What is your conception of God?

Question

Do you have any personal experience of a Supreme Being or Godhead in your everyday life? Or only based on what you read in Scriptures or Philosophical literatures, do you base your beliefs or faith in a higher intelligence in the universe?

Answer 1

Iso Invocation: The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.

Iso 1: Everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled and owned by the Lord. One should therefore accept only those things necessary for himself, which are set aside as his quota, and one should not accept other things, knowing well to whom they belong.

Iso 2: One may aspire to live for hundreds of years if he continuously goes on working in that way, for that sort of work will not bind him to the law of karma. There is no alternative to this way for man.

Iso 3: The killer of the soul, whoever he may be, must enter into the planets known as the worlds of the faithless, full of darkness and ignorance.

Iso 4: Although fixed in His abode, the Personality of Godhead is swifter than the mind and can overcome all others running. The powerful demigods cannot approach Him. Although in one place, He controls those who supply the air and rain. He surpasses all in excellence.

Iso 5: The Supreme Lord walks and does not walk. He is far away, but He is very near as well. He is within everything, and yet He is outside of everything.

Iso 6: He who sees everything in relation to the Supreme Lord, who sees all living entities as His parts and parcels, and who sees the Supreme Lord within everything never hates anything or any being.

Iso 7: One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What, then, can be illusion or anxiety for him?

Iso 8: Such a person must factually know the greatest of all, the Personality of Godhead, who is unembodied, omniscient, beyond reproach, without veins, pure and uncontaminated, the self-sufficient philosopher who has been fulfilling everyone's desire since time immemorial.

Iso 9: Those who engage in the culture of nescient activities shall enter into the darkest region of ignorance. Worse still are those engaged in the culture of so-called knowledge.

Iso 10: The wise have explained that one result is derived from the culture of knowledge and that a different result is obtained from the culture of nescience.

Iso 11: Only one who can learn the process of nescience and that of transcendental knowledge side by side can transcend the influence of repeated birth and death and enjoy the full blessings of immortality.

Iso 12: Those who are engaged in the worship of demigods enter into the darkest region of ignorance, and still more so do the worshipers of the impersonal Absolute.

Iso 13: It is said that one result is obtained by worshiping the supreme cause of all causes and that another result is obtained by worshiping what is not supreme. All this is heard from the undisturbed authorities, who clearly explained it.

Iso 14: One should know perfectly the Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa and His transcendental name, form, qualities and pastimes, as well as the temporary material creation with its temporary demigods, men and animals. When one knows these, he surpasses death and the ephemeral cosmic manifestation with it, and in the eternal kingdom of God he enjoys his eternal life of bliss and knowledge.

Iso 15: O my Lord, sustainer of all that lives, Your real face is covered by Your dazzling effulgence. Kindly remove that covering and exhibit Yourself to Your pure devotee.

Iso 16: O my Lord, O primeval philosopher, maintainer of the universe, O regulating principle, destination of the pure devotees, well-wisher of the progenitors of mankind, please remove the effulgence of Your transcendental rays so that I can see Your form of bliss. You are the eternal Supreme Personality of Godhead, like unto the sun, as am I.

Iso 17: Let this temporary body be burnt to ashes, and let the air of life be merged with the totality of air. Now, O my Lord, please remember all my sacrifices, and because You are the ultimate beneficiary, please remember all that I have done for You.

Iso 18: O my Lord, as powerful as fire, O omnipotent one, now I offer You all obeisances, falling on the ground at Your feet. O my Lord, please lead me on the right path to reach You, and since You know all that I have done in the past, please free me from the reactions to my past sins so that there will be no hindrance to my progress.

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Answer 2

I have my own philosphy about God. I call it the spirit the unique supreme being. I can't call it God. (Oh yeah , Christian soliders shout onto me.) LIke I give a darn.
I am not an atheist. I just think God has been a mysterical figure that has been implanted by the early /christian church the pope. It all started in the mid-eval times where the Popes in Europe tryed to control the Christian flocks. They had to invent the wheel to gain power of these poor pesants. Otherwise they would have lost control.
For me that Christian doctrine, and that good old story telling of the Bible is just another Myth.
A supreme being, I agree is out there in the Universe. Cause it is the spirit of such that we can feel and it is that spirit that surround us.
I feel that people are good people. That there are ills in societies that we will eventually one day cure. Nevertheless, Supreme or higher spirit like I call it I believe in.With God , Bible , heaven and hell, forbid I can't adapt to that kind of bulshit!

Answer 3

I once experience Divinity after a bad argument. I left to an isolated place. There is just got angrier and angrier. I started thinking in worse things, I Quivered, screamt and cried.
Then I started perceiving that I was floating away from my body.
I was almost over my body when I felt a need and started praying. Within seconds I new that I was praying and why.
It took over a minute to get back into my body.

As for my conception of God:

if I end up in hell and I am not joined by jesus, buddha, mohamed, and God, then that is not God ;

if I end up in heaven and I am not joined by Hitler, Stalin, Lincoln,
etc. then that has nothing to do with God.

All in all:

All must go to heaven or hell. All must exist or cease to exist.
There can be no compromise.

Answer 4

i was clinically dead for a bit... no god.. no hell or devils, demons...

was alot of knowledge and embracing a feeling i don't feel when i was/am alive.

sad.. it was nice though. if this is what death is well i'm not afraid except the way i was dying in alot of DAMNED PAIN! but otherwise it was cool.

gee i hope it wasn't chemical... but who knows.. we'll find out sooner or later now won't we.

i did feel as if i 'got it' for such a long period of time but now the routine of life has grasped me and i'm back on that steady, unwavering line of uncertainty and ritual..... not knowing.. missing the clue and worrying.. so on.

i liked the feeling i had... though i don't want to be trying to kick the bucket any time soon.

:D

Answer 5

I kind of have issues with religion. I find God more in nature, in phenomena that occurs without the interference of man. The changing of the seasons, the way a garden spider spins its web. That sort of thing.

Answer 6

My concept is that he's the survival mechanism that's rooted in our primitive limbic systems of our brains to help our CAVE MAN ancestors survive in a hostile environment. Obsolete genes do not die overnight, so we'll be seeing god in our lives for some time to come.

Answer 7

I'd never understand God, this is because God doesn't want humans to understand his/her/its plan. So, why bother thinking about it and all the questions involving God, while God doesn't even bother explaining anything.

Some say you have to be "holy" or "live in the right path" to be close to God, yeah...right, even priests in Rome like young boys

Answer 8

My conception of God is simply that of which is inside of me........the part of me that knows what is right and what is wrong.......although raised a Catholic I don't believe in any faith that supports hierarchy such as the Pope and thinks that people who don't believe in Jesus Christ will go to hell.....Ridiculous! God is a choice within each and every one of us to be a better person.....a spiritual choice to be humane.

Answer 9

"God" is the operation of natural law, throughout the universe--cause and effect, right from the beginning, or "Big Bang."

Answer 10

yes, not only but yes, and yes. that's how we christians get it dooowwwn!!! well i'm just a bit outgoing but u know what i mean.