The Upanishads and all talk about knowing God, but they stress that You can never know God by reading or knowledge, but only through Meditation. Religions on the other hand had been propagating speudo-Gods through bibles and other texts and causing hatred and egoistic tendencies knowingly in populations. If they find parallels from Gita and sanatana Dharma in Bible, then Bible, which had come at a latter stage is certainly a plagiarist work intended to transfer the knowledge of the Ancient land to the ignorant of the West.
If you wanted really to find God, then forget about Gita or Bible and Meditate on the Heart with the thought of the Omni-Pervasive-Infinite, accepting him as your teacher, Guru and Guide. Then see the results for yourself after 1 year of such practice daily twice for 1 hr, early morning and evening. He does not have to have a form or name, But for simplicity, you can take him as light in your heart. Remember, light can only be seen only when it reflects on something, but even in darkness, there is light.
Religion is only a Humbug, and Islam and Christianity are more so, as they make people accept only their ideologies as God, and others as false.
I wonder What God was before these religions, and How people survived with the false God(s) before them(according to them). But certainly, world was more peaceful before these religions have come. And they have been originated almost at about the same time and almost at same place.
Re: Re: Fooling people and God
by marvin patrick gray on Sep 01, 2008 04:11 PM Permalink
a lot of Hindus and other people in India consider their Teacher or Guru as God, which i think is a very foolish thing on their part. if you say that Bible came at a later stage than Gita or other Hindu text, you are wrong. we Indians should never forget that Ramayana and Mahabharata are epics ; same like Shakespeare's plays of comtemparory times, written much later. Hindus confuse mythology with religion, take epic-heroes as gods, is again sad and not correct. so stop using terms 'false gods' as 80 crore odd hindus will be hurt, not us , christians. God was always before any religion. Christians were known as christians after Christ,however, they believed on God almighty since the beginning.
Re: Re: Re: Fooling people and God
by Guest on Aug 09, 2009 09:02 AM Permalink
Marvin, For all we know, Jesus Christ is also a myth. It happened 2000 years ago and no one can say what happened then clearly. The Christians want to pretend that they are really sure of what happened to Jesus and refuse to admit for instance, that he came to India to seek spirituality from the Sages living in the Himalayas. If we are hazy about what happened then, clearly, the documentation is hazier with the older religions like Hinduism. If there really is a God, you can call him Shiva, Krishna, Allah, Jesus or anyone and He will respond. He is not going to take offense and say that I am going to send him to hell for calling me by some other name. Christians are confused in that they think there are several Gods out there and Jesus is the most powerful one. And, they try to capture more votes to their political party. You are right that God was always before any religion and Jesus is one of the self-realized people out there. He himself has said that he is not really a God. If he is a God, he is the same one that others call as Allah, Shiva, Krishna, etc.
