This post might only make sense to people who believe in existence of super natural entity God, people who don't believe in it, who are self realized and happy in their own way...:) may not find anything useful in it unless they just want to kill time...:)
I think people's love towards God is one way process as they don't see real God or even don't know for sure whether it exists or not. But if it exists then it's believed that God loves everyone, it can not single out any particular person and love him/her selectively. People offer their prayers, love and dedication (bhakti) to God, and naturally it’s up to him/her to accept it or not, offering is in their hand and then they don’t have control over it. Everyone thinks and believes that God loves him or her and it's a beautiful feeling and they should feel that way but feeling that God should favor me over others is little selfish.
I think people's love towards God is one way process as they don't see real God or even don't know for sure whether it exists or not. But if it exists then it's believed that God loves everyone, it can not single out any particular person and love him/her selectively. People offer their prayers, love and dedication (bhakti) to God, and naturally it’s up to him/her to accept it or not, offering is in their hand and then they don’t have control over it. Everyone thinks and believes that God loves him or her and it's a beautiful feeling and they should feel that way but feeling that God should favor me over others is little selfish.
Love of God is available for anyone who seeks, it's a pure psychological thing. Whenever its cold
weather (winter) or it rains, whoever is outside in that weather he/she
feels it but we don’t think that winter or rain is particularly there for us,
whoever want to experience it can come out and experience it. I think true love for God is
like that, it’s available for everyone and whoever seeks it will get it for
sure. It’s a one way
process and still it feels beautiful if you don’t expect anything in return then it becomes a blissful experience in spite of being one way process. We should offer
our love and devotion selflessly to God but that doesn’t mean that believe
blindly whatever is written in so called holy books or scriptures, we need to think
rationally accept the truth and reject
the rest. God or that power (nature or whatever name you like
to give it) does not reside in any book or scripture, it’s inside us, all these
books are just for guiding purpose. These books are written by some individuals who wanted to share their philosophy and methods with world. One can find their own path
without using any book and they also will get the same love of God. As I
said God loves everyone so we cannot say that his love is more for particular
group of people and less for others, how you fare in your life has nothing to do
with your devotion or love for god, your professional success and other things are
in your hand to large extend.
We can offer our unconditional love to God and this world, it's pure selfless offering, God don’t need anything so I don’t understand why people try to offer so many things to God, money, food, land etc. etc. why? What God will do with these things and first of all we are temporary owner of these material things, are we trying to bribe him/her? Or trying to strike some deal by offering such gifts? What’s the purpose of it and normally these gifts are proportional to the amount of money particular person or family makes (sort of commission), so does that mean rich people love god more compared to poor people?. The land or money or anything which we are offering will be somebody else’s tomorrow, food if you offer will rot if nobody eats it (God won’t eat it for sure) so what’s the use of such offerings? All we own is our consciousness and our selfless devotion and if we can offer it, that will be real gift for God and he/she will be happy to receive it because then you are offering something which is really yours. This power of devotion and offering is given equally to everybody rich, poor, small big everyone have it we just have to realize about it.
We can offer our unconditional love to God and this world, it's pure selfless offering, God don’t need anything so I don’t understand why people try to offer so many things to God, money, food, land etc. etc. why? What God will do with these things and first of all we are temporary owner of these material things, are we trying to bribe him/her? Or trying to strike some deal by offering such gifts? What’s the purpose of it and normally these gifts are proportional to the amount of money particular person or family makes (sort of commission), so does that mean rich people love god more compared to poor people?. The land or money or anything which we are offering will be somebody else’s tomorrow, food if you offer will rot if nobody eats it (God won’t eat it for sure) so what’s the use of such offerings? All we own is our consciousness and our selfless devotion and if we can offer it, that will be real gift for God and he/she will be happy to receive it because then you are offering something which is really yours. This power of devotion and offering is given equally to everybody rich, poor, small big everyone have it we just have to realize about it.
If at all we want to offer
anything to God we should offer our love and devotion to him/her. By doing good
deeds we offer our services to God. Our consciousness is our guide in our journey. All humans are equal and have equal opportunity to love God, so
there should not be neither any hatred among people nor any discrimination (based on race,
religion, economy, education or anything) that’s true service to God. God is
nothing but true, selfless love, pure consciousness and everyone has capacity to get that love
and offer it.
Thanks for reading and please share your comments.
(Copyright: Vinay Thakur. Please contact the author for re-posting or publishing at vvt1974@gmail.com)
Thanks for reading and please share your comments.
(Copyright: Vinay Thakur. Please contact the author for re-posting or publishing at vvt1974@gmail.com)
Not all people agree on whether Hinduism is polytheistic (believing in many gods) or monotheistic (believing in one god). Many people think that Hindus believe in many gods. Others argue that there is only one god in Hinduism. Under this view, this one god (referred to as Brahman) is expressed in multiple ways. Nirguna Brahman is God without form, or God without personal attributes. All personal forms of God in Hinduism, such as Vishnu or Shiva, are different parts of God in personal form or God with attributes. Many Hindus believe that the difference between polytheism and monotheism is not as great as people in the West might think, because they believe there are different ways of looking at the truth.
ReplyDelete"Love basically is a process which need not be reciprocal" I could be one sided but 'loving' in anticipation of reciprocation is 'bad expectation'...
my personal thought...
"Love basically is a process which need not be reciprocal" very good line sir...I love it..
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ReplyDeleteI find this comment patronising and highly offensive to believers in God because you presume that they are not self realised or happy.
Its disgusting comment and nothing to laugh at or mock us with!!
I wont even bother reading the rest of the article!!
superb... that's why I said read some good books to broaden your horizon...I thought you like to laugh and this line was written with smile marks in it and pun was intended...sad that you missed it...:)
DeleteYou are free to assume whatever you want, I never said in my post that God believing people are not self realized and happy...its your 'speculation' from the lines which I wrote. I didn't presume any thing, please don't force your presumption on me...but why I am surprised....:)
And I am sorry to say that your comments clearly reflect that you didn't bother to read many things...:) but that's your choice and your right..so good luck...:)
In support of Kiran here, when I read that line, it kind of communicates as if you favor atheists here. Since I know u and after reading ur reasons here, I know you did not mean to say that, but that is one drawback while writing. Not all the time u r able to express what you think and few things get misread... I agree with kiran on changing those lines in a way to communicate clearly what u exactly mean...
Deletehere is original line
Delete"This post is only for people who believe in existence of super natural entity God, people who don't believe in it (already self realized and happy...:) won't find anything useful in it unless they just want to kill time...:)"
I modified it to this one,
"This post might only make sense to people who believe in existence of super natural entity God, people who don't believe in it, who are self realized and happy in their own way...:) may not find anything useful in it unless they just want to kill time...:)"
My intention here is to make it clear what this post is about, here my assumption is, people who don't believe in God won't find this post very interesting...I think modified lines convey the same meaning but may be in a better way...:)
I do believe that atheist are self realized people in their own way....I have seen that it takes lot of thinking and courage to become atheist...its one of the most marginalized community in the world.
The thought of this post came to my mind because all religions or related movements claim ownership of God and also claim that 'their' God loves them for what they do (religious activities) and I was wondering how come they are so sure about love of God towards them??