DO WE CONSIDER GOD AS HUMAN

[Hulkster]

One mistake many humans make is they think that a truth is complicated. Same way applies for GOD where people believe he has to be worshipped by a defined praying pose or chant his name through mantras. The actual thing is very simple.

What GOD told humans when they wanted to worship him was just to think of him and that was enough. But people made it complicated by creating idols of him which he did not ask and then moving on to temples...creating rules for how to pray to him in temples and then of course vedas etc etc.

People think GOD has to be worshipped by all these mantras,idolic forms and ceremonies. If i can live successfully by just thinking of GOD without even following such practices..it shows how flawed human beliefs are.

1) GOD does not need a temple to pray to..you can pray to him from anywhere...and there is no need to pray to him using complicated verses or poses.
2) GOD never asked for a religion...all he asked us to do was to treat each other as brothers and sisters and do no harm to anybody. And what did we do? just look at the current situation now.
3) Every human will face death and there is no sort of elevation or moksha...all humans are treated equally.

In fact when you look at it neutrally and logically...it is very simple and straightforward..its just that humans have complicated it so much that we think there is some sort of method.

Even the state of meditation is nothing but thinking about GOD(worshipping) for a very long time. That is why the relaxation and presence. It is not bringing out the inner self or GOD in you. It is you communicating with GOD. It is as simple as that.

And life which is touted to be complicated is also very simple as well. Only your birth and death is decided...in between is decided by you only...you choose your lifepath and you choose your destiny.

As for Sanskrit and other languages..that even GOD did not ask for...in fact humans could have stopped with one language...but due to them migrating to other parts of the world they started creating their own languages and thus so much. If you trace down the origin of all the races you notice that they have only one common ancestor and spoke one language only...it is only due to the migration and the body structure adapting to the places they migrated to that made them create the identity called "race" and language.

There are many flaws in religions and other human beliefs that if you really look at them throughly...you will get shocked at how humans have defined their own "rules".

[pradheep]

Only your birth and death is decided...in between is decided by you only...you choose your lifepath and you choose your destiny.

Dear friend,
That is correct. One more addition, even your own birth and death is your own choice, only thing people are not aware of it.

What GOD told humans when they wanted to worship him was just to think of him and that was enough.

There is no "God" that told humans to worship. Worshipping is not for God sake it is for one's own Self. God does not get "charged" by the crying prayers. Whether one prays to God or not , things happen in the way they think their thoughts.

Even the state of meditation is nothing but thinking about GOD(worshipping) for a very long time.

Meditation is not worshipping God for a long time. Meditation is a technique to watch the thoughts.

[pradheep]

There are 8 types of worship according to Hindu dharma saastra.

1. Sravanam : Listening to good keerthans, manthras, prayer, naama japa, listening to stories and puranaas which are known as sravana – listening ( remember your ears)

2. Darsanam : Seeing the picture of divine power, nature, all living and non living being realizing that, the divine power exist in that. Going to temple, seeing great scholars and avathaars and also seeing all the divine people who came to the earth for serving the people as god’s creations. This is darsanam ( remember your eyes)

3. Keerthanam : Chanting manthras, keethanas, namaas, telling stories, giving upadesas, guiding people, appreciating good actions, and satkarmaas, are all known as keerthanas ( Remember your tongue)

4. Smaranam: Remembering the divine power, the guiding force existing in all the 1.6 million type of animals, 4 lakhs type of plants 80, 000 type of trees and one million types of micro organisms. Remembering that we are only the tools in the hands of the divine power. Remembering that every second, we are under the guidance of the divine power. That is smarana ( remember your mind)

5. Archanam : offering the flowers, manthras, fruits, leaves, etc ( whatever you have a part of that) to god is archana. Even thinking that you are doing archana is also archana

6. Vandanam : Bowing the head, saluting and doing the namaskaara to god and elders, scholars, gurus, parents, athithies, all include in this vandana ( Remember your hands)

7. Sevanam : Serving the deserving people, animals and all living beings as your own family members and implementing the applied spirituality principles of Lokaa: samasthaa: sukhino Bhavanthu . Serving the aged, orphans, sick, hungry, people and animals. Nara seva is narayana seva says our Rishies ( Remember all your karmendriyaas)

8. Samarpanam: What ever we have offering to the deserving people (one part/ share ) that is samarpanam. Samarpanam has to be done with a good intention and selfless vision. In India we have annadaanam, vastra daanam, netra daanam, bhoo daanam, koopa daanam, and so on which all means the samarpanam to the deserving people.

(9. Some time paada sevanam is also included in the above method of worship, in which helping the people without considering the linguistic/ regional/ religious/ age/ gender/ criteria of the people. Those who are serving the the people are known as avatharas. In India there are avatharas even today who are doing their best to serve the people in Gujarath and every costal regions when the Earthquake and Sunami hit. They served people directly and indirectly in Lanka, USA, Bangladesh, and in many other countries without any selfish motives – hence they are known as avatharas).

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[bulb_mani]

God is first of all a word derived from the Almighty that the people of Biblical period and its followers believed in. To monotheists, God is the deity believed to be the supreme reality.

The origin can be Judaism. If u guys are Hindus i think u have nothing to do with God.

In my opinion the portrayal of the ALMIGHTY as someone who listens to our woes and solves it .. all crap. Dont believe in the dumb propaganda.

There is nothing as such a superpower.

If we can explain the actions-reactions of nature the game of religion and God ends.

The wonders are in nature and not in the imaginary God...

God and Religion are something founded when the first scoundrel met the first fool

Hence God is Faith + Fear and nothing to do with Fact.

[Rohit]

God and Religion are something founded when the first scoundrel met the first fool

And surprisingly, there is no shortage of both even today

[avii]

i really am in total disbelief . someone once said that the greatest trick the devil ever did was to fool man into thinking he does not exist. many people i know belive the devil exist but not god .

maya is really a powerful devi if she has the
power to make man give up god ; the goal in life , the truth; and accept man made theories about "facts"

[avii]

this is why i so love the movie matrix as it clearly explains maya and liberation .

[Rohit]

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Avii, this is completely unwarranted and utterly false analogy; and therefore, the situation demands complete withdrawal of such heedless comments, combined with a gentleman’s apology. Will you please do that, Avii?

That is why I often say that if anyone who is incapable of grasping what I post, they should keep silence and should never respond to the propositions that they do not understand.

Nonetheless, the one, who himself is under the deep spell, thinks the entire world is under the same spell. Well, nothing is more powerful than such self-deceptions.

[avii]

to rohit ,
i apoligise , i should not have singled you out .

[bulb_mani]

So we've seen a theist ... atheist.. now we have avii a SATANIST

GOD --> Bible Terminology [ english word generalised for JEHOVAH ] if ur not Christian it doesnt hold good