WHAT ARE THE SIX ATTRIBUTES OF GOD? WHAT IS GOD AWARENESS ?
MEANING OF BHAGAWAN;-
04 FACTS;-
1-Bhagavan, Brahman and Paramatma (the Super Soul), are the three pillars of the Absolute Truth. It is stated that unless one understands all these features of the Absolute Truth, one's knowledge is imperfect. It is also said that the seekers of Brahman are called jnana yogis, while those whose goal is Paramatma are called yogis, and seeking/knowing the bhagavan is a privilege of Bhakti yogis or devotees.
2-In simple terms Bhagavan is God united with His creation. In symbolic terms Bhagavan is represented by many objects and forms, famous being "salagrama" and "sivalingam". According to traditional interpretation, Bhagavan is the possessor of six primary abundances or qualities:
1-Strength 2-Fame 3-Wealth 4-Knowledge 5-Beauty 6-Detachment 3-All of us keep pondering and even debating about God (Bhagawaan). What are the qualities which we (like to) ascribe/ attribute to HIM? A nice description of what could be considered as 'the' qualities' that make one 'godly'..... 1- Tejas (brilliance), 2- Bala (Strength), 3- Gyana (knowledge), 4- Dhairya (Steadfastness), 5- Sourya & Veerya (mighty, heroic), 6- Kshma (forgiveness). 4-Those who attained the supremacy in these qualities have been considered, admired and even worshipped as gods even though they lived as human-beings with usual birth-life-death experiences.
THE LITERAL MEANING OF BHAGAWAN;-
03 FACTS;-
1-As per vedic scriptures or Vedas, the God is omnipresent, shapeless, odorless, colorless and genderless.During vedic reign it was not very easy for anyone to understand this kind of God. They were not aware of any such thing which could be omnipresent, shapeless etc. But they did know something, basic elements of their time.
2-These basic elements were known by all ancient civilizations.It is also told in same vedic scriptures that Human body is made up of these 5 basic elements, and thus we possess bhagwan inside our own body. This bhagwan is not some named God but a reference to this 5 basic elements of vedic time.VIZ..
1 -Earth - Bhoomi - भ
2-Sky - Gagan - ग
3-Air - Vayu - व
4 -Fire - Agni - अ
5 -Water - Neer - न
3-And the word came into existence भगवान (Bhagwan) where व and अ got added together or in Sanskrit grammar it is "sandhi" between व and अ. MEANING OF BHAGAWAN IN MONOTHEISTIC RELIGIONS;-
02 FACTS;- 1-In monotheistic religions, these terms are used to describe the nature of God. 1-Omnipotence, 2-Omniscience 3-Omnipresence
2-DESCRIPTION OF THREE TERMS;-
03 POINTS;- 1-Omnipotence means all-powerful. Monotheistic theologians regard God as having supreme power. This means God can do what he wants. It means he is not subject to physical limitations like man is. Being omnipotent, God has power over wind, water, gravity, physics, etc. God's power is infinite, or limitless. 2-Omniscience means all-knowing. God is all all-knowing in the sense that he is aware of the past, present, and future. Nothing takes him by surprise. His knowledge is total. He knows all that there is to know and all that can be known. 3-Omnipresence means all-present. This term means that God is capable of being everywhere at the same time. It means his divine presence encompasses the whole of the universe. There is no location where he does not inhabit. This should not be confused with pantheism, which suggests that God is synonymous with the universe itself; instead, omnipresence indicates that God is distinct from the universe, but inhabits the entirety of it. He is everywhere at once. KEY NOTE;- Many theologians regard these three attributes as essential to God's nature. In other words, if God did not have these characteristics, he wouldn't be God. For example, for God to be God, he would need to have supreme power (omnipotence); if he was not omnipotent, he wouldn't be qualified to be God.
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WHAT IS GOD AWARENESS ?
