Self-existent Being, He who sees
everything through never seen is Brahma, One un-known True Being, the
Creator, the Preserver and Destroyer of the Universe....." Mr. Charles Coleman.
God, is only one and indivisible without any conglomeration,
either of the same kind (as, man and man are of the same kind), or of a
different kind (as trees and rocks are of different kinds from man), or
made up of different parts. Consequently there is no relation of whole to its
parts, as of body with its parts such as, eyes, ears. He possesses such
attributes, as perfect knowledge, perfect bliss, purity, and infinite
power. Everything in this universe is positive and negative. For instance,
the material objects are negative, because they are void of the properties
and powers of conscious beings, and feelings. They are also positive,
because they possess their own material properties. The same is true of
God. He is positive, when He is looked upon as possessed of His own attributes,
as Omniscience, Omnipotence, but He is also negative, being free from
properties of matter and soul.
"The most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that
we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is
the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is
a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their
minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this
illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that
we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds." Albert Einstein
from the book Private Albert Einstein by Peter A.
Bucky with Allen G. Weakland, Andrews and McNeel.(Pg. 86)
Believing in God by a few characteristics, as Just, Merciful, Compassionate and
All-Loving are the teachings of all faiths today but knowing and
understanding God, by His attributes (creator, sustainer and dissolver) and nature (truth, consciousness and bliss) also is the
notion of pure monotheism, which is the one true religion. Because of the
want of this knowledge, many apprehensions arise in the minds of the most
ardent and staunch believers, especially when children or devout people are
the victims, as known to us, their innocence is queried and usually God
gets the censure for it, but when the vile suffers, again as known to us,
they praise His Justice.
These doubts are concocted by irrational preachers that sins
are forgiven and there is no coming back of the soul. Since our daily
chaperon, good or bad, is rarely known to us from the beginning of our
lives, except some major events, how can we begin to assess others or
others assess us. Only God, who is All-knowing, can be the Judge of all
souls in previous, present and future births. Mankind should act according
to what he prays for. If he prays for the attainment of the loftiest
wisdom, let him do his foremost to accomplish it. As a matter of fact,
prayer should be addressed to God for the attainment of an objective after
one has vehemently endeavored to attain it.
Communion results in union
with the Great Being and in direct cognition of Him. They are atheists and
of weak intellect, and continually remain sunk in the depths of misery and
pain who do not believe in, know, and commune with Him who is Resplendent,
All-glorious, All-Holy, All-knowledgeable, sustainer of the sun, the earth
and other planets, Who pervades all like ether, (matter in its subtlest
form) who is the Lord of all and is above anything or anyone that possesses
useful and brilliant qualities.
It is through the knowledge and contemplation of God alone
that all mankind attains true happiness. Any other form or attribute that
is not within reason of His Divine law of nature will surely be
contradictory and will not be deemed to be purely monotheistic.
Now, that we are aware of what His characteristics, attributes
and nature are, let us try to remove the doubt that has, and is always with
us. There are many questions that can be asked of the One Supreme Being,
but are the answers within rationality. Let us explore some of these
qualms.
God is known by millions of names because His nature,
attributes and characteristics are infinite. One name stands for each one
of them. Here are a few examples:-Illuminator ~ He illuminates the
multiform universe; All-wise ~ worthy of adoration and sought after and
realized; All-pervading ~ because all world and worldly objects (animate
and inanimate) dwell in Him and He resides in all of them; the Source ~
source and support of all light and creation; Supporter ~ life and support
of the Universe, the cause of its dissolution, mightier than the mightiest,
etc.
Aum is the Sanskrit
name of God only and the application of the above list such as the Creator,
Sustainer, etc., is determined by two factors, the subject under treatment
and the adjectives that qualify them which signify Him in prayers,
meditations, communions, or where such adjectives as Omniscient,
Omnipresent, Holy, Eternal and Creator of the Universe qualify them.
On the other hand things under discussion are mentioned as
created, protected, or sustained, disintegrated of where such qualifying
words as finite, visible are used, they cannot be taken to signify God
because He is neither subject to such changes as evolution or dissolution,
nor is He finite or visible.
God has no hands but grasps and molds all
things by virtue of His Omnipotence. He has no feet but transcends all in
speed by virtue of His Omnipotence. He has no eyes but sees all perfectly,
no ear but hears all, no internal organ of thought but knows all. No one
can know His limits, He has been eternally existing. He is the Supreme
Spirit that pervades all. Though devoid of senses and mind, He does all His
work by virtue of His Omnipotence. More on God >>>>>
"These things being rightly dispatched does it
not appear from phenomena that there is a Supreme Being incorporeal,
living, intelligent, Omnipresent, who is infinite space sees the things
themselves intimately and thoroughly perceives them and comprehends them
wholly by their immediate presence to Himself." Sir Issac Newton
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