World Religions

[dattaswami]

World Religions

If anyone says that his/her religion is the only path to God and that other paths lead to hell, I have one humble question. The question is for every religion without any trace of partiality. The simple question is: Today I have heard your Religion and if I follow that, I reach God and if I refuse I will go to the hell for my own fault. This is very much reasonable. But before your ancestors discovered our country, the literature or even the name of your religion was not known to our ancestor and he could not reach God for no fault of him. But your ancestor reached God through your religion at that time.

Even if I assume that my ancestor will take rebirth now and will follow your religion to reach God, such possibility is ruled out because you say that there is no rebirth for the soul. Thus my ancestor suffered forever for no fault of him and the responsibility for this falls on the partiality of God. Had the God been impartial, He could have revealed your religion to all the countries at a time. Had that happened, my ancestor might have also reached God as your ancestor. Therefore your statement proves your own God partial.

The only way left over to you to make your God impartial is that you must accept that your God appeared in all the countries at a time in various forms and preached your path in various languages. The same form did not appear everywhere and the same language does not exist everywhere. The syllabus and explanation are one and the same, though the media and teachers are different. Can you give any alternative reasonable answer to my question other than this? Certainly not! Any person of any religion to any other religion can pose this question.

Moreover every religion states that their God only created this world. Unfortunately this world is one only and every God cannot create the same world. There are no many worlds to justify that each God created His own world. Therefore any human being with an iota of commonsense has to agree that there is only one impartial God who created this one world and He came in different forms to different countries and preached the same path in all the languages simultaneously at one time.

Let this logic sword of the divine knowledge cut the rigid conservatism of the religious fans in this world to establish the Universal Peace. I need not beg all these religious followers to be united and harmonious to each other for the sake of world peace. Such begging appeals are made enough in the past. The religious fans feel that there is no unity really in the religions but they have to be united since their kind hearts melted by these appeals. Thus a temporary change was only brought. At the maximum one generation of the followers got united. The next generation fights with each other because they feel that there is no real unity in them due to lack of the real unity in their religious scriptures.

A permanent solution for this does not lie in the begging appeals, which may or may not unite the followers. Even if the appeals unite such unity is not permanent. If the real unity in all the religious scriptures is exposed through the logical divine knowledge, the followers have to be united for generations together. Therefore, My attack is not on the hearts of the followers through love and kindness. My attack is on all the religious scriptures through intellectual logical analysis of divine knowledge. The unity of hearts through love can be only temporary. The unity of brains through intellectual analytical divine knowledge will be permanent. Hearts agree but brains realize. Agreement is temporary, but realization is permanent. Thus this is My first blow of My divine Conch shell for the permanent unity of all the religions aiming at eternal Universal Peace.

[CFTraveler]

World Religions

The only way left over to you to make your God impartial is that you must accept that your God appeared in all the countries at a time in various forms and preached your path in various languages.

This is an interesting question- why would God need to appear to anyone in various forms?  If God is impartial (a belief that works for me, btw) God already exists as everyone, not to everyone.  Objectification is partial representation.  Now I agree you're working with the image people have in various religions, but this doesn't work for me from a logical standpoint.

 

Moreover every religion states that their God only created this world.

What?  I don't pretend to know what every religion claims as far as creation mythology, but all the religions I'm familiar with admit that God as creator is not different according to religions.  Maybe the people of other religions I talk to are more 'enlightened' by this, but every person that I know of religions other than mine, agree that God is God and religion is cultural, and prophets and avatars are messengers and representatives, nothing more.

Also, the judeo-christian creation myth indicates that God created the whole universe, and not only this world.  So I really don't understand this logic.

Therefore, My attack is not on the hearts of the followers through love and kindness. My attack is on all the religious scriptures through intellectual logical analysis of divine knowledge. The unity of hearts through love can be only temporary. The unity of brains through intellectual analytical divine knowledge will be permanent. Hearts agree but brains realize. Agreement is temporary, but realization is permanent. Thus this is My first blow of My divine Conch shell for the permanent unity of all the religions aiming at eternal Universal Peace.

That has been done before, it's called "comparative religion".  The problem is that some people want to be followers, and it's not so much that they will be immediately liberated by facts, it's that they are emotionally dependent on the mythology and cultural guidance a religion gives them, because people use religion to guide them when they don't get good guidance anywhere else.
Religions are not only about creation stories and mythology, they are also about cultural background and conditioning, and one 'basic' worldview will never satisfy that need.
But more power to you.

[dattaswami]

This is an interesting question- why would God need to appear to anyone in various forms?  If God is impartial (a belief that works for me, btw) God already exists as everyone, not to everyone.  Objectification is partial representation.  Now I agree you're working with the image people have in various religions, but this doesn't work for me from a logical standpoint.

God has to come in every generation. This is because when He come and preach and goes out the people misinterpret His preaching for their personal benifit. Hence God has to come in every human generation for uplifting the souls through the diivine knoweldge and to give the correct interpretation of scriptures for which He is the author. He is impartial and He comes down in every human generation.

The identity mark of such GOd in human form is the He preaches wonderful divine knowledge which no body else can preach.

 To unify all the religions in the world and to give exceptional spiritual guidance to the entire humanity, God alone, who is capable of possessing such exceptional spiritual knowledge called Prajnanam, takes the human body.

The main aim of God entering into the world is to give excellent guidance to the spiritual aspirants. No soul can give such exceptional guidance equal to God. Such guidance is based on the exceptional unique knowledge of omniscient God. Since He is the author of the spiritual scriptures, He alone can give the correct interpretation and the essence of all the scriptures. Since the same God came in different forms to different parts of the world and gave the exceptional spiritual guidance to the entire humanity through the scriptures of various religions, He alone can correlate all the scriptures and establish the Universal Spirituality and the subsequent peace and harmony in the world. Such basic exceptional and universal spiritual knowledge is called as Prajnanam. For this purpose, it goes without saying that the suitable medium to fulfill this main aim is only the human body. Hence, God comes in human form only to accomplish this excellent goal.


Every body is not God, if every body is GOd then what is the need of spiritual effort since everybody is already God? If EVERY body is GOd then they should all speak wonderful divine knoweldge, that is not so...

[CFTraveler]

Every body is not God,

Yet everybody is of God.

if every body is GOd then what is the need of spiritual effort

The need for spiritual effort comes not to attain divine knowledge, but to realize it.  Spiritual effort is only necessary to those who have not realized their divinity, but it is inherent, if unconscious.

If EVERY body is GOd then they should all speak wonderful divine knoweldge,

Not if they are not conscious of it.  But it is there, under all that physical and partial information.  Maya covers up, but it can't destroy that which is divine.  If it were possible to not be, then it would not be divine.