09-22-2006, 02:20 AM
Quote:Bismillah
salam
I felt that I m moved to give an input. I waited for sometime trying to see what datt, has to offer. I was alway anxious to know more how hinus go with their faith.
I was stopped at two positions the most.
First like my brother deen was also caught by surprise the fact that god created this universe for entertainment. Like god had nothing to do, thus suddenly decided o well, let me create the universe. However, when u study the creation of the universe, and here when I refer to universe I mean all. Everything, how can god create earth, then pin it down with mountains that protects it against flying off or moving under our feet. Just one example. How can this be for entertainment. While if the GOD was only seeking entertainment from the creation, what would motivate me to take anything serious during my short transit trip here on earth?
God should be understood as the unimaginable creator. Next God can be understood as the unimaginable spectator of the world.
As for this statement which is obviously something like part of the fundamental of the faith. Sobhan Allah (just in case Voice of reason would wonder this means Glory be to Allah), i m really amazed how can he build his faith, I mean if u r directing people as to how to understand god, the first part says that he is the unimaginable creator. But concurrently he is only a spectator. Wow, how can a creator assume only a spectator role. la hawla wala qowata ila billah (no mighty or power unless by Allah). For intance I feel really comfortable and secure to know and be sure that my Creator Allah, jala wa al`a is the All Alive, One Who does not sleep for a fraction of a second, The Eternal The Protector, and much more. Obviously, One Who Possesses all thos attributes can not be merely a spectator. A spectator, if I understand english, is one who just sits to watch, one who is not charged with a vital role, but rather watching the players do their job whereever it is. Even in the modern time as the language is evolving, terms like key players are now used in the context of important elements in any given domain: political, investment, economic..etc. So datt made his god not even in the rank of a key player but just a spectator. If the creator does nothing but watch, then who runs the universe, I wonder?
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Muslimah thank you for your interest in divine knowldge;
Lord created this entire universe for His entertainment. Now you are questioning it. GOD has give full and equal freedom to all the souls in this world. Since freedom is there, the results follows the actions. Both positive and negative. Thus the state of any human soul in this world is his own work only. But God is the result giver.
Now, when you are enjoying with your family, kids, good food, good neighbours, good nature, good friends, good job, good health, that time are putting this question to Lord? Unless Lord play this cinema whether you will be able to enjoy?
Suffering in this world for any soul is for its transformation only, so that he should not repeat the same thing, this also Lord do as a last resort only. God is imaprtial and He punishes without any angriness, because all the souls are His children only, the Father sees their welfare.
Now you are wondering about this entertainment of Lord?
<b> The Lord is controlling all the souls as per Veda “Aatmeshwaram”, which means that all the souls are ruled by the Lord. Gita also says the same “Bhuthanaam Eeswarah”. But this does not mean that there is no independence for the soul. When the king rules the kingdom, all the people in that kingdom are independent in their activities, but they are within the rules of the king. Thus a short span of independence in the human life exists under the control and supervision of the Lord. </b>
A cat caught a rat by its jaws. It leaves the rat after a bite for a short span of time. In that span the rat gets independence and runs in any side as it likes. But the cat is watching the rat and catches it again whenever the rat is out of the limits of the supervision. Similarly the Lord called “Kaala” (death) catches a human being and bites. The bite is the illness of the human being. The repeated diseases are the repeated bites of the ‘Kaala” or the Lord. During the bite the rat looses completely its independence. Similarly any human being, which is attacked by the disease becomes a patient and looses its independence completely.
The cat plays with the rat for sometime like this and finally swallowes the rat. Similarly, the human being is swallowed by the Lord at the end. <b>The whole creation itself is like a rat for the cat like Lord, which is told in Brahmasutra “Atta Charaachara Grahanaat”. Thus the short span of independence of human beings under the supervision of the overall controlling Lord, creates the full game and entertainment for the Lord. The entertainment is the basic reason of the creation by the Lord as said in Veda (Ekaaki Na Ramate) and as said in Brahmasutra (Lokavattu). Within the limits of the supervision of the cat, the rat will receive the result of the direction in which it runs. In one direction there may be fire and the rat may receive the heat. In another direction there may be cold water and the rat will receive the coolness in that direction. The rat is independent to receive the result of the direction and has full independence to go in any direction. The final death of the rat shows that the rat is under the control of the cat during its choice of direction also, which is not interfered by the cat. Similarly the human life is with full of independence but the final end proves that the independence is under the control of the Lord. Yet, since there was no interference of the Lord during the human life, the human being receives the results according to its actions. Thus the “whole game is perfectly justified in any angle”. </b>
Only right divine knowledge can remove the ignorance and uplift the souls.
At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami
Anil Antony
www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace
antonyanil@universal-spirituality.org