“God Comes Before Zero”
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Axee | May 01, 2009
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What is God?
Axee: A belief, and since S/he is a belief, S/he is omnipresent, omnipotent. Beliefs are based on facts. Facts are based on patterns and experiences. One good way of making the mind understand God is to think numerically.The number 2 comes before 3, 1 comes before 2, 0 comes before 1, God comes before 0. As simple as that.
God or the Big Bang? (or both)?
Axee: First God then the Big Bang.
God or Darwin (or both)?
Axee: Again, First God then Darwin for showing us one of the ways of God. He mapped it for us, the less intelligent ones.
God or Darfur? (How can Darfur happen if there is God?)
Axee: Darfur is there as S/he is there too, and making it happen as well.
Who is God’s God?
Axee: None. As I explained, God comes before 0.
Will the real God please stand up? (Why do we have so many religions?)
Axee: Yes why? Real God is within us as individuals…why do we cluster up? We don’t have to herd up but we do! There is no need to prove any numerical superiority here at all. All we need to do is Love one another as His/Her creation! Pray collectively if at all we have to at a spot called “Sarva Dharma Sthal” – a tall task. But that’s the ultimate goal to achieve universal salvation made possible through love. We need to destroy desires first, physical boundaries next, and finally mental ones too created by religion. Why were we not born into any religion with that religion’s tag in our hands? Is S/he not capable of delivering us with a tag?
Think!
Is this just a big lab and are we just guinea pigs and God just a researcher?
Axee: Nope…we are not. If we were guinea pigs why would we evolve? As a creator God does not need to research. We research to understand His/Her creativity and ways.
Does unexplained phenomena = God?
Axee: Not all, but contextually – yes. If you accept the explanation the S/he comes before 0, alias ‘shunyaa.’ S/he stands explained.
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Answer for the question “Will the real God please stand up? (Why do we have so many religions?”
God gives His message, directly or through His messenger,
according to the capacity of the individuals who receive it. If the
message is for the spiritually advanced, then it may be given in an
undiluted pure form. If the message is for the morally and spiritually
degraded it is suitably modified to preclude rejection and yet help
them to make limited spiritual progress. Unawareness of this
fundamental principle, which underlies and unifies the diverse
religions of the world, has resulted in religious conflicts,
confrontations, wars and so on throughout history. An example will
help in understanding this better.
In elementary school Mathematics, a child is taught basic addition
and subtraction such as 5 – 2 = 3. But if he is asked, “What is 2 – 5
?”, he will say that it is not possible to subtract a bigger number from a smaller number. But when he goes to high school, he learns 2 – 5= 3. That is also Mathematics. When he goes to college, he learns
differential calculus, integral calculus etc. which is also Mathematics.
Although the knowledge he has acquired at each level comes under
the subject of Mathematics, still there is a difference of standard
between elementary school Maths and M.Sc. Maths. The teacher may
himself be a Ph.D. in Maths, but he teaches according to the level of
understanding of the student, depending on whether he is in an
elementary school, high school or college.
The prophets and messiahs have always given their message after
assessing the ability of their audience to digest and follow the
teachings. We can understand that when Prophet Mohammed
preached the message of the Koran as revealed to him, his audience
consisted of degraded people. This is apparent from the nature of the instructions given in the Koran. For example, in the 4th Surah, verse
23-24, the Koran says, “Do not have sex with your mother and
sister.” If Mohammed had been speaking to civilized people, such an
injunction would have been unnecessary. Mohammed himself was a
God realized soul and had been selected by God to be a prophet. But
since he was speaking to perverted tribesmen of that desert land, who
were engaging in such sexual practices, he had to give such
instructions.
Jesus was preaching to fishermen whom he addressed as, “O ye of
little faith”. One of his intimate twelve apostles, Judas, sold his
master for thirty pieces of silver, and Peter denied that he had ever
seen him. Also, most religions first try to teach people to go to God
for bread and butter, or material assets, thereby teaching obedience to the authority of God. Thus they use God more or less as an ordersupplier or problem-solver.
Real religion has nothing to do with making material demands upon
God in order to fulfill one’s own selfish desires. For example, Lord
Krishna spoke Bhagavad-gita to Arjuna, an individual of spotless
character and a product of Vedic civilization when it was at its
zenith. Bhagavad-gita teaches absolute surrender to the will of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Shri Krishna, without any
reservations. The audience for the narration of Shrimad Bhagavatam
consisted of the greatly liberated sages of Naimisharanya, who
sought the welfare of all living beings in the world. Shrimad
Bhagavatam teaches the path of unmotivated, uninterrupted, pure
love of God, where a devotee rejoices remembering and reciting
about God twenty-four hours a day out of love for Him, without
expecting anything in return.