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Question for the reader: Whether birthday to be celebrated? The birthday celebration of your child should be later on and should be done by others and not by the parents and relatives. When this child grows and does some permanent benefit to the society, its birthday is celebrated by the society. S...

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Metaphors in the scriptures The Veda has clearly told that the Sun is not God (Nedam tat). Therefore, the Veda said that no item in the nature is the Lord (Neti Neti). Such natural objects are called representatives or models (Pratika). A teacher always teaches with the help of similes and models. ...

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Unfortunately, the clear passages in the Koran are not metaphors - allah is very explicit when he says that non-believers sent to hell will be tortured in the most ghastly ways for all eternity. I do agree with you that the passages describing 'hell' in the New Testament are metaphorical as another...

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The present human incarnation is the only way Datta means God available for souls. He is available in the human form with materialized body since human beings are with materialized bodies. The same God is available in energetic body to angels and to the departed souls from the earth, since both ang...

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What is divine knowledge?
Ans.) The knowledge spoken by the contemporary human incarnation in presence of your eyes, heard by your ears directly is divine knowledge. The main divinity here is that all your doubts are clarified directly and this is not possible when you read any scripture.

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How to realize the unreality of the worldly bonds in practice? Ans.) Shankara said that which is temporary is always unreal. Reality is permanent. These worldly bonds neither existed before this birth nor will exist in the future births. Hence these bonds are temporary and therefore unreal. Two act...

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The Lord is always kindest The Lord is always kindest and is interested in the happiness of all the human beings that are His children only. Gita says that the Lord is the father of all the living beings (Aham Bija Pradah Pita). The father always tries to favour His children and likes to see His ch...

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Chocoholic wrote:More cut and paste garbage - lovely.

You must analyse the divine knowledge and asks various doubts and calrify it from me.....This is how a good discussion takes place.....

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True & excellent spiritual knowledge-idenity of God in human form Recognition of contemporary human incarnation is the most crucial point since we can worship God directly through contemporary human incarnation only. The recognition is to be done by examining various messages of divine knowledg...

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Dattaswami, You do often post interesting articles that are not too long - however, you don't leave enough time to discuss or even last long when you start discussing the issues raised. The scatter gun approach of numerous cuts and pastes will just turn people off. This comes from a prolific poster...

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Good discussion also takes places, when you stop cut and pasting long preachy articles( i.e : spamming ) which on your three years on this forum you should realise by now no one really reads or discusses for that matter. That should atleast be an indication as to people are really not intrested in ...

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Unfortunately, Islam teaches that the souls of unbeleivers sent to hell will be tortured for all time. I can't see any other alternative than to believe these clear and multiple passages are forgeries and should therefore be ignored. The accounts of torture in the Koran are quite graphic, too. So, ...

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The Human Incarnation—Avatara or God-in-flesh God in a form?-- Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:26 am --My opinion: Most religions cannot accept the concept of God with a form. Further, some religions do not allow the acceptance of God in a human form. Yet, every religion agrees to the fact that the Lord is all-k...

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Dattaswami - thanks for taking the comments on board and posting this interesting question/topic. When one reaches the state of 'Nafse Mutmainah' - the state of 'soul at rest', one becomes the manifestation of God - in that we do only what God wills. Through our earthly actions we reflect what God ...

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Thanks for the explanation. There's little I can disagree with, if I look beyond the word 'incarnation' and look at what you're describing. The concept of God directing a human being from birth and influencing what they say and do.. is indeed a concept that I recognise in Islam. Islam, though, also...

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God is even more remote, and hence even more 'unimaginable'. , Shafique God is unimaginable, but that God came in human form by entering His servant. The original God, having no spatial dimensions, is beyond space. If you want to see such original God, you have to cross the space. In doing so, you ...

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Datta - I get the impression that the above response was just cut and pasted from somewhere. Is this a correct assumption? I was more interested in your answer to my question in the previous post - I think we've established that we both agree with the belief that God is unimagineable. Cheers, Shafi...

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Again, thank you for the explanation. May I just repeat - I agree with your concept about what 'God in human form' represents (that it is not really God taking human form). The questions I asked were: Have you studied Islam and compared it with your beliefs. In what way would you say they are diffe...

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Ahh - I see. Islam teaches that God answers prayers of worshippers - and indeed sends revelations to people (not just Prophets). Are you saying that it is ONLY via 'human-incarnations of God' that God can communicate with humans? (I just want to clarify this specific point). If so, then this is a c...

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And when My servants ask thee about Me, say: ‘I am near. I answer the prayer of the supplicant when he prays to Me. So they should hearken to Me and believe in Me, that they may follow the right way.’ Shafique [/quote] This is very interesting one. Very good one for discussion. In the verse it is s...

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Generally, one worships God through practical devotion (service) in order to avoid the negative results. So the ultimate motivator for worshiping allah and his prophet, Muhammad, is fear? As a non-Muslim, that type of idea is very disturbing to me. Faith developed through prayers & songs using ...

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Why God created bad in this world?... what you think, My answer is as follows....-- Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:08 am --Creation of bad in this world The bad is created for the sake of the souls only. People often get the doubt about the creation of bad in this world apart from good. Let us come to the origi...

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Your expenditure should be based on sharp analysis since your expenditure may result in the pleasure of God as well as in the anger of God. What you think? My point is given below-- Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:20 am --Un-necessary expenditure of wealth result in sin Your expenditure will never yield zero and...

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Donation of food is said to be greatest? What you think? My point on this: The human race is the blessed category of the creation since the human being alone has the faculty of devotion to God. You must save the life of every human being if it is in need. Even if the human being is an atheist, you m...

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Welcome back datta. Charity is a part of pretty much every religion - and donation of food as charity is a subset of this. Indeed, non-religious humanitarian organisations also practice the feeding of the poor - and indeed let us not forget that many governments around the world do this via social ...

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Who is the most deserving of food donations? In my mind, the beliefs of the person have very little to do with how hungry and deserving they are. My main criterion would be: How hungry/poor are they? (when the last time they ate etc) Discriminating based on what I thought they believed in would les...

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Killing for food? My point: You must not kill any living being for the sake of your food. The killing is the greatest sin You must not kill any living being for the sake of your food. God has given enough vegetable food that contains all the ingredients present in the non-vegetarian food. After all,...

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In the old days if you had to live around barren hot desserts, icelands or on barren mountains where you couldn't grow vegies you had to herd animals to milk them to substitute water and vegetables, and benefit from their meet to stay alive..To this day the rule hasn't changed and perfectly compati...

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A goat is a pure vegetarian but you are eating that goat also. Of course, its digestive system created only to digest vegies when left alone, out in the open..While human digestive system created to accomadate both source of food as in the case of nomads.. When you find a human being, who is a murd...

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God coming in human form, is it possible and if so, His identity....??? My opinion: The recognition of human incarnation should be done by the qualities of the spiritual knowledge preached by Him. The Veda gives three adjectives to such divine spiritual knowledge. The first is ‘Truth’ (Satyam Jnanam...

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Why God created bad in this world?

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