Query:
This world is full of Gods & Goddesses. It is difficult to know whom to worship?
Can a person be a god?
Vijay
Kumar:
No doubt
... you are a potential source of energy ... a representative of mother Goddess
... but you fail to remember that a woman only gives birth to a child ... it can
never create a child ... none on earth a man or a woman can never create anything.
We cannot even create a pebble out of nothing ... what to say of creating a child.
A very interesting
episode occurred in the times of Mira Bai- mira bai wanted to go to a temple for
Prayers ... the head priest of the temple objected to it. For him women were only
meant for taking care of children and the household affairs ... reading of the
sacred Scriptures ... gaining Spiritual knowledge was the domain of men. In spite
of repeated reminders by Mira Bai ... the head priest did not budge.
Mira
Bai ultimately sent a small chit to the head priest. Immediately thereafter the
head priest was at the feet of Mira Bai. He profusely apologized for his mistake.
What was it that Mira Bai had written in the chit? Mira Bai had only written that
there is only one man ... one Karta (Purusha) in whole Cosmos ... and he is God
Almighty ... rest are all ladies.
The priest understood the underlying meaning and henceforth all ladies were permitted
inside the temple. It is only God Almighty who can create and dissolute anything.
We as Human Beings are only required to perform our Karma. Nothing beyond.
A very wise question indeed-
whom to worship in the vast expanse of gods and goddesses ... it is said that
there are above 90 million God and goddesses in Hindu mythology. If we look at
the affairs of God ... we find there was only one Lord
Krishna, one Buddha, one Mahavira,
one Jesus
Christ and one Prophet
Mohammed. Why only one? For the simple reason that if there were 50
Mahaviras at a time then it was not possible for the common man to know whom to
worship!
In every
era ... in every century ... there cannot be more than two god realized souls
at a time ... it is just not possible ... it will simply confuse the humanity
... God desires every human being to emancipate after a long journey of 8.4 million
manifestations (a total cosmic life cycle of 96.4 million years for the Atman,
the soul within). A long journey indeed!
Even before Lord Krishna was born ... there existed Vedas ... and even before
the Vedas there existed Dharma. It is Dharma which has existed since times immemorial
... from the beginning of time when the humanity gained its footing. Dharma inherently
guides one on the right path ... it is the force of our atman the soul within
which is always existent in us.
One
truly cannot survive without Dharma ... we can say we are an atheist (nonbeliever
of God) ... some can say they do not believe in any Religion as they are so confusing
... yet people continue to survive ... it is the power of Dharma within which
guides us on our cosmic journey.
When
the humanity started ... the lipi (alphabets) had not yet evolved ... everything
was passed on from one generation to the another by the word of mouth ... Veda
... the spoken word! All the Mantras and every hymn was mentally learnt by heart
and passed on from the guru to a Shishya. Eventually when this Shishya became
a Guru he passed on the knowledge of the Vedas to his shishyas. It was only in
the second century when the lipi was developed that the Vedas were reduced to
writing.
Lord
Krishna came about 3600 years before ... at that time four Vedas were prevalent
among the society ... Lord Krishna could see that it was very difficult even for
a experienced Spiritual master to fathom the depths of all four Vedas in a lifetime.
Whatever was contained in all the four Vedas - the Rg Veda (Rig Veda), Sama Veda,
Yajur Veda and Atharva Veda was consolidated and reproduced by Lord Krishna in
form of Bhagavad Gita.
Bhagavad
Gita contains everything that is contained in all the four Vedas excluding those
Rituals, which are not necessary to be performed today. Whatever is worth knowing
in the sacred Scriptures of all Religions of the world is contained in Bhagavad
Gita. This one simple document contains the total essence of the cosmos. Beyond
this document even God Almighty has nothing more to say.
Amongst
all the gods and goddesses ... we are only required to assimilate the teachings
of Bhagavad Gita. The knower of Bhagavad Gita becomes the knower of Brahman ...
one reaches the 8.4 millionth manifestation the moment one realizes the absolute
truth. In all sincerity it can be explicitly said that we need to follow Bhagavad
Gita ... if we desire to fathom the depths of the Spiritual knowledge.
Every human being can
become a living God ... a man God like Buddha, Mahavira, Jesus Christ, prophet
Mohammed, Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Maharishi Ramana only after one gains Self Realization.
Every godly figure becomes liberated from the cycle
of birth and death forever. No further manifestations ... we pray to
these man gods and invoke their blessings.
A
normal human being even though has an Atman within cannot be termed as God ...
it is only after we burn out our Karma ... remove the dross from within ... and
our atman the soul within comes back to its pristine pure form ... can we say
that so-and-so has Realized God ... reached the 8.4 millionth manifestation ...
the last in the stage of emancipation. It is our atman the soul within that has
taken this body and not vice versa ... it is our atman the soul within which wants
to liberate forever from the cycle of various manifestations.
God
Almighty and all atmans souls in the Cosmos are of the same nature. If a grain
of wheat is an Atman than the whole mound of grain is Parmatman (God Almighty).
Both are pure forms of energy and so potential that a normal human being cannot
even visualize the structure of an Atman or Parmatman.
If I agree with you that you are a power ... then can you produce something out
of nothing ... is it within you that you can create something from nothing ...
it simply is not possible ... and when this is not possible how can you be a power.
The body of a human being is powerless ... the moment our atman the soul within
leaves the body ... it becomes dead! To become all-powerful we need to Realize
God ... we need to come back to our pristine pure form ... we need to become a
living Atman (a living soul).
Every
human being is the highest manifestation on Mother Earth ... it is only as a Human
Being that every Atman can liberate itself ... reach the 8.4 millionth manifestation.
Be it Swarga Heaven or Naraka hell ... to gain emancipation every atman soul has
to take a body as a human being ... only then it can achieve Moksha Salvation.
We are lucky to be born as a human being!
To
be born as a human being means we have already crossed about 7.3 million manifestations
and a total cosmic life span of about 83 million years. We started cosmic journey
as an amoeba (the first manifestation as a single cell) and subsequently evolved
into an insect, then a plant, an animal and finally a human being. It has taken
about 7.3 million manifestations to reach from amoeba to the level of a human
being (a journey above 83 million years).
In the cosmic hierarchy there is not much confusion ... the wisdom contained in
the Bhagavad Gita is self explanatory ... if we follow truthfully the dictates
of our atman the soul within ... we try to hear the promptings of the sweet small
inner voice coming from within then we can always remain hopeful of completing
cosmic journey within this life for, the voice of our atman the soul within shall
never guide us on the wrong path.
Always
there to clarify your queries (send
your query),
Vijay
Kumar "Atma
Jnani"
Vijay Kumar... The Man who Realized God in 1993 on Gods and Goddesses.
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Full text of query:
This world is full of
Gods & Goddesses that its difficult to know whom to worship? Can a person
be a god? I think its a power... but what type of power? Itsn' t it me?
