Jun 16, 2006 19:29
"According to Hindu tradition, Brahman is the ultimate reality. It is existence-consciousness-bliss absolute, and name and form belong to maya. As fire and its burning power are inseparable, so too are Brahman and its maya power. Brahman is the unchanging reality, whereas maya is the changing reality; like an ocean and its waves. When Brahman manifests with its maya, it becomes God, Shakti, Kali, or the Divine Mother. The Absolute becomes relative through space, time, and causation. It is God, or the Divine Mother, who creates, preserves, and dissolves this universe and all beings. In fact, human beings evolve from God, live in God, and dissolve in God; because of ignorance they are unaware of it. God is neither he nor she, but pure Spirit. The concept of gender begins at the physical level. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, God is conceived of as the male principle, and in Hinduism God is conceived of as both male and female"
This is beautiful. When I read it, a chord struck with in me. It is ideas like these that keep bringing me back to Hinduism, one of the oldest faiths of this world. When you listen to the teachings and think about them, you see that they ...well, they Are. Scientific experiments, if based off Vedic tradition, would have explained quantum physics long before the 1950s.
One thing, though...
"In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, God is conceived of as the male principle"
That is because the male polarity is the active polarity. Feminine is the receptive polarity. Ladies and gentlemen, look at your genitals to get a visual. In the faiths of the I AM god, all beings are female in the face of God, because He is the creator...the actor who made every first action. For an action to be carried out, something has to be receptive, or there is no action. Without submission, there is no motion; electromagnetism won't allow it. In our case, we are the inevitable female polarity in positive action of a god who creates you. But, if In the Beginning there was only God, for an action, such as creation, to take place the only thing that God can interact with is himself...that maya aspect sure fits well there...So, in the beginning, god was itself. In the first action, he became aggressive and receptive...acted and sumbitted...became male and female...to create you, out of himself...Hrm, this sure sounds familiar...and semantics again divides the sheep until the end of time, because, mother fucker, no one ever stops an argument to agree on terms...EVER!!!
I'm spent.
-Guppy