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That's kinda the point of posting, TRANS, so those totally unfamiliar with the Gita can see it has many similar ideas...not so weird afterall!
Ch 9 v 18
I am the Supreme Goal of all living beings, and I am also their Sustainer, Master,
Witness, Abode, Shelter, and Friend. I am the Origin, End, and
Resting Place of creation; I am the Storehouse and Eternal Seed.
If we are all a product placed here for some cosmic science experiment, it makes sense to have many versions of truth come from the scientists themselves. Each person can choose the version they like or which resonates with them.
It seems to me they are all saying the same kind of thing, but Man with his small mind can only grasp at the personal god and cannot seem to expand that to an energy encompassing everything.
This personalizing is the problem and which means that one belief systems is pitted against another and causes conflict. I suspect it is through human greed for power that this personalizing has been done and the original probably was not like that.
Although in the texts using Me and Mine probably does not mean a personalized self but is possibly done to make the text more relatable for the masses.
But...What do I know, I have not studied any texts like you guys have.
This personalizing is the problem and which means that one belief systems is pitted against another and causes conflict.
I suspect it is through human greed for power that this personalizing has been done and the original probably was not like that.
I found that idea new. I had never thought people personalized
God for any sort of power...or even that it was a problem to personalize!
If you want to expound on that you sure can.
As in, why would thinking of your Creator in a personal way (like a Father) be a problem?
(Not excluding His omnipresence?)
Thanks
There are those who always think of Me and engage in exclusive devotion to Me.
To them, whose minds are always absorbed in Me,
I provide what they lack and preserve what they already possess.
In Chapter 11 Lord Krishna grants Arjuna divine vision and reveals His spectacular
unlimited form as the cosmic universe.
v 4-5:
If You think that I am able to behold Your cosmic form, O my Lord, O master of all mystic power,
then kindly show me that universal self. The Blessed Lord said: My dear Arjuna, O son of Prtha, behold now My opulences, hundreds of thousands
of varied divine forms, multicolored like the sea.
Whatever you wish to see can be seen all at once in this body.
But you cannot see Me with your present eyes. Therefore, I give to you divine eyes
by which you can behold My mystic opulence.
It may have seemed like a snarky comment, but it was an honest inquiry.
Why? Why spend time on it, versus any other text? Or any other study? Again...I'm not making this as a negative statement, but an honest question. Why it, versus anything else? What makes it worthy of a person's time and energy? What makes it worthy of implementing its teaching to our lives?
"Why? Why spend time on it, versus any other text?"
Because people's mommy's and daddy's told them that it was all true when they were growing up and people overwhelmingly tend to grow up accepting and believing in whatever religion they were taught by their parents to believe in. People are prepared to give their lives in support of whatever it was they were raised to believe as children as the undeniable truth.
No matter how ridiculous their claims and their beliefs appear to be to those outside the belief system.
"Why? Why spend time on it, versus any other text?"
Because people's mommy's and daddy's told them that it was all true when they were growing up and people overwhelmingly tend to grow up accepting and believing in whatever religion they were taught by their parents to believe in. People are prepared to give their lives in support of whatever it was they were raised to believe as children as the undeniable truth.
No matter how ridiculous their claims and their beliefs appear to be to those outside the belief system.
Bap Fun asked me and I answered back in Aug 2019--this post was way unnecessary.
And an insult to me personally...no mommy told me to read the Bhagavad Gita and i have
not given my life to something I learned in childhood.
Ch 11 v 9-11
...the Supreme, the Lord of all mystic power, the Personality of Godhead, displayed His universal form to Arjuna.
Arjuna saw in that universal form unlimited mouths and unlimited eyes. It was all wondrous.
The form was decorated with divine, dazzling ornaments and arrayed in many garbs.
He was garlanded gloriously, and there were many scents smeared over His body.
All was magnificent, all-expanding, unlimited.
Bap Fun asked me and I answered back in Aug 2019--this post was way unnecessary.
And an insult to me personally...no mommy told me to read the Bhagavad Gita and i have
not given my life to something I learned in childhood.
Moving on...
Conversely, you are not a Hindu. Because you were not raised to be a Hindu. You were indoctrinated into the belief of the God of Abraham. Do you deny that the God of Abraham exists? Or do you still subscribe to your indoctrination?
Before you take insult, notice that my earlier post was directed at BaptistFundie.
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