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Monday, August 22, 2011

God, Holy Spirit as the Shakti, Life, Nature: Concept of Philosophy, Religion, Name, Naam, Sound in Indian Civilization

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The Tenth Guru Nanak, Shri Guru Gobind Singh writes first God created the double edged sword (Negative and Positive), then the Universe. He created the play of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva(Humans). On His command Durga kill's all negative powers. In this context Durga is the power of the Angels to defeat the demons. The Guru is not interested in the medium of the Hindu Goddess, he is interested in the Shakti given to her by God, which is God's own power." (With thanks from the source: http://www.sikhiwiki.org/index.php/Chandi_Di_Var)


In the Japuji Sahib, Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji says: Kita Pasao Eko Kavao... means from one sound (the word) God created the world, the creation. It needs a little attention that the space always exists. It is matter of creation of life in the space or the creation of universe in which life exists. The Quantum Physics agrees that universe was created from sound, and thus the first of energy. This creation of life is creation of Shakti that further makes Creation gifted with all that we as humans understand. The word Shakti simply means Energy in both the living and the nonliving forms. The living ones have life, the Shakti in the invisible form though...

The nonliving things also have forms of energy that we know as Five Basic Elements, the Solid, Air, Fire, Water and above all Space. These cannot covert itself from one form to another without using the Shakti, the Energy. Thus, this form of energy that we call Shakti is living form. This is irony to say that God in Visible and Invisible forms are two. If we pinch our body and say that our invisible form feels pain in the invisible; it seems funny. Why? It seems that we need to consider what makes us known both the visible and the invisible, and all that occurs in it. Yes, its one...

This ONE has Trinity and that is not the point of one particular religion or faith. Its simply Science and follows the Dharma in its original form that we usually call Religion means understanding nature by being one with it. What does it mean to be ONE with nature and even GOD...

When one is ONE with ALL, it simply means realizing the self, the self-realization. Its very easy and yet very difficult when one considers Trinity as THREE different forms...

The Shakti, the living form of Energy is usually addressed as Holy Spirit in many religions as Holy Books, the Scriptures are having word Holy as the Prefix. The reason for it seems that most of the religions have feelings of great reverence and even worship the Spirit as the Shakti...


The Shkati obeys the command from God and thus it has nothing to do with any religion as such as in the Japuji Sahib Shri Guru Nanak Dev Ji says it thus: Eka Mayi Jugti Viayi Tin Chele Parvan... means One Spirit Produces the Three Powers that are, the Power of Creation (Brahma), Power to Sustain (Vishnu) and Power to Give New Forms to Any Change Shakti Causes (Shiva). We in India know it well that Shiv means Shav, the Dead and Shiva as its Energy Gives Life to it, means to the Dead and that is why known as Shakti of the Shiv (the Shiva)...


These Powers and Energy are One and has nothing to do with how one understands it. The way to self-realization does not get affected by it. However, if one keeps these three not as ONE in mind one cannot focus or meditate and realize the self... up to these levels all is just science and philosophy... further there are six schools of philosophy that lead one to understand the ONE...

Nyaya, the school of logic,

Vaisheshika, the atomist school,

Samkhya, the enumeration school,

Yoga, the school of Patanjali (which provisionally asserts the metaphysics of Samkhya),

Purva Mimamsa (or simply Mimamsa), the tradition of Vedic exegesis, with emphasis on Vedic ritual, and

Vedanta (also called Uttara Mimamsa), the Upanishadic tradition, with emphasis on Vedic philosophy.

(With thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_philosophy)...

Please note again that these are schools of philosophy and one enters into any of these school and gains the knowledge for self-realization that become the religion and or faith. However, all of these remain the Wisdom Tree...

Accordingly one gets the name as Sikh, Hindu, and all that one knows in sects and other forms. The doctrines do not disregard any philosophy as Fifth Nanak Shri Guru Arjan says (in Shri Sukhmani Sahib): Sagal Matant Kewal Harinam... means that At the End (the Conclusion) of All Religions, Faiths and Philosophies is the Name, Naam. This is the Eternal Sound to which word name is refereed as the source and thus the unstruck sound, the First Eternal Form of Energy that remains even when there is no universe (in the Void). This to what all salute...



In the Holy Gita, Lord Krishna asks Arjuna to leave all religious bonds that do not allow to perform the duty assigned to him...


