GOD

Courtesy: Sri.balayogi Venkatraman

Even Kena Upanishad defines God not as any image or individual but as:

That power which is not produced by speech

but by which speech is produced.

That power which is not seen by the eye

but by which the mind is made to understand.

That power which is not seen by the eye

but by which eye is made to see.

That power which is not heard by the ears

but by which ears are made to hear.

That power which is not moved by the life currents

but by which life current is moved, know thou that power alone to be Brahma
(the UltimateReality ) and not this or that you worship.

Nature is the World of symbolism a rich hieroglyphic book;*everything
visible conceals an invisible mystery and the last mystery of all is God.*

Brahman (the Supreme Power) literally means The Immensity that which is all
and beyond all.Unity in its true meaning is that God should be realized
as the one Power which animates and dominates all things which are but the
manifestations of its energy.

This means then that *the supreme power being all, and beyond all, is also
the inherent harmony and unifying force of life current beneath all life.
Some enlightened Scientists like Albert Einstein have realized this. He
says, I believe in God who reveals himself in the harmony of what exists.*

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How else can we explain the fact that all electrons in an Atom revolve in
fixed orbits, especially because in each atom there are several orbits and
in each orbit there are several electrons and this pattern is universal/

How else can we explain the nearly 30 billion cells in each body and every
cell containing 46 chromosomes and each chromosome containing several genes
and every cell contains the complete blue-print of the body?

How else can we explain the work of the pea-sized pituitary gland at the
lower brain which produces 9 different hormones, as and when required, one
by one, to meet exactly the requirement?

How can you explain the fact that the gland/s collect/s the required ion
from the blood stream to be taken to the required part of the body and once
its function is over, the hormone is eliminated from the body? For example,
when the body of a female becomes suited for reproduction, her pituitary
gland produces the hormone FSH, and spurts enough of it into the bloodstream
to cause development of one Ovule and then stops its production for 4
weeks, or for about 46 weeks, if she has conceived. When the Ovum matures,
the Pituitary produces another Hormone, LH to burst its follicle. When the
Fetus is ripe to be delivered the Pituitary produces the hormone OXYTOCIN to
contract the womb to push out the baby and continues its production till the
enlarged womb shrinks to its normal size when delivery approaches, the same
Pituitary produces the hormone PROLACTIN to cause production of milk in her
breasts. When the lips of the Baby touch her nipple, the Pituitary produces
the hormone OXYTOCIN to contract her milk glands to ensure flow of milk into
the ducts leading to the nipple and stops its production when the baby stops
suckling.

How else can we explain why only one out of the millions of Ovules present
in the Ovaries of women chosen every month to mature for fertilization?

How else can we explain why only one out of the millions of sperms is made
to unite with the Ovum?

How else can we explain the small seed carrying precisely all the details of
a big tree in a highly condensed form?

This is perhaps what Bhagavat Gita Chapter 10:8 declares God is a creator
of everything, and from Him everything functions.

If God or the supreme power is the cause for such excellent and essential
harmony and religion by its very etymology means binding together of the
part with the whole; and the higher form of spiritualism indicates that
godliness is binding of the inner self with the supreme or universal self,
even the literal meaning of yoga is joining together of mind with Ultimate
Reality and one who does this is a Yogi. We can even coin an acronym for a
Yogi as ;

***Y*ou

*O*ught to

*G*o

*I*nwards.

Why then are there so many differences among and within religions?

It is because The Universal living spirit is expressed and enjoyed in
specific conceptual idiom according to the level of conscious perception and
the philosophical, cultural and social environment of the individual and
that is why there are so many ways of

describing the divinity and so many forms of approaching the divinity. That
is why the differences in religion have to be understood in this light.

Religion is understood better by synthesis than by analysis. Religions grow
better by syncretism than by antagonism. As D.J.Mercier, the Archbishop of
Malines has said even *SoundPhilosophy sets out from analysis and
terminates in synthesis.* *Regarding religious differences, men of vision
and wisdom have explained and warned repeatedly knowing well that the common
man with his limited perception and the fanatic by limiting his perception
may engage in petty fights and arguments over differences*.

Roman Philosopher Cicero laid down some 2000 years ago six mistakes of men,
the sixth of which reads as, Attempting to compel others to believe and
live as we do. (From Encyclopedia of 7700 illustrations).

Mircea Eliade writes  All authentic religious experience implies a desperate
effort to disclose the foundation of things, the Ultimate Reality.�

Krishna vouches to Arjuna �In whatsoever way men may resort to Me, even so,
do I bless them in every way, the path men follow reaches Me, indeed,
Ultimately�.

A Mantra in Katha Upanishad says �The same rainwater which falls on the
mountain top appears to be different when it runs down the mountain from all
sides. Likewise, people think religion to be different and keep following
them differently.�

Real religious wisdom is the awareness of the oneness of all existence.

The term *GOD* which has been much brandied about by everyone cutting across
different religions, societies, cultures etc and the literature around this
subject will put to shame millions of *googles**.* Few know exactly what it
means and those few who knew it were not able to clearly communicate to
others as to what it is because the very nature of this subject is not
comprehensible to normal modes and tools of perception. However, if we are
able to get tuned to the frequency of the definitions and descriptions of
the great souls who have known it, we too can feel a glimpse of it. In short
for the benefit of everyone let me put it this way so that it remains etched
in your memory visually.

*G*etting away from *O*ur defense and *D*enial modes, and

*G*etting *O*urselves *D*eep into the

*G*amut *O*f *Description and definition defying*

*Grand **Outputs that **Develop beyond* all

*G*iven *O*ptions *D*iscernible to all the

*G*reat *O*ver-evaluated *D*elusions of the

*G*roup of *O*ur *D*redging which

*G*athers, *O*utpours and *D*elineates from its studiously

*G*rown *O*perations of *D*ead templates of our various modes

of perceptions.

Incidentally there are approximately *474,000,000 Web Page*results about
God. (Look it up if you question my integrity.) There are also *85,600,000
postings about God* on Google as well asanother *3,610,000 different
postings to Google Groups. Some more may have got added by now and this is
the only topic where the number of entries do not reduce or get deleted and
even China allows its people to google for it.*

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