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What has gold to do with religion?!

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Kindly quote from G-d/Brahman to support your understanding of Word of Revelation.
Anybody, please
Regards

Although most Hindus consider Brahman God, (not all do) Brahman is not at all like your understanding of God. Brahman is everything, Absolute cause, the underlying substratum of all that exists. This view is monistic (There is only one true Reality) in nature. Your view is dualistic, that God is separate from man, and His creation. So our God, Brahman, could never speak, as you are suggesting.

I no longer expect you to understand, but just in case someone else happens to ever read this, it's an explanation for them.
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Although most Hindus consider Brahman God, (not all do) Brahman is not at all like your understanding of God. Brahman is everything, Absolute cause, the underlying substratum of all that exists. This view is monistic (There is only one true Reality) in nature. Your view is dualistic, that God is separate from man, and His creation. So our God, Brahman, could never speak, as you are suggesting.

I no longer expect you to understand, but just in case someone else happens to ever read this, it's an explanation for them.
I think you believe Brahman as G-d, if yes, then please quote from Him as I requested. Right?
I understand you don't represent other denominations of Hinduism.
Regards
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
I think you believe Brahman as G-d, if yes, then please quote from Him as I requested. Right?
I understand you don't represent other denominations of Hinduism.
Regards
Brahman is not a person. Brahman cannot speak. Please google it.

Editted ... here it is: the ultimate reality underlying all phenomena.
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Do you believe in Brahman? Please
Regards
Yes I do. I don't know any Hindus that don't. Many other faiths don't. Do you? (Again, I don't expect you to understand what Brahman is. I can tell you it's not at all like your idea of God, but I'm afraid that won't help much.)
 

Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
Staff member
Premium Member
I think you believe Brahman as G-d, if yes, then please quote from Him as I requested.

Read the Bhagavad Gītā and Krishna's word's therein. You will then see quotations from Brahman (from a Vaishnava perspective, that is).

Read the Shiva Purāṇa and Shiva's words therein. You will then see quotations from Brahman (from a Shaiva perspective, that is).

I'm not going to do a copy/paste for you. If you want answers you must seek them yourself. God/dess helps those who help themselves.
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Yes I do. I don't know any Hindus that don't. Many other faiths don't. Do you? (Again, I don't expect you to understand what Brahman is. I can tell you it's not at all like your idea of God, but I'm afraid that won't help much.)

Please recollect "Although most Hindus consider Brahman God, (not all do)" a few posts back.
Do you mean that you are not personally acquainted with any Hindu who does not believe in Brahman God? Please
Regards
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Please recollect "Although most Hindus consider Brahman God, (not all do)" a few posts back.
Do you mean that you are not personally acquainted with any Hindu who does not believe in Brahman God? Please
Regards
You misunderstood. What I said was that not all Hindus believe Brahman is God. Aupmanyav on here is an example. He believes in Brahman, he just doesn't believe that Brahman is God.
 

Jainarayan

ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय
Staff member
Premium Member
Please recollect "Although most Hindus consider Brahman God, (not all do)" a few posts back.
Do you mean that you are not personally acquainted with any Hindu who does not believe in Brahman God? Please
Regards

You should read through this Wiki article to see some of the understandings of Brahman. What you will not see, however, is a comparison to God as understood by Christians, Jews, or Muslims in all of Hinduism, only in some schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Brahman is not a person. Brahman cannot speak. Please google it.
Editted ... here it is: the ultimate reality underlying all phenomena.
Is Brahman a being without blemish?
If Brahman does not speak then how did the Vedas come to be ?
Regards
 

sayak83

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Kindly quote from G-d/Brahman to support your understanding of Word of Revelation.
Anybody, please
Regards
Kindly quote from Mathematics to support your understanding of that its principles are discovered truths and not mere fictional compositions? (unless you think they are fictions..in that case I give up)

Does that sentence make sense? Which part of the analogy with Math did you not understand?
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Kindly quote from Mathematics to support your understanding of that its principles are discovered truths and not mere fictional compositions? (unless you think they are fictions..in that case I give up)
Does that sentence make sense? Which part of the analogy with Math did you not understand?
The thread is not related to Mathematics. Please
Regards
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Post#190
We are discussing Hinduism from the scriptures- the roots. Please
Brahman of Krishna's Bhagwad Gita, speaks.
While Brahman of Vedas does not speak. Right? Please
Regards
 

sayak83

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
The thread is not related to Mathematics. Please
Regards
Since I explictly used the analogy of Mathematical truths to explain the character of Vedic revelations, it most certainly is. Vedic truths are revealed and communicated by seers of purified insight in a similar way as mathematical truths are revealed and communicated by the great mathematicians. Please
Regards
 
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Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
Is Brahman a being without blemish?
If Brahman does not speak then how did the Vedas come to be ?
Regards
Brahman is not a being.

Perhaps I should have given up long ago ... haha

How did the earth come to be? How did the moon come to be?
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
There are a number of good books available that will give you the basics of different world religions.

I like from the scriptures one believes in, not the other books.
I don't see Brahman ever told that gold is holy in any scriptures of any religion. Wearing ornaments of gold are only a cultural thing nothing of holiness in it. Agree? Please
Regards
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Brahman is not a being.
Perhaps I should have given up long ago ... haha
How did the earth come to be? How did the moon come to be?
G-d created both earth and the moon :

[2:30] He it is Who created for you all that is in the earth; then He turned towards the heavens, and He perfected them as seven heavens; and He knows all things.
http://www.alislam.org/quran/search2/showChapter.php?ch=2&verse=29

There is no other truthful claimant. Right?
Regards
 
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