The most of the diversification that we observe in the Indian Civilization is due to the Six Schools of Philosophy, and it has nothing to do how people perform the rituals and religious activities, the Karma Kanda. 

The people who abuse philosophy harm the bridge that Indians inherit as scientific and religious knowledge from all possible which are also practiced in the world as Classical Arts, Dances, Yoga, Astronomy, and several other forms of action for the pure and applied form of Philosophy. For example, the aborigines in India know when the Tsunami comes. It is the knowledge and wisdom based on the observations that many people whom many call illiterate learn all of it orally... we need their knowledge and wisdom and this very thing also carries the term Veda... means Practical Wisdom...

The differences present among the Six Schools of Philosophy does not constitute any ground to claim that religions and faith in India differ, however in the case of selection with choice of any school does not mean that one can claim that others seem wrong. At the end, all Six Schools have one thing common and that is what we know as the Divine Wisdom, the Brahmgyana, the Wisdom of the Divine. Its highly intuitive and have high discerning power without being dual in nature. 

Thus, the Hinduism is more close to Philosophy than as it seems blend of many religions, faiths and sects with ism. Accordingly, the divisions that we have as diversification as Sikh, Hindu or Buddhist does not reflect the Philosophical differences but the School of Philosophy.

The major question that has become so is what Indian Philosophy with its Six Schools and otherwise say about Name, Word, Sound. We usually read word Namah like Om Namah Shivaye or Om Shri Ganeshaye Namah. The word Namah means salute to the Visbile Form. Grammatically it salues to OM using word Ganesha or Shiva. However, the direct salute is Naman. This Naman is from within not physical in nature.

The word Sri or Shri is for the Shakti that Creates the visible and one salutes to it. However, when one salutes directly to the Invisible God, the Shakti or Living form of Energy gets hidden into her first form the Sound. The sound is form of Energy in the Space that we know as Word. We call this Word Akhar in Punjabi or Akshra in Hindi and the Sanskrit, which means that never perishes. So, the word and sound does not perish.

Now, the Namah and Shri emerge into One Sound and that is OM. It includes both Shri in it as it has Form of Energy as Word, and thus OM by itself has both forms, the word and the sound. However, the word Rama when recited does not have Shri or Namah in it. We have many names to salute to the Invisible form in the nonphysical or metaphysical way and that is known as Nama, Naam, Name, etc.

We usually address someone with polite words Sri Hari Ji. Now, the Shri is for the visible, a salute. The word ending with Ji is respect, the Namah, but what makes one react is the name Hari. If we call Hari, one immediately reacts or responds to it. God or OM in general remains hidden in the words like Rama, Krishna, Waheguru and others as these need just feelings of reverence. It is from our heart that we salute to them and thus usually avoid Shri and Namah.

If one does not understand why so. Its because we do call our self as Respected Mr. Hari Ji. The very thing is that Hari is our own SELF and that is why Self-realization. 


Now, some people who think that man cannot be God seem to assume that no man can assume to be God, and in this context its true that no man can be God, but we are talking or discussing about the oneness present among God, His Shakti, the Power of Creation that creates life within the universe. 

Even the universe is just a body in which we live due to presence of life at our planet Earth in the Solar system. The self is the real and body is just flesh that no longer remains as one dies (saying it that all perishes simply mean that everything that has birth meets death).

The Indian Philosophy does not have its name as derived from the Greek word Philosophy (With thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy). Indian thinkers whom we also know as Sages, the Rishi's and Muni's called it the Darshna (With thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_philosophy). 

In it, the Darshna means the Seer, the Observer of knowledge and wisdom not just lover of it. This state is called being Drishta, the Seer and further the one, who can experience the real self, the Drishta and thus the Darshna. The word Seer seems further illustration so I have just added a video for it. The seer in the Indian Philosphy as the Darshan by no way seems to have anything to what it says in the words used the Divination.


Well, we can understand it from this video: http://metaphysicsinlife.blogspot.com/2011/08/how-indian-darshna-means-seer-observer.html



Thanks for your time reading it.!