15 FACTS;-- 1-The realization that you are the Life force or Consciousness is the natural progress of evolution of a living being with a developed brain like humans. When one is a lower level organism...... striving for basic needs of life ...consumes the life. 2-As humans we have access to food without directly producing it, have a safe place of living and created sufficient free time to practice self-inquiry, inquiry about Who we truly are?, inquiry into our true nature. 3-The Self-realization of a few humans that they are nothing but the Life force itself is not a strange occurrence but a due course of evolution of an intelligent human. Universal Love, Empathy and practice of Non Violence is a natural byproduct of Self-Realization. You want a helping hand to other multi cellular organisms to find absolute peace and bliss by realizing their true nature as a Life force or Consciousness and not suffer emotionally and physically by trying to satisfy the desires of I, the ego. 4-Is the Life force or Consciousness or God Benevolent? If there is a Benevolent God, why is there Pain, Suffering and Hunger in the world? Advaita Philosophy .... is a helpful psychological tool to help one move away from the limited, I, the ego, the name identity and identify oneself with the Life force or Consciousness or breath awareness or God Awareness realized in Advaita Meditation. This helps one get out of the desire hamster wheel and the emotional rollercoaster of life and find absolute peace and bliss in a state of identity with the Life force or Consciousness in which all body, mind activity happens. 5-In the presence of Life force, cellular bodies exist as viruses, bacteria, insects, dogs, cats, humans etc. Every second thousands of living organisms die, chickens eat insects, humans eat chickens, and humans die in homicides or accidents. Each mind, body is provided with organs for self-preservation. But with our limited mind we can only observe and identify that in the presence of life force there is spontaneous existence of life force and when the life force departs all living beings die. 6-But feelings of love and empathy towards living beings happen naturally in our hearts with or without us following Advaita Philosophy and more so in Advaita Meditation. So we can realize that goodness is a byproduct of the life force.So as a physically challenged person, person facing emotional turmoil and as a veteran back from a war, Advaita Philosophy will help one find permanent Peace and Bliss and an opportunity to look outside one’s limitation. 7-Hinduism has the Karma theory, where you get good things in this life if you had performed good deeds in your previous lives and will get bad things in this life if you have done bad things in your previous life. Evolution from lower level to higher level beings happens with good deeds. So the only option you have is to perform good deeds in this life with the hope of reaping good things in your next life. 8-Again this is just a human made theory that conveniently answers a question - Is the Life force or God benevolent? Again our limited minds can no longer conclude if there are past and future lives, if evolution progresses with good deeds or if God is Benevolent. But one thing is for sure, identifying with the Life force or Consciousness with the help of Advaita Meditation is a practical psychological tool to deal with emotional turmoil we face in our everyday life. Advanced Advaita - Self -Realization is possible by understanding the illusion created by the Mind.. 9-The tendency to inquire within, and ask Who am I? is a stage of progressive evolution triggered by your inner truth or Consciousness or Lifeforce. For some it comes naturally, for other stressful events or unhappiness leads them to seeking happiness.In Advaita Meditation, you have practiced Self-Inquirty to realize that you are not the body that has a limited time span and disintegrates with death. You are not the thought I, the ego, your name that puts you in a hamster wheel of desires and you are not the mind.
