All of us,including the plants,animals and inanimate beings(we think they are inanimate), are from God/Nature/Holy FatherAllah.
Praying for the welfare of all these is the proper Prayer.
“God is all encompassing and is full.The Universe is full,having come from Him.Having come from the Full,Full Remains.Even if after taking full(Universe) the Full( God) remains full.Let there be Peace , Peace ,Peace.
(Santhi Mantra of Isa and Brhadaranyaka Upanishad)
* For those who feelthat how full can remain fulll after taking full out of it-if you share your knowledge,after having done so,your Knowledge remains the same( full) and the one to whom you have imparted also has the Knowledge in full.
Category: God
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Universal Prayer.
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Hinduism-Least known facts.
1.Religion is individualistic.Indian Philosophy ia a way of living.It does not contain mere abstract principles,nor does it have dogma.It is characterised by the following facts.
1.Religion is individualistic..Allows Freedom of Choice.
2.No community worshipping is sanctioned.
3.Unbelievers are not doomed to hell.
4.Every one of its premises may be questioned.
5You need not believe in God to achieve salvation.
6.Admits Freewill as well as Determinism.
7.There is no Heaven or hell.
8.None can escape the consequences of their actions
9.God can not interfere in your day to day affairs.
10.Concept of Time is non-linear.It is cyclic.
11.There is no separate entity in charge of Evil.
12.There is nothing called Good or Evil.
13.You can lead a normal life amidst the process of realising Godhood.
14.Family as the fundamental unit.
15.Duty of parents,children.
16.Duty of husband/Wife.
17.Social reponsibility
18.Accountability to other living Beings
19.Live in Harmony aith Nature
20.Performance of Action.
21.Practice of Sex.
21.Contentment. -
What Is Science?
What is Science?A body of facts,organised systematically, and given the same set of conditions can be repeated or the same results can be obtained.
On what grounds are these scientific truths arrived at?
Law of Uniformity of Nature and Theory of cause and effect.
Law of Uniformity is accepted on the ground that laws governing Universe behave uniformly.The best you can say is that it is behaving so till this second.What guarantee is there it will be so, the next second?When you go to Quantum Physics, your Uniformity theory does not operate there.
Law of Causality.Cause and effect are two events that are cataloged by our brain to relate.Also one cause may cause(?) more than one effect and one effect may be result of multitude of causes.(Among causes are there are material cause, inherent cause, concomitant cause and immediate cause).Even if we link cause to effect , we again depend on Law of Uniformity of nature, which is at best working for the present and it can not be takes as the ultimate truth.So are scientific facts.Note I am saying facts not truths.Truth is different from facts.As Kant has observed we perceive through the spectacles of Space and Time.So long as we have these blinkers on. it is not possible to know things as they are as is now being proved by Quantum theory.
Long and short of it is creationism as well as scientific knowledge goes, while creationism , we beieve, has less of facts than science.The difference is of degree not kind. -
On Happiness.
Happiness is a state of mind. One must distinguish between mind and intellect.Brain is the gateway through which sensory perceptions are collected, as in CPU of a computer.Activity of the brain is Mind.It sifts through the material and decides the course of response.Intellect is the activity of the Mind at a different level,which discriminates between Right and Wrong, Good and Bad.Beyond intellect , if one were to examine, he/she will know something that is observing all the three(I am not talking about the concept of God at all).That which observes all these remain unaffected by pairs of oppoites;pleasure and pain;heat and cold;victory and defeat.It always remains fully contented and never is in want of anything.This is the state that is being spoken of.Each of of us can feel this if only we listen carefully.But we confuse in daily life activity of brain and intellect and feel happy/sad.
Again, a thing that gives us Happiness gives us grief at another point of Time;the same thing that gives one Happiness does bring in grief to others.Therefore, Happiness/Grief does not lie in the objects but in our mind.
Once we realise this and that we are here on a sojourn,we do not own anything,as things were here before us and shall remain here after we leave,our relationships are acquired(except parents, brothers/sisters,children-these are not our choices), we shall know that we lord over nothing and at the same time we own every thing in us that is the embodiment of Happiness. -
What is Truth?
It is difficult to define Truth as well as lie.
Lies come in different forms,Falsehood,Suppressio veri, suggestiofalsi,misleading statements etal.
In case of Truth, Truth is multi faceted and at times selfcontradictory, depending on the perceiver and
conditions.
Safest definition for Truth shall be ‘That which does not hurt others”
It is pertinent to remember that one should speaktruthfully, but not
all theTruth at all times.
Lies of all hues are contra to facts and are used to protect one, his
family etc.At such times better to keep quiet.Link
Truth is what ‘is’.It is true at all points of time,past,present and
future.It is different from facts, for facts are perceived by five
senses and mind and they vary from individuals and even for an
individual ,facts present themselves differently. at different points
of time.For instance the sun appears to rise in the east is a
fact,based on our eyes,but science explains that it appears to rise in
the east.Hence, the fact as we have seen with our eyes is not true.But
what about scientific explanation? Honest answer is, as Locke says,I
Know not.
Again what we see as truth is often incomplete as it has various
versions, depending on the individual and circumstances.So, senses
alone do not guarantee Truth.
Then what is Truth? It is multifaceted.Truth is that which exists in
itself and it does not need the existence of anything else to be
understood and it does not need the conception of anything else in
order to be conceived.
Hence Truth is self evident and it is understood by us intutively. You
can not explain what Truth is to one as you can not explain what
yellow is to a man who is born blind.One has to experience Truth.
Science is not truth but only facts, observed under certain
conditions.It assumes axioms, especially two , namely law of
Uniformity of Nature and Law of Causality.Logically you can say, at
best Universe is following certain laws,say, Gravitation;there is no
guarantee that it will be so tomorrow.
Law Causality: Two events happen; we call one the cause of another,or
one is the effect of another.One cause may produce more than one
result and one result may have more than one cause.Granting that one
event causes another, we assume that Law of Uniformity is operational,
which we have seen is not true.Law of Causality and Uniformity are the
modes through which we perceive and catalog events,nothing more.This
is due to the fact that Human mind operates through two spectacles of
Space and Time, without which we can perceive ,conceive or imagine
anything.That which transcends space and time is the Reality and its
attributes are Being,Pure Knowledge, and Bliss.That is our true
nature.Rest of the things, like world as we see it, are Relatively
true,just as a rainbow, which is true so long it lasts or like the
reflection of the moon in water,The moon is one, yet we see many moons
in water at different vessels.These are transitory.
So where does it leave us in terms of lies?
For practical purposes lie is one that harms others.Conversely Truth
is that which does not hurt others.One must remember to speak
truthfully, but need not speak all the Truth.
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