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Saturday, January 22, 2011

How Self, Society, Nature and Soul Work Together - Human, Possessions, Life, Service and Duty

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We have 3 most popular terms used in Indian Philosophy and Religions and particularly the Metaphysics. These terms are:


1. Aadhibhotic

2. Aadhidavic

3. Aaddhiatamic 

1. Aadhibhotic means related to body and all that we possess as a human.

2. The Aadhidavic relates to what runs life as we know it the Devta's, the life givers.

3. The Aaddhiatamic relates what we are, the souls, and thus relates to our conscience and consciousness as well. Now, the body, nature and soul work in a very simple way. We know about the physical world and what we should do in it in context to body and thus social.

However, what makes us know it is the soul (through conscience and all other tools like intellect and emotions). Now, when we consider nature we learn how to deal with Society, Nature and God (in whatever form we worship).

At the physical level (aadhibhotic) society is just buildings and possessions.

At natural level, there is also presence of living ones in the society. The point of spirituality comes from practice of what nature teaches us religion or Dharma. Nature follows the Dharma without any discrimination. Thus, nature and soul together learn spirituality, nature and society practice religion as if socializing with natural world in the nature that includes us, we, the humans.

Thus, religion goes as natural socialization but spiritualism is personal socialization with nature (for theory) and society (for practice). If we serve nature, we receive help in return. However, when we serve soul, the self or conscience, we have nothing to exchange as it is our real self that does not lack anything but in return makes us intellectually and emotionally mature and thus socially strong, mature and thus self-dependent.

This self-dependency is not being able to earn to live.

The conscience is a dynamic thing and thus spirituality is also dynamic that helps us for personal, family, social, national and international development without interfering with the nature. So, the natural laws and principles are for socialization and these can be accepted at intellectual level if we hear what our conscience says not what books say otherwise we may only know and remember (memorizing) without practicing it.

In conclusion, managing family and possessions begins our religions and faiths and how we contribute to society becomes Service (Seva).

The quality and standard that service at home and in society needs that we practice spiritualism as Know Thyself to understand ourselves and thus others. It helps to bring the concept of duty into service. Now, the service is the easiest way to socialize but in spiritual socialization one have to go beyond just serving others. Lord Krishna asks Arjuna to leave all religions, the socialization and so many restrictions it imposes on an individual, group, community and people in general that prevents one to do what one ought to do for all.

It services only motives and interests of some people, who belong to receiving that service due to religious together without even deserving it and thus misuse of laws of any state or nation in modern context. How hard it is to leave the social bonds and do our duty is beyond religions but is spiritual in nature, something that nature wants from us but not the society.

As nowadays society that seem to ignore nature, natural world and its right may prevent anyone doing one's duty.

All of it needed Lord Krishna to give Sermon of Holy Gita and thus is the duty and spirit or spiritualism not just religions and faiths. However, without practicing one's own religion and faith it is difficult to understand and practice what we know as duty, the Kartvya, essence of all services and thus the excellence and quality of service.


We may not simply claim to be public servant.

The democracy that we have had during the ancient times and even few hundreds years had religion and politics working together as the Indian Kings and Queens had been. They made rules according to the religions of the state in which they lived and they followed by themselves.

Lord Rama used Dharma or religion for democracy, but it may seem that he was King and thus not democrat. All of the decisions were taken on behalf of public and the ministers were selected according to standards established in the society. The democary in it was also that there were many states with many kings.

Similarly, Lord Krishna gave Kingdom of India to Yudhishtra and himself remained under his ruling as he served as King of Mathura. There are many examples when kingship was given to many who were not family members.

In nutshell, the Panchayat Raj is the most ancient concept of democracy that India gave to human civilization as only the selected people work in it. The public have always selected the people. It has similarity with home based business that has been present in India in all ages and thus throughout the history. The children were given education and training to be what their parents were and if one excelled one could be either minister or a king and or queen.

Initially most of the Kings and Queens had small regions (state levels) and then attained training, education and skills to be at national levels. This was also democratic way. We are taught that only the mighty was the King and that is not true as one had to prove all that needs to be a king or queen. What about Akbar (With thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar)and Laxmi Bai (With thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rani_Lakshmibai)

We are not discussing the Invaders or others, who used forces. We need to learn even about not just Akbar, the great but also Sher Shah Suri (with thanks from the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sher_Shah_Suri) to understand how Indian always have made a difference in service and duty.

The process of knowing others is not just by knowledge and data information about anyone, but as equating our personal knowledge about our self as parameter to know others. By knowing others we may not know our-self, but by knowing our-self we can know all.

Thanks for your time to read it.

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