10-You realize in meditation you are the breath awareness in your heart, the life force, the Consciousness or the God Awareness that is eternal in existence. If you are Consciousness then the person or the animal you see is also nothing but Consciouness or Lifeforce.The Consciousness or Lifeforce or Brahman is not dual, that is in you and the person you see, but is one entity, the reason we call it as Advaita or Non-Duality. It is like the air in pots, does the air belong to a pot or is the air one continuous entity? 11-Now, we get to the advanced stages of Advaita Philosophy. When Sri Adi Shankara says, " The Universe is unreal, the Brahman alone is real" what does he mean? The perception of mind, by which it creates separation, Time and Space is the real culprit that prevents you from realizing your true nature of Life force or Consciousness or God Awareness. Once you get out of the mind illusion, you are realized. 12-You and a person you see,..... the mind tells you, both of you are different and you have different forms and names. This is a perception and may not be real from a separate point of view. When you see the population in a foreign country you are not exposed to, see a bunch of dogs of the same pedigree your mind cannot effectively differentiate. So the differentation of living beings as name and form is an illusion of the mind for its desire cycle to work. 13-Space and time is again an illusion of the mind. You do not see the space between atoms in a water or gas. Your world is a point of view from your perception, it is like walking with a torch in a gallery.The momemt you break away from the illusions of the mind, and realize that you and the person you see are one, you are beyond separation,time and space. You are the absolute witness, the lifeforce, the eternal God Awareness you are realized. 14-There is no another separate entity to desire or hate. You and the other person are all part of one Universal Love called Consciousness or God Awareness or Brahman.So what do you do then .... with your body & mind during your period of living? 15-Stay with Consciouness by constant self-inquiry in the waking state. Practice focus - on your studies, on your work without expectation of any results. Practice Non-Violence. Spread the word of Consciouness and practice Non-Violence to help stressed out people entangled in the hamster wheel of desires to realize Consciouness or God Awareness and find eternal peace and happines...
THE SIX KEY POINTS;-
1-The unimaginable God can never be touched even by your intelligence or logic. When you say that God wished to create the world, you have not touched the absolute God. The God in your statement is only the absolute God embedded in the awareness. The awareness was created by Him in the beginning and He entered that awareness. 2-Awareness is the medium (Upadhi) for God here. Now ‘God Thinks’ means that the awareness controlled by God thinks. You can go up to this point only which is the extreme edge. The medium indicates the possessor of the medium. The wire indicates the electricity in it. You can call the wire as electricity or the electricity as the wire. 3-Similarly, in such case you can call God as awareness or awareness as God. But every wire is not electric wire. Similarly, every bit of awareness (living being) is not charged by God and hence cannot be called as God.God can think even without being awareness, because He is the creator of awareness as well as the creator of the very process of thinking.
4-All beings dwell WITHIN this Divine Awareness as all fish dwell within the ocean. And just as fish are formed from the very stuff of the ocean, so are all beings formed from the divine God-stuff of awareness. All the fish and life forms within the ocean are connected to one another through it, not just because they all dwell within it, but because they are all self-expressions of it.
5-Similarly, all beings are connected to one another both outwardly and inwardly.Just as an ocean is the source of all the fish and other life forms within it, so is the Awareness that IS ‘God’ the source of all beings within it. They are connected outwardly because they all dwell within the Divine Awareness, and connected inwardly because the essential Self of each being is its nature as a Self-expression of the same Divine Awareness.
6-Yet within the womb of this Divine Awareness - the true meaning of 'Shiva' as the Great God or Mahadeva - infinite creative potentialities lie darkly hidden - this womb of potentiality or power being the great mother goddess or Mahadevi that is known as 'Kali'.
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ईश्वर के संबंध में हिन्दू धर्म के धर्मग्रंथ वेद में बहुत ही विस्तार रूप में प्रकट किया गया है। वेद का सर्वप्रथम ज्ञान चार ऋषियों ने प्राप्त किया अग्नि, वायु, अंगिरा और आदित्य। वेद तो एक ही है जिसे ऋग्वेद कहा गया। ऋग्वेद के ज्ञान को ही बाद में भगवान राम के काल में तीन भागों में विभाजित किया गया। इसे ऋषि पुरुरवा ने जब विभाजित किया, तब उसे वेदत्रयी के नाम से जाना जाने लगा। इसके बाद महाभारत काल में 14वें वेद व्यास हुए जिनका नाम कृष्ण द्वैपायन था, उन्होंने वेद को चार भागों में विभाजित कर उसके ज्ञान को व्यवस्थित किया। ये चार भाग हैं:- ऋग्वेद, यजुर्वेद, सामवेद और अथर्ववेद।
....SHIVOHAM....
